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How to Use a 3-Way Switch on Floor Model Rental Drain Cleaning Machines

We sometimes like to address questions the Drain Brains at General often get asked. Today, we answer the question: How can I properly make use of a 3-way switch used on General’s Easy Rooter and Easy Rooter Junior, and the open cage rental versions of the Mini-Rooter, Mini-Rooter XP, Metro and Speedrooter 92R?

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Display Board Rental

They’re fantastic rental tools They make money!

Aero Rental’s drain cleaning solutions from General Pipe Cleaners offer outstanding performance, superior reliability, and excellent safety features for a wide range of rental tasks.
Aero Rental’s drain cleaning solutions from General Pipe Cleaners offer outstanding performance, superior reliability, and excellent safety features for a wide range of rental tasks.

Aero Rental, Inc.

Iowa City, IA
  • Rental
MR-XP-O Bathroom

Their dependability has really helped our business.

Unlike many items, drain cleaning equipment remains in year-round demand. And Higgins cites superior ease-of-use, safety features, reliability, and turn-around as reasons for crediting Tweedy Lumber's drain cleaning success to Easy Rooter™.
Unlike many items, drain cleaning equipment remains in year-round demand. And Higgins cites superior ease-of-use, safety features, reliability, and turn-around as reasons for crediting Tweedy Lumber’s drain cleaning success to Easy Rooter™.

Tweedy Lumber & Hardware

Rushville, IN
  • Rental

We prefer General to other brands. Our customers are satisfied, and so are we!

“When you’re renting drain cleaning equipment nearly every day, you need tough, reliable machines.” So says Von Hunn, owner of Garden True Value Hardware, Garden City, KS. In business for nearly two decades, Hunn’s facility serves residential and commercial rental customers in southwest Kansas. And drain cleaning forms a “significant” slice of his business.

“When you’re renting drain cleaning equipment nearly every day, you need tough, reliable machines.” So says Von Hunn, owner of Garden True Value Hardware, Garden City, KS. In business for nearly two decades, Hunn’s facility serves residential and commercial rental customers in southwest Kansas. And drain cleaning forms a “significant” slice of his business.

Garden True Value Hardware

Garden City, KS
  • Rental

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