Good grease gun

EP · May 2, 2017

Does anyone make a good hand held grease gun? I have bought several different ones and they have been complete junk.

Case Nutty 1660 · May 2, 2017

first choice is Lubermatic, next is Lincoln ones,

Aaron Ford · May 2, 2017

Alemite makes a good one. Here at work, they switched us to a cheaper model (blue?) that isn't half the gun the Alemite is.

Aaron
Alemite 500 E

caterpillar guy · May 2, 2017

I have one of the cheap models from Deere with the pistol style been close to 20years ago and still going. If you want to handle bulk grease I would opt for the Lincoln gun. You do have to flip the rubber on the plunger around if you do use bulk. Otherwise it is set for tube grease.
Dad had an old Lincoln from 20plus years ago that the rubber finally cracked and started leaking out the back end. Changed it with another plunger out of an old spare gun and still going.

Eric in IL · May 2, 2017

I'm using an old Alemite pistol grip. Probably 15 years old now. It has been a good one.

flying belgian · May 2, 2017

"Good grease gun"===oxymoron.

fixerupper · May 2, 2017

Last one I bought came from
Deere. It's been a good one so far. The one weakness I found is the grip will bend if I am squeezing hard.

gab · May 2, 2017

I've got two pistol grips that work good, a lubimatic I bought at Farm/Fleet over 20 years ago and a K-P Industries, Minneapolis Mn. that I got in a box of junk at an auction about 15 years ago. Took that one to work because the ones there were cheap junk, trouble is every body borrowed mine, even quick-lube took it when theirs were broke down.

JOCCO · May 2, 2017

I have some old hand ones and my Milwaukee battery one. All I will say is the hand ones are on the shelf with the "living ledgends". When the Milwaukee dies it will probably be the end of me too!!!

Phil9N3667 · May 2, 2017

I've got a Stewart Warner/Alemite? 500 lever style gun I bought back in '86-'87 that's still going strong. I got the fellow at work years that made hydraulic hoses to make me a two foot long hose for it. Makes it nice to get to fittings in hard to reach places. I may have bought two tubes of grease since I got it, usually fill it from the shop's barrel mounted gun and one time had a tube of red grease that the feed mill couldn't use. That stuff was sticky, had to wash it off with gasoline. As others have said, either Alemite or Lincoln.

dzc3 · May 2, 2017

Check out the Lock-n-Load from Legacy. No more screwing on the handle and bleeds air out really easy.

kyhayman · May 2, 2017

The lesser expensive electric (battery) ones from TSC have been a pleasant surprise. They last 2 plus years, fast, efficient, easy to use. I've got one in the shop and one on each mechanics truck. Hose is usually the first thing to go, then the battery. They run around $100 each, which for $50 per year that's no worse than the manual ones you get that don't work right out of the box.

Bob Harvey · May 2, 2017

I've got a hand squeeze unit with a flexible hose and adjustable tip that I bought in the '70's. Hanging on it's hook it drips a little (don't use it much anymore), but still works fine.

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