Lucked Out

[zendriver]

I needed another separate grease gun, for boat grease and was kicking myself, for passing on a dozen of them, at recent estate auctions, where they are usually almost given away.

Must have got at least one, because I found this in some stuff, but the top was cross-threaded on, perhaps by a user, who was sharper in earlier times.

I put it in the vise and got it apart, luckily it would rethread normally, so since it was now usuable, it was ready to have the play-do like grease cleaned out top to bottom.

It's the most heavy duty grease gun, I have ever seen and was in great shape for its age. Solid rubber plunger and a spring so heavy I cloud barely **** it to reload.

It's a pistol-matic, but has a different mfg name that the current conglomerate Graco.

Not sure if the new ones are still built like this, but for me it was the Perfect find!

 

[Tynee]

I love those pistol grip units. Does anybody still buy the long-lever style any more?

 

[Mgdoug3]

I have a pistol grip and a M18 Milwaukee one. The Milwaukee is great now that I put a Lock-n-lube end on it. I highly recommend one for any grease gun.

 

[rlitman]

I love those pistol grip units. Does anybody still buy the long-lever style any more?

The levers can develop more pressure. Put I prefer the one handed operation, which is why I use pneumatic ones.

This one has two speeds. I looks like you can move the pin to the other hole to get more pressure, at slower pumping. Nice!

 

[zendriver]

This one has two speeds. I looks like you can move the pin to the other hole to get more pressure, at slower pumping. Nice!

I wasn't aware of that feature, good to know!

 

[rlitman]

I wasn't aware of that feature, good to know!

It's a feature I look for on the better pistol grip grease guns. A small handful have it. It does not appear to be a feature of the current production Pistol Matic grease guns.

 

[Billythekid1]

Can u post a pivot the 2 holes I'm not sure I understand

 

[BDT/NWMN]

It's a feature I look for on the better pistol grip grease guns. A small handful have it. It does not appear to be a feature of the current production Pistol Matic grease guns.

Yes, the pistol grip guns with the high volume/high pressure links are the cream of the crop when it comes to grease guns. There is one at work that has a link that simply slides from one position to the other. I will have to copy the make and model number to add to this thread.. That one is definitely My favorite.

 

[Corndoggeh]

I love those pistol grip units. Does anybody still buy the long-lever style any more?

I bought an old US made one at an estate sale for dirt cheap still with its box, still had 3/4 tube of moly-graphite grease in it. I use that one for bigger greasing points but my favorite is a small pistol grip one, uses those small 3oz tubes, that I use to get at the U-joints and inner tie rods.

Other than finding them as cheap as I did at garage/estate sales, I would never want a long lever style grease gun.

 

[zendriver]

I would never want a long lever style grease gun.

I would agree, since it seems like I'm always forcing grease into a zerk, so i end up needing 3 hands, with the lever style, although I do agree they exert more pressure.

 

[peteco]

Are there any US made pistol grip guns like this? I have a couple of Plews Chinese units that are hard to prime. Or do I need to keep an eye out for an older US unit?

 

[JR 42]

I like the lever type- it only takes one hand to pump if you brace the barrel against your thigh, the floor, or the equipment. Tight zerks can be trouble if you have to hold the tip on the zerk, though...

I used to grease a combine and a truck every day during harvest, and my hands would have cramped to the point of turning black and falling off using a pistol grip gun. All that needs grease now is the occasional driveline or forklift mast, so a little teeny gun is all I need.

JR

 

[rlitman]

I like the lever type- it only takes one hand to pump if you brace the barrel against your thigh, the floor, or the equipment. Tight zerks can be trouble if you have to hold the tip on the zerk, though...

I used to grease a combine and a truck every day during harvest, and my hands would have cramped to the point of turning black and falling off using a pistol grip gun. All that needs grease now is the occasional driveline or forklift mast, so a little teeny gun is all I need.

JR

Lock-n-lube. Never need to worry about holding the tip again.
And it sounds like what you really needed was a cordless grease gun.

 

[Mgdoug3]

Lock-n-lube. Never need to worry about holding the tip again.
And it sounds like what you really needed was a cordless grease gun.

This. Makes greasing the combine a breeze now. Just have to remember to not leave the grease gun outside in the cold or I have to get the pistol grip out.

 

[aczr2k]

Lock-n-lube. Never need to worry about holding the tip again.
And it sounds like what you really needed was a cordless grease gun.

Cordless grease gun and combine are not two words to be used together. They have their place on tillage equipment but not combine bearings.

 

[Mgdoug3]

If he means cordless as in electric, I love my Milawaukee for the combine. Especially on the corn head since it's an older head with brass bushings on the stalk rollers. Those are greased twice a day.

 

[JR 42]

Lock-n-lube. Never need to worry about holding the tip again.
And it sounds like what you really needed was a cordless grease gun.

Haha, I started working summers there at 16 in the mid 1990's, bought a basic tool pile from Sears and a lever grease gun from NAPA. I'm not sure cordless grease guns were available back then, but if they were I had no idea. The farm was pretty basic and spread out across three counties - the two shops were decently equipped with air tools but we all used basic hand tools in the field for service and minor repairs, IIRC there was nothing cordless anywhere to be found.

They did have a pneumatic grease gun though, you could always tell when someone had used it to grease an implement because our cheap grease stock would be low and the equipment would leak grease from every joint for the next two days...

I did eventually get pretty good at hitting all 80-something zerks on my side of the combine in a timely fashion.

JR

 

[Mgdoug3]

Some people get carried away with grease. Some think if a little is good, a lot must be better.

 

[Blt2Lst]

Some people get carried away with grease. Some think if a little is good, a lot must be better.

^^ Guilty as charged...

 

[becker_atc]

I love those pistol grip units. Does anybody still buy the long-lever style any more?

I dislike the pistol grips. Greasing a combine hand would tire or cramp. Get extra long hose or couple 2 together so can wedge it some place and pump but if got s good tip it should stay on

 

[seanb02]

Some people get carried away with grease. Some think if a little is good, a lot must be better.

I fully agree with this. I dread whenever somebody else grabs a grease gun to grease any of the equipment. I do the forage harvester and discbine myself always. And have instructed others to be quite conservative with the bearings on the disc gangs. Don't really care how much goes into the plow or the front end components on tractors, but get quite irritated when working on something getting covered in grease because somebody just went at it until it was oozing out everywhere.

 

[6PTsocket]

I'm with you on that one. I don't have enough hands for a lever gun.

I love those pistol grip units. Does anybody still buy the long-lever style any more?

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