Good grease gun needed!

[mred2]

When adjusting the front idler on a doze, you pump in grease. It must have high pressure. I have 2 good level guns from John Deere. I am sure that they are no better than most of the good ones, and were not any more expense. I use my Dewalt electric most of the time with lock-n-lube. It works great and save me a lot of time. As I get older, I like things easier.

 

[GeneV]

I'm looking at 7K to 10K PSI guns. I'm not sure what the Atwoods, TSC, WalMart guns are rated at but, they are basically a waste of money for anything other than pulleys in my lawnmower deck. They leak grease and are generally a terrible mess to use.

The LockNLube and Lincoln lever guns are looking good at a 'moderate' cost.

Is this for mainly hitting zirks on a tractor? I got a Lincoln 1162, pneumatic, got it on Amazon for around $70, I have a lock n lube on it. It's worked great for me.

 

[Sid Post]

For my personal use, it is mainly the tractor loader zerks and few on the tractor steering components. For the lawnmower, a simple pistol grip unit works fine.

When I borrow my friend's track loader, it'll get used there too.

 

[ovrszd]

I'm pretty sure I've never owned a lever rigid connector grease gun. I'd be curious what uses would require that?

I use a Dewalt 18V. Have one pistol grip hose gun with a needle fitting hanging on the wall for those couple times a year use. Otherwise it's the Dewalt. I use 30-40 tubes a year.

 

[Sid Post]

I'm pretty sure I've never owned a lever rigid connector grease gun. I'd be curious what uses would require that?

I use a Dewalt 18V. Have one pistol grip hose gun with a needle fitting hanging on the wall for those couple times a year use. Otherwise it's the Dewalt. I use 30-40 tubes a year.

A pistol grip hose grease gun is GREAT for a lawnmower deck and low-pressure fittings in various places.

The rigid neck lever grease guns are really nice on things like disc gangs and hard to reach fittings where you can't really use your hand to place a hose fitting. The rigid lever grease guns are also really good for hard to fill zerks (within reason).

The battery-operated model my friend has works well for him and his track hoe because he needs a lot of grease capacity and has some tough zerks that need high pressure. I find it to be a bit bulky and unwieldy and prefer a good rigid lever gun but, it's not like I'm running 3 or more tubes a day through it either, more like one a week.

 

[Xfaxman]

With a LockNLube you can put a hose on a lever gun.

Started short:

Went 4' long:

The advantage is that I can lock on the zerk, put the gun on my chest, both hands on the lever and pull to get the 10,000 psi output when needed.

 

[Sid Post]

Crescent Tiger myself. Small world sometimes!

Must be a much better hose on that grease gun. The ones I used would 'swell' when I had a hard zerk. On the long one, I'd probably need one tube just for the hose!

 

[Xfaxman]

Yep, small world. We used to live south of Cashion.

Don't remember where I ordered the hose from (probably eBay) but it was rated for high pressure grease guns.

Edit: Checked eBay order history:

It is a swell hose, but it does not swell.

 

[DJ54]

I have an Alemite lever gun my Dad bought new in the late 50's, I still occasionally use, and still works great. It is a pre-cartridge gun, and you have to load it from a bulk bucket. I'm guessing from their new gun prices, hopefully they've kept that type of quality.

 

[Sid Post]

A cartridge grease gun seems like a simple thing but, honestly, after trying some ~$20 ones I guess not, or the manufacturers just don't care about quality.

The 7K~10K PSI grease guns I can understand being relatively pricey like almost anything requiring tight tolerances and better than average manufacturing quality but again, we aren't talking about Blue Origin, Space X, Virgin Galactic or, NASA levels of 'rocket science' either.

I would think a major manufacturing concern should be capable of making a profitable grease gun in the $50 retail range whether in the USA or overseas but, I'm seeing a lot of them in the $100 and up range. On the flip side, a lot of those ~$100 grease guns are probably overkill for most people so, low sales volume supports higher pricing; sort of chicken and egg - if it was $50 they would sell a lot more units but would the gross profit be the same as with a lower number of units with a fatter profit margin?