Jet check valves

I've been using Joe's jet check valves (teflon ball and spring) along with screens for years now, but lately, my springs keep breaking causing my jet to close off. I had it happen to 2 wands last night and it forced me to stop and remove the check ball and springs in order to continue the job.

This was on residential, so I noticed the streaks early, but what worries me is that a lot of commercial is being done at lower lighting levels on darker carpets so streaks would not be noticed until it dried. I can't have that happen, so today I removed all the check ball assemblies from each wand.

I wonder if it is due to pressures or just cycling? On commercial, that trigger is cycled a lot over a 6-8 job and at 500 psi, so maybe that it is just a rapid wear issue. I don't know, are any of you running into this issue? I am just going to accept the drippy jets for now.

Damn, where'd my post go.............I just responded to this thread, and swore it loaded and was here!

Ok, so that short ver. of what I said was I had same prob awhile back, and suspected it to be a bad run, maybe some bad spring steel? I had never had the prob or haven't again since replacing those broken ones. And they also came from joe, think it was just a bad run that were breaking.

Sounds like it is time to place another order then.

OK this is weird, My jets were dripping today too and it was on this carpet were you could see every drip. I've had the same jets on this wand for two years though. Im sure they are way overdue

2 yr old jets, I think even if they're SS they should be replaced after that long.........and prob the spring and balls in chk valves.

Oh great, guess I'm order check valves next week.
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Matt; My carpet cleaner wrote:Oh great, guess I'm order check valves next week.
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Better to be prepared, by having those 'wearable items' on hand.

Sorry about that Matt....oh, and I lost at powerball.

I had that happen probably once or twice, so not much at all, thanks for the reminder I need to order some more of those from Joe.

dp1 wrote:I had that happen probably once or twice, so not much at all, thanks for the reminder I need to order some more of those from Joe.

Who's this Joe guy you guys keep talking about? Is he an Honest Distributor?

He's Joe-Mama!

Oh that guy