The Proper Use of Grease Guns |
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Every workshop, DIY enthusiast, maintenance person, professional builder or shade tree mechanic needs to know how to operate grease guns properly. Even if you work in a facility that has a lot of automated lubrication systems in place, there will still be many occasions when you will need to know how to operate a plain, hand held grease gun correctly. There are three basic types of grease guns and several sub-categories within those types:
Of all the types and sub-types, the lever handled is probably the most common and most often used of the grease guns. One of the main things you need to establish is how much lubricant your grease gun will deliver per pump. This amount can vary widely from one gun to the next. If uniformity is an issue, and in a large facility it certainly will be, then you need to make sure that all of your grease guns deliver the same amount of lubricant per pump. Otherwise, if you have one grease gun that shoots about half a gram per pump and another one that delivers three grams per pump, you may have some machinery being over lubricated while other parts aren’t receiving enough lubrication. Another thing to take into consideration is that if you have applications for lubrication that do not require much lubrication, you probably do not want to use a high pressure grease gun. |
