power grease guns

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( thing I like about the craftsman is the continous feed it has )</font>

50 years ago, that's the way the ones worked in my dad's service stations, but of course they were also pumping grease from a 25 gallon can. The one I used at my place was made by Alemite and I bought it from Tractor Supply Co. for less than $30. It only gave one shot per trigger pull but it always worked well.

 

[oldgoat2]

We have a couple Lincoln's and have no complaints. The battery always lasts for 2 tubes of greese. Sometimes if none of the zerks are tight, you can barely get a third tube.

 

[AB4D]

Daryl and Eddie,

Thanks for the information and advice. I went to Sears today but they didn't have the Lincoln air gun in stock. Furthermore, I couldn't find my sales reciept, therefore Sears only offered to give me another pro grease gun instead of credit. I agreed to the exchange because when the Craftsman pro gun works, it works really well. Hopefully, this gun will work correctly. I have been using Castrol Pyroplex Blue NLGI#2, but I think I will try a different brand (possibly Kubota OEM) to see if the gun works any better.

Jim

 

[5030]

AB4D:

I might add that I also have an air hand grease gun and a lever gun because I only have 30 feet of hose on my bulk greaser but I don't buy tubes of grease. Both of my hand guns have a zerk on top and I bulk load them from the big greaser. Before the bulk greaser and the parting of about $500.00 for it, I used grease in tubes and I always got air in the top of the gun after changing tubes and thus, no grease. I got tired of that so I went out and got the bulk greaser and now no air. I know that sounds strange to spend $500.00 to eliminate the air lock but there is nothing more irritating than getting a fresh tube in the gun, trying to grease something only to be pumping air and no grease and then having to almost completely unscrew the top of the gun to purge the air without having the top come off and the follower plate/spring pushing grease out and all over your shirt, jacket or whatever.

A air operated bulk greaser develops way more pressure than any lever or hand air operated gun can. My 60-1 grease pump develops in the excess of 15,000psi at the business end and I have never had a problem with a plugged fitting, it blows the hard grease right out.

The other nice thing about a bulk greaser is price. I know a $500.00 grease setup seems pricey, but, grease is substantially cheaper when you buy it in a 150 pound drum or a 5 gallon pail. Besides, there is no mess, the grease stays inside the grease guns where it belongs and not on your clothes or hands and that makes my wife happy. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I'm not advocating buying a setup like I have, but you guys can stop by the farm anytime and fiddle with my unit. You will be impressed and will come away with clean hands and no grease on your clothes. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I may even let you run one of the big tractors too.

 

[GaryE]

Last year I bought one at NAPA. Has yet to let me down.

Good luck,

Gary

 

[Toolguy]

From my experience with air power grease guns I have found that when they don't work it is because the spring behind the check ball at the grease outlet is broken or weak. I am talking about the fitting where the grease hose or pipe is screwed into the head of the gun. When you remove the fitting there is a tapered coil spring that pushs on a ball. This is the one-way check valve that only allows grease to go out of the gun. When the spring breaks or gets weak it allows grease to go backwards in the head on the reverse stroke of the piston. If the grease comes back into the head then no grease is drawn from the tube so no grease is pumped out. If the spring is not broken you can try to stretch it out a little, but if it is broken you are out of luck. I have never been able to find those tapered coil springs anywhere and have thrown away several guns because without it they do not work. You would think the grease gun manufacturers would make them available, but I can't get them and I have a few connections.

The Lincoln electric guns are very good with a good warranty. However, the air powered ones are so-so and the warranty is that if it breaks you must have broke it so tough luck. I will never buy another non-electric lincoln grease gun. Even the hand pump ones are poor quality IMHO.

 

[trlong]

$160 just to save my hand and forearm a little work for 25 - 40 zerks, depending on what attachments are on??? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

However, having read all the posts and now not feeling quite so bad to frequently run into airlock when changing tubes, I can handle the manual pumping but the airlock frustration might be worth the money to avoid! Let's see, which comes first...Christmas or my birthday? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[dmartin88]

I bought a pneumatic grease gun on "clearance" from my TSC for $9.47 this weekend, used it for the first time this weekend on my BX22 and Bobcat grapple and worked fine- don't know how long it will hold up but a good price. Also got a 1/2" impact wrench for the same price, it seemed to work as well and hopefully will do fine for the 2 times a year I've wished I had one. Good luck.

 

[GaryM]

I have a cheap, $20, pneumatic unit from Cummins Tools. Works fine with the exception of occasional leakage from the air bleed valve at the top. Other than that It's right handy and I'm happy to have it.

 

[KubotaOne]

I'm in the market for an air grease gun as well. Can anyone tell me if this a continuos flow model? Is it junk do you think, or should I spend more?

http://princessauto.com/_osn.cfm?CTRY=CAN&output=OSN&SRCH=1&SRCHAREA=OSN&T1=AIR/MANUAL%20GREASE%20GUN