May 2022 Bulletin

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We are proud to send out our May 2022 Bulletin—we hope you enjoy it. See Service Tips by Ed, Parts Ideas by Barb, Supply Ideas by Chris, and Our Customers.

New Updates: 

ON-PREMISE LAUNDRIES in Hotels, care facilities, and Hospitals:  Energenics Lint Buster Lint Filters are now available with bacteria-killing UV LIGHT.  Clean lint from your indoor air and clean bacteria from your indoor air. 

LAUNDRY and HOUSEKEEPING Sanitizing Supplies:  We have hand sanitizer, disinfecting surface cleaners, and disinfecting laundry supplies by ECOLAB and Pariser.  Call Chris at 651-288-4845.

DRY CLEANERS:  Sankosha has an operating showroom just outside Chicago. Try out live equipment! And rest assured, Sankosha supports new or used Sankosha equipment with parts and service help.

MILNOR and HUEBSCH are two of our favorite vendors. Feel free to visit their websites (Milnor and Huebsch) for more details on their great products!

This bulletin includes information on:

• Our Customers — Town & Country Club (St Paul) 
• Supply Ideas by Chris — Spring Cleaning!
• Service Tips from Ed Jensen — Washer Overfilling
• Parts Ideas from Barb — Shipping Delays for Parts

Additionally, we are pleased to offer the following:

SUPPLIES

We have you covered for Covid-19 issues to help make your workplace a safe place.  Ask us about surface cleaners, hand cleaners, and laundry chemicals from ECOLAB and Pariser.

Specials subject to supply on hand:

Pariser San-Man Hand Sanitizer with glycerin, 70% isopropanol alcohol, only $62.85 per gallon, call for Supplies — 800-328-5689

For your worn-out washers or dryers, we can install replacement equipment FAST - 800-328-5589.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

COIN LAUNDRY ASSOCIATION – www.coinlaundry.org – will soon restart in-person events and has many online courses. 

Wisconsin Fabric Care – www.wiscleaners.com – held a number of events in 2021 and more will be scheduled in 2022. 

• Monday, May 16, 6:40 PM — Brewer Game in Milwaukee, WI
• June 21 — Golf Outing River Club Mequon
• October 7 — Annual Fall Conference

Tuesday, June 14 – Full Day Seminar at Treasure Island Resort and Casino, followed by an evening cruise on the Mississippi River. Upper Mississippi Valley Association for Linen Management Home (umvailm.com)  The parent national organization Association for Linen Management (almnet.com) has many online events. 

July 30–Aug 2 – The Clean Show 2022, Atlanta, Georgia (messefrankfurt.com). This great event brings in vendors and speakers from all over the world with a huge exhibit floor and dozens of events. Plan now to attend this summer. 

Road Trip Idea: Visit the Sankosha USA Showroom in Elk Grove Village near O’Hare. Test run operating Sankosha laundry and dry cleaning finishing equipment by appointment. Sankosha USA (sankosha-inc.com) Call (888) 427-9120

Service Tips from Ed Jensen

Washer Overfilling

If your washing machine has water running out the drain or to the drain through the overflow, first make sure it is water, not suds. If a washer is underloaded it may cause excess suds and the suds may come out the overflow as if it were overfilling. 

If a machine is overfilling not caused by suds, this may be caused by the drain valve not opening, a bad water valve staying open, a partially plugged pressure tubing line, loose-fitting to pressure switch, or bad pressure switch. The pressure tube connects to washer shell and leads to the pressure switch. The air in the pressure tube tells the pressure switch what the water level is in order to turn on or off. If there is water coming out the drain when the machine is off, you have a bad water valve that is not closing. Replace or rebuild it. 

Inspect the pressure tubing—it may have a loose fitting at the shell or at the pressure switch, it may be kinked, it may have a hole in it or it may be clogged. Any of these will cause a bad reading. Your machine may have either a pressure switch "hockey puck" or a small pressure transducer screwed or soldered on the processor board. 

New Featured Products 

Energenics UV-MAX is a portable UV-C sanitizer device to disinfect rooms, soiled sort areas, trucks and comes in two sizes. Call for equipment department sales.

Sanitizing supplies—we have hand sanitizer by Pariser HAND-SAN, ECOLAB products, and gloves. Call for supply department sales.

Lint Scrubber filters the air and encapsulates the dust and lint. With the UV Light option, the Lint Scrubber disinfects the particles collected.