Anyone using DeWalt 20v MAX grease gun?

[prs]

I have one and have insalled the Lock'n Lube, but after one season of use, it is back in its suitcase and I am using my manual again. It has no "feel" to it. Is the joint taking grease or is the DeWalt just going "wink'a wink'a wink'a? With a manual I can feel the grease going in and can tell that a stuck zerk is stuck. Of course the DeWalt was providing lube, lots of it! The empty cartridges in the trash were proof of that. I guess I am just used to the manual type since 1965. The Lock'n Lube does not fit in tight places likesone universal joints and such.

 

[Piston]

I can understand the lack of "feel". I assume the dewalt would have the same, but my Milwaukee has two settings, a low pressure setting and a high pressure setting. I can set the amount of "strokes" it takes and it will automatically shut itself off after the setting is reached.

What I did was count the amount of strokes it was taking to get the grease to squeeze out my loader pins, then I use that setting from there on our, always knowing exactly how much grease is going in.

The high pressure setting is used when the zirk fitting is plugged up. It will usually clear it. You can hear the difference when no grease is going in, and can tell pressure is building up by the movement/stiffness of the hose.

Your right in that it's easy to over grease, gotta watch that!

 

[Oldpath05]

It's good for FEL greasing, the 20v fits all my other Dewalt tools which I like most. I used to have a Lincoln battery grease gun, I liked it because it had two speed settings, but the batt wont fit nothing else. One thing I dont like about the Dewalt is, if the zerk wont take grease, the grease goes through the by-pass and gets grease all over the gun, the Lincoln I had didn't do that, just wouldn't grease. Lock&lube works good on all pinned grease fitting and I have both sizes and use the longest one the most.

If the Milwaukee tools didn't suck 5/10/20 years ago, I'd probably have a Milwaukee grease gun today. Over the past 20 years I've had half dozen Milwaukee tools and they was all junk compared to Dewalt, over the years I've had several Dewalt tools that I've used and abused and they've been like a Timex watch, I think even Ryobi makes better tools than Milwaukee............ The only time I broke a Dewalt tool was up 20' on a ladder, dropped the Dewalt batt drill on frozen ground.

 

[dodge man]

I have one but I think it’s lower voltage. 18 volt? I also like it.

 

[crazyal]

I have a Milwaukee (because I have their batteries) but plenty of DeWalt tools. Never had an issue with any of them (other than a 4 1/2" corded angle grinder that was over worked). I would say this, if the price of everything isn't too much more I would do it. I find most plastic cases useless but with the grease gun it's worth having. I can't count the number of times I found the coupler covered in dirt or something else covered in grease because it came in contact with something while not in use. With the Milwaukee case (and I assume the DeWalt case) the hose gets snapped into place so that's the only place that gets messy. Just verify that the Lock and Lube will work with it.

 

[prs]

Piston, very interesting. So far as I know (maybe I should read the destructions) the DeWalt does not have settings for high or low pressure or volume. It puts out quick and then knuckles down sort of automatically if the zerk is restricted. Again, as far as I know, it has no means of setting how many pump cycles to deliver and then automatically stop -- its the Energizer Bunny in that regard, just keeps on pumping until you release the trigger. If I have missed such features, somebody kick me.

prs

 

[mopardude318]

I have the Milwaukee grease gun and what an awesome machine it is! it's even better with the LockNLube! I have many of the Milwaukee M18 Fuel tools, and like my grease gun, they are excellent.

 

[TractorGuy]

I just got one. I am playing with different couplers because the one that came on it sucks. I am not crazy about the locknlube but I am trying that out on it.

I have one and have insalled the Lock'n Lube, but after one season of use, it is back in its suitcase and I am using my manual again. It has no "feel" to it. Is the joint taking grease or is the DeWalt just going "wink'a wink'a wink'a? With a manual I can feel the grease going in and can tell that a stuck zerk is stuck. Of course the DeWalt was providing lube, lots of it! The empty cartridges in the trash were proof of that. I guess I am just used to the manual type since 1965. The Lock'n Lube does not fit in tight places likesone universal joints and such.

When the pin or fitting is stuck it pops grease out of the relief valve. If it's going "wink'a wink'a wink'a" it's pumping grease. When the tube runs out of grease it changes sound to that of a free wheeling electric motor. Better let off the trigger ASAP when that happens or it will suck the tube closed and collapse the wall. The piston will be a real bugger to pull back out when that happens.

 

[sdef]

I also have one with a lock n lube. I had to move to its power as a lincoln manual did not have enough pressure to lube a couple of my Kioti fittings. And yes they had been replaced with new to no avail. The Dewalt also cut my lube time significantly and made the job much easier. Well worth the investment to me and the Lincoln manual and a couple other manuals now sit unused.