Signal.

Google bought up GrandCentral years ago and turned it into Google Voice, where they could freeze the feature set and ignore the product and any possible innovation. Multiline autoringing and speech-to-text on voicemail was it, forever. If innovation had stayed on the table, we could have had rule-based personal phone trees, maybe with different greetings and options based on known/unknown/masked caller ID.

25 years ago, I pressed 7 and got to hear the duck quack. We didn’t know at the time that it was a golden age.

disassembly is the reverse

More like carefully cutting through the ferrule without damaging the barb.

I wouldn’t have expected a worm clamp in here, but a standard air hose is crimped onto a threaded end (same as on the pigtail for this reel). Female threads on an angled exit from the swivel would make hose replacement easy, without adding significant labor (there are already two threaded connections on this unit).

Yesterday I just cut the hose short to get up and running again, but I’ll use your suggestion later when I get fed up with the short hose and open up the reel again. Thanks!

Thank you for the name of the part! Yes I might be able to find a third party fitting of the right size knowing what it’s called.

I did look a bit to see if I could find that outer part of the swivel, but I was not surprised to come up empty handed.

Of course it’s able to be repaired anyway as someone else suggested carefully cutting the crimp and reusing the barb with a hose clamp. The assholedesign is making it difficult enough that many people won’t bother. And not readily selling the replacement part made critical by unnecessary design choices, for the thing most likely to suffer accidental damage. It’s only low in the planned obsolescence conspiracy because the overall product costs less than $100 and is entirely mechanical, but that’s no excuse.

This is a good approach to work around the shortcomings of the design, thank you!

I stand by my original assessment of the design, though. They use a threaded fitting to attach the pigtail to the reel, so this definitely feels like an active choice for planned obsolescence.