jcummins
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- Creal Springs, IL
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- Kubota M7040, F3680, Mule Pro Fxt
It's not greasing....although that is a pita.....it's refilling the grease gun, THEN MAKING IT WORK AGAIN.
Many years ago after going through endless issues with grease guns ( some of them sailing across my work area) I thought I discovered what the problem was. The plunger doesn't insert well into the cartridge, and gets hung up on the edge of the cartridge. I changed the way I load the gun and it helped a lot.
Now today, both of my grease guns out of grease. The one I use 95% of the time is the pistol grip one in the picture below. I made sure the plunger was completely inside the cardboard grease container, but try as I might, I could not get grease to pump. I purged the air lock thingamajig....even took it off, and grease came spurting out. I finally loaded a new cartridge in the lever grease gun, and although it to was balky, I finished the job with it.
I inverted the pistol grip gun, and slammed the top down repeated on a vise, trying to force grease into the plunger system. I'd get a little spurt out of the gun, then it would stop again. In the past this pretty much work, provided the internal plunder was properly inside the cartridge, and I'm certain it was.
Given the age we live in, surely there's a better way. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Seems there is endless threads on here with others having issues with grease guns....but I've yet to read a working solution.
Many years ago after going through endless issues with grease guns ( some of them sailing across my work area) I thought I discovered what the problem was. The plunger doesn't insert well into the cartridge, and gets hung up on the edge of the cartridge. I changed the way I load the gun and it helped a lot.
Now today, both of my grease guns out of grease. The one I use 95% of the time is the pistol grip one in the picture below. I made sure the plunger was completely inside the cardboard grease container, but try as I might, I could not get grease to pump. I purged the air lock thingamajig....even took it off, and grease came spurting out. I finally loaded a new cartridge in the lever grease gun, and although it to was balky, I finished the job with it.
I inverted the pistol grip gun, and slammed the top down repeated on a vise, trying to force grease into the plunger system. I'd get a little spurt out of the gun, then it would stop again. In the past this pretty much work, provided the internal plunder was properly inside the cartridge, and I'm certain it was.
Given the age we live in, surely there's a better way. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Seems there is endless threads on here with others having issues with grease guns....but I've yet to read a working solution.