glenn bradley
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I don't use much in the way of compressed air. I had plumbed in a system in my previous shop and can count on both hands the number of times I used it. In the new shop I just put a small compressor in the bottom of one of my rolling carts. To make it more useful I added a hose reel that could be connected to the compressor should I need air farther away. I found I never used it since manually winding up the hose was a pain . . . is that a weak statement or what!?!
I inherited an auto-return reel from my dad and decided to put it into service. I removed the clunky rubber hose and put my Flexeel hose on.
The reel didn't have enough turns in its cycle to load all the hose despite me setting it at the maximum. I had gotten along with just a coil hose for years.
This made me confident that I could whack off a bit of hose without suffering too much. I used some of the cut off to connect the reel and the compressor.
Now it looks like so and works great.
Time will tell if the suto-return function makes me use it more often.
I inherited an auto-return reel from my dad and decided to put it into service. I removed the clunky rubber hose and put my Flexeel hose on.
The reel didn't have enough turns in its cycle to load all the hose despite me setting it at the maximum. I had gotten along with just a coil hose for years.
This made me confident that I could whack off a bit of hose without suffering too much. I used some of the cut off to connect the reel and the compressor.
Now it looks like so and works great.
Time will tell if the suto-return function makes me use it more often.
