Oil & Fuel When I get rich like Jay Leno

[lennyzx11]

What’s the big deal? I use 15-20 tubes per month and maybe twice a year have an issue. Don’t use cheap grease guns and you’ll never have a problem

It’s a Milwaukee fuel 18v and a Dewalt 20 volt. Sure didn’t think they were cheap when I bought them.
Thanks for the advice.

 

[RookieWelder]

I just upgraded from a manual gun to the Dewalt 20 volt gun earlier this year. I am SO grateful to the guy who put a video up on YouTube that shows the easy way to replace a cartridge in it. After pulling back the handle (which is VERY hard to pull, but maybe I'm just getting old), you don't unscrew the cap. Rather, unscrew the entire silver sleeve from the gun. Slide out the empty cartridge, slide in a new one, screw the sleeve back in, release the handle and Bob's your uncle.

Before watching the video, I struggled with getting the cap screwed back on. The spring would NOT stay compressed back neatly, so it made for a real battle to get the cap back on properly.

 

[pinetree10]

When I get rich like Jay Leno,
I am going to hire someone I really don’t like full time staff 24/7/365 and make them change the cartridges in my d—- grease guns.
What started out to be a quick grease of the quick attach pins this morning turned into a 2 hour ordeal involving two cordless grease guns, a manual one, 5000 paper towels, grease in my nose, and really coming close for the first time in throwing a tantrum for all to see!!!
Lenny

Just went through the same thing. Got through all but one fitting and ran out of grease. Replaced the cartridge and couldn't get rid of the air lock. Went through more than a few rags and cycles of taking it all apart and putting it back together again.

 

[JWR]

I gladly am not into much volume of greasing. Mostly retired and cleaning up the old farm & maint a vacation place in mountains are about it. Soooo, even I get pizzed about the old never-the-same-twice but always ooze grease guns with plungers. I splurged for my birthday last year and picked up one
of those German cartridge guns. Thing of beauty -- absolutely no mess ever. Cartridges unscrew and new one screws back in. No grease on anything unintended. That combined with the overpriced lock-n-lube connector on the hose and it is hard to go wrong. Pricey guns and carts but oh so nice.

 

[Little Red Tractor]

Greasing is the worst part of preventive maintenance. Between the grease cartridges--and yes, I'm old enought to have done it by hand--and frozen-up zerk fittings, along with a few other odds and ends that crop on occasion, I HATE IT!

 

[dodge man]

I’ve always had trouble getting a manual grease gun started with a new cartridge. Never a problem with my Dewalt 18 volt

 

[RolandW]

I gladly am not into much volume of greasing. Mostly retired and cleaning up the old farm & maint a vacation place in mountains are about it. Soooo, even I get pizzed about the old never-the-same-twice but always ooze grease guns with plungers. I splurged for my birthday last year and picked up one
of those German cartridge guns. Thing of beauty -- absolutely no mess ever. Cartridges unscrew and new one screws back in. No grease on anything unintended. That combined with the overpriced lock-n-lube connector on the hose and it is hard to go wrong. Pricey guns and carts but oh so nice.

Is that an AirTec Lube-Shuttle? Btw, I bought a Lock-n-lube and I don't like it. It's so long that I can't get it on some fittings, and having to manipulate the release lever makes it useless when a fitting is hard to get to. Plus it still doesn't seal up all that great when a lot of pressure is applied. I changed back to the old one.

 

[JWR]

Is that an AirTec Lube-Shuttle? Btw, I bought a Lock-n-lube and I don't like it. It's so long that I can't get it on some fittings, and having to manipulate the release lever makes it useless when a fitting is hard to get to. Plus it still doesn't seal up all that great when a lot of pressure is applied. I changed back to the old one.

Yes, Air-Tec. Very happy with it (other than the price.) I predict that this type of cartridge gun will take over most of the hand-held grease gun market in the next few years. Once it does the price will dive. True, the lock-n-lube is not the best for tight spots but it is the difference between squirting grease all over the place 40% of the time and zero leaks once I get it on the zerk. I keep an old one around but rarely use anything but the lock-n-lube.

 

[RolandW]

Yes, Air-Tec. Very happy with it (other than the price.) I predict that this type of cartridge gun will take over most of the hand-held grease gun market in the next few years. Once it does the price will dive. True, the lock-n-lube is not the best for tight spots but it is the difference between squirting grease all over the place 40% of the time and zero leaks once I get it on the zerk. I keep an old one around but rarely use anything but the lock-n-lube.

Thanks, JWR. Yeah, the LnL definitely is nice a lot of the time. What grease(s) do you use?

 

[IndyJay]

Thanks, JWR. Yeah, the LnL definitely is nice a lot of the time.
What grease(s) do you use?

The Air-Tec has Lithium batteries so obviously...