This $60 hose reel, bought about 10 years ago (in 1999 dollars) at Lowes, that has an auto-reversing threaded winding screw guide, did well until yesterday. I was BLASTING, back-washing pool filters with the garden hose. After cleaning all 8 cartridge filters on the Shasta pool cleaner, I needed to flush out left-over dirt & sand from the filter body, some 100 feet from the hose reel to the backyard. At the last 5 or 6 feet of unreeled hose, RIPPPPPP - BAM!! The spool separated from the end caps. I guess 10 years is pretty good... but I would have preferred that the $60 reel last "forever". Now, it's functionally useless. The little tangs that held the end caps on are sheared off. Maybe a HUGE amount of Gorilla Duct tape might TEMPORARILY fix it ...
10 years ago
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