Comments on: Hot or Not? Grease-Flood Overkill

By: fred

fred — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:04:31 +0000

Re PutnamEco Says:

We are often on large construction sites and are in a heavy trade-union area. As such, the lubrication job is taken over by OE helpers or oilers - and when there a 10 or more pieces of heavy equipment on the site - the OE union requires a greaser (some really big jobs have a head greaser).
In these cases the added productivity created by tools like these - may not exactly translate into lower cost.

By: PutnamEco

PutnamEco — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:44:35 +0000

Hot, I’m with Ray on the barrel mount. Lube a dozer or tractor in half the time, of a manual gun.

Lincoln makes a neat cordless gun, for those interested in that type of thing.

http://www.lincolnindustrial.com/asp/products/powlub.asp

By: Old Donn

Old Donn — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:43:40 +0000

Aside to B. Johnson. You’re right, an amateur doesn’t need a power grease gun, or any air tools for that matter, but they sure do make life easier sometimes. Especially when you’re on the ground and you have to hold the hose tip on the zerk fitting. This particular gun? Not. But you gotta love a grease gun with a tactical sling.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:50:16 +0000

I never understood powered tube loaded grease guns. I would think if you needed that much grease in a hurry you would be better off with a bucket mounted grease gun than one that uses 14 oz tubes.

By: Benjamen Johnson

Benjamen Johnson — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:09:19 +0000

Meh, I’ve never understood the need for air/electric powered grease guns for the average guy, maybe if you work in an shop.

Now if it could do something cool like feel the change in resistance to flow, like when you’re lubing a fitting and the grease starts coming out of the joint, and stop, or if it could meter precise amounts of grease, that might be something.

You know I bet I could empty a tube of grease with a hand pumped gun in less then a minute.

By: Buster

Buster — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:07:51 +0000

In large machinery, many have remote grease fittings (ie there is a long hose or pipe between the zerk and the actual point that needs the grease) because you don’t want to have to crawl/climb out on some dangerous part of the machinery or have to shut down just to grease. You would definitely want speed when you are are filling the lines initially. You would also want the speed when doing regular greasing bc I’ve seen up to 20 zerks at each remote grease station. Time is money. I would say hot.