[davids3511]

Inspired by discount and his electric reel I spent a few hours over the christmas welding and so on. I have mounted the reel in the van, cut a hole in the back door and put in a roller. I was without iot yesterday because I forgot to charge my drill battery and really missed it. To anyone thinking of doing it, go for it, I think it speeds me up and I am less tired in the evening.

Going to get it painted up tomorrow and will post a photo if anyone is interested?

[P @ F]

PICTURES THEN , LET US SEE IT !

rich

[Ian101]

yes I want one in my van 

[davids3511]

ok, will take a few tomorrow to show off my wonky welding.

[TomCrowther]

I've seen it. Dave is selling himself short. He not only has an electric reel, but a fogwash too!! People like that make me sick 

[davids3511]

yes I want one in my van 

It's quite easy really, all I did was to cut two lenghts of angle iron about 8 inches long and weld them to the sides of my van, like little shelves. Then I ran two more longer lengths of angle iron accross the van, sitting on the 'shelves' at either end. Then I welded the longer lengths to the shorter lengths which finished the frame for the reel and drill mount.

I mounted the hose reel to the frame using large jubliee clips so i could easily get the reel out if I needed to. I was concerend they might move or not be strong enough but they havent moved in a month. Then I made the drill mount which I need to show in a photo cause it is hard to describe. All in all it took me about 4 hours to do.

I did have to improvis a bit with the fittings as BnQ didn't stock ubolts and as it was over christmas I had to run with whatever I had in the garrage.

[davids3511]

I've seen it. Dave is selling himself short. He not only has an electric reel, but a fogwash too!! People like that make me sick 

Aww, shucks

[P @ F]

Actually , i do not wish to see it , i think its DARN LAZY , i love it when my shoulders ache !   

Cant wait really David .

Rich

[GDwindowcleaning]

Next job should be to make it remote lol

[CleartechLee]

could you put a small motor on the end instead of a drill and wire it to a flick switch? or is the drill an easier method

[davids3511]

could you put a small motor on the end instead of a drill and wire it to a flick switch? or is the drill an easier method

The drill is easier really. I was thinking of a motor from an electric trike or somethink like that but the drill is very simple. You do need a support for the drill because if the hose snags the drill will twist quite voilently. The support stops the drill twisting.

[davids3511]

Next job should be to make it remote lol

You would need some way of layering the hose on the reel for that, otherwise it would tangle on the reel because it would all reel on in the one spot.

[GDwindowcleaning]

Something similar to the guide on the enclosed hoselock reel that slides from side to side?

[davids3511]

Something similar to the guide on the enclosed hoselock reel that slides from side to side?

Yeah, something like that to layer it properly.

[Perfect Windows]

Inspired by discount and his electric reel I spent a few hours over the christmas welding and so on. I have mounted the reel in the van, cut a hole in the back door and put in a roller. I was without iot yesterday because I forgot to charge my drill battery and really missed it. To anyone thinking of doing it, go for it, I think it speeds me up and I am less tired in the evening.

Going to get it painted up tomorrow and will post a photo if anyone is interested?

I put mine in before Christmas - bodge mounted on wooden frames while I iron out the problems, when I'll have some frames welded up.  They worked fantastically well, speeded things up significantly and reduced my levels of knackeredness greatly,

The biggest problem that I have is that long before the batteries run out of juice they stop producing enough torque to wind the reels.  That realisation coincided with the battery charger giving up the ghost, so I needed to fix another way.

The solution (which I'm hoping to work on tomorrow) is going to be to fit the two 12v batteries I recently had replaced on the van in series and run the drills off those.  They'll be holding 84 or so amp hours (even though the batteries are slightly ropey).  The drills are 18v but all my research suggests they'll run fine on 24v (I guess I'll prove that over the next few weeks).

Well worth a punt IMHO.

Vin

[Perfect Windows]

could you put a small motor on the end instead of a drill and wire it to a flick switch? or is the drill an easier method

The drill is easier really. I was thinking of a motor from an electric trike or somethink like that but the drill is very simple. You do need a support for the drill because if the hose snags the drill will twist quite voilently. The support stops the drill twisting.

Drills are also good because they are pretty cheap for what you're getting because they are mass produced.  It also means you can get replacements when they eventually break.

Vin

[firefly123]

used to have a electric reel on fire engine useless whent back to manual

[[GQC] Tim]

Next job should be to make it remote lol

You would need some way of layering the hose on the reel for that, otherwise it would tangle on the reel because it would all reel on in the one spot.

Cloth in hand for layering. Remote in other hand? Would work I would imagine.

[rscleaningservices]

sounds like alot of hassel to me now we dont do much ladders and fitness has gone slightly we gotta have somthing to keep us a little fit lol reel in those hoses by hand lol  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[easy clean]

Just more things to go wrong!!!!!! Is it reallly that hard to wind a hose in.......who holds your pole for you whilst your cleaning, surely you don't its far too heavey!