Cleaning a sprayer

Most cleaners are using inline sprayers these days or electric sprayers and carry several jugs that can be changed out when you change chemicals. The question is, are you cleaning out these jugs nightly, dedicating them to certain products only, or just doing a quick rinse and moving on?

I have always rinsed the jugs out multiple times and then hit them with ammonia or sodim carbonate followed by more rinsing until clean, but I think I may be off the reservation on this practice based on the jugs that I see in other vans. It looks to me like many don't clean them out at all....so I wonder if I am wasting my time doing the nightly washings.

So let's hear it....who is cleaning out the sprayers nightly and if you do, what is your method? I would like to think that I am extending the life of the sprayer and preventing cross-mixing of incompatible compounds, but maybe I am just wasting a lot of ammonia for nothing.   

Haven't cleaned my inline sprayers in 6 years. still work just as good as the day I got them. Sometimes I will take the spray gun on the sprayer and run some water through itself. Just to water down and rinse out. Thats it.

I rinse them out well with water if I'm going to use incompatible  chemicals. I Haven't had any issues. I don't rinse them daily or weekly or ...

just don't use incompatible chemicals period.
Dedicate jugs to specific chems like prespray, prespray+deodorizer, acid, protector

I should have mentioned that when I have had to rinse my jug it's only because I was stupid and forgot to buy extra jugs for different chems (presprays). I do have separate sprayers for protector and deodorizers.

Btw, not many are taking advantage of my Injector Swap Program.
Remember?
You buy one injector assembly from me, lifetime stainless instead of cheap plated brass.
Mine comes complete for $39.95. And you get an adapter for $2.50 which forever makes it easy to change Injector assemblies.
So you do.
Then you start collecting all the other Injectors you have laying around your van and shop and send them to me.
I will go through them for you and get them all calibrated to the draw rate that you prefer.
I send them back and you only pay for the parts needed. No labor charge!

Here's an example of a guy in Kansas who bot 1 of my all stainless Injector assemblies, got it installed & working then he sent me his three bad ones to fix.
 

He went from this:


Notice all his ss balls are stuck. I swap you guys out to Teflon balls (think non-stick coating) and that problem is solved.
Also Teflon has less mass than stainless so it takes less force to create siphoning thus your reworked Injector will perform better.
I did the same thing to check valves in our wand jets in 2005.  Nine years later and everybody is either buying from me or copying me. 
Either way, one by one all these problems are disappearing.   


to this:

To this:


for $25 in parts.



The brass Adapter (screwed into the Injector block on the far right) makes it easy. Two crescent wrenches and any field monkey can swap one out and be back to work in 5 minutes.


Here's another guy in NY, bot 3 from me then gathered up 8 of his and sent to me for repair. Now the guy has more than he'll ever need, all calibrated to 4:1.



No more running into a supplier all frantic like and pulling your pants down for their kind of service. Those days are over.
It's called Wanders Injector Swap.

I did the swap and it works great, the only problem is getting it to fit in a cap for the jug

I need a small grommet, like 1/4in

Rinse with water, maybe, at most.  

And I've been using the same injection sprayer for over 20 yrs.   

I guess you just saved me a step when I shut down for the day. I have 4 inline jugs and 4 jugs for my multisprayer, but I was always concerned with something not being compatible or causing corrosion.

OCD cleaner at times.