Filling a grease gun

[rswift]

Hands up time.....I've been pulling bits of cars to pieces for fun, for a bout 20 years...and consider myself a competent home mechanic, but I have never mastered the correct art of re-filling a grease gun without a) getting covered in grease b) wasting half of the grease that should be in the gun.

Any tips (i realise that for younger readers, the concept of a grease gun, maybe a bit alien)

[jas xjr]

I use a square of plastic sheet . empty the grease from the tin onto it . make it like a piping bag and cut the end off . squeeze into gun . does that make sense ?

[anonymous-user]

This - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Greasing-Gun-lubricantin...

[rswift]

I see the cartridge works for my big grease gun....even though I ended up spooning it in, after it all went tits up....but I have a smaller grease gun, which I am trying to fill from a tub.

The smaller one being good to get into smaller spaces...

[rswift]

jas xjr said:

I use a square of plastic sheet . empty the grease from the tin onto it . make it like a piping bag and cut the end off . squeeze into gun . does that make sense ?

Thats worth a go.....

[mygoldfishbowl]

rswift said:

I see the cartridge works for my big grease gun....even though I ended up spooning it in, after it all went tits up....but I have a smaller grease gun, which I am trying to fill from a tub.

The smaller one being good to get into smaller spaces...

Get a smaller cartridge they come in all sizes down to something like 3 grams (I think). I get mine from amazon.

[theshrew]

Buy the plastic tubes far less fecking about. Or ive had bags of it in the past cut a hole in the bag and squeeze it in.

TBH whatever the method for filling one up you get in a mess

[williredale]

The horror of trying to fill a grease gun! I hated it. Cartridges of grease are the way.

[Furyous]

Use a steel spatula. Almost no mess if you do it properly.

Ebay

[Condi]

Either cartridge or buy a bucket of grease which can then be pumped though the filling point on the gun.

We use hundreds of cartridges a year at work and I dont know many/any people who prefer other methods.

[//j17]

Never had any issues with the little tubs. These usually have a plastic disk with a hole in it over the grease and you just place the gun body over this and pull the plunger, keeping in contact with the plastic disk and job done nice and cleanly. Reversing the process to put unused grease back in generally works OK too.

[T1pper]

Plastic cartriges, job done

[TheEnd]

I thought it was pretty obvious, I've used them a lot for greasing excavators, using the tubes/cartidges, and it's a case of pulling back the plunger, taking the caps off, dropping the tube in and screwing it back up, then releasing the plunger.

If someone saw me spooning in the grease with a spatula I'd be up the road in a flash.

[Mr2Mike]

TheEnd said:

I thought it was pretty obvious, I've used them a lot for greasing excavators, using the tubes/cartidges, and it's a case of pulling back the plunger, taking the caps off, dropping the tube in and screwing it back up, then releasing the plunger.

If someone saw me spooning in the grease with a spatula I'd be up the road in a flash.

I thought it was pretty obvious that the OP was talking about a grease gun that didn't take a cartridge?

[TheEnd]

I've never seen one of those, but it does seem like a crazy option that you can even get them in a non-cartridge form.

[G600]

TheEnd said:

I've never seen one of those, but it does seem like a crazy option that you can even get them in a non-cartridge form.

I've used them, both smaller than a cartridge type and one that took a couple of cartridges worth to fill.

[Mr2Mike]

TheEnd said:

I've never seen one of those, but it does seem like a crazy option that you can even get them in a non-cartridge form.

All grease guns used to work like this years ago, though I suspect it's pretty difficult to buy new ones that don't take cartridges.

[wolf1]

pull the chain/rod as you push the body down into the grease tin (imagine it like filling a syringe)