Home Depot: DeWALT 50 ft. x 1/4 in. Air Hose - $13.04 YMMV

[Orion1876]

PJ made reference of an airhose reel on the video yesterday and if you need a replacement this is a good hose. 

I love the retracting reels.  I have one for electric as well and I hate it.  The difference is a closed reel vs an open reel.  Do NOT get a closed air hose reel (made that mistake once).  Only use open ones.  The closed ones basically only have enough room for the hose/cord if wrapped perfectly.  I haven't seen a self-retracting open reel for electric yet, but when mine dies I will definitely be looking for it.

Several years ago we lived in a rent house for a couple years.  The rent house had a closed hose reel mounted in the center of the garage ceiling a little bit behind the garage door opening.  The air line was fed though the ceiling over to the corner where it was easy to place a compressor by a plug.   It was really nice having that air line centralized.

But were you easily able to wind it all back up, being that it was a closed reel.

Yes,   You had to pull it a bit to get it to certain points where it would stop and pull a bit more and it was retract back into the reel.   It took a little work to feed it back it because it does not retract very fast, but it worked pretty well.