Come on . . . you've been on GJ for a year and still don't have a clue??
Start your own thread with PVC cluelessness if haven't done any research for yourself. Don't clutter up this thread with your foolishness !!
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Air Hose Reel Mounting?
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Come on . . . you've been on GJ for a year and still don't have a clue??
Start your own thread with PVC cluelessness if haven't done any research for yourself. Don't clutter up this thread with your foolishness !!
buspilot23
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Ah, stroked383z28, another OCD person like me. Truthfully I hadn't considered the uneven hose raveling on my hose reel. . . now you've burned that image in my mind; I likely won't get any sleep tonight.
The big regret that I have after completing this install (yes I am OCD too) is that my hose keepers are shaped differently. In the picture below, you will notice the keeper on my air hose is round, but the keeper on my power cord is hex shaped. Those different keeper shapes have been driving me NUTS ever since my install.
The devil is in the details my friend.
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fnieto
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ABADWILLYS
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my black pipe air lines run up in the ceiling, so i have one mounted up there
Rod N
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But where is the air compressor?
It looks like the center one is where it hooks up?
buspilot23
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Ah, those pictures are in a different thread. . . more information at: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=265558&page=3
But to answer your question, it is not in the center but over here:
Be sure to follow the link for more information about the RapidAir piping system, if that is what you are curious about. That thread goes into more detail, whereas this thread is just about the hose reel location.
Rod N
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Nice!
Google hose roller guide.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hos...KHbVzBNcQgTYIxgMwAQ&ei=Dls5V5bLLYeAjwO155G4DQ
Rod N
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I just removed the one from my hose reel and used it. If you mount the reel above the hole in your ceiling you don't need it at the reel anyway.
Thanks! Using their preferred terminology helps!
True. However, the spot the hose is exiting the ceiling would require the guide to be modified. That's not all that bad but then the shape is odd (not symmetrical) and that would bug me.
dypen
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Joe69
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I don't have any pics, but mine is similar to this.
LS6 Tommy
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I have my 50' reel by the roll up door for driveway use and my 25' reel up by the ceiling joists, to the left side of the garage near the back wall to service the underhood area of a car in the garage or my work bench. I also have a 20' coil hose on an automatic tool retractor cable over the bench for dusting, etc.
Tommy
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That's how I did mine. It's high on the wall in the space between the garage doors. I mount lots of stuff that way, a piece of [ply]wood to span 2 studs, then the item mounted to the wood.
driftpin
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Attached 2-car garage, w/a loft over the rear-half of the garage. The loft was a compromise, it doesn't have 'stand-up' height, but it provides me about 230 sq. ft. of floor space for storage and I have a 360-degree swiveling jib hoist w/a 120 V power up/down motor to lift the heavy things.
I don't have a 'permanent' air system yet. I have a 240 V Campbell-Hausfeld VT610401 30 gallon wheeled compressor 8 CFM @ 90 PSI and just to have an air source close-to the workbench but out of the way, I ran air hose from the niche for the compressor to over my workbench. That's where I mounted my air hose reel, on the front steel beam, which is 'sandwiched' with 2" X 8" through-bolted fir, of the loft structure. The steel horizontal beam is 4" X 8" X 1/2" which is 20 ft long, spanning from garage side wall to garage side wall. The beam is welded to flitch plates set-into steel-reinforced 8" X 24" concrete columns running from the foundation to the top tie-beam for the roof structure. There is a 2 ft X 4 ft footer enlargement below the 8" X 24" poured concrete columns into-which the flitch plates are set. The retractable air hose reel is lag-screwed into the 2 x 8 on the front of the 4 X 8 steel beam.
One day, I'll get-around to running a proper air supply rigid line, with a pitched run, drains and a dryer/cooler, but that won't be until I upgrade to a higher-capacity compressor. At-least I didn't use rigid PVC!
I also have a manual portable air hose reel if I needed to reach an additional distance.
I don't have a 'permanent' air system yet. I have a 240 V Campbell-Hausfeld VT610401 30 gallon wheeled compressor 8 CFM @ 90 PSI and just to have an air source close-to the workbench but out of the way, I ran air hose from the niche for the compressor to over my workbench. That's where I mounted my air hose reel, on the front steel beam, which is 'sandwiched' with 2" X 8" through-bolted fir, of the loft structure. The steel horizontal beam is 4" X 8" X 1/2" which is 20 ft long, spanning from garage side wall to garage side wall. The beam is welded to flitch plates set-into steel-reinforced 8" X 24" concrete columns running from the foundation to the top tie-beam for the roof structure. There is a 2 ft X 4 ft footer enlargement below the 8" X 24" poured concrete columns into-which the flitch plates are set. The retractable air hose reel is lag-screwed into the 2 x 8 on the front of the 4 X 8 steel beam.
One day, I'll get-around to running a proper air supply rigid line, with a pitched run, drains and a dryer/cooler, but that won't be until I upgrade to a higher-capacity compressor. At-least I didn't use rigid PVC!
I also have a manual portable air hose reel if I needed to reach an additional distance.
