Grease gun recomendation

[Mouse]

Sorry for this basic question but can anyone recommend a decent grease gun. I cant afford battery type that will last and reach all major grease nipples on not only a LR but other machinery.
Many thanks

[Alan Drover]

Wanner is one of the best. Have a look at Zoro Tools Website.
I've got a Tecalemit as well, similar to a Wanner.

[diffwhine]

If you are a workshop or a farm, then a Milwaukee cordless grease gun takes some beating. You can also have some spectacular fights with other people if you set them up properly...

For normal DIY use, a simple pump action grease gun for occasional use is more than adequate. The electric ones can sometimes force too much grease through which hydraulics the bearings and in the case of UJs, often displaces and distorts seals if not done carefully. You do not need to pump grease into a UJ until it all squirts out past the seals...

Plenty of options. I have a simple Sealey one here with a fixed nozzle and takes a standard grease cartridge. It works fine for normal LR use and its been going for the past 10 years at least. Yes it leaks and dribbles, but don't we all as we get older?

I find that the version with the flexible nozzle less helpful as you need both arms to operate it, but that's a personal choice.

[Ian F]

I would look for an old Tecalemit, and get a rigid and flexible extension. There are grease nipples which it's impossible to get a rigid extension on to.
A good quality old gun will probably go on forever!

Ian F

[diffwhine]

If you can find a good old one that's a good way to go. I note that most new ones come with both options of a rigid or flexi extension anyway.

[Peter Holden]

My Wanner grease gun is almost 50 years old and is absolutely brilliant.  I have recently changeth the pipe to a flexible one with a positive coupling on the end, it makes greasing land rover propshafts easier

Peter

[Old Hywel]

I've had limited experience with a pneumatic gun.
Unfortunately, if the grease suffers an airlock, you can spend all day going round  till your trigger finger gets tired, and only then realise the cartridge is still full. Perhaps electric guns suffer similarly.
Does anyone still use an original LR supplied 'push' type gun?

[Ian F]

I've had limited experience with a pneumatic gun.
Unfortunately, if the grease suffers an airlock, you can spend all day going round  till your trigger finger gets tired, and only then realise the cartridge is still full. Perhaps electric guns suffer similarly.
Does anyone still use an original LR supplied 'push' type gun?

I have a couple of"push" gun types, but what vehicle they came from is lost in the past.  Mine only have a short rigid extension and so are generally difficult to use in some situations. Not sure if they have a manufacturers name on them.
Additionally my Tecalemit is always there and full!

Ian F

[Wittsend]

I inherited my Wanner grease gun from my father - it is 60 yrs old 

Easy to fill and dead easy to use. Gets in all the places on a Land Rover.

I have a compressed air gun from Machine Mart, but I just can't get on with it. Not least it's physically large and you have a trailing air hose to deal with 

[Alan Drover]

Many years ago a mate gave me his Wanner grease gun which is still working fine. I have a Tecalemit too.
Neither take a cartridge. The tins of grease have a metal plate above the grease with a hole in it. I press the gun over the hole then push down while pulling the plunger upwards then lock it while the securing ring is tightened. Unlock it then open the bleed valve to expel air. Both my guns work on this principle.

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

New if you want good, this is hard to find - and pricey. Provided you're careful, old tools are good - nay, better, and always way cheaper.

Just bought a 70s Spiralux pop-rivet, it's not even about what I paid - which was nothing. You simply can't buy its like new.

For home-users, there's no good reason to buy a new grease-gun. For far less you can buy the very best used.

On rare odd occasion I've been caught with a 'pup' the  price I paid still allows me to buy another and be quids in by massive margins. And a better tool too.

Buy the best brand back when. Bought another vice recently. A 1940s Record. A beauty for £50. new, it'd be £4-500 new and not better. Likely worse.

[Mouse]

Thanks for the help everyone Can I also add to this I have grease nipples that won't accept greas le so I need to replace mice then. Can anyone tell me a general thread type/s for S2?

[Wittsend]

I've always believed them to be 1/8" BSP. You can test this "belief" by trying an axle breather in the grease nipple hole

 

[Gareth]

I've had limited experience with a pneumatic gun.
Unfortunately, if the grease suffers an airlock, you can spend all day going round  till your trigger finger gets tired, and only then realise the cartridge is still full. Perhaps electric guns suffer similarly.
Does anyone still use an original LR supplied 'push' type gun?

I have a small very old push type gun. Straight body and the spout pushes in to pump the grease. I'm not sure if it's the same as a Land Rover original, but it was from an old Mk2 Jaguar toolkit.

It's ok but tricky to get the rear uj on the front prop.

[geoff]

A bog standard lever grease gun should cover most anything and they take a grease cartridge which is way better than manually filling.
Years ago " we " had in one plant I worked an " oiler and greaser " person employed to take care of ALL lubrication tasks - a full time job.
Anyway, this chap  had a conventional grease gun effectively surgically attached to his arm as he used it so much !
If he could keep a large manufacturing plant sorted and lubed with a basic lever gun I struggle to see how anyone would need anything better ?