Hose reel from an Alloy wheel?

[ChrisL]

Anyone ever done this before?

Ive a spare Rays wheel from when I had the 350z sitting in the Garden doing nothing so had a brain wave of coverting it into a hose reel.

However im not the most mechanically minded person ever so struggling to get an image in my head of how it would work lol Any help would be great.

Thanks, Chris

 

[Gavlar]

http://thevipergarage.com/index.php?topic=444.0

 

[bigsigh]

make your life infinitely easier and mount it on an old hub or bearing of some description so you can reel it out and in rather than unwrap and re wrap it

 

[ChrisL]

make your life infinitely easier and mount it on an old hub or bearing of some description so you can reel it out and in rather than unwrap and re wrap it

Yea seems like a good idea plus I can use the wheel nuts, mentions something similar in the link posted above

 

[Boydie]

Keeping my old CH alloy for this as well

 

[ChrisL]

I might need to get a slight bend in the lip taken out of mine ... bit of heat and a hammer hopefully should sort it lol

 

[ChrisL]

Pretty much what im after

 

[Lyons]

make your life infinitely easier and mount it on an old hub or bearing of some description so you can reel it out and in rather than unwrap and re wrap it

Complete pain in the ass though, what about a handle? The wheel being parallel to the wall wouldn't be ideal either.

 

[Lyons]

Pretty much what im after

I'd love to see under that to see how the hose comes out to attach to the tap.

 

[ChrisL]

I'd love to see under that to see how the hose comes out to attach to the tap.

Looks like hole maybe drilled in the bottom of the rim and then on to the tap.

Tidy install tho.

 

[cormac81]

The oul fella used one of my old steelies and mounted it back to front straight to the wall, does a great job and can throw stuff into the dish.

 

[richie_mck]

I'd love to see under that to see how the hose comes out to attach to the tap.

is it not just wound round the rim

 

[Bryan]

I have a small Bedford Rascal wheel mounted on the inside door of the shed to wrap my air line hose around. Does the job lovely.

 

[Nicky]

is it not just wound round the rim

It looks to be, yeah.

You'd be better off getting the likes of a Hozelock reel and studying it for a while, or else just converting it to take the rim.

Either way, you need a centre feed on freely rotating/spinning fitting to allow it to work properly. I done this a few years ago and it worked a treat.

 

[Ben P]

Bump up. Anyone any idea on easy mounting solutions for an alloy to brick wall.

 

[Gavlfc96]

If you get the hub Chris ill sort a base plate for it and weld it on I'll even throw in an sds drill and bolts

 

[Boabybooster]

Bump up. Anyone any idea on easy mounting solutions for an alloy to brick wall.

Mv4 alloy?

 

[Apis]

Pretty much what im after

Wrapping the hose like that is a PITA unless that one really is piped up properly and can spin without getting in a tangle.
Far easier just to hang the hose in big long loops over a fixed wheel and then lift off whatever length you need.

 

[gpaevo]

A good quality hose solves that problem.

 

[Coog]

Had one before and it was a complete faff. Hoselock auto reel is a far better job, though no scene points.

 

[Ben P]

I just want one to hang my new 15m @Cleantec Karcher hose on in the garage!

 

[Cleantec]

Hi @Ben P ,

We have a number of reels that would be suitable. Please see our range below and you can also use the RMS discount when at checkout:

Cleantec - High Pressure Hose Reels | Metre | MTM Hydro | UK

Thanks,

Caolan

 

[smb1]

ive never unerstood this set up ,looks crap,why not just buy one,only a few quid

 

[Nutts]

Hi @Ben P ,

We have a number of reels that would be suitable. Please see our range below and you can also use the RMS discount when at checkout:

Cleantec - High Pressure Hose Reels | Metre | MTM Hydro | UK

Thanks,

Caolan

I ordered a Nilfisk replacement hose 15m from you earlier today (Thurs) - could not find the RMS discount code anywhere.

 

[Cro]

@Ben P i just made up a couple of hooks identical to the display hooks you can buy on eBay etc