Retractable Air Line

[bluebell]

At the moment i have a clarke air compressor in a little wheeled trolley, that to use you have to push out, connect to a electric reel, plug in to power socket to power, then uncoil an elderly air line to use for pumping tyres. Now im fed up with this, so considerering placing compressor in a building and mounting a retractable air reel line with a moisture filter mounted on wall. Please any tips, advice and good companies to buy from ? Would be most welcomed.

 

[cotswoldcs]

We run a similar outfit to yours. The advantage of the portable compressor is that you can take it to a vehicle with a puncture or to blow combine down etc. Maybe you need to keep your current outfit and buy a dedicated compressor for the workshop. Flexible air lines are great but for a truly professional setup consider running heavy duty hoses with several points mounted on walls in key places so you can run just a small flexible hose for the specific job. Go have a look at a tyre fitters garage or something similar to see what they do as I'm sure it will be better than a farmer's bodge.

 

[Exfarmer]

I personally would dispense with the retractable airline, it is just something to give trouble, although it may be handy. A good pump and as big a tank as you can afford are the essentials. You can easily plumb air all round everywhere with MDPE, blue water pipe. Some will tell you this is a no no, but workshops across the country use it. if you are running it any distance use at least 1inch and this will also act to increase tank capacity

 

[David.]

Like, but use mdpe black because it is UV stable for overground applications.

 

[Steevo]

I moved from a small 25l compressor to a larger 150l version fixed. Big improvement! Bigger pump, larger bore air line, it make things 5x easier.

That said, I still have the smaller one for convenience and wouldn’t be without it. Handy for taking to the other farm, or to a vehicle in a different barn with a flat tyre. It only gets used once or twice a year, but for that it’s super handy.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

I brought a 25m 1/2 inch retractable garden hose from garden centre. It's being working fine for over a year. Yes the hose may blow at sometime but until then its a cheap solution

 

[Matt77]

At the moment i have a clarke air compressor in a little wheeled trolley, that to use you have to push out, connect to a electric reel, plug in to power socket to power, then uncoil an elderly air line to use for pumping tyres. Now im fed up with this, so considerering placing compressor in a building and mounting a retractable air reel line with a moisture filter mounted on wall. Please any tips, advice and good companies to buy from ? Would be most welcomed.

Quite a few years ago my local dealer had a retractable line on offer, I thought it was a great idea as our pipe at the time had seen better days, so if I remember rightly the dealer had a 50m reel on offer for about £120, looked very good quality, so manager at the time decided that he could do better and found one online for just under £60 I think, it’s been nothing but a pain in the back side!! cheap pipe that’s now got more joins in it than I’d rather, locks when you don’t want it to and doesn’t when you do it’s still going some 7-8 years later but my point would be invest a bit more and it’ll be worth it over the long run. For my situation a reel has been a great improvement, when it behaves itself.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I would also be wary of retractable reels but we have Sealey ones at work that are over ten years old. Two of them both by a roller shutter door are used heavily daily and not by the most carefull either!! Bar a few sbrings on the toothed ratchet etc they’ve been faultless. I’m toying with the idea of a 12 foot gantry arm on the column of the shed to support a dangling airline or biting the bullet and buying a reel.

 

[solo]

I have seen standard airline piped from a building stantion and clipped to a metal bar that swings out over the work area like a gate and swings back to the wall when not in use. The vertical hose from this is a sprung coil air line. Quite a neat idea. You can then just plug your compressor in or keep another separate line for mobile use.

 

[Dave W]

I bought a conah I think on recommendation of local hydraulic place. Utter cheap garbage.

Now got a draper expert about £120 and it's excellent in the 6 months so far

 

[TripleSix]

We've got one from machine mart at work and it seems well made,been no trouble.

 

[Orionn4444]

We use a Milwaukee battery compressor most of the time now...far handier than lugging a large tank about the yard...haven't used the one in the workshop since we bought it!

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Can’t have enough ways of making air. This is my order of compressors from baby to beast:

This Milwaukee cordless now permanently lives in the boot well of the car. Had a slow running leak for a week or so before I could get it patched, and this thing saved the day. As far as tyre inflators go it’s really very good. I’d recommend it:

I’ve actually got two of these 240v portables, one is a Güde and the other is an ABAC. They are practically identical. They are the quick grab compressors in the garage near the house:

This DeWalt cordless unit lives in an off-site shipping container I use for storage. It shares its 18/54v FlexVolt battery with a cordless workshop light and a DAB site radio that are in the same storage. Not as much puff as the 240v Güde/ABAC portables, but enough to use to inflate tyres or for a blow gun. Very handy when you don’t have mains supply available.

This is a Kaeser/HPC is a 3-phase workshop screw compressor I picked up at auction (this is the original auction photo). Think it came out of a furniture fabrication workshop. Quiet and decent puff. It’s just barely run in...only 11,000 hours on the clock. Runs like a Swiss watch!

Also got a CompAir C76 road-tow unit, mostly for running the grit blaster. Massive output, just a beast!

 

[How much]

At the moment i have a clarke air compressor in a little wheeled trolley, that to use you have to push out, connect to a electric reel, plug in to power socket to power, then uncoil an elderly air line to use for pumping tyres. Now im fed up with this, so considerering placing compressor in a building and mounting a retractable air reel line with a moisture filter mounted on wall. Please any tips, advice and good companies to buy from ? Would be most welcomed.

i got a clarke retractable airline last year from machine mart , its just bolted to the wall above the compressor , I too was sick of wrapping up or should that be "Wrestling" with the old airline hose!!! , it seems pretty good ,m pretty much all matal , the quality of hose on it is good , its rubber and does not kink when its pulled out and has nice guides to help guide it out and back overall very happy with it .
the hose that comes with it that goes from the compresor to the reel is quite short , that wold the only negative thing about it

What i could do with would be something very similar for a water hose as the hose reels are pretty useless

 

[Barleymow]

got one from aldi works ok

 

[br jones]

Can’t have enough ways of making air. This is my order of compressors from baby to beast:

This Milwaukee cordless now permanently lives in the boot well of the car. Had a slow running leak for a week or so before I could get it patched, and this thing saved the day. As far as tyre inflators go it’s really very good. I’d recommend it:

I’ve actually got two of these 240v portables, one is a Güde and the other is an ABAC. They are practically identical. They are the quick grab compressors in the garage near the house:

This DeWalt cordless unit lives in an off-site shipping container I use for storage. It shares its 18/54v FlexVolt battery with a cordless workshop light and a DAB site radio that are in the same storage. Not as much puff as the 240v Güde/ABAC portables, but enough to use to inflate tyres or for a blow gun. Very handy when you don’t have mains supply available.

This is a Kaeser/HPC is a 3-phase workshop screw compressor I picked up at auction (this is the original auction photo). Think it came out of a furniture fabrication workshop. Quiet and decent puff. It’s just barely run in...only 11,000 hours on the clock. Runs like a Swiss watch!

Also got a CompAir C76 road-tow unit, mostly for running the grit blaster. Massive output, just a beast!

now thats just boasting

 

[Longneck]

Can’t have enough ways of making air. This is my order of compressors from baby to beast:

This Milwaukee cordless now permanently lives in the boot well of the car. Had a slow running leak for a week or so before I could get it patched, and this thing saved the day. As far as tyre inflators go it’s really very good. I’d recommend it:

I’ve actually got two of these 240v portables, one is a Güde and the other is an ABAC. They are practically identical. They are the quick grab compressors in the garage near the house:

This DeWalt cordless unit lives in an off-site shipping container I use for storage. It shares its 18/54v FlexVolt battery with a cordless workshop light and a DAB site radio that are in the same storage. Not as much puff as the 240v Güde/ABAC portables, but enough to use to inflate tyres or for a blow gun. Very handy when you don’t have mains supply available.

This is a Kaeser/HPC is a 3-phase workshop screw compressor I picked up at auction (this is the original auction photo). Think it came out of a furniture fabrication workshop. Quiet and decent puff. It’s just barely run in...only 11,000 hours on the clock. Runs like a Swiss watch!

Also got a CompAir C76 road-tow unit, mostly for running the grit blaster. Massive output, just a beast!

Out of interest, what do you use the 240v portable ones for? What are they capable of?

 

[Steevo]

Can’t have enough ways of making air. This is my order of compressors from baby to beast:

This Milwaukee cordless now permanently lives in the boot well of the car. Had a slow running leak for a week or so before I could get it patched, and this thing saved the day. As far as tyre inflators go it’s really very good. I’d recommend it:

I’ve actually got two of these 240v portables, one is a Güde and the other is an ABAC. They are practically identical. They are the quick grab compressors in the garage near the house:

This DeWalt cordless unit lives in an off-site shipping container I use for storage. It shares its 18/54v FlexVolt battery with a cordless workshop light and a DAB site radio that are in the same storage. Not as much puff as the 240v Güde/ABAC portables, but enough to use to inflate tyres or for a blow gun. Very handy when you don’t have mains supply available.

This is a Kaeser/HPC is a 3-phase workshop screw compressor I picked up at auction (this is the original auction photo). Think it came out of a furniture fabrication workshop. Quiet and decent puff. It’s just barely run in...only 11,000 hours on the clock. Runs like a Swiss watch!

Also got a CompAir C76 road-tow unit, mostly for running the grit blaster. Massive output, just a beast!

You continually amaze me with your boxes of toys!

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Out of interest, what do you use the 240v portable ones for? What are they capable of?

Just a small source of air in the garage really. More of a convenience thing, as there is no workshop compressor there. They are far faster at inflating a tyre on the ride-on, car etc compared to the Milwaukee battery inflator - enough in the tank to top off a car tyre in 15 seconds rather than 3-4 minutes for the Milwaukee - the latter is something to have while your on the road.

Workshop is not at the same premises, so they provide just enough for doing the odds and sods and a blow gun. Also handy to disconnect from the mains and run out to inflate a tyre whilst on the driveway.

 

[multi power]

got one from aldi works ok

Mine didn't last that long, one of very few disapponting buys from aldi