Grease Gun?
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Topic: Grease Gun?
Posted By: modirt
Subject: Grease Gun?
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 6:57pm
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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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Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date 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 ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: bigal121892
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:05pm
| Milwaukee M18 grease gun. |
Posted By: Ed (Ont)
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:12pm
| 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. |
Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:22pm
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I invested in a new dewalt battery powered grease gun, Love it!! ------------- The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend? |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:48pm
Any kind of gun, but with a Lock-n-lube tip...
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 7:51pm
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Pends on how much you use it and how you want it to stand up. I use HF, but only farm 5 acres.  |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date 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. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 8:19pm
| Grew up with Lincoln's Wife got me a DeWalt battery power for Christmas 2 yrs ago.So much nicer! |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 9:10pm
| Bought a new one when I got married in 1965 and still good. Brand???? MACK |
Posted By: DougS
Date 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. |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 11:26pm
| 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. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:43am
| 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! |
Posted By: marion
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 4:57am
| 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 |
Posted By: allisrutledge
Date 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 ------------- Allis Chalmers still exist in my mind and barns |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 12:16pm
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. |
marion wrote:Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 6:44pm
| 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. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 7:55pm
| was gonna use the new Dewalt battery gun this year at Hutch...but I couldn't gits there this year! maybe next? |
Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2018 at 9:01pm
| 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! |
Posted By: Lonn
Date 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. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 6:28am
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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 ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 6:38am
| I have a couple alemite battery powered grease guns, and love them. Darrel |
Posted By: 1terrygladys
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 9:56pm
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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. Terry ------------- WD-45, WD, Unstyled WC, SC Disk, JD 4430D, JD 4010D, JD B, Iowa pastor & disciple of Jesus Christ |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 7:13am
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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 By: Gregor
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 11:21am
| 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. |
Posted By: WF owner
Date 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. |
Posted By: DougS
Date 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. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date 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. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: KY
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 9:14pm
| 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 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2018 at 1:03pm
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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.  Why do I have to go to edit to make spell check work? |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2018 at 6:59am
Ain't that the truth!!!
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2018 at 8:43am
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Thats why the most used grease guns I have have the lock-n-lube couplers on the end of the hose... ...but those don't work so good in really tight places...  and if a grease fitting is plugged, the locker gits kinda harder to unlock till the pressure comes off.  ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: Coke
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 6:33pm
------------- 1957 D17 Diesel w/ M&W Pistons |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 6:45pm
| I too am not cheap as to replacing old lube zerks and I have a mix of Alemite, Lincoln off names and no names, think I have around seven different lube guns. May be more in hidey holes!! |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 6:49pm
Buy a selection box, of american fittings, Like $ 6 bucks, at HF, more at napa, or tsc. You'll find uses fer the others...
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Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 6:55pm
I've seen where they make a small length of pipe with a valve to let the pressure off the hose so you can disconnect the locking couplers. |
Posted By: Coke
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 7:01pm
------------- 1957 D17 Diesel w/ M&W Pistons |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 8:02pm
| The reason for an electric on is lots of zerks. a 25' disk has 30 fittings. The tractor has 20 more most are the the center articulating section wher you can't get a hand in to pump the gun. If you want a little grease just pull the trigger once it gets one pump. As you hold the trigger down each time you hear it cycle it's putting one pump in. When you grease the edible bean combine it takes two tubes of grease to hit all the fittings. If you get a grease kit all the differant fittings just snap onto the end of the hose. One grease gun does it all. |
Posted By: AC720Man
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 9:22pm
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Interesting post as I just obtained a Milwaukee M18 battery grease gun. Local Ace hardware was having their annual tool sale. Milwaukee and Dewalt reps. I went there to get the Milwaukee M18 torque gun that was on sale. Has 1400 ft lbs of nut busting torque. My best friend has one and it is amazing at removing nuts, bolts, lug nuts. Broke 2 long bars trying to move bolts on dads 6060. It took them right off. Anyway, the grease gun came with it, $249 free gift!!!! I would have never bought one but it was free! It works great. Has multiple modes. Has a knob to select 1-10 shots, or will shoot as long as you squeeze the trigger. Works really well and its so nice to not have to pump when in an awkward position. Has a long hose. Just pull the trigger...its that easy. A job I dreaded before is now simple and actually enjoyable. Won’t buy anymore hand guns since I now have this. ------------- 1968 B-208, 1976 720 (2 of them)Danco brush hog, single bottom plow,52" snow thrower, belly mower,rear tine tiller, rear blade, front blade, 57"sickle bar,1983 917 hydro, 1968 7hp sno-bee, 1968 190XTD |
Posted By: Dave974
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2018 at 10:14pm
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My wife got me the Milwaukee M18 grease gun as a Christmas gift a couple years back. before that, I only used lever-action manual guns. Now it's my go-to grease gun....as long as I remembered to charge the battery! It's the best thing ever for greasing the JD 750 drill. That
 thing has over 100 zerks and you have to crawl under it to access many of the grease points. Definitely my most dreaded grease job but the M18 gun makes it more tolerable. I like that you can set it for the number of shots you want, then just pull the trigger. It also has a little light on the front.....super handy for finding zerks in dark spots. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2018 at 9:05pm
My Dewalt has variable speed trigger. Can go really SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.
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Posted By: 1955CA
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2018 at 9:28pm
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For a manual one I would go Alemite. My last Lincoln's have not been good. Seem to be cheaping out. Not great quality. I got a new Kubota one from my Kubota dealer (not sure who makes them?) but it is better than the last Lincoln's i bought. I also bought a DeWalt 20V. It is awesome! I had one spring pin on my Western Star that got something in it and quit taking grease. None of the hand guns I had would get it to take grease. Put the Dewalt on it and there was no resistance at all, LOL. Now all the hand guns will work on it again.
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Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2018 at 9:40pm
| My accountant got me a DeWalt 18 volt for Christmas last year after I complained how hard it is to grease the corn head with a lever gun, and it's only a six row. Love it! The DeWalt was my choice as I already have many other tools that use the same battery. Easy to control how much grease to apply with the variable speed trigger. |