Grease Fittings

[Eagleview]

Just wondering about all the blocked zerk fittings that keep comming up . I wonder if a piece of inner speedo cable or a piece of the outside of a choke cable put into a drill chuck and slowly fed into the grease hole . You would need to "slowly" rotate the drill in the direction that would not unwind the cable . I wonder if the cable would be flexible enough to follow the hole and clean it out . I can feel a patent comming on . Someone may want to try it and let me know , but if it breaks off in the hole do'nt let me know

 

[IslandTractor]

Before I bought a tractor I was blissfully ignorant of life without zerks. I obviously was living in a fool's paradise though I did, on an annual basis, grease up the Craftsman mower. Now I own about 50 or more of the little buggers on the tractor, FEL, BH and various implements. I discover or rediscover new ones occasionally in places I never knew existed. I have come to think of zerks about the same way I think of jerks. Ya just have to learn to live with them though sometimes you need to yank them out of their little holes and blast them with some unpleasant substance to keep them in line. I have learned to hate engineers who place zerks that only a left handed microbe can conveniently access. I have a special voodoo doll for engineers who put zerks in places where they routinely fill up with dirt. I could throttle tractor and implement manual writers/graphic artists who don't bother to publish a complete list and diagram of installed zerks. I wish a painful death on those who place zerks in positions on load bearing pins so that you can only fill the fitting by starting the tractor and removing the load first. Who was the ********* that decided it was a good idea to have about ten different sizes of these things so you never had exactly the right replacement without a special trip to the parts counter? Where is the vocabulary needed to describe to the parts guy exactly which type of zerk you are in search of? I now own a special $40 tool for giving zerks light oil enemas when they become constipated. I've gone from one to five grease guns with about 10 tips and extensions and gizmos in search of the perfect gear to permit a pleasant zerk maintenance program. I'm not there yet. Zen and the art of zerk filling is a goal I have obviously not yet acheived. Zerk nirvana must be out there somewhere. Oooooommmm.

 

[KenGod]

LOL good explanation IslandTractor, let me know when you do get your "pleasant zerk maintenance program" fiqured out.

All the diff size zerks is what Really kills me, dumb, dumb, dumb
Ken

 

[JoelD]

Love the ode to the zerk.

My John Deere Dozer has what are called button zerks, had to drive 30 miles to buy special adapter for my grease gun.

What ever happened to sealed bearings, I had them on my huffy 30 years ago.