When you say ‘stiffer ‘ are we talking about having to fight it? Or more like cheap garden hose.... have to work with it, not against it?
not sure what you're asking, Jeff
it will always be stiffer
and when brand new, hose reel curl memory can be a PITA to some I s'pose
I used large arbor reel, I'd suspect small arbor reel would make it worse
and prob'ly maybe likely almost sure worse if small arbor live reel where 75-150 ft of hose never comes off the reel and gets "heat set cooked" daily on 73.97% of jobs
after a month or two of use it relaxes and memory curl isn't an issue .
after relaxed, we never noticed curls ..BUTT....we pull off the reel while going into home and only have 10-12ft in our hand
We never carried 50-75-100 ft in and dropped coils on the way out to TM like some do
I'd suspect doing it that way might be a bigger PITA (certainly compared to steel braid)
...'cause even fully relaxed, I never found it to be an easy line to hand coil 50-100 ft like steel braid
I'll note I have no clue if Cobblet's hose is "fo-reel" equivalent to Parker 1035HT
(all I've ever run was genuine Parker and never used/tried any of the "supposedly" as good knock-offs)
will you like it?? no clue
but lets look at the virtues;
Will it last at least twice as long and even longer than steel braid? Yes sir!
Does the slick/smooth jacket make it less drag/snag proof in homes than Ineptune?...You bet it does
The biggest virtue though of that slick smooth jacket, is it's
WAY easier to clean/wipe while reeling in should it lay or get reeled thru mud, snow, lawn clippings etc .
It
glides right thru a wet spotting towel in hand while reeling with the other..
schtuff wipes/cleans right off like buttah!!
NOT so with
shark skin texture Ineptune
Is it cooler to touch? MUCH cooler
little to no chance of permanent pile distortion on cut pile poly/olie .
Don't need gloves to handle the hose either
It's lighter too
No "instant" blow out, (and potentially catastrophic) failures like steel braid.
You get bubbled jacket and tiny pin spray eventually when they fail...never an instant black death burst in the home in my 25 years of my use
The
ONLY virtue I find in steel braid is it's suppleness.
That suppleness isn't worth all the drawbacks of that hot, heavy, instant fail, pile distorting crAp Ineptune
..L.T.A.