suggestions for automatic grease gun

[Builder]

I've got hundreds of grease fittings just nagging at me all the time.

Of course I have the manual $15 grease gun. I tried the air compressor type from the auto parts store, never couldn't get it to work right.

have any of you found something really tricked out that dispenses grease and gets to the tough spots that's battery operated that makes greasing somewhat more glamorous than the mess I have now?

The Lincoln power luber looks nice. Anyone got one?

 

[Bird]

I don't have one of the Lincolns myself, but when my brother was a Matco Tool distributor, he sold several to mechanics who did service calls in the field and said he never had a complaint.

 

[Dargo]

At one time I sold grease to some companies around me like the coal mines and a few construction companies. They'd buy thousands of tubes at a time besides the usual quarter barrels they'd use at their shops. In the field they all used Lincoln battery powered grease guns. Since they all said that they liked the battery powered guns really well so last year I decided that I'd buy myself a battery powered grease gun. First I bought one at Harbor Fright. It didn't work nor did the replacement I got when I took it back. I almost made the same mistake and try one of the $49 guns from Rural King until I heard that they were just as bad. I ended up getting the 14.4 volt Lincoln gun and it works great. I can go through about a case of grease on one charge. I say that because if I were going to buy one again I'd not spend the money on a spare battery. One battery is fine. The only reason I'd see needing a spare battery is if you were out in the field and had a dead battery. Still, I think I could limp through the rest of that day with the old manual grease gun. The Lincoln guns are not cheap, but the cheap ones were junk. Even if the store will continually replace the junk grease guns under warranty, my time is worth more to me than wasting it taking junk grease guns back to have them replaced.

 

[DieselPower]

tYou could alway's install a auto luber. You would never need your grease gun again. Basically they are a grease pump that you install on the unit that has a grease sump. At user controlled dispenses grease to all the fittings you have plumbed into the system. They make them for exterior use on equipment like tractors/ag equipment and even trucks along with units for industrial equipment.

If this is what you are talking about I have seen the Lincoln and also Bijur auto lubers before and yes they do work very well. One large farm I sell grease to has them installed on their combines and larger tractors. There are also a couple of OTR trucking companies around here that use them on their road tractors (as in 18 wheeler's). About 3 or 4 times a year they fill the grease sump on the unit and it does the rest. There are a couple of manufacturers on the market.

You can get anything from the 12 VDC powered ones that will lube a entire piece of equipment to small spring loaded units that will do one grease fitting. You can also get a centralized type that plumbs multiple fittings to one central location and grease fitting.

The short answer is yes, they do work and they are actually very common in industrial plants where access to some grease fitting's is next to near impossible.

Bijur Automatic Grease Pumps
http://www.lubesite.com/pages/Lubeproducts/SureShot.htm
Lincoln Industrial Automatic lubrication systems, lubricating equipment, grease guns, and pumps.
Single-Point Lubricators - Alemite

 

[Builder]

I'd love to have something like that on my backhoe. Looks spendy.

I was more referring to a battery operated "hand" grease gun.

 

[glmf]

I must of got lucky for once, my Harbor Freight pneumatic grease gun has been trouble free and works fine,,keeping my fingers crossed!

 

[MikePA]

The Lincoln power luber looks nice. Anyone got one?

I have the Lincoln. As Dargo said, they work great.

 

[Builder]

I just ordered one. Went whole-hog and got the 2x batteries and the 12V charger for the backhoe.


Looks like it'll be lots more fun & smiles than the old arm-pumpers I have.

 

[Dargo]

Which brand?

 

[Builder]

Which brand?

I got the Lincoln. It was more expensive, but Lincoln's been around a long time and builds some nice stuff. It's less likely to be Chinese made junk. (I hope)

I also really like the Navigator and the Mark IV. I hope to own one of those cars from Lincoln, too.