Air hose and reel

[rustychev]

As of now I have a 50ft reel that is mounted next to my compressor at the center back of my garage and a 25 footer in the back left hand corner. This gives me one hose for my 3rd stall and two for the double stall. I got a third reel for free from my dad when he redid his garage. It came with no hose on it but it has 3/8 npt fittings and will hold 100 ft of 3/8 rubber hose or 50 of 1/2. I want to put in at the front ceter of the garage between the 2nd and 3rd stalls to give me hose in the driveway and a second hose in the thrid stall.

Now do I go with 1/2 hose with 3/8 npt ends or 3/8 hose and 3/8 ends? If it helps the hard lines will be 1/2 copper. 50 feet would get all of the driveway and garage. 100 would do garage, driveway and most if not all of my yard including getting to my sprinkler line air fiiting.

Im leaning toward the 3/8 but so far cant find one that is 100ft long with 3/8 npt ends.

 

[alan camby]

I would go with the 3/8" hose unless you need it for a crazy amount of air flow.

Will be hard to find 100 foot with 3/8npt on the cheap. I think you would be fine with 3/8 hose with a 3/8 to 1/4" bushing on the end.

I found this in 3/8npt but it is expensive.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008PZ8D74/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[rustychev]

There is a place in town that will make any hose you want not sure what the price would be but they made me a 4 foot 1/2" hose with 3/8 ends for about 10.00 as I waited. So i will call them. the other thing I thought about was two 50s and just hooking them togeather.

 

[alan camby]

Or just buy a hose with 1/4 inch ends, cut of the end and buy a nice barbed hose end. They make several kinds that don't require a hose clamp and look nice and finished.

 

[porschedude996TT]

HF has Goodyear Rubber Hose.

 

[akdiesel]

For blowing out our small sprinkler systems, I use a 5 gallon air tank to blow them out. These are simple sprinkler set ups through out the 2 acre yard so this works great for me. I also use it to do some quick air nailer finish work inside the house.
I have four 50' hose reels in the shop that over lap about 10' from each other so I can get air easily at any corner.
We had a large sprinkler system at another house and the installer would come by every year with a IR compressor to blow the lines out. Your compressor will need enough cfm recovery to handle the large water lines.
Sorry for the drawn out story but a 100' hose reel will be troublesome. It will need constant coil correction and the recoil will need to be tight so when using it for short distances it can pull out of hands easier and slam into the reel.

 

[rustychev]

I should have said but its a hand crank reel. My compressor has teh CFM to blow the sprinkler out up to this point I have used 3 25 foot hoses that I have laying around but that is a pain and two of them leak at the ends.

 

[alan camby]

For blowing out our small sprinkler systems, I use a 5 gallon air tank to blow them out. These are simple sprinkler set ups through out the 2 acre yard so this works great for me. I also use it to do some quick air nailer finish work inside the house.
I have four 50' hose reels in the shop that over lap about 10' from each other so I can get air easily at any corner.
We had a large sprinkler system at another house and the installer would come by every year with a IR compressor to blow the lines out. Your compressor will need enough cfm recovery to handle the large water lines.
Sorry for the drawn out story but a 100' hose reel will be troublesome. It will need constant coil correction and the recoil will need to be tight so when using it for short distances it can pull out of hands easier and slam into the reel.

i would not want the 100 foot reel as a primary hose. The op has 2 smaller reels to use for jobs that require a shorter hose.

 

[Motofixxer]

3/8 hose and 3/8 fittings with Milton type V high flow couplers or similar and you should have no issues.

 

[rustychev]

3/8 hose and 3/8 fittings with Milton type V high flow couplers or similar and you should have no issues.

Ya I was planing on the milton type v any now stuff gets them and I am slowly changing over most of my older stuff