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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: H h20 on October 06, 2005, 06:25:25 pm

Title: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: H h20 on October 06, 2005, 06:25:25 pm
I have just bought this and used it today and it`s excellent,iv`e been using a 30m hozelock trolley and found it ok but this 40m wind up much quicker, neater and compact anyone else use it?,or what do you use,Gaz.
http://www.tooled-up.com/artwork/ProdImage/HOZ2494.jpg
Title: Re: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: callum macleod on October 06, 2005, 09:12:00 pm
hi i had one unfortunately it broke!  sent it back! and bought a different type of the same make seem's to be ok so far! make sure you don't rewind when hoze is under pressure as i think that was what broke mine ?
Title: Re: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: williamx on October 06, 2005, 09:46:04 pm
Gaz

I use one all the time and have them to be excellent, just wish they had a longer hose.

There is one tip, when you rewind the hose, run the hose though a cloth to clean the hose as it being rewound, if not it can jam at times.
Title: Re: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: H h20 on October 06, 2005, 09:53:12 pm
Cheers for the tip williamx,i did notice that as i was winding in the hose there was a few bits gathering where the hose goes into the rollers,bests take some extra cloths tomorrow then,Gaz.
Title: Re: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: williamx on October 06, 2005, 10:01:59 pm
Gaz

Also if it does jam then what I do is unwind some of the hose and wind it back in a fast as I can, this normally helps.
Title: Re: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: rosskesava on October 06, 2005, 10:40:59 pm
I wents nuts last week and lost my temper with a hose reel and kicked it down the road, the road being a busy high street in the middle of Brighton, and then jumped up and down on it, kicked it around a bit, and then gave a dustcart driver a fiver to drive over it provided I threw the bits in the back.

Needless to say I got a small crowd watching me but I am going breserk with hose reels. In 4 weeks I lost it with 3 of them. All from B & Q and they cost in total £105. Why is winding up a hose so complex when you want to do it quickly?

Monday .... we spent £200 pound on a stainless steel open hose reel that can take 100 metres.

What a difference. It will last years and years and years. Money well spent if you ask me.

Cheers


Title: Re: Hozelock 40m windup reel
Post by: Moderator David@stives on October 07, 2005, 12:24:00 am
until it rusts and the frame snaps with fatigue now that is a good wind up just like this thread really