Titanium Wand

henryklos 2016-08-15 15:01:46 UTC #1

I've been getting a 1 second delay for the water to come out of the nozzles when I press the trigger on my wand (from Joe) - is there something on the wand maintenance that I'm missing?
Thanks.

Ryan 2016-08-16 02:05:03 UTC #2

Those check valve springs may be a little stiff. @Joe will probably be by soon to blow my theory in the water or confirm.

Joe 2016-08-16 02:44:07 UTC #3

Beats me. I was asking him to post it to see if any of ya'll knew.
I know there was no problem up to just recently right?
And you have been playing with rebuild kits lately right?
If so, maybe you didn't lube the stem and it's sticking or moving slowly?
Lil' Tub of Teflon works great for this.

LaCarpeta 2016-08-16 18:14:45 UTC #4

I have a second delay on mine although probably not the same valve. I just don't pull back til after one second. Been like this for a few years. Especially when a blast of heat goes through.
No big deal.

Scott_S 2016-08-29 00:54:55 UTC #7

if you running check valves are they leaking? inine screen got crap in it? and what psi are you running?

henryklos 2016-09-03 13:32:40 UTC #8

Thanks for the ideas guys, I found out there were 2 things going on with this delay - the inline filter was plugged up so I cleaned it, but I still had a bit of a delay from time to time after that.
I think it relates to how hot the water gets. When I have my heat setting to the hottest position on my truckmount, the water gets over 240 degrees and with that heat built up, it seems to put a lot of pressure on the trigger in the wand. I'm only running it at 400 psi when this happens.
As soon as I turn the heat down and it gets to 225 - 235 degrees, the issue goes away. Not exactly sure what's happening inside the wand to relieve whatever pressure there is when it's overly hot, but I think that solved it!