#nozzle selection

Properly adjusting the water pressure and selecting the correct nozzle for your car wash gun is essential for effective cleaning while protecting your vehicle’s finish. The process involves understanding your equipment’s controls and matching the spray pattern to the task. How to Adjust Water Pressure on a Car Wash Gun Pressure adjustment isn’t always done directly on the gun itself; it often…

New Herbicide Tech Demands New Nozzle Thinking – 10 Quick Points

Expect to plant dicamba- or 2,4-D-resistant crops this year? Make sure you use the correct spray nozzles. From now on, not just any nozzle will do. In fact, the label for a new dicamba formulation for the Xtend weed control system has only one approved nozzle for use in 2017, an air induction nozzle from TeeJet, although more nozzles are expected to be added prior to the 2017 season. In fact, the…

Iowa: Selecting Nozzles for Postemergence Herbicides

An earlier ICM News article discussing affects of nozzle type and size on spray coverage prompted a question from a farmer regarding nozzle selection. In recent years there have been many advances in nozzle design. The primary improvement has been development of nozzles that minimize the formation of driftable droplets (10 Cobra(lactofen) 14 Flat fan, hollow cone NS 10-20 Reflex (fomesafen) 14…