Best grease gun?

Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:30 am

I've gone through many grease guns.
Anyone here know of very good examples suitable for a JD350?
Track adjusters especially will sort the good from the bad.
Thanks in advance.

Scottyb · Post by **Scottyb** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 8:06 am

I sure like my electric re chargeable guns. I also bought one that was not expensive, smaller, but only has 2000 psi. As the rollers are best done with a low pressure gun it works just fine. It has the small grease tubes however but, I just fill them with the full size gun.
It is nice to be able to pump grease with just a pull on a trigger. I added a extension to the nozzle of the full size gun and it sure is easy to work with this way.

KenP · Post by **KenP** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:18 am

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Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:51 pm

Ken-

It's the ~8Kpsi
What brand of grease guns (manual and electric) are you fellows running?
FWIW, what grease are you running?

Thanks!

jtrichard · Post by **jtrichard** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:41 pm

if the cheapest grease gun made wont move your track adjusters then you have some other issues

Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:03 pm

Richard

The cheapest grease gun might move them today, but will it still be functional next week or next month or next year..?

Scottyb · Post by **Scottyb** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:16 pm

For me with my electric, I bought the brand that matched the drill, impact, and all the other tools I have that all use the same battery and chargers.
The small low pressure one I have is a cheap no name on sale item. I use it the most because it is small and light and I just like it. I have gone through dozens of refills and re charges and it still works fine. When it gives up I will just buy another, because I like it. one more plus, It always primes itself in just a few cycles of the pump. Some hand guns drive me crazy every time you change a refill. I toss them out.

KenP · Post by **KenP** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:21 am

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Scottyb · Post by **Scottyb** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:05 am

My equipment is spread out over at least five locations, home, cabin, three business and then often on projects or other places helping friends or family. I try to keep a gun at each place, that way if I am driving my car, van, or bike, and not driving my truck with my tools, I will never be caught without grease. They go missing, get run over, borrowed or on occasion break. Cheap replacements are easy to buy but are also the reason some give troubles. The electric ones travel with my truck that I drive at least half of the time. Often I will keep a gun on the equipment that I am using at the time and always on anything that is being used by someone else. I would buy at least one gun a year just to replace the ones that need it. I also keep a gun with food grade grease in it for meat slicers, grinders and other food equipment in my business.
So it looks like it is guys like Tinker and me that keep the grease gun sales guys in business.

Scottyb · Post by **Scottyb** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:24 am

I also carry in my truck a very nice assortment of grease nipples of different sizes and styles. In the box I also have a old dental pick that gets used for
unplugging nipples that wont accept grease.

digitup2 · Post by **digitup2** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:01 pm

We have several cordless units and hundreds of hand pump guns we replace them on quite a regular basis around this place it seams I gave up buying cheap grease guns though they just don't last we always keep several specialty guns around the shop for different applications of different grease than the normal or extra high pressure applications A good cordless is handy if you have put in a days work and don't feel like hand pumping But if the battery dies you aren't going to give the machine much of a lube like that so keep a good old hand pump or pistol grip handy as well just in case your battery power dies .Digitup.

JWB Contracting · Post by **JWB Contracting** » Sat Apr 13, 2013 1:41 pm

I sure like our cordless 12V Milwaukee grease gun. We normally just use it for pickups but not our working fleet.

For high pressure we have some alimite guns, but for the most part my dad buys old ones at farm auctions. He is not a fan of over the counter grease and cooks his own batch in the spring, a combination of gear cover and blue wheel bearing grease. So he will fill 50+ guns at that time.

I'm not a fan of the stuff, it's black and sticks to everything bit works well in our trenchers and vibratory plows.

MarkW · Post by **MarkW** » Sun Apr 14, 2013 12:51 pm

I'm not that picky about grease guns like many I buy them at auctions when they aren't bent and less than $4, but what I would not mind purchasing would be a decent coupler. Some seem to either not clip securely and then leak, and when they are adjusted to clip on leak free they try to pull the nipple off the machinery when you try to get them off. And if you need to loosen it to remove, they are either smooth or cosmetically knurled so that you can't really grab them with your now greasy hands. Something with like a quick release airline coupler would be pretty handy for me, but I've never really found anything like that, closest was a 90 degree adapter I saw somewhere which clipped to the fitting and had a nipple on the other end.

Anyway, does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions regarding couplers?

Thanks,

Mark

Tinker · Post by **Tinker** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:27 pm

I too would like to find an 'improved' grease gun tip for Zerk that holds it's pressure, doesn't slip off, and if a locking type fitment - has a quick-release.

Going with button type all over the machine would be good. In most cases it would work - inside U-Joints would be a problem, but on my 350B the button head fittings could just do the trick.
I have to replace quite a few of them down low on the lower idler rollers anyway.

McMaster-Carr carries them, and there are quite a few EBay vendors too.

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