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    Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Just a very short heads up review.

    I bought a 5 gallon bucket heater to try and warm up my saved rinseless wash. This thing works very fast about 5-10 minutes and gets your bucket up to 110 degrees. Makes winter rinseless washes much more enjoyable. Its marketed for farms for keeping water for animals from freezing in the winter, I got it fro Amazon.


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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Wouldn`t need that in So Cal, but I do like the sound of my wash bucket solution being 110 degrees. Might help make the cleaning a bit better.
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    You`re a wild man.
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    The water in the bucket might be hot/warm, but when its applied to a vehicle in 15°F weather, it freezes in a VERY short time.

    I`ve had the unpleasant experience of 2-bucket washing a vehicle outside on a 37°F day, knowing that an arctic cold front was coming that would drop the ambient temperature some 15° to 20°F in a short time. (Yes, Captain Obvious was too cheep to take it to the touch-less car wash like the significant other told him to do, so he thought he would save a little money!) What I did not expect was it came through about 1 hour earlier than weather forecast, and it made for an ugly frozen mess of my vehicle. I ended up removing the frozen ice droplets and sheets by wiping on tap hot water from the kitchen faucet in a bucket one panel at a time then drying it, having the vehicle in my garage. It made frozen mess on the garage floor that I ended up scraping off with a shovel. Ah, the joys of cold winter detailing in the Upper Midwest.
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    You could have taken it to a detailer that wasn`t so sensitive to the cold----LOL-----------just kidding
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Quote Originally Posted by trashmanssd View Post
    Just a very short heads up review.

    I bought a 5 gallon bucket heater to try and warm up my saved rinseless wash. This thing works very fast about 5-10 minutes and gets your bucket up to 110 degrees. Makes winter rinseless washes much more enjoyable. Its marketed for farms for keeping water for animals from freezing in the winter, I got it fro Amazon.

    Do you have a link for it on Amazon?
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Quote Originally Posted by Pats300zx View Post
    Do you have a link for it on Amazon?
    Not sure if the forum rules allow external links, so Google “farm innovators bucket heater” and that should get you there.
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Quote Originally Posted by SGM2008 View Post
    Not sure if the forum rules allow external links, so Google “farm innovators bucket heater” and that should get you there.
    I believe they are allowed if the product is not a competing product being sold by a PBMG entity. Based on that belief, here is a link to the unit similar to the one I`ve had for quite a number of years now. It doesn`t look anything like the one the OP posted.

    https://www.amazon.com/Immersion-Ges...55671365&psc=1

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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Very cool. Can you regulate the temperature, trashman?
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Quote Originally Posted by tom p. View Post
    Very cool. Can you regulate the temperature, trashman?
    Its got a thermostat built in heats to 100-110 then shuts off and turns back on when gets under 100
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Lonnie your a mad man if your doing 2 bucket wash under 40 degrees, my limit is under 50. I do rinseless in garage with heat on 65 degrees and streaming netflix on the tv.

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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Quote Originally Posted by trashmanssd View Post
    Lonnie your a mad man if your doing 2 bucket wash under 40 degrees, my limit is under 50. I do rinseless in garage with heat on 65 degrees and streaming netflix on the tv.
    True story (I told this before):
    I was washing my 2003 Subaru Outback outside in January 2009(?) during a rare and warm January Thaw. The local newspaper, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, ran a story on unusual things to be seen outside in Wisconsin in January. Washing a car was one of them, and the paper photographer took my picture of me spraying and washing my car. I made the FRONT PAGE with a small COLOR photo for the lead-in to the story on the inside pages. What I remember most is that I dropped my garden hose brass nozzle on the driveway pavement and broke it. The picture has me with my rubber-gloved thumb over the hose end acting a sprayer to disperse the water. So much for my 10 minutes of fame. As I have said, "It is a fine line between detailing dedication and insane obsession!"
    (Also as stated, Captain Obvious is "frugal" , and if I can wash a my vehicle at home rather than take it to a car tunnel wash to save a few buck, I will. However, we question whether his elevator goes all the way to the top floor sometimes. Humorist Will Rogers said it best, "I guess common sense ain`t so common.")
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Lonnie

    Sounds familiar growing up. We would always wash the vehicles in the winter on a warm day. We had a stone driveway so I can remember turning the driveway into all but a ice skating rink one time. We had a beautiful afternoon and that night it dropped in temp real quick. The next morning we could barely walk from the attached garage to our 3 bay garage.

    Not long after that dad put a wood stove in the detached 3 bay garage and we washed inside from there on out


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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    Quote Originally Posted by trashmanssd View Post
    Lonnie your a mad man if your doing 2 bucket wash under 40 degrees, my limit is under 50. I do rinseless in garage with heat on 65 degrees and streaming netflix on the tv.
    50!?! I only wash my car in 72+, I don`t know how anyone lives anywhere where it`s like 50 or less during the damn day.
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    Re: Rinseless wash bucket heater

    As a side note, it’s supposed to be 80 degrees here tomorrow. The mosquitoes and gnats think it’s springtime.
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