Grease Gun storage?

[fourjeepin]

I'll play along. Mine is below. Same design as most of the others, except I have a small and a normal sized gun. Works great, except I do get a tiny bit of leakage from the tip of the small gun.

I used a small section of PVC to space the tubing off the plywood to allow the bottom caps to slide on and off.

 

[sloppy]

I keep my Lincoln in the nice blow molded case it came in..

 

[NUTTSGT]

How are you actually attaching the tube to the wall? I can't see how you could possibly screw something in there since the one side of the tube is obviously blocking where you would be able to use a screw driver or socket??? Am I missing something very obvious?

Thanks,
-Nigel

I have a hole drill near the top of mine. I used a ratchet wrench to drive a lag through the inside into the wall.

 

[LX-Markham]

I got one of these from Princess Auto years ago. It was cheap and works great. Love the PVC pipe idea though.

 

[rwreuter]

what size is the PVC?

I built this one a while ago, all out of black ABS.
It has worked great for me!
The top cap is a loose fit for easy removal & keeps the garage dirt & dust out of it. The bottom cap is quite a bit tighter but still removable so every once in a while I can clean out all the gunge build-up.

I drilled the hose hole (bottom left of tube, last pic) on an angle so the hose would go in easy & stay securely in place. The holes in the front of the tube itself at about 1&1/2" down from the top cap & up from the bottom cap are how its mounted. The holes are there so I could get a screw driver threw to the 2 smaller mounting holes in the back of the tube. In order to have enough room for the caps to be easily removed I used 3/8" of spacers between the wall & the main tube.
However it's not my idea. That glory goes to Stephenw(member here) I found it on his site

Steve

 

[Oldbear]

I got one of these from Princess Auto years ago. It was cheap and works great. Love the PVC pipe idea though.

I have the same in blue - but on a french cleat.

 

[SnoFox]

To store mine I cut the bottom off of a 2 liter pop bottle and screwed it to the wall upside down. Any leaks drain to the cap and can be emptied by removing it...

 

[NUTTSGT]

what size is the PVC?

I used 3" for mine.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59743

 

[wrench409]

Nail, corner, behind the man door.