Today was hot water day since Chick Fil A’s only let’s other people work on Sunday. Anyway, I’ve never owned a ball valve for changing from short gun to wand to surface cleaner or whatever.
On hot water days I take the necessary precautions. Jeans, boots, leather gloves.
Today, a funny thing happened. My hot water lance trigger got stuck. Super stuck. I put my lance down range on the ground, opened the low pressure soap valve, shut the machine off, and went to uncouple the hose from the gun. Didn’t shut off the water.
I was paying close attention to not spraying myself in the face with 200 degree water, thought all the pressure was off the lance since the trigger was stuck open, and there was just enough to push the quick connects apart and spray a healthy dose of hot water in my glove.
In an instant I ripped my glove off and my skin went with it. Before that moment I thought ball valves were for those who didn’t want to take 30 seconds to turn the machine off. Today, I became a ball valve convert and on my way home to order one now since I’ve already stopped at my dad’s to clean myself up.
From this point forward… I use ball valves on hot water days.