Vevor 6000 psi air grease gun

[paulsharvey]

I broke my old grease gun, trying to force the front axle pivot point to take grease, so I need a new gun. I know everyone js all about their 18V Milwakee and Dewalt cordless, but for a guy that greases every 10 hours, maybe 20 points per month, I'm not dropping $200+ to turn a 5 minute job into a 2 minute job. So, searching, the Vevir air grease gun is frankly not much more than a manual one ($37.99 direct or $39.99 on Amazon). My tractor is always parked at the shed, where my air compressor is, not doing mobile service work. Any thoughts either on this one is air grease guns in general?

 

[LittleBill21]

i use one that is identical to that, works great.

This is the one I use

Amazon.com

 

[tacticalturnip]

I'm partial to my Lock N Lube pistol grip grease gun, it's the best I've owned.

 

[paulsharvey]

Turns out the Vevor on Amazon (I got back and forth with buying Vevor stuff direct vs Amazon) had a 20% discount coupon, so I clicked 'buy now', with tax, $34.49

 

[tacticalturnip]

Turns out the Vevor on Amazon (I got back and forth with buying Vevor stuff direct vs Amazon) had a 20% discount coupon, so I clicked 'buy now', with tax, $34.49

You ought to post up a quick review after you've used it. I've never used a pneumatic grease gun.

 

[shooterdon]

Do you really want to fire up the compressor and run out the air line for a 10 minute job with a manual grease gun? I hate dealing with an air hose.

If I did not want to use a manual grease gun, method I would buy the battery operated Dewalt as I have Dewalt tools. But I am too cheap to make the investment. I have 330 hours on my 2019 tractor so grease my FEL about once every two months. I suppose if I had to grease twice a week, the manual gun would get to be a PITA.

 

[5030]

That Vevor is exactly like the one Tractor Supply sells btw. and if you want one of those battery operated grease guns, Harbor Freight has them for about half the price of the DeWalt. Looks EXACTLY the same too. It's a Bauer btw.

 

[paulsharvey]

Do you really want to fire up the compressor and run out the air line for a 10 minute job with a manual grease gun? I hate dealing with an air hose.

If I did not want to use a manual grease gun, method I would buy the battery operated Dewalt as I have Dewalt tools. But I am too cheap to make the investment. I have 330 hours on my 2019 tractor so grease my FEL about once every two months. I suppose if I had to grease twice a week, the manual gun would get to be a PITA.

The compressor stays plugged in, in the shed, and the air hose is generally laying in the dirt next to the tractor, for airing up the SxS tire, that until today, I hadn't bothered to plug.

 

[paulsharvey]

I dont really need the air powered one, guess I see every one saying how awesome their cordless are, and saw how cheap the air one was...

 

[John0829]

Like you I do not have a great deal of greasing to do. Usually 5 minutes, done and that's draggin my feet. I had an air powered grease gun and found it to work nice but it turned out to be a real PIA to use, having to drag the air hose around. I would go at a fitting holding the coupler on with one hand while the air hose would end up tangled, twisted or pulling the grease gun another. Went back to my old pistol grip and never looked back.

Two best things on any grease gun IMHO are a lock on coupler and a LONG hose. I could not find a hose long enough to suit me so back in the day when I had access to make up hydraulic hoses I made one a little over 30" long.

 

[5030]

What I do is, I bulk load my lever guns from the air greaser in the shop that pulls from a 150 pound grease drum. I keep a lever gun in each of my implements tool boxes and they all have clear polycarbonate see through barrels so I don't get surprised by no grease. Actually, I had Motion Industries make me up a 100 foot long grease hose so in reality I could use the air greaser to grease my tractors and stuff outside the shop but handling 100 foot of greasy grease hose is not fun so I just bulk load the lever guns instead.

One thing I don't like about the cordless battery operated grease guns or conventional metal barreled grease guns and that is, you cannot tell how much is left before you run out.

You can buy the clear polycarbonate barrels on Amazon and they screw directly into the head of any lever or pistol grip grease gun. Makes life a lot simpler, least for me.. and I really dislike the grease cartridges anyway. They are messy and a general PITA.

 

[LittleBill21]

You ought to post up a quick review after you've used it. I've never used a pneumatic grease gun.

prolly no different then the battery ones, plug in the air hose, pull the trigger, mine has machine gun action and will keep pumping if i pull it farther

 

[LittleBill21]

Like you I do not have a great deal of greasing to do. Usually 5 minutes, done and that's draggin my feet. I had an air powered grease gun and found it to work nice but it turned out to be a real PIA to use, having to drag the air hose around. I would go at a fitting holding the coupler on with one hand while the air hose would end up tangled, twisted or pulling the grease gun another. Went back to my old pistol grip and never looked back.

Two best things on any grease gun IMHO are a lock on coupler and a LONG hose. I could not find a hose long enough to suit me so back in the day when I had access to make up hydraulic hoses I made one a little over 30" long.

a roll up air hose, makes the air hose a non issue. the lock and lube couplers makes its 1000x better as well

 

[LittleBill21]

I dont really need the air powered one, guess I see every one saying how awesome their cordless are, and saw how cheap the air one was...

air works fine, if you have easy access to an air hose like i do , its a non issue, and the battery is never dead

 

[5030]

Paul...

I have to confess, I took a chance and bought a Vevor saw chain grinder and was totally prepared for it to be a Chinese junk copy that wouldn't work properly and it was only a hundred bucks, delivered.

Boy, was I surprised. It's even better built than my other saw chain grinder, an Oregon that I paid over 200 bucks for a while ago. I sharpen chainsaw loops and chipper knives for the local tree service outfits so I grind a lot of saw chains and even make up new ones when they really 'rock' a chain

The Vevor is an exact copy of the Oregon, which are actually made by Tecomec Company in Italy. It's an exact copy, look alike but the Vevor has a much better depth stop and the chain vise is more substantial as well as the vise clamping.

Used to be that when an arborist dulled a chain, they tossed it and put on a new one but now, with the price of quality saw chain going through the roof, my customers at least realized that they could have me (or someone else) sharpen then to better than new condition, a lot cheaper. I get dull chain loops in milk crates, grocery sacks and tied together with zip ties all the time and I sharpen everything from 1/4" lo pro to 404 chipper. Last load was over 100 loops. between those and commercial chipper knives (which are also stupid expensive today as they are through hardened tool steel), I usually have way more 'things to do' than I really need and I pizzed them off because I have to take time to grow and harvest my hay plus work on my own stuff and at 73, I should be slowing down, not speeding up. Least I make money doing it so not all bad.

Least I have a nice air conditioned and heated shop with all the 'toys' necessary to do what I need to do.

Told my wife if I pass before her, she should liquidate everything and buy a place in Jamaica and acquire a young buck to keep her happy.

At 73, that is the LAST thing on my mind.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I have to confess, I took a chance and bought a Vevor saw chain grinder and was totally prepared for it to be a Chinese junk copy that wouldn't work properly and it was only a hundred bucks, delivered.

Boy, was I surprised. It's even better built than my other saw chain grinder, an Oregon that I paid over 200 bucks for a while ago. I sharpen chainsaw loops and chipper knives for the local tree service outfits so I grind a lot of saw chains and even make up new ones when they really 'rock' a chain

Do you have a link to the specific grinder? I think you posted it once before, but I didn't save it.

 

[paulsharvey]

So far, I've bought from Vevor, directly or indirectly; a 7x14 metal lathe, 270amp multi process welder, clamp on bucket forks, a galv raised garden bed, and not been disappointed in any. NOW, like the lathe, it was $300 brandnew; if I had spent $850-1200 on a Grizzly, and got this same lathe, I would have been disappointed in the aggregating tail stock adjustment, the cross slide/compound turn handles backing out, ect. The welder, so far, only done Flux core wire feed, but been happy so far; the bucket forks, they are what they are, better than no forks, but worth the $70-90 I spent, and appear the same as $250 ones.

As an example a 6x10 Harbor Freight lathe is what, $700... vs a 7x14, of IMO a better quality for $300.

Big complaint with Vevor, some things, like the lathe, they show like 5 different 7x14 lathes at different prices, and it can be pretty hard to tell what your getting/not getting with exactly what you order (accessories, metal vs plastic gears, 500w vs 750w motor, tools or no tools, ect, you have to really look closely at both description and pictures)

 

[5030]

Do you have a link to the specific grinder? I think you posted it once before, but I didn't save it.

No, I don't but... If you go on the Amazon website and enter either Vevor or Vevor chain grinder they will come up. I have zero complaints about them at all other than the tedious to install and remove wheel guard they come with but then the Oregon grinder has a wonky wheel guard as well. I use neither on either grinder because I sharpen chains with Diamond Abrasives, aluminum rimmed CBN (cubic boron nitride) wheels, not the stone wheels. The CBN wheels never need radius dressing, the stone wheels do and quite often and the CBN wheels will never explode unlike the stone wheels can and will at some point and while the CBN wheels are a bit spendy, they far outlast numerous stone wheels. In fact, Diamond Abrasives claim you can sharpen at least 300 20" (bar length) loops before they need replacing.

I believe I've run at least 250 loops already and the CBN wheel shows no wear at all. You can get them on Amazon as well (Diamond Abrasives CBN wheels), but I buy mine direct from them, nice folks to deal with as well. In fact I had them send me a 30 degree angle CBN wheel to drop rakers and they sent it before I even paid for it (I did but I received the wheel before I did pay for it. That is unheard of today and shows just how upstanding they are.

Finally, the Vevor saw chain grinder ships with various widths of stone wheels, plus a dressing stone and a raker depth gauge all packaged in a nicely padded cardboard box. Of course the Oregon-Tecomec grinder comes the same way wit the same stuff.

I have a substantial stack of stone wheels and a couple raker gages on the shelf if anyone wants them. I don't use them ever.

One thing I probably should add and that is the Vevor, unlike the Oregon grinder, the Vevor is only a bench mount, whereas the Oregon can be mounted to either a bench or a wall. I have both of them screwed to a 2x4 and I C clamp that to my welding bench, which puts me at the ideal height for grinding chains sitting on a stool.

 

[paulsharvey]

I assuming this is what 5030 was talking about.

 

[5030]

Big complaint with Vevor, some things, like the lathe, they show like 5 different 7x14 lathes at different prices, and it can be pretty hard to tell what your getting/not getting

I don't buy any Chinese machine tools for the shop, if I can avoid it, sometimes you cannot however.

Lets see.. I have 2 Bridgeports, one a Series 1 and one is a Versa-Trak CNC knee mill but the CNC part was imported. I have a LeBlond Servo Shift toolroom lathe I bought at a machinery auction. I wanted the LeBlond because the spindle bore is quite large so I can feed large diameter stock through it as well as rifle barrels. Actually, it was in pristine condition as well and it also came fully tooled with a cam lock spindle nose.

I also own a Taiwan built 16" swing x 6 foot bed floor lathe I purchased from a local high school that was never used, was still in preservative and it came 100% tooled as well and it's a D1-4 cam lock spindle and has German made Reishour gears in the headstock.

Additionally, I have a Kent (made in Taiwan with extreme oversight) manual feed (X-Y and Z axis) surface grinder with coolant feed and it will hold 50 millionths but I use it mostly for sharpening chipper knives. I mount them on a tilting table attached to a mag chuck.

Also own a pristine Kalamazoo built Atlas floor lathe that runs on 110 volts, has a quick change gearbox and it's 100% tooled as well. Even has a toolpost grinder, face plates, dog plates, live centers and a taper attachment and I want to sell it as I hardly ever use it anyway. Being the 'waffler' I am, it's still sitting in the shop but if someone came along with the right price, I'd sell it. Nice machine and the headstock runs in Timken angular contact roller bearings. Not a mark on it and the ways are pristine as well.

All my cutting tools and tool holders are Kenmetal carbide inserts and some of the toolholders are coolant through. I also own a Dake hydraulic arbor press an a couple Milwaukee bench grinders mounted on floor stands and of course various welders including a Lincoln engine drive ac-dc welder and the TIG machine plus a Hobart MIG welder that always runs gas shielded solid core wire and finally a 45 amp plasma cutter.

Between all that and the farm tools, when I pass, my wife will make out like a bandit, if she outlives me which is highly probable.

Not to mention the 4 motorcycles, 2 Triumphs, one 67 Norton P11A scrambler in mint condition and a Kawasaki KLR 650. Bought them all new except the Norton which I bought fully restored from my buddy in Marne, Iowa who is a Triumph dealer there and does restorations on Brit bikes. One of the Triumph's is a Centennial, made in England bike with a custom built sidecar on it. Only one of it's kind in existence.

Teaser....