In this series on How to NOT Break Your Stuff, we’ve talked about how your attitude towards the job, as well as the quality and type of equipment that you use, can affect the longevity of your tools. Contractors who are patient and careful on the job and who practice preventative maintenance after the job…
Have you ever crushed or shattered old CPVC tubing while doing service work? Well, you’re not alone, and we have a fix for that! It’s a fact that CPVC gets brittle as it ages, and because of that most people assume that it’s no longer effective. However, it turns out that isn’t the case. According…
In this blog we’ll take a look at strategies to preserve the life of the most expensive and important part of your drain cleaning machine – the cable. Why is this important? It’s the cable that does all the physical work when you clean a drain. Your machine, no matter how impressive, is just a…
One of the more interesting things that we’ve learned in our 90-year history as a machine manufacturer is that you can neatly place our customers on a bell curve in regard to how often they break their stuff. A bell curve is a type of graph used in statistics to illustrate a situation with normal…
Several years ago, while working the General booth at a trade show, I struck up a conversation with a drain cleaning pro who used our products. He looked around at the different products we had brought to the booth, pointed at our line of camera inspection systems and said, “You know, I just spent $1,500…
Question: We use cable drain cleaners at our facility, but my young guys keep telling me I should switch to high-pressure water jets to do the same job. Are they right? Answer: Well, yes and no. Traditional cable drain cleaners do a great job cutting up tree roots and retrieving objects. But when it comes…
I have a friend who is quick to label brands or movements with a mysteriously strong following – much like a cult! Examples include Apple, Tesla, Starbucks, the Grateful Dead and, oddly enough, sectional drain cleaning machines and cables. The sectional cable cult, if in fact it is one, has a long and venerable history,…
With the current world health situation, many rental stores that rent our drain cleaning machines have asked us if they should be concerned about disease transmission, particularly COVID-19, through wastewater? People have been increasingly and understandably anxious about the transmission of Coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis, tetanus, dysentery, and other diseases through wastewater. Plumbers, drain cleaning specialists and…
There’s an old curse that reads, “May you live in interesting times!” Well, we can put a checkmark in that box, because none of us have seen anything like the past few months. Malls are padlocked, churches are empty on Easter, people are doing Passover Seders with their family via Zoom. Everyone is wearing masks…
We hope that all of you are well and staying safe during these extraordinary times. For many of you, this is a daily challenge, because you’re doing a lot of heavy lifting, ensuring that the rest of us have the fresh water and clean conditions that we need to fight COVID-19. Although you don’t always…
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