Shoutout to the old guy at the hardware store in Reno who asked why I was buying a 4th hose reel
Ran into him in the aisle two months ago while grabbing a replacement reel for the third time in a season, and he said, plain as anything, "sounds like your hose is the problem, not the reel." Turns out the cheap hose I'd been dragging around kinked so hard it was yanking the reel right off the wall every time. Anyone else ever fix a problem by replacing the wrong thing first?