Still Using Proportioner Tips? There’s a Better Way
If you use a pressure washer chemical applicator for exterior cleaning or softwashing, you’ll already know how important getting your chemical proportioning right can be.
Changing the size of the proportioner allows you to adjust the strength of the chemical mix being drawn through your applicator. Traditionally, that means keeping a selection of small proportioner tips with you and physically swapping them whenever you need to change your chemical strength.
It works.
But there’s a much easier way!
The Problem with Traditional Proportioner Tips
Individual proportioner tips have been used with pressure washer chemical applicators for years. Different sized tips restrict the chemical flow by different amounts, allowing you to alter the strength of the mixture being applied.
The downside is the practical reality of using them while you’re working.
You need to keep track of several small tips, remove the existing proportioner, fit another one and then repeat the process whenever you want to change your mix.
Small components can easily be lost in the van or on site, and repeatedly removing proportioners isn't exactly convenient when you're halfway through a job.
For contractors who regularly change chemical strengths, it can become an unnecessary interruption to the workflow.
Meet the Watertek SwitchTip®
The Watertek SwitchTip® was developed as an alternative to constantly swapping individual proportioner tips.
Instead of carrying a selection of separate tips, SwitchTip gives you a rotary selector that allows you to change your chemical proportioning from one unit.
Turn the dial and select the setting you need.
No removing tiny proportioner tips.
No searching through your van for the correct size.
No stopping to swap components every time you need to adjust your mix.
Six Positions. One Proportioner.
The SwitchTip has six selectable positions:
CL – Closed - Shuts off the chemical supply.
P1 – Red Tip - Equivalent to the commonly used red proportioner.
P2 – Beige Tip - Equivalent to the beige proportioner.
P3 – Black Tip - Equivalent to the black proportioner.
P4 – Grey Tip - Equivalent to the grey proportioner.
P5 – Open - Provides an unrestricted port with no proportioner tip fitted, giving you the strongest available chemical mix for the flow and pressure you're working with.
That means the proportioner settings you're most likely to use are available simply by turning the wheel.
Change Your Chemical Mix Without Swapping Proportioner Tips
This is where SwitchTip really changes how you use a chemical applicator.
With conventional proportioner tips, changing your mixture means physically changing the proportioner.
With SwitchTip, you can strengthen or weaken your chemical mix using the rotary dial.
For exterior cleaners moving between different surfaces, levels of contamination or stages of a cleaning job, that can make the applicator considerably quicker and easier to work with.
It also means less time handling small components and more time actually cleaning.
More Than Just a Proportioner
SwitchTip also incorporates ball-valve functionality.
Turn the selector to CL and the chemical feed is closed.
That means the same control used to select your proportioning can also shut the chemical supply off when required.
It's a simple idea, but one that makes a chemical applicator much easier to operate.
Built from Stainless Steel
Traditional removable proportioners are small components that inevitably see plenty of handling.
SwitchTip takes a different approach.
The unit is manufactured entirely from stainless steel and is designed as a permanent upgrade to your chemical applicator rather than another consumable tip to keep replacing.
Watertek also supplies the SwitchTip with a 3-year warranty, giving professional users additional reassurance when fitting it to equipment that's being used day in, day out.
Can I Fit SwitchTip to My Existing Chemical Applicator?
In many cases, yes.
SwitchTip connects directly to the Mini Plug used on Watertek chemical applicators including the ProJet®, ProFoam® and ProCannon®.
The SwitchTip upgrade also includes conversion components for Mini Quick Release and 10mm barb connections, allowing it to be fitted to other compatible applicators.
So upgrading doesn't necessarily mean replacing the chemical applicator you already own.
Proportioner Tips vs SwitchTip®
Traditional proportioner tips still do their job, and replacement packs remain available.
But if you're regularly changing between different chemical strengths, SwitchTip offers a much more convenient alternative.
Instead of:
- carrying multiple individual proportioner tips
- removing and replacing tips during a job trying not to lose small proportioners
- using tools to remove stubborn fittings
- you have one stainless-steel selector with your most commonly used proportioning options immediately available.
For regular chemical applicator users, it's a small upgrade that can make a noticeable difference to how smoothly you work.
Upgrade Your Chemical Applicator
If you're still using individual proportioner tips every time you need to change your chemical strength, it may be time to switch.
The Watertek SwitchTip® Chemical Applicator Proportioning Upgrade gives you six selectable settings, integrated shut-off functionality and stainless-steel construction in one compact unit.
View the Watertek SwitchTip® at Rutland Pumps and upgrade your chemical applicator today.