Grease Fitting Extenders?

[Texasmark]

I have 4 or 5 grease guns and most have #2 Red grease. Some are on a fixed 6" pipe, some on a 10" flexible hose, and one is a combination of both with the pipe adjacent to the zerk end. All get used one way or another and have evolved over time.

 

[DJ54]

Years ago, I made an extension for ny grease gun at work, to grease rollers on a retracting bottom, on a dresser scraper we had rented. The rollers were about 18"- 24" back under the bowl. It was just a 4' stick of 1/8" pipe Dad had laying around. An extra end screwed on the pipe, and as mentioned, a union w/grease fiting on the outward end. Clipped the gun on, and held it where the gun snapped on that fitting, just for those 2 fittings. Still had to lay on the ground to grease them, but back out of harms way, as you had to raise the bowl to grease them.

Might be easier to make something like that, instead of extensionson the machine. I'm not sure what vibration would do to a pipe extension over a period of time, but I'd probably go with a grease gun hose, if that's how you're going to do it.

 

[mred2]

A lot of very large equipment uses remote fitting. Most of the lines are metal with hoses at the points of movement. Some even have automatic systems $$$$$ to grease them. However, operators still forget the replace the grease in the unit. So we still get a lot of repairs due to not greasing.

 

[PILOON]

On, one reason for grease fittings not taking grease is that the lights have dissipated out of the grease.

Reminds me of an electric grease gun that a buddy 'sold' to me ($25), well I discovered why so cheap.
I literally needed to pry the dry grease with a chisel it was so dry and hard.
After an hour's work I had me a nice electric greaser.
OH, and he had purchased a new battery for it.
That was my 'good deal of the day'.