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Perfect Windows

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Re: List Of Spares
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2020, 11:15:27 am »
Some of the list depends on your setup.  I crawled around the van and made a list of every single component down to jubilee clips and electrical connectors and bought at least one of every single item. When we have a van kitted out for the franchisees, the order includes a spare of every single component used (bar obvious stuff like tanks!)

Even then things have broken that I didn't know about or hadn't noticed. When that happens I buy two replacements and one goes in the spares box. Also, every time a part out of the spares box is used, I reorder.

You also need a full toolkit. No point having a spare if you can't fit it. There are plenty of good, surprisingly cheap tool kits online. Not good enough for a professional tradesman but enough for our volume of repairs.

The thing that saves me and the franchisees more often than anything we carry is that we have a two-man setup in each van. If there's a fault in one they can carry on with the other reel, pump and controller pending repair.  Cost over ten years? About 10p a day to ensure you never have to give up and go home.

Vin

Clever Forum Name

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Re: List Of Spares
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2020, 06:16:00 pm »
Thanks Vin and that's something I am planning to do as the franchise is making good money. 

We use grippatank systems so easy to plumb in a second controller and pump.

jonboywalton75

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Re: List Of Spares
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2020, 06:25:15 pm »
Toilet roll
Carrier bags

Nothing worse than busting for a crap

i guess your joking right? ;D......never ever for me....just a pee bottle.....

I don't think he was Joking, presume it's a he anyway  :o