Grease Gun Recommendations

[GeneV]

Yesterday I ordered a manual pistol grip, an alemite 555e. It's got a dual mode, pressure or volume, sounds like a pretty nice feature. I really like my pneumatic lincoln 1162, but my massey has been working out back for a while now, no electricity back there hence no compressor.

 

[two_bit_score]

Yesterday I ordered a manual pistol grip, an alemite 555e. It's got a dual mode, pressure or volume, sounds like a pretty nice feature. I really like my pneumatic lincoln 1162, but my massey has been working out back for a while now, no electricity back there hence no compressor.

Battery Dewalt and Milwaukee

 

[GeneV]

Mmm...no.

 

[PILOON]

Well I like mine because the price was right.

Friend had a 12 volt Lincoln that he 'garage sale' found and bought a new battery for it ($60.)
Well he must have needed money as he said $25.00 and it's yours.

Guess he never even used it as the grease in it was so caked up and dry that I had to pry it out.

Now all cleaned up with new tube of grease it is a charm to lube my CUT.

 

[carle990]

even if it is the most expensive you have to buy the best one because later the damage can be worse

 

[Cat_Driver]

With as often as tractors and equipment need grease why would anyone nowadays still buy a hand pump grease gun?
When I do my greasing I run through 5-8 tubes of grease. My hand would be killing pumping it that many times each grease run.

I bought a quality battery-operated in 2005 and it's still running strong as of yesterday and still on the original battery. I remember I paid a pretty penny for it in 2005, but now looking back it was a great investment.

 

[lilranch2001]

:thumbsup:

 

[crazyal]

Slightly off topic but I would suggest getting a box of cheap disposable vinyl or latex gloves. I keep about a dozen in the plastic case with my Milwaukee grease gun and just turn them inside out when I remove them. Between removing dirty grease from the fittings and the extra grease from lubing it just makes life nicer. If I was going to buy a grease gun I wouldn't get one unless it came with a plastic case. Unlike cordless drills that almost never get back in the case the plastic case for a grease gun keeps the tip from getting grease on everything it touches.

 

[lilranch2001]

I just bought a large plastic tub from wallyworld with a lid, and keep all my greasing tools and tube together on a shelf

 

[GeneV]

With as often as tractors and equipment need grease why would anyone nowadays still buy a hand pump grease gun?
When I do my greasing I run through 5-8 tubes of grease. My hand would be killing pumping it that many times each grease run...

Well if you got that much equipment to hit, yeh a manual gun would be stupid. Me, I've used my alemite pistol grip gun for the second time the other day, it was perfectly fine. Actually I stumbled on zirk that was not taking grease, I would not have even known about it if I was using my lincoln pneumatic gun.

This is first time I could say that TBN steered me wrong into initially getting a powered grease gun, hindsight I would have skipped it and went right to the alemite, it's great.

Here's the one I got, came with a lockNlube and the hose swivels as well: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077Q2H4RW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1