Grease Guns

[Artisan]

Guys what is old hat to you is new to me. I took delivery on a new BX25 today and I of corse I must lube it.

My question is, what in your opinion is the best grease gun?

My machine is a BX25.


I run a lot of Dewalt 18V tools so I have those batteries if Dewalt makes a power greaser. I bet ya there is a gun that excels above and beyond the rest.

The majority of the time I will not have compressed air.


I am open to all suggestions.

THANX IN ADVANCE!

 

[Artisan]

I have a couple of Milwaukee cordless M12 tools as well. I see Milwaukee has grease guns. Anyone w/ any info on them?

 

[Artisan]

HA! the Milwaukee tools web site shows Joe Greaser greasin' a Kubota!

 

[k0ua]

I have 3, and air powered one a standard size one and a 3 oz handheld (trigger squeeze) one.. the one I use the most is the little trigger gun. Upside is it is small easy to pack around and fits everywhere. Downside is it runs out of grease pretty fast. But it is still the one I use the most, and it works well, very low cost.

James K0UA

 

[Artisan]

Here we go at almost 15 bux w/ shipping...

On the other end, more $ I find this, it is spendy but looks interesting...

CLICK HERE for the LOCK N LOAD

HERE is the link to their website

Thank You James...

I am wondering, will a ridgid tip or a lexible tip be better for the BX25. I guesss I will need ot look at each and every zerk and see whats up w/ that.

 

[ducks13]

I have a small one probably a lot like James' but it doesn't work well in a number of instances for me, like when the joint needs a lot of greese or if you need a hose to get to the zerk like the upper arms on the loader or an upper ball joint on a car. I bought a full size gun at the Deere store a couple of years and thought it was one of the best made ones I have ever seen. About $20 or so. It has a nice cap that comes with to keep the nozzle clean between uses. I think you'd have to be greeseing a tractor serveral times a day to justify an electric gun.

 

[5030]

I'm surprised Hornady don't sue for Tradedress Infringement. Lock-n-Load is a registered trademark of Hornady Ammunition. Maybe they don't know.... Maybe I'll tell 'em.:laughing:

All fun aside, I use a conventional screw barrell air powered grease gun with an exception, I never unscrew the barrell. My greasegun has an alemite (zerk) fitting on top and I bulk load it with my 150 pound open headed air greaser.

Bulk greasing isn't cheap. A Lincoln bulk greaser is around a grand but something that the serious man cave needs.

For your BX, go to the local box store or Harbor Fright and get a 20 buck or less lever grease gun, a 12" whip hose and take the female fitting off the rigid pipe that comes with the grease gun, install the whip hose and the female on the end and can the pipe. Go to TSC and get the 10 for 10 (10 grease tubes for 10 bucks) and be happy. Don't forget rags to sipe of the excess grease and don't get it on your dockers, it won't come out in the wash.

 

[Artisan]

I'm surprised Hornady don't sue for Tradedress Infringement. Lock-n-Load is a registered trademark of Hornady Ammunition. Maybe they don't know.... Maybe I'll tell 'em.:laughing:

All fun aside, I use a conventional screw barrell air powered grease gun with an exception, I never unscrew the barrell. My greasegun has an alemite (zerk) fitting on top and I bulk load it with my 150 pound open headed air greaser.

Bulk greasing isn't cheap. A Lincoln bulk greaser is around a grand but something that the serious man cave needs.

For your BX, go to the local box store or Harbor Fright and get a 20 buck or less lever grease gun, a 12" whip hose and take the female fitting off the rigid pipe that comes with the grease gun, install the whip hose and the female on the end and can the pipe. Go to TSC and get the 10 for 10 (10 grease tubes for 10 bucks) and be happy. Don't forget rags to sipe of the excess grease and don't get it on your dockers, it won't come out in the wash.

5030 I am confused, if I throw away the ridgid tube and use the flex tube how does the process get done when I only have 2 hands? It takes 2 hands to pump right? Now I have to hold the flex hose against the zerk hard...

I am just confused, I am missing the boat here on something silly. Like I think I said, I am a newb to tractors...

I appreciate the input..

 

[EagleTDL]

5030 I am confused, if I throw away the ridgid tube and use the flex tube how does the process get done when I only have 2 hands? It takes 2 hands to pump right? Now I have to hold the flex hose against the zerk hard...

The type of gun 5030 is referring to is below. Couple of things... One, if it takes two hands to run a gun of that type, it's clogged or jammed, something is wrong. Never had to use two hands with that type... And, he's right, get the whip hose, you won't regret it, especially when you are trying to grease the BH boom swivel!

 

[rjrhoades]

Get the one handed grease gun! Seriously. I love it! Has short handle to pump and hold the gun, other hand is free to hold end of grease hose! My dad (farmer) has a hundred of the three handed jobs and after I got this wonder I can't imagine using the "old" style!

 

[Scooby074]

If you want cordless, get a Lincoln Powerluber. 12V is all youll need. Its a very good unit, pretty much the industry standard.

In all actuality you dont need a powered unit for a BX. It only takes me 5 mins max to grease mine with a manual gun.

For a manual gun i recommend a Lincoln 1134. Its what i use. Its their heaviest duty manual gun. Generates high 7500 PSI for those nasty plugged fittings. Not the cheapest, but its served me well.

Amazon.com: Lincoln Lubrication 1134 Heavy Duty Pistol Grip Grease Gun with Whip Hose and Rigid Pipe: Automotive

 

[Artisan]

I see said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and saw...

 

[CurlyDave]

I have the 12 Volt Lincoln Powerluber and it works great.

 

[Artisan]

Scoobys 1134 is looking good. Perhaps a good glass bead blastin' and get rid of the New Holland blue and hit it w/ Kubota #2 orange ehh? I saw a grease gun holder by Lincoln, maybe 2 of them and strap it someplace to the tractor!


$31.00 here

 

[5030]

5030 I am confused, if I throw away the ridgid tube and use the flex tube how does the process get done when I only have 2 hands? It takes 2 hands to pump right? Now I have to hold the flex hose against the zerk hard...

I am just confused, I am missing the boat here on something silly. Like I think I said, I am a newb to tractors...

I appreciate the input..

No..... You put the coupler on the alemite fitting and the jaws in the coupler are spring loaded so it stays on. When you apply pressure (grease), the coupler jaws actually grip the head of the zerk (alemite) fitting in relation to how much pressure is generated by the grease gun mechanism.

If you have to physically hold the coupler on the fitting, something is wrong with the coupler or the fitting, or both. That's why fittings are mushroom shaped (look at the end of the fitting). It's so the coupler jaws can grasp it and lock on.

I grease a lot and I wear out couplers a lot. When they won't grip any more, I toss 'em and get another. All couplers and grease hose and rigid grease pipes are NPT so interchange is easy. I go through fittings too. I keep an assortment of alemite fittings on hand too. I typically run through 90 pounds of grease per year, sometimes more, depending on machine use. Changing tubes on a cartridge gun would be a PITA so bulk loading from a remote source is more expeditious for me and if I need to, I can reach 75 feet with my bulk greaser hose.

Bulk greasers aren't for everyone because of the cost. The pumps are expensive, the grease hose is expensive, however, buying grease in bulk (50-75 or 150 pound open head pails or drums is considerably cheaper than buying individual tubes, especially if you use a synthetic grease (like I do) instead of the box store clay based, lithium compond grease.

I don't like or use any clay based grease because one, it tends to harden inside assemblies during use, two, it's unsuitable for sustained high speed loads like revolving bearings and three, it's black and messy. The synthetic I use is wide application, won't harden in service, is basically waterproof and it's red-orange and not messy.

The drawback is it ain't cheap, but like all things in life, you get what you pay for.

There are straight fittings for special use that won't lock a coupler on, however, you won't find them on tractors or implements. They are designed for low pressure greasing in confined spaces.

 

[5030]

Scoobys 1134 is looking good. Perhaps a good glass bead blastin' and get rid of the New Holland blue and hit it w/ Kubota #2 orange ehh? I saw a grease gun holder by Lincoln, maybe 2 of them and strap it someplace to the tractor!


$31.00 here

I have a couple on my grease intensive implements with hand guns attached to grease in the field, if need be. You can buy the strap seperately for about 6 bucks.

 

[Scooby074]

Scoobys 1134 is looking good. Perhaps a good glass bead blastin' and get rid of the New Holland blue and hit it w/ Kubota #2 orange ehh? I saw a grease gun holder by Lincoln, maybe 2 of them and strap it someplace to the tractor!


$31.00 here

Its also available with a clear barrel (to save blastin)

 

[k0ua]

Also grease gun newbies, don't forget that the coupler is knurled on the end so that you may screw and unscrew it with thumb and forefinger to tighten and loosen it on the grease zerk to facilitate easy insertion and removal. In other words you can loosen it to put it easily on the zerk, give it a little twist to tighten so that it stays there easily by itself, pump your grease in, and then loosen it again to easily remove it. Some people have actually broken zerks trying to get the grease coupler off. It is interesting that many do not know that. Of course you can find a "sweet spot" that will pop on and off pretty easily if your zerks are all pretty much the same size with no need for adjustment.

James K0UA

 

[EddieWalker]

I've gone through a lot of greese guns. I've tried most of the major brands on the air powered guns and think that they are all junk. Too much effort to keep them working, and every one of them will jam on you. I tried the cheapy brands with similar results. I've bought quite a few hand pump guns and one from Napa that I bought 20 years ago still works great, but I've bought some from there since then and taken them back because they where junk.

Lucas is a brand that I bought at Home Depot that is a lever style grease gun that I really like. It works every time!!!!!

I'm still looking at cordless, but haven't spent any money on them yet.

I prefer the solid tube for the gease gun over the flexible. You can put it on easier, hold it in place easier and just move along faster with a solid tube. Unfortunatly, some fittings are impossible to get to with the solid tube, so you need a flexible one too. Instead of changing tubes, or just having the flexibible one on all the time, I have a grease gun with both types of tubes on it.

Eddie

 

[Artisan]

No..... You put the coupler on the alemite fitting and the jaws in the coupler are spring loaded so it stays on. When you apply pressure (grease), the coupler jaws actually grip the head of the zerk (alemite) fitting in relation to how much pressure is generated by the grease gun mechanism.

If you have to physically hold the coupler on the fitting, something is wrong with the coupler or the fitting, or both. That's why fittings are mushroom shaped (look at the end of the fitting). It's so the coupler jaws can grasp it and lock on.

I grease a lot and I wear out couplers a lot. When they won't grip any more, I toss 'em and get another. All couplers and grease hose and rigid grease pipes are NPT so interchange is easy. I go through fittings too. I keep an assortment of alemite fittings on hand too. I typically run through 90 pounds of grease per year, sometimes more, depending on machine use. Changing tubes on a cartridge gun would be a PITA so bulk loading from a remote source is more expeditious for me and if I need to, I can reach 75 feet with my bulk greaser hose.

Bulk greasers aren't for everyone because of the cost. The pumps are expensive, the grease hose is expensive, however, buying grease in bulk (50-75 or 150 pound open head pails or drums is considerably cheaper than buying individual tubes, especially if you use a synthetic grease (like I do) instead of the box store clay based, lithium compond grease.

I don't like or use any clay based grease because one, it tends to harden inside assemblies during use, two, it's unsuitable for sustained high speed loads like revolving bearings and three, it's black and messy. The synthetic I use is wide application, won't harden in service, is basically waterproof and it's red-orange and not messy.

The drawback is it ain't cheap, but like all things in life, you get what you pay for.

There are straight fittings for special use that won't lock a coupler on, however, you won't find them on tractors or implements. They are designed for low pressure greasing in confined spaces.

Ah HA! OK...THANK YOU! But I gotta ask, what flavor grease are you using? I want the best...I was thinking, I think I have a half dozen tubes of Royal Purple out back in storage, prob 6 years old or so. I need to pick a grease and it sounds like you know EXACTLY what yer talkin' bout . I appreciate the input!

...and there is merit in your bulk loading procedures...I will look into the same deal on a small scale perhaps, maybe a 5 gallon can and a hand pump transfer? Maybe they make that kinda deal. Time will tell how much and how often I am using this machine and weather or not I need to do that.