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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: duncan h on June 24, 2014, 07:59:26 am

Title: winding hose reel
Post by: duncan h on June 24, 2014, 07:59:26 am
Does your hose wind in from the bottom or top. Does it make any difference. I know it will drag a little less, if from the top
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: Alex Gardiner on June 24, 2014, 08:09:21 am
I always wind the hose with the hose on the bottom of the reel - I find it less likely to 'over-spill' when pulling the hose out.
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: duncan h on June 24, 2014, 08:16:52 am
I agree Alex, but its also easier to guide from the top. Or do people just wind away
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: J.D on June 24, 2014, 08:20:49 am
I very much doubt a man of your wealth & standing Alex does much winding up of hoses!  ::)roll
Don't you have people to do that for you?
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: wpclean on June 24, 2014, 09:01:07 am
I very much doubt a man of your wealth & standing Alex does much winding up of hoses!  ::)roll
Don't you have people to do that for you?
Jealousy is a bad trait  ;D
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: J.D on June 24, 2014, 11:37:31 am
Not at all Samson  ;D

Alex deserves to take it easy, he's made life easier for all of us. However he shouldn't try and hoodwink us into thinking he now works for a living!
I drove past his estate the other day and stopped to gaze at his manicured lawns through his golden electric gates! I was sent on my way rather quickly however by a burly security man who was holding back a large rottweiler and who told me that his boss was not taking visitors!
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: duncan h on June 24, 2014, 06:04:16 pm
Not at all Samson  ;D

Alex deserves to take it easy, he's made life easier for all of us. However he shouldn't try and hoodwink us into thinking he now works for a living!
I drove past his estate the other day and stopped to gaze at his manicured lawns through his golden electric gates! I was sent on my way rather quickly however by a burly security man who was holding back a large rottweiler and who told me that his boss was not taking visitors!
So you are stalking Alex?
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: Perfect Windows on June 24, 2014, 07:01:31 pm
Like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA8qXcgSJg

Vin
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: duncan h on June 24, 2014, 08:39:41 pm
Like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpA8qXcgSJg

Vin
that's ace. Reel van mounted it is lol
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: Michael Peterson on June 25, 2014, 03:32:59 pm
how long does the battery last using an 18volt drill or do you have a few?
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: Lee GLS on June 25, 2014, 05:31:53 pm
how long does the battery last using an 18volt drill or do you have a few?


If you wire a cordless drive straight in to the van battery then it will never go flat, or if you ran it on its own car battery, I would guess it would only need charging every now and again.

I run my drill straight off the vans battery with no problems.
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: Perfect Windows on June 25, 2014, 05:56:55 pm
how long does the battery last using an 18volt drill or do you have a few?


I used two old batteries, so 24v through the drill.  My drills were very cheap, so 12v wouldn't generate enough torque.  Charged them every couple of weeks but could probably have got away with six months...

Stopped using them because the Joey in the film couldn't understand the instruction "If the hose snags, stop the drill or it will burn out". Twit.  Burned out three.

Vin
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: duncan h on June 25, 2014, 08:55:18 pm
buy a 14v drill. If it burns out under warranty, sorted  ;)
Title: Re: winding hose reel
Post by: Tom White on June 25, 2014, 09:07:57 pm
how long does the battery last using an 18volt drill or do you have a few?


Just reel it in using your arms; do it fast and treat it as a mini cardio exercise.

You're so lazy I bet you adopted your kids!