Outdoor air hose setup?

[wkearney99]

I'd like to do a better job of keeping the tires properly inflated. I've got all kinds of stuff to do it, but anytime you have to drag out gear... stuff doesn't get done...

That and where the cars get parked isn't close enough to drag a hose to them directly.

I do, however, have an outside wall next to the porch (cold room under there) where it might be convenient to put a door/locker to connect to a hose reel inside. A friend's boat has something similar for it's shore power electrical cord. Hatch on the transom and then a winder inside the engine room. I'd be looking to have about 25' of air hose on it.

Anyone rigged up something like this? Or have suggestions what NOT to do?

 

[sberry]

I just remodeled. Mine was outside and had a DUH moment where I decided it could work inside just as well.
This is plowed out in the winter, I have another exterior air gets used a lot in the summer or nice weather. It has been outdoor for 20 yrs, I can use the same port as I use for the pressure washer. Its got a local service valve ahead of the filter regulator. I like a hose longer than 50 so when the pull up isn't right it reaches. I use a 100 on these, I could swing it with 75.
1st 2 pics are before I move, 3rd is after. I moved regulator and all, made finished hangers for the airt pipe once I got it swung in.
I agree that rigging up to check air as convenient as possible is well worth the investment.

 

[sberry]

Here is my side door, open in nice weather and has an apron where I torch/weld etc outside, this hose services both inside and out due to swivel, the only catch is the door needs to be open which is fine.

 

[LB-1911]

I'd like to do a better job of keeping the tires properly inflated. I've got all kinds of stuff to do it, but anytime you have to drag out gear... stuff doesn't get done...

That and where the cars get parked isn't close enough to drag a hose to them directly.

I do, however, have an outside wall next to the porch (cold room under there) where it might be convenient to put a door/locker to connect to a hose reel inside. A friend's boat has something similar for it's shore power electrical cord. Hatch on the transom and then a winder inside the engine room. I'd be looking to have about 25' of air hose on it.

Anyone rigged up something like this? Or have suggestions what NOT to do?

Been done at least once before -

My wife gets home around 5:30 everyday... cat follows her in... door closes... 5:35 she mentions, her tires are low... she walks upstairs, leaving me with the task. I could explain or ask her to wait on the closing of the garage but... I have been married for 34 years, I know it won't make a difference.

I ran a 3/4" pvc pipe thru the hole to the back of the exterior outlet box, which is all metal and made in the USA... was collecting dust on a shelf.

By the way... she thought this was soo nifty... well you know what happened next.

 

[CNGsaves]

Not a better time than now to get low cost hose reel as Harbor Freight has one on the cheap. Just dream up where you'll install it, then go to town !!

 

[sberry]

If 50 would reach and its stored heated these Legacy 50$ special retractors are good. Would be perfect for set up above.
They have good mounting, the hose is not flexi but lasts a long time. Not good for below freezing though.

 

[wkearney99]

Thanks guys, this has gotten me thinking on it more. The place where this is situated is a 12" thick poured concrete foundation wall. It'd be partially visible from the street, so there has to be a certain wife-acceptance-factor to consider.

I'm thinking a recessed access panel door of some kind might work. It'd take some quality time with masonry tools. But there's a skin of ~3" thick stone on the front of it. That'd minimize the amount of concrete that'd have to be removed.

Maybe a 6" deep valve box or something might work. Like this sort of thing:

That or maybe find one capable of holding one of those coiled air hoses. I have a small length of that sort of hose with a holder cut into the hatches on my boat. Like this one:

But it wouldn't hold enough hose.

This is a clever idea, using 4" PVC to hold the coil:


A hole drilled through and the tube being behind the wall would let me avoid using a reel. But I kinda hate those coiled hoses. It'd also let me use a smaller panel on the outside and be able to rest the inflator inside the coil.

I'll have to double-check what kind of working length I'd need to ideally reach the farthest tire. Then I could figure out what kind of storage length would be required.

I could probably 'mock up' what I'd need and testing whether using PVC with elbow going ~14" back into the wall would work. I suppose I could just use a straight-in section of pipe, but the space behind there would be better served if I didn't have it intrude the likely 48" it'd require.

 

[MagicMarker]

I have a question about air pressure check sticks (for lack of the proper term). I used a traditional stick style tire pressure check and it read about 4lbs less than my new Milton dual chuck inflator with gauge (bubble gauge). Which one is the more accurate one?

 

[wkearney99]

Dunno, I go by getting the 'same' reading on all four tires and then looking at what the dashboard tire pressure monitoring system has to say. Between the two I'm 'close enough'. Assuming, of course, I get off my *** and actually do the job...

 

[csp]

The Milton with the dial face is probably the more accurate one.

Those "sticks" are tire pressure gauges, even if they don't have a dial face.

 

[ScottsGT]

I opened up the drywall in my ceiling between my garage doors and mounted a hose reel up into the rafters. Couldn't go all the way above the drywall since it's the floor of my bedroom.
Hose is hanging between the door guides just inside the door.

 

[sberry]

Instead of a big box make a port for the hose to go thru the wall. This could use a conventional hose reel, even a retractor. The modification I show above was a scheme where the original intent was a hutch and it never got done, I still looked at it all that way till I figured out to use the same port. You can cut a 2 or 3 inch hole easy. All those coils are junk, most of things that get away from the standard have issues.

 

[Mr_fixit]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39810&highlight=pole
see my pics for an idea.

 

[bobcatdan]

While having easy air outside is nice. Every place I ever was, the coupler was frozen when I needed to use it in winter. For my shop I mounted my main hose reel close to the door so if I need air outside, I just pull enough hose to do what I need. With a 50' feet reel, I can easily get enough out side to get to all four wheels of a truck.

 

[wkearney99]

While having easy air outside is nice. Every place I ever was, the coupler was frozen when I needed to use it in winter.

Which is why I want to see about keeping the inflator attached to it. Better to keep it ready to use.

For my shop I mounted my main hose reel close to the door so if I need air outside, I just pull enough hose to do what I need. With a 50' feet reel, I can easily get enough out side to get to all four wheels of a truck.

Oh I'd do that if the shop door was anywhere near the driveway. Unfortunately it's not.

 

[bobcatdan]

With a little thought, an outside air set up should be fine. Enclosing it to keep water off of it. Also having a water trap or angling the air pipe going down away from the reel so water in the line doesn't reach the coupler could make a desirable set up. Plenty of people make them work just fine.

 

[pmiranda]

I just keep a 4 gal tank at ~90psi all the time and carry it to each corner of a car I need to fill up. I never need to worry about an air hose scraping against anything or getting hung up.