The brass block swivel is much better, the generic swivel that came with it leaked like a sieve.
It looked like a really nice reel and I was very tempted, I bought mine at the cleaning show and whilst everyone offered a reasonable discount, pure freedom offered something like £15 off a very expensive reel. Grippa’s discount made it an easy decision.
I have had mine since September 2019 and it's worked without issue, my only current negative is the heads on the bolts are showing signs of rust so clearly not decent or fully stainless steel other.
Give them a ring and find out I would say, as stock levels of things differ,
Thanks for doing the review.
I believe it’s located within the reel barrel, that’s held in with nuts each end so it should be easy to replace, gippatank state they are all repairable in the field so I can’t see it being too tricky.
So the motor rotates with the drum? That sounds like a right pain maintaining good electrical connections? Plus that must be a pain to support the motor end of the drum bearing wise?
They could use a slip rings to provide electrical contacts but with all the moisture kicking about I would be surprised if they used that method. Does seem a strange design choice of having the motor revolve. It would be interesting to find out more about how it's constructed.
