How to quickly weld a hose reel from old car parts
To make sure your garden hose lasts longer, it needs to be stored correctly. For this, it is advisable to have a coil. It will allow you to wind it up without creases or twists when not needed, so that you can later place it under a canopy where the sun’s rays will not fall on it. You can make such a coil from scrap metal, in particular old car parts.
From the available pipe it is necessary to weld a frame with a sole on which a hub with an installed wheel will be attached. The latter will serve as a drum for winding the hose. The frame is welded to an arbitrary size, starting from the available disk.
A hub is welded to the rack, to which the disk is reconciled. Then you need to weld a vertical tube with a handle to the frame in order to be able to carry the reel.To increase stability, you can expand the sole by welding one horizontal tube to it.
Next you need to prepare the disk. An extension nut is welded to it, which will allow you to attach a handle for rotating the drum.
Opposite the nut on the opposite side of the disk, a bracket is welded to the side. It will allow you to hook the end of the garden hose for easier winding. A folded strip or something similar from available scrap metal can be used as a staple.
Then you need to make a handle to rotate the coil. The easiest way to do this is to use the handle from a broken grinder. If it is not there, then you need to carve a comfortable handle from wood, drill it in the center and place it on a pin. The stud is then screwed into the extension nut on the disc.
It is advisable to paint all parts. Considering the durability of the materials used, such a reel will last for decades, so it makes sense to make it beautiful. Then the disk is installed on the hub and the handle is screwed to it.
Next, a hose with a connector is inserted into the bracket. Once hooked, it is wound evenly. It is important to do this without tension, so as not to deform the walls of the hose, since during long-term storage it can crack along the crease line if it is made of insufficiently elastic material. The resulting reel will be able to survive dozens of hoses and nothing will happen to it. It is heavy enough not to tip over when unwinding.
Materials:
- any pipe, preferably thinner;
- wheel hub;
- rim;
- extension nut M10;
- M10 pin;
- wooden blank for handle.
Coil manufacturing process
From the available pipe it is necessary to weld a frame with a sole on which a hub with an installed wheel will be attached. The latter will serve as a drum for winding the hose. The frame is welded to an arbitrary size, starting from the available disk.
A hub is welded to the rack, to which the disk is reconciled. Then you need to weld a vertical tube with a handle to the frame in order to be able to carry the reel.To increase stability, you can expand the sole by welding one horizontal tube to it.
Next you need to prepare the disk. An extension nut is welded to it, which will allow you to attach a handle for rotating the drum.
Opposite the nut on the opposite side of the disk, a bracket is welded to the side. It will allow you to hook the end of the garden hose for easier winding. A folded strip or something similar from available scrap metal can be used as a staple.
Then you need to make a handle to rotate the coil. The easiest way to do this is to use the handle from a broken grinder. If it is not there, then you need to carve a comfortable handle from wood, drill it in the center and place it on a pin. The stud is then screwed into the extension nut on the disc.
It is advisable to paint all parts. Considering the durability of the materials used, such a reel will last for decades, so it makes sense to make it beautiful. Then the disk is installed on the hub and the handle is screwed to it.
Next, a hose with a connector is inserted into the bracket. Once hooked, it is wound evenly. It is important to do this without tension, so as not to deform the walls of the hose, since during long-term storage it can crack along the crease line if it is made of insufficiently elastic material. The resulting reel will be able to survive dozens of hoses and nothing will happen to it. It is heavy enough not to tip over when unwinding.
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