[Wayne Thomas]

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(Makes rewinding and storing your hose effortless.
The exclusive technology utilises a patented water powered engine to rewind your hose with an easy, single push of a lever. No springs, batteries or electricity required).

Has anyone used one of these and if so: can the hose be replaced with minbore or microbore and still work as before?

[Alex Gardiner]

I had a look at these a while back. They make quite a few different versions of this, but none of them hold enough hose for our purposes. I think the maximum they held was 100ft of 1/2".

[Wayne Thomas]

Alex, can the half inch hose supplied on thes reels be replaced with 150-200 feet of microbore hose and would it still work?

[darragh windows]

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(Makes rewinding and storing your hose effortless.
The exclusive technology utilises a patented water powered engine to rewind your hose with an easy, single push of a lever. No springs, batteries or electricity required).

Has anyone used one of these and if so: can the hose be replaced with minbore or microbore and still work as before?

as alex says you woulnt get much hose on them .one of our customers has one it is very impressive you pull the lever and the water pressure reels it in they are quite slow though i dont think any window cleaner would have the patients to wait on it reeling in he got his from b and q for £5 with hose he bought 3 of them. i think it was an end of season clearence last year as ive never seen them in there

[Alex Gardiner]

Alex, can the half inch hose supplied on thes reels be replaced with 150-200 feet of microbore hose and would it still work?

I never got round to trying it out, but I'm sure that it is possible as the rewind mechanism does not rely on the output hose at all. My concern would be that the power from a 12v pump would not be as great as mains pressure/flow rate that is currently used to power it. Having looked at all of these issues, I gave up on the idea 

[Wayne Thomas]

Too much hassle for me too as well Alex. Perhaps Discount could figure it out. Perhaps if a 2litre accumulator tank was connected to the hosereel and the bladder inside the accumulator tank was pumped up to the maximum it would give enough pressure to reel it in at a faster rate to make it more practical. The potential is there, someone just need's to tinker with it.