Grease Guns

[Artisan]

ALL GREAT INFO! Thank YOU!

Scooby do you have that clear thang? I dunno...Seems like it would not be so clear after a few hours in the sun and droppin it near the pigpen...


Save on blastin' ? :laughing: Naw, I never knew what I was missing till I bought a glass bead blaster. You live in a whole new world once you realize how effin good of a job it does, the time it saves and the money it saves not replacing some things that get wasted / rusted. You can take a 50 year old pipe wrench buried and make it look new less rust pitting...EVERYONE needs a glass bead blaster. There is a place close ot me that makes good units, not made in China, made in the USofA...

 

[Scooby074]

ALL GREAT INFO! Thank YOU!

Scooby do you have that clear thang? I dunno...Seems like it would not be so clear after a few hours in the sun and droppin it near the pigpen...


Save on blastin' ? :laughing: Naw, I never knew what I was missing till I bought a glass bead blaster. You live in a whole new world once you realize how effin good of a job it does, the time it saves and the money it saves not replacing some things that get wasted / rusted. You can take a 50 year old pipe wrench buried and make it look new less rust pitting...EVERYONE needs a glass bead blaster. There is a place close ot me that makes good units, not made in China, made in the USofA...

Nope, i dont have the clear one... Its more money:thumbsup: And i dont see the benefit if your using a single type of grease. If you had several types, the clear barrel would let you see the carterage thats in the tube.

+1 on the blaster. I love my blast cab.

 

[rimshot]

I'm tired of dragging air hose around my tractor with a gun bound to fail. I'm convinced now that air grease guns are not likely to last. I bought a single handed squeeze grease gun by Lincoln and had it about a year. It actuallly completely can grease by tractor loader backhoe without the need to stop and spend countless hours trying to get those air powered guns to work.

Here's another tip. Don't you just hate those stupid grease gun end couplings won't release from the zerk. I have tried loosening the barrel and they still remove stubbornly. Get yourself a nice long flexible hose and put on a needle tip. It just takes a minute to get used to hitting the little spring release with the needle tip . You can tell when it's centered because it wont slip. You can feel the gun have the needle buried in the little spring hole stop in the center of the zerk. A couple squeezes while holding the zerk and tip together and away you go to the next zerk. You are not playing tug of war with the tractor trying to get your gun back.

Works for me and those single handed blue barrel Lincolns ar only $20-30.

good luck

 

[Artisan]

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Here's another tip. Don't you just hate those stupid grease gun end couplings won't release from the zerk. I have tried loosening the barrel and they still remove stubbornly. Get yourself a nice long flexible hose and put on a needle tip. It just takes a minute to get used to hitting the little spring release with the needle tip . You can tell when it's centered because it wont slip. You can feel the gun have the needle buried in the little spring hole stop in the center of the zerk. A couple squeezes while holding the zerk and tip together and away you go to the next zerk. You are not playing tug of war with the tractor trying to get your gun back.

Works for me and those single handed blue barrel Lincolns ar only $20-30.

good luck

Well...if you have a picture or 3 post it up, I am to much a newb to follow your line of thought here... Thanx Though!

 

[rimshot]

Well...if you have a picture or 3 post it up, I am to much a newb to follow your line of thought here... Thanx Though!

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OK, here is the lincoln one hand squeeze grease gun with a hose and a needletip end instead of barrell grease end. Just line the needle tip grease end with the hole in the middle of the zerk and press in. You will feel the spring depress then give the grease gun a couple of hand squeeze pumps with one hand while holding needletip tightly against zerk. I did my whole TLB with this set up and I could get at every zerk. As some of us know backhoes and FEL's have lots of zerks.

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[5030]

Ah HA! OK...THANK YOU! But I gotta ask, what flavor grease are you using? I want the best...I was thinking, I think I have a half dozen tubes of Royal Purple out back in storage, prob 6 years old or so. I need to pick a grease and it sounds like you know EXACTLY what yer talkin' bout . I appreciate the input!

...and there is merit in your bulk loading procedures...I will look into the same deal on a small scale perhaps, maybe a 5 gallon can and a hand pump transfer? Maybe they make that kinda deal. Time will tell how much and how often I am using this machine and weather or not I need to do that.

I'm not getting into a best grease or lubricant discussion. I operate in a commercial/agricultrial enviroment so I've fiddled with greases and oils and found what is best for me, probably isn't the best for you, other than stay away from cheap clay based greases and cheapo motor oil.

you can't bulk load grease with a hand pump unless you are related to Charles Atlas. You need to have a grease pump to transfer grease. Grease, any grease is very viscous and can't be hand transfered. Your greasegun or any greasegun is nothing but a hydraulic cylinder pushing grease instead of hydraulic fluid. It take a lot of mechanical advantage to mover grease.

 

[lhansman]

I have the Lincoln 14.4 electric grease gun and I love it. I was OK with greasing my B26 with hand grease guns but I hated changing tubes with a hand gun because of the priming process. All that pumping every time I changed tubes to finally get the grease from the new tube flowing out the end of the hose. With the electric gun I just insert the new tube, switch the Lincoln from low speed to high and hold the trigger for 10 - 15 seconds and the grease is flowing from the new tube.

I find with all the zerks on the B26 a tube only lasts 2 - 3 greasings which is an equivalent number of days (at 10 hour intervals) and changing tubes manually was too much of a PITA for me!

I used to use Mobil 1 synthetic grease but have switched to Quaker State synthetic and I have found them both to be good lubes. The Quaker State is easier to find in my area and it comes in plastic tubes rather than the Mobil 1 cardboard ones which I find stand up better in the back of a truck.

 

[daman1]

I shove 500+ tubes through my Lincoln each year,great gun.

 

[Artisan]

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OK, here is the lincoln one hand squeeze grease gun with a hose and a needletip end instead of barrell grease end. Just line the needle tip grease end with the hole in the middle of the zerk and press in. You will feel the spring depress then give the grease gun a couple of hand squeeze pumps with one hand while holding needletip tightly against zerk. I did my whole TLB with this set up and I could get at every zerk. As some of us know backhoes and FEL's have lots of zerks.

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Ah HA! Now I get your drift... THANK YOU! That very well could be a "Speed Tip" . I ordered a Lincoln 1134, should have it in a couple of days. We will see how much of a pita it is, or is not.

 

[moored4]

Ah HA! OK...THANK YOU! But I gotta ask, what flavor grease are you using? I want the best...I was thinking, I think I have a half dozen tubes of Royal Purple out back in storage, prob 6 years old or so. I need to pick a grease and it sounds like you know EXACTLY what yer talkin' bout . I appreciate the input! .

You asked the $$$$ Question on which everyone has a thought!! And their thought is the right one!

Here's my 2 cents worth!! I have worked in manufacturing mills all my life and lived on a farm/ranch all ways and have used all the major brand lubricants! 15 years ago our mill switched to a 'new' grease and oil and it out preformed all of the major brands! So Keep you Royal purple and use it! :thumbsup: