FINALLY! A Hose Reel Designed For ROOF CLEANING AND High Percentage Sodium Hypo!

I like the idea. Im thinking about taking my reel, cutting a 2" hole in the drums, go to grainger amd get two 2"id bearings and make clamps for said bearings. Then all I would have to do is get a 2"od pipe, thread on the outside of one end, and inside of other end. ..bout 20" long shouldnt cost but 20 bucks. Then get a poly fitting like on bulkheads, threaded outside and inside thread a shcdl 80 hose barb connected to my roof hose and plug a poly swivel on the other end. Then run an adapter on the other end to attach my hand crank. Can you post a picture of the money end shot?
 
palm beach said:
I like the idea. Im thinking about taking my reel, cutting a 2" hole in the drums, go to grainger amd get two 2"id bearings and make clamps for said bearings. Then all I would have to do is get a 2"od pipe, thread on the outside of one end, and inside of other end. ..bout 20" long shouldnt cost but 20 bucks. Then get a poly fitting like on bulkheads, threaded outside and inside thread a shcdl 80 hose barb connected to my roof hose and plug a poly swivel on the other end. Then run an adapter on the other end to attach my hand crank. Can you post a picture of the money end shot?
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Soon as I have it. Also be careful of the load. Remember, hose is heavy and your bearings need to be really well seated in on the reel ears because you have stresses on those bearings in multiple directions from winding and weight (static and dynamic as your truck bounces down the road). Remember, with a regular reel design, the manifold acts as an axle and handles the stresses. Your reel ears and hub is not designed to carry the load but is there to simply hold the hose in place with your manifold and bearings carrying the load and stresses. If you remove the manifold and substitute in hollow bearings and no axle, you are transferring the load and stresses to the reel ears and hub. If they are not designed to handle that stress, the reel will fail. If you look at the ears, hub and bearing system on the Hannay, they are thick and heavily reinforced around the bearing. If you also look at the hub assembly on the Hannay, it is thick metal vs PVC, stainless or aluminum. That is to actually handle and distribute the weight, stresses and load that the reel ears and hub are carrying instead of an full width manifold that acts as a load carrying axle to handle the full side to side loads, with the ears and reel hub there to merely secure the hose in place and handle loads in only one direction. Your reel hub will need to be reinforced so it can handle the lateral loads that the axle used to handle. You should also check that the bearings you plan to use can handle heavy lateral loads since if you think about it, we don't always run our hoses straight out of the reel but often laterally. A hose guide would be the solution for that if you can't reinforce the hub. Now you can start to understand why my reel design weighs over 2 times what a Titan reel does. With no manifold there to act as a load carrying element, the rest of the reel has to be engineered up in strength.

You will also need to fabricate a mount for the swivel. You would not want to use a Poly swivel for roof mix, it will eat it alive. Poly is heavily degraded by high percentage SH. You'll want to buy a Sch 80 PVC swivel, and SuperSwivel is your solution. Problem is, I don't see the PVC Swivel in their catalog so they might make it especially for Hannay so you may need to order a bulk lot to get it, best to call them. If you use PVC barb ends, make sure you coat it to stop UV degradation and monitor it closely for torque stresses. The hose has to be well secured to the hub to minimize this, particularly when the hose is fully run out. You no longer can depend on the mount to the manifold to stop any stresses from transferring into your hose end and swivel so you will need to make sure the
hose is well secured into the hub.

Post pics if you try it...I would be curious to see what you come up with.
 
I ordered the Hannay "no manifold" reel from Kevin, and it should be in my truck working within 2 weeks time. I will post a review of the reel with pics and video after I give it a test. I also purchased a 1 inch AODD hastalloy pump from Kevin. That pump is outstanding, and the price was unbelievably good.

Those of you that I have had the pleasure of meeting know that I like to purchase solid equipment that will last instead of frequently working on equipment that MAY be of slightly lesser quality.

In other words, I don't mess around trying to save a few dollars when good equipment like the Hannay reel will likely pay for itself by allowing me to save time rolling up 400 feet of hose. Like Kevin posted earlier, this reel is not for everyone. But, it is ideal for my operation.

Randy
 
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