Recommend a grease gun?

[Goldboattail455]

I'm looking for a good, solid and strong pistol-grip style grease gun. I grease a variety of equipment, pavers, rollers, crawlers, chippers, heavy trucks, forestry mulchers, and light trucks. You name it, I work on it.

With that being said, I'm looking for a good pistol-grip style grease gun. I'm open to air, cordless or manual. I do not have the room for a barrel/drum style grease gun.

How long between charges are you guys getting out of your cordless guns? Any issues with partially clogged fittings? Easy to bleed of air?

The Lincoln 1162 air operated grease gun looks good.

Can anyone recommend a good grease gun? Any information is appreciated!

 

[SINISTER]

I use a lincoln non pnumatic pistol grip. I bought it 2 years ago and use it almost every day. The finish on it is like day one and It works better than any other grease gun I have owned.

As far an pneumatic ones go I went through 3 craftsman pros in two months and wound up with one standard craftsman that doesn't work continuously.

I get the jobs done quicker with my manual gun, rather than searching or pulling down an air line. Especially if I have tools hooked up.

My next one will be cordless electric.

 

[Gixerfixer]

Cheap and cheerful and get the job done http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JCB-PARTS-3CX-HEAVY-DUTY-GREASE-GUN-BEST-QUALITY-/310331425561 my JCB is a slightly different construction to this (MUCH OLDER ) and I have at to change the flexi hose over the years but its been bullet proof for the past 25 years of service, I did once consider an air operated one but what's the point if manual works just fine unless of course you are doing lots of commercial/plant

 

[SINISTER]

^ not a pistol grip.

 

[DrkMtnDew]

Lincoln makes really good guns i've got 2 of them. One has a needle tip on it.

 

[plinker]

I just killed a Lincoln 1162 a month ago after about 3 years of heavy use.
I bought another about two weeks ago. Nothing better, IMO.
Tooltopia has the best price I've found, about 67$.


( I didnt really kill it, it kinda SD'd. The plunger broke and wouldnt pump. It had another issue anyway so I just bought a new one.)

 

[5lima30]

Lincoln manual.

 

[fflintstone]

the third one down is what I ended up with. made in USA from us and global components.
http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US..._accessories/grease_guns_and_accessories.page

 

[Bikes&Bowties]

I was just going to recommend a John Deere gun. Got one hanging next to my toolbox. The ones I'm around have been on a hay farm for atleast 4 years (read lots of bearings and even more abuse)

 

[Gixerfixer]

^ not a pistol grip.

Sorry bout that

 

[bobcatdan]

I have a 12 volt cordless grease from JD shown in the link a couple post above. Once you use cordless, you will not use anything eles. I get four or five tubes out of a battery which is a lot of greasing. It's got prety high pressure and in my opinion is just better then a Lincoln. The 12 volt Lincolns at work are slow and have the most annoying pressure relief vavle that will squrit grease out the side of the gun if the joint is plugged. The JD just snubbs if it can push, no mess. I keep the JD in the service truck and have and a SO in the shop. I bought the SO to have all the same batteries between tools in the shop. If Lincoln didn't make the SO gun, SO did a hell of a job copying it, I like my old 12 volt much better, Alemite makes the JD.

 

[Goldboattail455]

I have a 12 volt cordless grease from JD shown in the link a couple post above. Once you use cordless, you will not use anything eles. I get four or five tubes out of a battery which is a lot of greasing. It's got prety high pressure and in my opinion is just better then a Lincoln. The 12 volt Lincolns at work are slow and have the most annoying pressure relief vavle that will squrit grease out the side of the gun if the joint is plugged. The JD just snubbs if it can push, no mess. I keep the JD in the service truck and have and a SO in the shop. I bought the SO to have all the same batteries between tools in the shop. If Lincoln didn't make the SO gun, SO did a hell of a job copying it, I like my old 12 volt much better, Alemite makes the JD.

Sounds like Lincoln makes a good manual gun. I'll try to pick one up to replace the carquest one I've been using.

I like the idea of a cordless gun, just difficult to swallow the price of some of them. I found an Alemite cordless grease gun, specifically the 595 series. I like it better than the comparable Lincoln cordless gun. $284 isn't a terrible price but the flashlight at the end of the hose is better than the Lincoln 1860's led.

 

[Gabastone]

Alemite 555-E fits the bill and is US made. It has a really nice feel to it with the cast aluminum head. It has a cool feature that allows it to flip between high output with low pressure and high pressure with low output.

I have been using mine for a couple of years without any problems. It is worth putting on the short list.

 

[littletoes]

Another vote for lincoln here.

Mine is about 20 years old, pistol grip, deep maroon in color.

 

[Sage55]

Check out the Lincoln 1134 grease gun for sure!

 

[el tanque prohibido]

Lincoln 1133 is the best manual gun.

 

[Magnetic Grease Gun]

This is a new product I think you will like. Comparable to Lincoln and no headaches from dead batteries. Visit magneticgreasegun.com for more information.

 

[09-JK]

Does anyone have the Snap on cordless grease gun? Any good?

 

[binkcat16]

lincoln 12v i got two in the shop i would get ride of every thing else before them they are awsome

 

[bobcatdan]

I have a SO cordless grease gun, bought it match my other batteries. If it is not made by Lincoln, they shoud sue SO for copying their design. If you like lincolns, you will like SO. Personally I don't care for the Lincoln cordless grease guns, slow and stupid relief vavle that sprays greas everywhere when you hit a zerk that don't take. For me thats every other zerk.

 

[Crawlin]

SO cordless is the way to go. I have 4 pieces of equipment and would never go back to a manual. Its alot better than the lincoln. It will pump up the track tension on a large (40k lbs) excavator where the lincoln I used will not.

 

[chewy7]

This is a new product I think you will like. Comparable to Lincoln and no headaches from dead batteries. Visit magneticgreasegun.com for more information.

those are $100.00