Keeping a long vacuum hose off the floor and out of the way when you aren’t using it can be a problem, and wrapping or coiling up a hose to hang it on a hook can take up a lot valuable shop space.
Rockler’s new Dust Right vacuum hose reel can can store up to 40 feet of 1-1/2″ vacuum hose in a compact package. The entire reel isn’t much wider than a 16″ stud bay and the steel frame has holes drilled for attaching the 30 pound reel to 16″ on-center studs.
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When you mount it you can decide whether to orient the reel so the handle is on the left or right side. The 2-1/2″ OD vacuum outlet will then be located on the opposite side.
The reel hubs are made of foamed nylon. There’s a slot in the center of the hub to allow access to the vacuum outlet. Once the hose is attached you can just crank the reel and spool the hose onto it. To keep the hose from uncoiling by itself, the reel has a knob for adjusting the tension.
Rockler recommends that you use at least a 4 hp vacuum with the reel. You might be able to get away with using a lower powered vac if you use a shorter hose.
As stated before, although this is a reel for 1-1/4″ hose, it has a 2-1/2″ port for connecting to your vacuum, presumably because of the pressure loss due to the long length of corrugated hose. That also gives you more choices about how you connect the reel to your vacuum or dust extractor.
The Dust Right vacuum hose reel is priced at $150. If you order it online, there is a $10 additional shipping charge on top of any other shipping charges you’ll incur on a normal order.
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You’ll need to supply your own hose. A 20′ hose is priced at $50, a 40′ is $100.
Price: $150
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Mark shelton
Maybe I am missing something. Enlighten me…Who is using 40′ or hose that small?
Garrick
For about $300 (including Tax and Shipping), plus a vacuum, I think most woodworkers should be able to find a better solution. Woodworking is a hobby that requires innovation. For instance, Ridgid vacuums are regularly on sale for $50 or less. A few of those strategically located would be more convenient and a lot cheaper, and have less air hose restriction. Even just one vacuum on nice wheels would not be much more inconvenient to roll in and out of it’s cubby hole than a hose on a reel.
JMG
This looks like one of those items for the OCD types who need to vacuum out their vehicles every other day… It might fit in the garage, but I do not see it in a shop situation myself. If I were going to invest in a high powered vacuum, I would consider installing fixed dust pipe and a cyclone system. More money, but a better investment for the shop.
Matt
Ya, I see it as more of a stationary shop vac accessory for the garage or even inside the home. It does look awfully handy though! I just may get one for that exact purpose. I could see this also being used at car washes or in carpet cleaning. It certainly lends itself to several types of use.
fred
My Daughter’s house as a central vacuum system – and she uses what I think is a 30 foot hose. If her garage was attached to the house – this might be a nice addition to plug into one of the vacuum ports
Bruce
I’d really like these people to stop using HP for vacuum rating. It’s meaningless and completely arbitrary. 4HP is like 25amps @ 120v. Good look finding a outlet to plug that shopvac into!
Alexander
Well I believe vacuums are rated in ‘Fan motor HP’ which is (CFMxPressure)/(33,000xEFF)… Not what you’re thinking as in ‘AC Horsepower’ which is (Volts x Amps x 1.732 x Eff x PF)/746…
I think the concept of Amps, watts, Jules, torque, HP, CFM, etc. are arbitrary measurements to most people and I’m not sure if any other measurement standard is really going to help anything. It reminds me of the same issue with lights – mean wave length, Kelvin, color temp, etc.
Bruce
And actually they aren’t measuring in Fan HP, what they are doing is pulling the motor and running it flat out in open air until it burns up. That not a measure of anything but the wire winding and motor cooling design. Now a small dust extractor uses 1.5hp motor that will move 880 CFM at 1.9″ with a maximum lift of 9″. Are you seriously going to tell me that I can buy a shop vac that does 4 times that amount of work for $150 at my local home depot?
John
There is no such things as “AC horsepower”, there is just horsepower, which is a unit of power. 1 hp is equal to about 750 watts. “Fan horsepower” is a made up marketing term which is not used in any industry or scientific context and has no use besides misleading consumers.
Jason
I’m surprised they haven’t been sued yet for the bs power ratings. They had that huge small engine law suit a few years ago and now they just use torqe ratings and displacement to describe the power no inflated HP numbers.
SiSiX
I’m confused: Doesn’t everyone use an old gas lawnmower engine to power their basement central shop vac system? Heck, in a pinch you can just use that jug of gasoline for paint thinner if you find yourself short during a project 😉
Mr. X
Excellent point. That 4+ HP motor drawing 25+ amps is certainly not going to work well with the 16 or 18 gauge cord attached to that vac!
Adam Unsell
Why has none of these come with a spring assisted retract like on extension cord reels or air compressor hose reels, seems like a no brained to me. Then I can just pull down the hose when I need it and then have it retract when I don’t ?♂️