Hose reel or coiled line hanginrohe ceiling?

[gsebast1]

Hose reel or coiled line hanging from the ceiling?

Which do you recommend..hose reel or coiled line? This will be over my build area.

Ceiling is 12 feet and I will have numerous other drops around the building.

Please post photos of ceiling mounted air drops if you have them.

Thanks.

 

[cvairwerks]

From my experience, drops of any kind are either in the way most of the time, or you are constantly running into them. Get them high enough to not do that, and then you need a step stool or ladder to get them.

 

[u2slow]

I don't use auto-winding reels. I use a 1/4" springy-coil hose for blowing off parts, filling tires.... or a big 1/2" line for my impact gun or other hungry tools.

Overhead drops are kind of silly for me at 19-1/2' ceiling.

 

[rsanter]

Specific over a work bench, use the coiled line.
For everywhere else use the drop reel

 

[nadogail]

Coiled Plastic hose is Cheap, Light Weight, and Handy. Yes there are drawbacks but Cheap, Light Weight, and Handy are advantages.

 

[sberry]

From my experience, drops of any kind are either in the way most of the time, or you are constantly running into them. Get them high enough to not do that, and then you need a step stool or ladder to get them.

I come up with a drop scheme that is pretty good. One of my faves at my bench which is an island is on a boom where I got the feed line on the way out tie wrapped to the top chord and some hooks about 4 ft apart under it on the way back.
It has a tail easy to reach all the way back at the wall side, unhang it from the first or second hook and it drops over the top of the bench and if they are all undone it reaches and drops off the end of the boom for work on equipment out on the shop floor. Its hung hi enough its comfortable walking under, totally out of the way when not needed. I am not sure a guy can see how it works from these pics. In fact some of them were steps in the evolution I think. I had built some stuff earlier where time was not a factor but when I got to that did it in an evening after supper. If I was to do it again might use stronger pipe than the emt or size larger on the bottom chord or might use a section of antenna.
Section of or even whole really light alum ladder could work.

 

[sberry]

Let's see if this helps. It could be done as a light bar along a wall bench or boom from the end. Don't really even need much a boom, a piece of pipe and guy wire.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Specific over a work bench, use the coiled line.
For everywhere else use the drop reel

What I did, too. I also put a tool balancer on the coiled line. Pull it down, use the air, let it go and it goes back up.



Tommy

 

[gsebast1]

What I did, too. I also put a tool balancer on the coiled line. Pull it down, use the air, let it go and it goes back up.



Tommy

That’s a cool idea.