The Useful Guide on How To Maintain Your Line-Striping Machine Properly

Cleaning striping equipment remains a crucial operation in whole construction process as contractors ought to do this if they want to maintain their quality equipment properly. It takes cleaning every day and  weekly maintenance to preserve the equipment and make sure it is going to provide good quality.
To start up the cleaning, the contractors need three 5-gallon buckets: one with the coating, the other with water and the last one empty, for waste used to dump the recycled material back into it. The choice of water temperature is also important: lukewarm, soapy water for latex based coatings and paint thinner for oil-based coatings. Having done so, you may proceed with cleaning the equipment. You just flush the proper cleaning agent through the fluid section, hoses, guns and tips until it comes out clean.
Some other essential parts of the equipment that need to be cleaned are the filters. They need to be cleaned in such a way to avoid plugging the machine and losing pressure.
Some manufacturers suggest a daily deep cleaning while the others prefer cleaning selected parts daily, during the weekly maintenance schedule. If you prefer weekly deep clean plan, then you have to properly store paint daily.

Caterpillar Backhoes Teams Fight: Machines of Glory

Machines of Glory, the new Discovery Channel show, sets extreme challenges to verify the speed and the skills of America’s best operator crews on backhoe loaders, wheel loaders, excavators, skid steers and dozers. Of course, lots of demolition stuff goes on during the show, and the audience simply loves it!
Being the sponsor and the technical advisor, Caterpillar is behind the ins and outs of the show. Moreover, ForConstructionPros had the chance to see this show trailer in advance and then meet the host and producers of Machines of Glory at Cat’s Clayton, N.C. – compact wheel loaders manufacturing plant.
Apart from the dynamic action and entertainment, the show also provides a handful of information on how the machine actually works and the way it can be used.