WOW! 11 pages on grease gun nipples and knurled tips, etc. IMPRESSIVE!
I must admit that even though I owned and ran a foreign car shop for more than ten years we didn't have to grease a lot of fittings- mostly because most cars no longer have grease fittings.
So when I got my first tractor I had to break out the old grease gun and it took me forEVER to grease the tractor! What a pain and time consuming too.
I thought, I'd better find a quicker way to do this job or its not going to get done very often. I had some trouble with some zerks, and couldn't get the end to release and did what everyone else did; cursed a lot, yanked and pulled and pried, etc. Then I got a pistol type gun because I hate the lever type for all the same reasons as mentioned. I had some trouble with it too and thought maybe I was doing something wrong. So I took some time to investigate. I found the hose end had flats for a wrench to attach and the tip was knurled so I took to dismantling the end. Low and behold I found one of the guns tips had a jaw that was upside down and therefore wouldn't work properly. So I fumbled with it until I thought it was right based on the other tip, and then I had the brilliant idea that maybe it was meant to be adjusted loose or tighter depending on the zerk fit.
Low and behold I was onto something! A genius I concluded I must be!
But dam med if I was 'gonna share my newly discovered idea with the rest of the world, so I bought out the printing company that used to write the grease gun instructions and ordered a bunch of cheap toilet paper and started printing the NEW instructions that NEVER include anything about twisting the tip!:laughing:
The rest is history- suckers!!
Moral of the story: NEVER look at the directions! Its like staring into the sun.
If it went together it must be able to come apart; unless its made in Taiwan, China, Mexico, Ubeakistan, Freakistan, or anywhere near yur ****.
If you think its a piece of junk and poorly designed by idiots it IS: refer to " if it went together above..."
If all else fails, then you're done- go home.:laughing: