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modirt 
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 6:57pm |
Dumb question maybe, but while I've been using grease guns for over 50 years, I've never bought one. I was always assigned one from a pile of several and was told to use it early and often. So I was never sensitive to brand. I always liked the shiny heavy one with the long rubber hose. That one isn't here....or anywhere near here.
So if you wanted to buy one today, where would you go and what would you buy?
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:05pm |
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Alemite brand will serve you well. Only kind I will buy. Some use battery operated these days. HTH Tracy
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:05pm |
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Milwaukee M18 grease gun.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:12pm |
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I like the Lincoln ones. Have had a manual one for over 20 years that pumped a 5 gal pail of grease every year to grease dump truck. Still works like new. Have an air lincoln now as well and works well too. And another new manual one that works good too so the newer ones still seem to be good quality. Can't have enough grease guns. LOL.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:22pm |
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I invested in a new dewalt battery powered grease gun, Love it!!
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:48pm |
Any kind of gun, but with a Lock-n-lube tip... 
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:51pm |
Pends on how much you use it and how you want it to stand up. I use HF, but only farm 5 acres. 
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:52pm |
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Lincoln or Alemite and get several of them, you can never have too many. I keep different couplings and different grease in mine so I have what I need without having to make changes. It is a good idea to label the guns with what type of grease you have in it.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 8:19pm |
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Grew up with Lincoln's Wife got me a DeWalt battery power for Christmas 2 yrs ago.So much nicer!
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 9:10pm |
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Bought a new one when I got married in 1965 and still good. Brand???? MACK
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 9:36pm |
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I bought one at my local Bomgaars. A smaller farm chain store in my part of the Midwest. It came with both a hose and a tube. Install whichever I want. It's not one I'd use daily, year in and year out, but it would do fine if you only used it to grease a seasonal piece of equipment. I think it cost me under $25. I don't remember the brand.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 11:26pm |
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We have several alemet 14 volt ones at the farm always take an extra battery when you leave the shop.itll go thru at least a couple tubes but when it quits your done and its 22 miles back to the shop. You can't get any where near the pressure from a hand pumped one than an electric. I use an air powered one in the shop I don't even know what brand it is I've used it for more than 25 years.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:43am |
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I've always used a hand pump gun, unk? brand names, one year I couldn't get it to prime, went and bought a pistol grip one and used it since, they push more power out over a handle pump ones. the old lady.....oooops….I mean the loving wife bought me a new Dewalt battery grease gun 2 years ago for Christmas, have yet to use it!
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 4:57am |
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you will need a minimum of 4 guns, pistol grip, one with extended straight end, one with flexible tube, and one with a rigid angled tube. it will also take all 4 to grease the smallest job, as one or all seem to be empty whenever the need arises to use them
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 11:33am |
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I use a Milwaukee 18 volt. I would suggest it if you have a lot of equipment to grease. But I use more grease now than I did before I got it. Any gun will put the grease where it needs to be but more importantly use good quality grease no mater what grease gun you decide to get. Scott
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:16pm |
 marion wrote:
you will need a minimum of 4 guns, pistol grip, one with extended straight end, one with flexible tube, and one with a rigid angled tube. it will also take all 4 to grease the smallest job, as one or all seem to be empty whenever the need arises to use them |
You seem to have the same luck I have they are always empty.
I have had trouble with Lincoln leaking around the plunger,as well a trouble priming in about all brands. By luck I have a pair of Alimites with a button on the head to release air,so easy to prime. As well as one has adjustment on handle to help with more power, by changing the stroke.
I am not covering as much ground as I use to do so I am greasing less,BUT WHY DOES ANYONE NEED A BATTERY POWERED GREASE GUN??????????????????? At least at the supper high price. I could see it for something that would take a whole tube at a time but generally more than 4 or 5 pumps is wasting grease. Must be that supper cheap part of me showing. 
I spent 8 years greasing 2 MH2 one tube a morning (after the boss would buy tubes and not get a 5 gal bucket). There are a lot of things I don't like about greasing but pumping the handle on the gun is not the hard part. We cut from early June into Sept in oats and barley then do another 2 to 6 weeks of safflower until the wine grapes took over this country.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 6:44pm |
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with electric I can hold coupler in position /angle with one hand and squeeze trigger with other.The lever gun requires holding barrel against something while pumping lever with one hand and holding coupler with other.My Dewalt takes 2 pumps to equal one of the Lincoln lever.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 7:55pm |
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was gonna use the new Dewalt battery gun this year at Hutch...but I couldn't gits there this year! maybe next?
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Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 9:01pm |
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I can tell you what kind not to buy. I got one at TSC this spring. The tube canaster doesn't screw on like normal. It has some sort of lock and load mechanism. It's supposed to be quicker and easier, but it's junk. I tore the gun up trying to get the thing back off. I wish I noticed that before I got it, now I need to buy another one too. I've got a whole wall hanging full of grease guns that don't work lol!
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Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 6:16am |
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I bought a $10 one at Mills Fleet Farm that isn't too great. Hard to screw the pump back on after put in a new cartridge and it's hard to bleed. It has the button that's supposed to make bleeding easy but I always end up unscrewing the pump a little and pumping it til it works, usually takes more than one attempt. I got the higher end model from NAPA, around $30 and that one is a good gun. Always works and it is much heavier. Brands? The NAPA one is blue and I think it's a Lincoln but I'd have to look. Lincoln sells different quality guns too so just because it's a Lincoln doesn't mean it is any good.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 6:28am |
you should NOT have to hold the coupler onto theh Zerk fitting. That is a sign that either the coupler is wore out or the Zerk is. I spent $10 to replace all the Zerks on the D-14 #1 so now a onearmed paper hanger can lube it !
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Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 6:38am |
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I have a couple alemite battery powered grease guns, and love them. Darrel
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Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 9:56pm |
I've never been around an electric grease gun. Too expensive for me.
I've had lever-type guns most of my life and got along - Lincoln brand was the best.
Now I enjoy a squeeze-type gun, which makes it much easier to get the job done. That's what I'd recommend. You can pump with one had and place the rubber hose on the zerk with the other hand.
Lately, I've had good luck putting 2 rubber hoses on my grease gun. Helps this old man grease those hard-to-reach places.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 7:13am |
We had a disk that took a gun full every 8 hours, the electric was nice for that. But the dang batteries go bad, and you end up paying almost as much for new batteries as you paid for the whole rig to begin with. Oh yes, I know, you can fiddle fart around and repair battery packs and adapt this one to that one, blah blah blah....Who wants to fart around with all that crap? I wanna get me stuff greased and get the work done! It is all about the tip! Pull the plunger out, leave it locked in place, hold the button down while you're screwing the top back on, keep holding it down when releasing the plunger, keep holding it down for a pump or two, couple of pumps and it's primed easily. That works on my "best" gun.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 11:21am |
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Bought an electric 18 or 20v (can't remember volt size)dewalt one at Bomgaars a couple years ago on black friday. I got several dewalt tools and plenty of batteries around. Haven't used my pistol grip one since. I'll have to try the priming thing that Tbone mentioned, but the bleeder on top usually does the trick. Somewhere I read about the screen getting plugged up where the tube goes against and had to clean mine once.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 12:15pm |
I never had an electric gun. About 30 years ago, I bought my first pistol style gun and loved it. I still use it. After saying that, I still think the lever type have more power than the pistol type. I just got done using the lever gun on a fitting I was having trouble getting grease into with the pistol type.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 2:27pm |
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Question for those with electric grease guns: What if I only want to put a small amount of grease in a fitting? Is there a way to control the amount? I've seen bearings with seals that only called for a minimum amount of grease, lest the seal be broken.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 8:48pm |
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I have an air powered one that is a repeater style. I've used a battery powered type and it's easy to count the pumps.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 9:14pm |
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I got one from John Deere 15 years ago and it's held up very very well and pumped a ton of grease . Not sure who makes their grease guns
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Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 1:03pm |
I should have been more precise, I use pistol grip type 90% of the time. I have a damaged nerve in the right arm and to keep up the muscle in the hand I need to exercise it squeezing anyway might as well be accomplishing something anyway like greasing.
A good coupler is harder to find than a good grease gun. The best Alemite gun with the squeeze handle makes better pressure than most. But I also keep a lever gun because you can push harder on it. Also a long tube for some special places.
Need to look for one of the locking couplers. Napa finally had some that worked so made sure to stock pile several.
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