Grease Guns

[Artisan]

ALL GREAT INFO! Thank YOU!

Scooby do you have that clear thang? I dunno...Seems like it would not be so clear after a few hours in the sun and droppin it near the pigpen...


Save on blastin' ? :laughing: Naw, I never knew what I was missing till I bought a glass bead blaster. You live in a whole new world once you realize how effin good of a job it does, the time it saves and the money it saves not replacing some things that get wasted / rusted. You can take a 50 year old pipe wrench buried and make it look new less rust pitting...EVERYONE needs a glass bead blaster. There is a place close ot me that makes good units, not made in China, made in the USofA...

 

[Scooby074]

ALL GREAT INFO! Thank YOU!

Scooby do you have that clear thang? I dunno...Seems like it would not be so clear after a few hours in the sun and droppin it near the pigpen...


Save on blastin' ? :laughing: Naw, I never knew what I was missing till I bought a glass bead blaster. You live in a whole new world once you realize how effin good of a job it does, the time it saves and the money it saves not replacing some things that get wasted / rusted. You can take a 50 year old pipe wrench buried and make it look new less rust pitting...EVERYONE needs a glass bead blaster. There is a place close ot me that makes good units, not made in China, made in the USofA...

Nope, i dont have the clear one... Its more money:thumbsup: And i dont see the benefit if your using a single type of grease. If you had several types, the clear barrel would let you see the carterage thats in the tube.

+1 on the blaster. I love my blast cab.

 

[rimshot]

I'm tired of dragging air hose around my tractor with a gun bound to fail. I'm convinced now that air grease guns are not likely to last. I bought a single handed squeeze grease gun by Lincoln and had it about a year. It actuallly completely can grease by tractor loader backhoe without the need to stop and spend countless hours trying to get those air powered guns to work.

Here's another tip. Don't you just hate those stupid grease gun end couplings won't release from the zerk. I have tried loosening the barrel and they still remove stubbornly. Get yourself a nice long flexible hose and put on a needle tip. It just takes a minute to get used to hitting the little spring release with the needle tip . You can tell when it's centered because it wont slip. You can feel the gun have the needle buried in the little spring hole stop in the center of the zerk. A couple squeezes while holding the zerk and tip together and away you go to the next zerk. You are not playing tug of war with the tractor trying to get your gun back.

Works for me and those single handed blue barrel Lincolns ar only $20-30.

good luck

 

[Artisan]

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Here's another tip. Don't you just hate those stupid grease gun end couplings won't release from the zerk. I have tried loosening the barrel and they still remove stubbornly. Get yourself a nice long flexible hose and put on a needle tip. It just takes a minute to get used to hitting the little spring release with the needle tip . You can tell when it's centered because it wont slip. You can feel the gun have the needle buried in the little spring hole stop in the center of the zerk. A couple squeezes while holding the zerk and tip together and away you go to the next zerk. You are not playing tug of war with the tractor trying to get your gun back.

Works for me and those single handed blue barrel Lincolns ar only $20-30.

good luck

Well...if you have a picture or 3 post it up, I am to much a newb to follow your line of thought here... Thanx Though!

 

[rimshot]

Well...if you have a picture or 3 post it up, I am to much a newb to follow your line of thought here... Thanx Though!

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OK, here is the lincoln one hand squeeze grease gun with a hose and a needletip end instead of barrell grease end. Just line the needle tip grease end with the hole in the middle of the zerk and press in. You will feel the spring depress then give the grease gun a couple of hand squeeze pumps with one hand while holding needletip tightly against zerk. I did my whole TLB with this set up and I could get at every zerk. As some of us know backhoes and FEL's have lots of zerks.

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[5030]

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.

I'm not getting into a best grease or lubricant discussion. I operate in a commercial/agricultrial enviroment so I've fiddled with greases and oils and found what is best for me, probably isn't the best for you, other than stay away from cheap clay based greases and cheapo motor oil.

you can't bulk load grease with a hand pump unless you are related to Charles Atlas. You need to have a grease pump to transfer grease. Grease, any grease is very viscous and can't be hand transfered. Your greasegun or any greasegun is nothing but a hydraulic cylinder pushing grease instead of hydraulic fluid. It take a lot of mechanical advantage to mover grease.

 

[lhansman]

I have the Lincoln 14.4 electric grease gun and I love it. I was OK with greasing my B26 with hand grease guns but I hated changing tubes with a hand gun because of the priming process. All that pumping every time I changed tubes to finally get the grease from the new tube flowing out the end of the hose. With the electric gun I just insert the new tube, switch the Lincoln from low speed to high and hold the trigger for 10 - 15 seconds and the grease is flowing from the new tube.

I find with all the zerks on the B26 a tube only lasts 2 - 3 greasings which is an equivalent number of days (at 10 hour intervals) and changing tubes manually was too much of a PITA for me!

I used to use Mobil 1 synthetic grease but have switched to Quaker State synthetic and I have found them both to be good lubes. The Quaker State is easier to find in my area and it comes in plastic tubes rather than the Mobil 1 cardboard ones which I find stand up better in the back of a truck.

 

[daman1]

I shove 500+ tubes through my Lincoln each year,great gun.

 

[Artisan]

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OK, here is the lincoln one hand squeeze grease gun with a hose and a needletip end instead of barrell grease end. Just line the needle tip grease end with the hole in the middle of the zerk and press in. You will feel the spring depress then give the grease gun a couple of hand squeeze pumps with one hand while holding needletip tightly against zerk. I did my whole TLB with this set up and I could get at every zerk. As some of us know backhoes and FEL's have lots of zerks.

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Ah HA! Now I get your drift... THANK YOU! That very well could be a "Speed Tip" . I ordered a Lincoln 1134, should have it in a couple of days. We will see how much of a pita it is, or is not.

 

[moored4]

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! .

You asked the $$$$ Question on which everyone has a thought!! And their thought is the right one!

Here's my 2 cents worth!! I have worked in manufacturing mills all my life and lived on a farm/ranch all ways and have used all the major brand lubricants! 15 years ago our mill switched to a 'new' grease and oil and it out preformed all of the major brands! So Keep you Royal purple and use it! :thumbsup:

 

[sweep]

I'm tired of dragging air hose around my tractor with a gun bound to fail. I'm convinced now that air grease guns are not likely to last. I bought a single handed squeeze grease gun by Lincoln and had it about a year.

It's not just the air powered guns but the regular guns that no longer last. I have gone through one Plew and another off brand-both lasted about a year or so .


Picked up an old grease gun out of the 50-'s or 60's at a garage sale for 50 cents 3 years ago and still working great.

Nothing today last. Wife bought a new Hoover. Lasted 14 months before the gears ate throught the plastic housing. Went back to using the old 1970's Hoover my parenys gave me after I moved out in the 1980's. Actually there was nothing wrong with it but the wife thought it was too heavy to push around.

Maybe the "heavyness" is why it still works after 35+ years.

 

[5030]

It's not just the air powered guns but the regular guns that no longer last. I have gone through one Plew and another off brand-both lasted about a year or so .


Picked up an old grease gun out of the 50-'s or 60's at a garage sale for 50 cents 3 years ago and still working great.

Nothing today last. Wife bought a new Hoover. Lasted 14 months before the gears ate throught the plastic housing. Went back to using the old 1970's Hoover my parenys gave me after I moved out in the 1980's. Actually there was nothing wrong with it but the wife thought it was too heavy to push around.

Maybe the "heavyness" is why it still works after 35+ years.

Most likely. I've had my American made air grease gun for at least 10 years and other than the paint getting chipped off, it's flawless and I use it a lot.

Far as 'dragging a hose around', I never see any problem with that or reeling out a hundred feet of Parker grease hose if need be. Air hose/grease hose isn't all that heavy or cumbersome but then I'm not sedentary, maybe you are.....

 

[Artisan]

You asked the $$$$ Question on which everyone has a thought!! And their thought is the right one!

Here's my 2 cents worth!! I have worked in manufacturing mills all my life and lived on a farm/ranch all ways and have used all the major brand lubricants! 15 years ago our mill switched to a 'new' grease and oil and it out preformed all of the major brands! So Keep you Royal purple and use it! :thumbsup:

Royal Purple it is! Ok so ROYAL PURPLE IS THE BEST! :laughing:

 

[5030]

I shove 500+ tubes through my Lincoln each year,great gun.

That is a lot of tubes, a lot of landfill crap and a lot of time loading and unloading.

You asked the $$$$ Question on which everyone has a thought!! And their thought is the right one!

Here's my 2 cents worth!! I have worked in manufacturing mills all my life and lived on a farm/ranch all ways and have used all the major brand lubricants! 15 years ago our mill switched to a 'new' grease and oil and it out preformed all of the major brands! So Keep you Royal purple and use it! :thumbsup:

Oil and greas opinions are like sphincters. Everyone has one and most stink.

 

[moored4]

Royal Purple it is! Ok so ROYAL PURPLE IS THE BEST! :laughing:

Best ? ? ? ? It's a matter of opinion! I seen it prove it self but there are a LOT of good Lubricants out!! THEY will do the job! Just use one of the top Quality brands!

 

[Ledge End]

Hello Everyone

Earlier this year I went out and bought a grease gun and the grease which was next to it on the shelf. My thought was that all grease is pretty much the same and all I really need to do is "just grease it". After talking to a few equipment operators I have come to the conclusion that there is more to grease than I originally thought.

The first grease I bought has molly added to it. As I understand it now, molly should be used in applications such as load pins or other slow moving contact areas. The molly component builds up a film and protects the metals when contact occurs. This is a bad thing for high speed bearings where tighter tolerances require no build up.

Therefore I think 2 grease types and 2 grease guns are in my future.

It seems also that grease can be made with many different "bases" which can not always be mixed. This means that whatever I buy I want to be able to buy again in 6 months and know that it is exactly the same. My only interest in brand is that it is available consistently. Also, it seems that for the amount I will use compared to the value of my equipment I can pretty much ignore price per tube issues.

I could use some input on what "type" of grease to focus on for use in bearings (mower deck, etc).

 

[Scooby074]

Ah HA! Now I get your drift... THANK YOU! That very well could be a "Speed Tip" . I ordered a Lincoln 1134, should have it in a couple of days. We will see how much of a pita it is, or is not.

good call on the 1134. :thumbsup: It'll serve you well.

 

[PapaPerk]

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

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I have the Lincoln manual gun. Works well. You certainly one this type with a flexible hose. 3 handed operations just don't work. :laughing:

 

[Willl]

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I have the Lincoln manual gun. Works well. You certainly one this type with a flexible hose. 3 handed operations just don't work. :laughing:

Double ditto, ditto.

And to make this operation even better, double the length of your hose.

 

[crazyal]

If you don't mind spending the money buy a cordless grease gun. I think I would try the Milwaukee over the Lincoln myself as I like the design better. Greasing is not a fun job to most. At least with the cordless you'll be more willing to grease as often as you should.