Like most people, I've had reason to use a grease gun for various things over the years. I had no need for one for many years but now I do. I've bought two so far and both of them are junk. I never had problems with grease guns in the past. But these today stick on the zirc fitting and you have to pry them off. Also, most of the grease slips by the plunger and it's virtually impossible to get everything straightened out without getting grease all over everything,...not to mention that you lose a $5 canister of grease every time that happens.
You wouldn't think that something as basic as a usable grease gun would be hard to find. Back in the day you bought a grease gun and it did what a grease gun was supposed to do until the end of time.
Who makes a good, basic, manual grease gun? I bought the best one the auto parts place had today and it's another piece of junk.
I used to buy grease in a five gallon bucket, and fill guns with the pump on top of the bucket. You had to use a spring nipple on the gun top to fill. No air to fight that way.
The cheaper ones are about $25 and yes, they wear out fast.
I'm not talking about wearing out. The damn things I've got don't work right on the first day.
We had an old manual grease gun at a garage I once worked at long ago and you never even thought about it not working. It was a grease gun! You stuck it on the grease fitting,...pumped the handle,..and it pumped grease into wherever you wanted it to go. I bet it was 30 or 40 years old.
It doesn't seem like much to ask for. But evidently, it is these days.
If you use a tube type grease gun, install the tube, screw on the top, loosen the top about 1 turn or so, and pump. It will take just a few pumps to get the grease thru the tube. Once the grease comes thru the tube, finish tightening the top.
If you buy it by the 5 gal bucket, remove the top from the gun, stick the tube in the bucket, pull up on the handle and suck the grease into the tube. Lock the handle back, clean off the outside of the tube, and screw the top on. Back the top off about a turn, pump the handle until you get grease thru the tube, then tighten the top.
Getting a little grease on your hands is good for ya.
Haven't bought a grease gun for probably 30 years. Cause the one I bought then just plain old works. I'm just a weekend warrior tho a little outboard, quad, truck trailer maintenance stuff to do once in a while. I don't know what brand it is but its steel its heavy and looks just like the one my grandpa had so there ya go. If I was using one every day I'd get a Milwaukee electric if only cause I've already got a family of that stuff with batteries and chargers. If you don't pull the pin on a new one Bristoe maybe check out some yard sales or flea markets and look for a dinosaur.
I'll order the Lincoln. My old antique tractor has zirc fittings from one end to the other,...the bearings in my chipper need grease,..and this disc I just bought has big, heavy duty cast iron axel mounts with zirc fittings on them.
I *think* I got grease on everything that needs it today,....but I was beating my head against the wall because of these junk grease guns before I got finished.
Greasing equipment shouldn't be a struggle. It should just be something that one decides to do and does it.
If you have to use your grease gun in cold temps use synthetic base grease for sure.
I don't use much grease anymore either, but...
This year, I c ouldnt get the first zero on the zero turn to take grease. Pulled it out, tried to clean it, finally stuck a new one in. Wouldn't take grease either!
WTF?
The dam Lucas synthetic grease had polymerized in the gun! Never saw that unless it was a gun not used in a long,long time.
By the way, I use the exact same guns as Sam. And if I buy another, it will be the same. (Unless they go chink)
Call me a conspiracy theorist if ya want to. But I'm suspectin' that the junk Chinese grease guns that are going around have been designed by Dr. Fu Manchu his damn self to destroy American industrial machinery.
It'd be just like him to come up with something like that.
An unwary American pumps the hell out of his grease gun and thinks that everything is good to go.
Two days later his combine takes a schitt.
Come to think of it,..I bet wabigoon has been using a Chinese grease gun on that combine universal joint that took a dump here while back.
He thought he was on top of his game,....ready to cash in and eat Thanksgiving turkey,...then his corn picker took a dump.
Go to an impliment dealer or parts store in farm country ..they make some really nice lock on ends the just plain work...even my Milwaukee and Alimite electric guns the ends are kinda crap...they get replaced on mine..
Go to an impliment dealer or parts store in farm country ..they make some really nice lock on ends the just plain work...even my Milwaukee and Alimite electric guns the ends are kinda crap...they get replaced on mine..
That's a good idea. There's some big implement dealers around here.
I bet they use Lincoln grease guns. I should have asked them.
An older cousin of my friend in high school operated a D9 Cat in Vietnam and was issued an M3A1. Got his one and only kill with it during an ambush on a road when a VC ran around the truck he was taking cover behind and he "greased" him....
An older cousin of my friend in high school operated a D9 Cat in Vietnam and was issued an M3A1. Got his one and only kill with it during an ambush on a road when a VC ran around the truck he was taking cover behind and he "greased" him....
Uncle used a Thompson to good effect in Europe, '44-'45, he seemed to think highly of it. Can't recall him mentioning the M3.
Like most people, I've had reason to use a grease gun for various things over the years. I had no need for one for many years but now I do. I've bought two so far and both of them are junk. I never had problems with grease guns in the past. But these today stick on the zirc fitting and you have to pry them off.
Loosen the tip. You can adjust them so they aren't too tight or too lose on a zerk.
Like most people, I've had reason to use a grease gun for various things over the years. I had no need for one for many years but now I do. I've bought two so far and both of them are junk. I never had problems with grease guns in the past. But these today stick on the zirc fitting and you have to pry them off.
Loosen the tip. You can adjust them so they aren't too tight or too lose on a zerk.
Yeah,....I noticed the little collet that slips over the fitting and I tried loosening it. You would think that it's the answer. But even after I unscrewed the tube completely, I had to pry it off.
I don't recall that issue on the old grease guns I used to use. They just popped on and popped off.
Like most people, I've had reason to use a grease gun for various things over the years. I had no need for one for many years but now I do. I've bought two so far and both of them are junk. I never had problems with grease guns in the past. But these today stick on the zirc fitting and you have to pry them off.
Loosen the tip. You can adjust them so they aren't too tight or too lose on a zerk.
Yeah,....I noticed the little collet that slips over the fitting and I tried loosening it. You would think that it's the answer. But even after I unscrewed the tube completely, I had to pry it off.
I don't recall that issue on the old grease guns I used to use. They just popped on and popped off.
Buy you one of these locking couplers, They don’t come off till you remove them,
I doubt this is practical for what little you'd need one B, but that Milwaukie electric grease gun is the shcit. I bought the locking tip for mine so I didn't have to hold it. For the excavator you have to grease the house while sitting inside and spinning the house around while you squeeze the trigger. Couldn't do it from inside w/o the locking tip and electric gun. The side benefit is having other milwaukie battery tools makes sense once you have the first one. Man they are nice
Forty years ago I purchased McNaught and have not regretted a thing.
added, and the fellows above that recommended the locking coupler are absolutely correct in the summation, I have found it to be an excellent item. I also added an extra length of hose to mine for extra reach under vehicles.
Like most people, I've had reason to use a grease gun for various things over the years. I had no need for one for many years but now I do. I've bought two so far and both of them are junk. I never had problems with grease guns in the past. But these today stick on the zirc fitting and you have to pry them off. Also, most of the grease slips by the plunger and it's virtually impossible to get everything straightened out without getting grease all over everything,...not to mention that you lose a $5 canister of grease every time that happens.
You wouldn't think that something as basic as a usable grease gun would be hard to find. Back in the day you bought a grease gun and it did what a grease gun was supposed to do until the end of time.
Who makes a good, basic, manual grease gun? I bought the best one the auto parts place had today and it's another piece of junk.
I have a battery powered Lincoln, and although it's heavy, it works better than any I've ever used. Like Wabigoon, when I was growing up, there were no grease cartridges, just a 5 gallon bucket full of grease, and you had to stick that grease gun down in it and fill it manually. Grease cartridges are much better.
I have a battery powered Lincoln, and although it's heavy, it works better than any I've ever used. Like Wabigoon, when I was growing up, there were no grease cartridges, just a 5 gallon bucket full of grease, and you had to stick that grease gun down in it and fill it manually. Grease cartridges are much better.
I have a battery powered Lincoln, and although it's heavy, it works better than any I've ever used. Like Wabigoon, when I was growing up, there were no grease cartridges, just a 5 gallon bucket full of grease, and you had to stick that grease gun down in it and fill it manually. Grease cartridges are much better.
Yeah I remember those 5 gallon grease buckets. We had, and I am sure it’s still on the farm, a pump on our bucket.
On the top of grease gun there usually is a plug that can be removed and replaced with an adapter that allows grease to be pumped in. When the bucket was near empty, I was usually given an old paint brush and tasked to smear grease on the plow bottoms.
,....lived in the city for 40+ years. Moved back to the country and learned that the tools associated with country living had gone to schitt.
,....Chinese grease guns enny damn way,...
schiiiiiiiiit,..........
Look no further than this. It's made here too. I looked at Lincoln, Lucas etc and they are all made oversees now. This one is not and it has been great....
If you use a tube type grease gun, install the tube, screw on the top, loosen the top about 1 turn or so, and pump. It will take just a few pumps to get the grease thru the tube. Once the grease comes thru the tube, finish tightening the top.
If you buy it by the 5 gal bucket, remove the top from the gun, stick the tube in the bucket, pull up on the handle and suck the grease into the tube. Lock the handle back, clean off the outside of the tube, and screw the top on. Back the top off about a turn, pump the handle until you get grease thru the tube, then tighten the top.
Getting a little grease on your hands is good for ya.
Yup. Burp the grease gun. I have taught many men this...
My father was a fan of his air Lincoln, it worked best with Mobil number one pour grease. Not many sealed bearings years ago, the mounted corn picker took a lot of grease.
the lock n lube works pretty good , but it is longer and bulkier than a regular grease coupler so there will be some zerks you cant get on when using that coupler
,....lived in the city for 40+ years. Moved back to the country and learned that the tools associated with country living had gone to schitt.
,....Chinese grease guns enny damn way,...
schiiiiiiiiit,..........
Look no further than this. It's made here too. I looked at Lincoln, Lucas etc and they are all made oversees now. This one is not and it has been great....
,....lived in the city for 40+ years. Moved back to the country and learned that the tools associated with country living had gone to schitt.
,....Chinese grease guns enny damn way,...
schiiiiiiiiit,..........
Look no further than this. It's made here too. I looked at Lincoln, Lucas etc and they are all made oversees now. This one is not and it has been great....
I've got three or four old American made grease guns. It generally is the zirc itself if it won't take grease.
If it was run dry and galls it's a bitch to get grease in.
Yep!! Not greasing often enough cost me a bunch of time taking the undercarriage off my CTL last winter. Couldn't get it freed up to save my life. The way it is designed, the grease has to travel through the axle shaft about 9" - 10" before it "exits" and the crust at the end just wouldn't let it happen. Those fittings have to be greased every 8 - 10 hrs religiously...every other day wasn't enough. I won't make that mistake again!!!!
I've had my share of cheap ones, and still have 2. I have found if you break loose the head, threaded end and business end, then when you get one of those fittings you can't get the end pulled off, then loosen the head a turn or two and it releases those keepers.
I bought a battery powered Lincoln a couple years ago. It came with an extra long hose that works great for those hard to reach places. The 12v battery will last for about 4 tubes.
Greasing equipment shouldn't be a struggle. It should just be something that one decides to do and does it.
It's sometimes easier said than done.
Plugged zircs are a pain in the ass.
Zircs in awkward places also suck.
That.. I swear, most makers of equipment put a zerk some place where it's a genuine bish to get at - just for fun....
I bought the DeWalt battery grease gun.. Spendy - yes.. But does it work? Ohhhhh, yeah. Takes me less than a minute to grease the big mower and get it busy cuttin' grass...
The "bestest" zircs to grease are the ones you literally have to climb into the combine to get to, right on the knives. Finally had a flexible hose made for one of the guns about double the normal length. That helped.
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