Heavy Duty Retractable Air Hose Reel Systems
An air hose reel, with a choice of a manual hand-crank or automatic retractable, often comes with a solid construction in high-impact plastic, PVC cased, or all-welded steel, and reels with a narrow design offer complete ease in placement or storage.
A heavy-duty reel with a dual support axle offers a perfect feature to withstand some of the vibrations coming from a mobile installation. A resilient reel in high-grade steel offers the toughest of builds, so suited to the most demanding of assignments.
An air hose with 25, 50, 75 or 100-foot length comes in a choice of resilient materials, with common options including heavy-duty and UV stabilized polypropylene, rubber, or plastic. A well-designed hose is equipped to retain its flexibility in extreme temperature conditions – with some rated to cope at -20 degrees Fahrenheit to +165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Air hoses with a wall-mountable option are perfect in a garage or workshop environment to ensure a hose is always within easy reach for efficient hook-up to a desired air tool. Once a particular task is completed, a hose recoils into its housing or reel for safe storage until the next assignment.
Some of the common features seen with an automatic air hose reel include -
A flexible mounting bracket with 1 to 7 fixing positions for complete control on a wall, floor, workbench, pit or ceiling position, up to 8 ratcheting gears to hold a cord at a desirable working length, and 4 to 6 non-snagging rollers to help limited wear on the hose. A neat and even rewind of the hose is often achieved with a automatic layering system – which lays the hose back and forth across the hose for quick and convenient access at a later date.
Alert, Woodcraft Supply, Reelcraft, Neiko, and Legacy all produce a selection of reliable and durable retractable reels equipped with multiple features to cope with the abuse that comes from a typical jobsite environment.
Overall, air hose reel offers a great piece of equipment to complement the quiet, efficient, and incredibly powerful air tools, such as the impact wrenches, sanders, drills, spray guns, air nailers and more.
See more articles by Simonn Stone on the Air Hose Retractable Reel, as well as those written on such topics as the versatile Electric Hoist.
