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Ok... There is some serious issues with this device that I cannot find any information on related to back siphonage. I googled around some and couldn't find the info regarding safety protections required for this type of device. A vacuum breaker would probably work but because this is considered a chemical in the plumbing world this device shouldn't be connected to a garden hose which is connected to your potable water supply without a reduced pressure backflow preventer protecting the potable water within the household. I highly recommend massdrop DROP this product entirely and never sell it again.
By supporting this device you as a retailer vouch for it's safety which would be completely illegal in Canada. No store in Canada would legally be allowed to put this device on the shelf which is why they are trying to sell it online. As far as I know any device connected to potable water must be CSA approved. I could easily sue Massdrop if someone in my household got sick or died from said device. You can't guarantee that the required safety devices are installed on the owners house and I can't see any safety listed on the device thus it is a safety hazard.
I highly recommend everyone avoid this product for safety reasons. If there is a pressure drop on the house hold side of the potable water system while the device is connected but not in use it is possible for the chemical to be siphoned into the house. There is zero safety information that I could find regarding this device.
But please correct me if I am wrong as I couldn't find the info needed to prove me wrong.
Lastly if anyone in my city was caught using this they would be fined 5000 dollars. Our storm system is separate from the sewer system and as such the storm water is slightly filtered and used to irrigate crops. Pumping chemicals into the storm system is illegal here.
ShakenrawrActually he has a point. I have a backflow preventer on the spigot on the outside of my house. As an example, if you had your hose laying in a pool that was foul, the fire dept hooks up to a hydrant down the road, they drop the pressure on the municiple water supply with their draw. Without a backflow preventer, your foul pool water will get drawn into your house and possibly even into the public water lines in the street. The situations where this can occur are limited but with so many people connected to the water system, the chances aren't as small as you think.
Received the drop in the mail, sadly its missing a good amount of the adapters so I cant even use it. I went over to a local store to find a hose quick adapter so I can at-least use the foamer, but nothing fits this nonstandard garbage.
Upon contacting MassDrop they offered me a $10 Refund for the adapters not being included. As I can buy the adapters from Home Depot for alittle more than that, I probably will just choose that option.
Just finished using my Foam Cannon kit for the first time today. Cleaned my Saturn Sky, Mustang GT, and dad's F-350.
The Sky, being a more weekend ride for me, cleaned up up extremely easy and quickly. Most of what was on it was just the dust from sitting in a garage that it gets over time. The foam seemed to rinse that off quite well, some mitt use across the windows and all the surfaces to just be sure with a rinse was all it needed to clean up exceptionally well.
The Mustang was also rather easy. The foam goes on well and if you work quick, usually will stay on long enough to get the mitt across, however it was drying a bit faster at this time (I was also getting slower as it was car #3 and I am beat from Snowmobiling yesterday). I would have to jet some more foam on parts that dried a bit fast as well as come back and jet/wash/rinse some parts that were really dirty (behind the back tires with all the grime they throw up on the rear side). It hasn't been washed in like a month so that is to be expected from a DD.
The F-350 was the worst for this. While the foam goes on nice, the road grime from the recent snow plow clearings does not come off with any soap on its own. (Salty crap that it is) so a lot of foam/wash/rinse was needed to do in sections as the thing is just too big to scrub quickly after foaming and too dirty to want to rub too much with a mitt between rinse.
The Soap itself seems to be rather good however but also you will use a bit more than normal bucket washing with the cannon. You can dilute it in the sprayer or adjust the dial on the cannon to reduce the use but for the most part I did like the level of suds I was getting out of it. It doesn't mix water into the soap container like some cheap sprayers do, it is more like the Mr. Clean Car Wash sprayer from years back that did ok for mixing soap and water that I used for a few years, however this thing does Foam a lot more which is nice.
Overall I am happy with the kit, the included accessories are pretty good, (Need a new hose to use with the quick disconnects) but it is easy to quick swap the cannon on and off the sprayer as needed and the drying towel is amazingly good compared to all the "Microfiber Drying Towels" I have purchased in the past. This one actually absorbs water instead of just pushing it around.