Legacy Levelwind Retractable Air Hose Reel, 3/8 in. x 100 ft., PVC - L8310

This is one of those things you didn't know you needed until you bought one. Tired of constantly looping, coiling, tangling and mishandling your airhose? Take an extra moment, dear reader, and learn from my mistakes. The hose reel is a little stiff at first; both the reel itself but also the hose. I put some lube on it (the kind electricians use) and it works great with no decay of any parts. The outer case is (I think) ABS plastic, and has withstood one 4 foot drop already (clumsy, not mount failure). The mount parts seem flimsy but do the trick. The hose shipped with the reel is just so-so quality, but more than sufficient for my needs. No rust on any metal parts so far, and it now gets use multiple times per week in summer and winter. I too have a nice 100% duty cycle air compressor that eventually got buried except for when I needed to buff glass, paint, air-up sports balls, or put air in tires. It was a balance between nuisance and need. While browsing, I saw product, and bought one. I ended up mounting it almost to the front part of the garage, between the two doors. WHY? so I can use it outside to blow grass off the driveway, air-dry my vehicles after a wash, and other sundry tasks. But lets start at the beginning. 1. Find an easy access site for your air. Make note you'll be running air-hose *from* that spot, up (or behind) your wall, along (or behind) your ceiling, *to* your mount spot. 2. Take a string and measure the run from your compressor to the anchor-point for your FIXED air-hose. (meaning, attached to or behind garage wall. Picture the compressor. Picture the wall with a female fitting. Hang a string between the two. Then put a loop or two in it for slack. Write this measured distance down. 3. Do the same thing from the site you'll be starting your female fitting for FIXED air-hose, up wall, along ceiling, to your site for the hose reel. Add about two feet. 4. Install a female fitting for your chosen hose size. You can buy them anywhere. Now, if your distance from this fitting to the hose reel is a convenient 25', you are set. Teflon tape the hose end, screw into female fitting, and run/anchor your hose. Anchor the female fitting near your compressor, and drop the other end near the hose-reel. 5. You'll need to buy fittings to make the connection from the service line to the reel. I added in a valve, but it's not necessary if you use appropriate fittings. 6. Mount your reel. Good to go. Looking back, I shoulda left space on wall to mount a water trap. Since doing the above, I've also put in a manifold so I can drop air to other sites in garage. Bear in mind, all fittings leak. The more fittings, the more leaks. Some shops do custom airhose work. Ask around.

When my old hose reel started leaking, I grabbed this for my apartment’s tiny garage spot so I could keep up with basic car stuff without making a mess. The retracting is strong and smooth. I just tug and it rolls in cleanly. First weekend i used it to air up my tires and I was reallly glad I didn’t have a tangled hose everywhere.

Hose & the whole unit feel pretty light & cheap. Hose is a plastic rather than rubber. Plastic shell is clipped together. The retraction ratchet only clicks once rather than the usual 3-4 times, so is a bit fiddily to hit. It was the cheapest 100' retractable hose reel. I can now reach my trailer & stuff 70 odd feet outside of my barn door. Not as beefy as my old 50' reel, but ok enough. No leaks so far & the guide bit keeps it winding on evenly. It was easy to mount.

I bought this for my apartment’s tiny garage so I could keep up with simple car stuff without dragging a hose across the whole floor. The retracting feels strong and smooth and I just give it a tug to roll it back in, which is nice. But the housing feels cheaper than I expected and the mounting hardware is flimsy. First weekend I aired up my tires and it worked, but the reel already started squeaking and the hose kinked near the base. For this price I expected something that felt sturdier and less fussy to use.

This auto reeler works great. My wife always complained about how heavy the hose was to drag around the yard. I found this online and thought we would give it a try. It is great. It keeps the hose off the yard and neatly wound on the reel. My only compaint would be that it takes a little effort to pull the hose out of the reel. It goes back in great; maybe that's why it takes a little extra pulling to pull it out!! For us it has been well worth the money spent.

Very easy to mount. I like that as the hose retracts an internal guide moves the hose left and right which lays it down equally and you don't have one side with too much hose. The last 3' of hose are troublesome to retract and requires lifting the hose to remove tension and it will then retract. Other reviews have said the hose is poor quality and broke after a few uses. It's not the highest quality, but you need to take care of it like any tool. I unreeled the hose 40 times. 20 of those were pulled straight out and the other 20 were with the hose rubbing against a tractor bucket, work bench and an abrasive floor. Only minor scuffs were noticed as expected.

I bought this about a year ago because I wanted a better quality retractable reel that delivered more water, so I purchased the half-inch version. This unit is heavy and at first seems to be good quality. It requires a substantial wall or post to hang. You can read more, but the short version is that the hose retracts unreliably with a flaky clicking mechanism that often does not work well. The plastic feeding guide ring that moves back and forth to help lay the hose evenly while rewinding eventually bends outwardly and pops off the plastic cover that surrounds it (won't stay in even when put back in)...it also does not release to readjust, causing frequent, frustrating binding of the hose. The nozzle end randomly unplugs and shoots off causing water leaks if left pressurized. Disappointing. More details. I have completely given up on the units sold at Home Depot and Lowes, having had every single one break within months--and no satisfying response from the manufacturer. For years I used a Harbor Freight retractable air hose reel for my garden, but, because it is exposed, the sun would damage the hose and eventually cause breaks. So when I saw this larger hose and its cover, I decided to try it despite its cost. My water pressure is about 100psi. I installed a cut off valve feeding the unit, but sometimes forget it if the nozzle itself has a cut-off valve. This proved to be disastrous with nozzle malfunctions if it remained pressurized too long in the hot sun. The nozzle unit at first swivels nicely, but within two weeks, the nozzle shot off causing a huge water leak. It plugged back in and seemed solid, but made me nervous. Over the year, it fired off twice more, so I just cut it off and used a barbed fitting with a hose clamp. Still shot off. I suspect the type of hose material used expands when hot--expanding so much that it won't clamp well......or it is an unusual inside diameter that doesn't work with standard hose barbs. If the feed-ring that guides the hose back onto the reel somehow falls behind or moves ahead of the hose as it rewinds, it causes a hopeless bind. And there is no simple way to disengage it to realign it as is seen in the cheaper models (this is the one feature I wish this had). The click stop reel has an annoying lever to turn on or off the clicking...sometimes works, but I find myself fighting with it more often than using it. Frankly I see no reason NOT to have a clicking function that is always engaged. Who enjoys watering a garden playing tug-o-war with the hose? So my quest continues for a quality retractable, carefree hose that works reliably. If anyone, anyone has found one, let me know. If the manufacturer reads this. 1) Fix the swivel hose end so it can't shoot off. 2) Make the guide have a release to realign it. 3) Remove some hose or make the reel bigger --as there is too much hose for the space. 4) Make the click stop function permanent and remove the lever so there is less to break. Then I'll improve my review.

Works great in my semi shop, use it everyday. Id recommend this air reel.