npalen
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Just a little trivia here. Who calls 'em grease zerks and who calls them grease zerts? And why?
Is IT a ZerT Or a ZerK?
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Zerk, cause that's the inventor's name.
From:
Oscar Ulysses Zerk (Oskar Zerkowitz) (1878 - 1968) - Genealogy
"Oskar Zerkowitz emigrated to the United States and changed his name to "Oscar Ulysses Zerk". He was also known as "Oscar V. Zerk". He became a world-famous inventor and one of his most prominent creations was a grease fitting known as "the zerk". This was a lubrication system which became the basis for those used on nearly every car, truck, plane, and other mechanized vehicle. At the time of his death in 1968, it was estimated that 20 billion of these fittings had been manufactured."
Bruce
From:
Oscar Ulysses Zerk (Oskar Zerkowitz) (1878 - 1968) - Genealogy
"Oskar Zerkowitz emigrated to the United States and changed his name to "Oscar Ulysses Zerk". He was also known as "Oscar V. Zerk". He became a world-famous inventor and one of his most prominent creations was a grease fitting known as "the zerk". This was a lubrication system which became the basis for those used on nearly every car, truck, plane, and other mechanized vehicle. At the time of his death in 1968, it was estimated that 20 billion of these fittings had been manufactured."
Bruce
And the air stem on your brush hog is a shreader Schraeder valve. If you run water driven equipment its hydrolic and if its petrol based, its hydraulic. Likewise for wheel barrel, Febuary, Chevalet and nucular bombs.
Try to remember this when you are entering your personal PIN number at the automatic teller ATM machine. Make a copy of it into an Adobe PDF file.
Try to remember this when you are entering your personal PIN number at the automatic teller ATM machine. Make a copy of it into an Adobe PDF file.
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I asked a similar question on TBN about the same topic, only mine was regarding Political Correctness as I'd only ever referred to them as a Grease Nipple. This was the only place that I'd heard the term 'zerk'.
Quite often a ball point pen is called a 'biro'... in reference to the inventors name.
Quite often a ball point pen is called a 'biro'... in reference to the inventors name.
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When I was a little kid our relatives from Oklahoma visited. My Aunt said Richard will you go out to the car and get my bag out of the turtle? I had no idea what she was talking about........ 
I'm sure Wagtail can leave us all in the dust with his slang.
If he'd come visit I'd take him a ride in my old Jeep. We'd even peel out on the highway.
I'm sure Wagtail can leave us all in the dust with his slang.
If he'd come visit I'd take him a ride in my old Jeep. We'd even peel out on the highway.
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When I was a little kid our relatives from Oklahoma visited. My Aunt said Richard will you go out to the car and get my bag out of the turtle? I had no idea what she was talking about........
I'm sure Wagtail can leave us all in the dust with his slang.
If he'd come visit I'd take him a ride in my old Jeep. We'd even peel out on the highway.
I'd love to go for a hoon in your paddock basher. :thumbsup:
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npalen
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So where did "Zert" come from?
Urban Dictionary: zert
Urban Dictionary: zert
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