cordless grease guns

[johndeeregreg]

looking at getting a cordless grease gun, looking at lincoln, wonder if anyone has the 18 volt and if they are happy with it and if its worth the extra money to go to an 18 volt verses the 14.4 volt...and input welcome, or if there is a different brand i should look into?

thanks

 

[urbancase]

i have a 18 volt, love it. if you have a combine to grease you will really love it. i have had mine for apx 3 years and have not had any problems, the 2 speed is nice but don't use the lower setting much.

 

[John T]

Gee, Ive owned Grease Guns for fifty years and never had any with any sort of cord. I guess all mine are cordless lol lol

Seriously, I'm a fan of the 18 volt. I own some DeWalt 18 volt "Cordless" tools and have been well satisfied.

Best wishes, John T

 

[Andy C]

Had the Lincoln for 6 years now. Dropped it and broke one of the plastic parts, 2 days later was up and running again.I Go through about 40 tubes of grease a year and love it! Batteries seem to last pretty well. I have 2 so one is always on charge
Andy

 

[keh]

I'm like JohnT and have never had a battery grease gun, but the word I get is that Lincoln is the best way to go.

KEH

 

[masalser]

I've owned a Lincoln 14.4volt and recently switched to the Lincoln
18volt. The motor on the 14.4 volt finally died after 5-6 years of
use. Both grease guns work really well. I upgraded to the 18volt
because it develops a higher pressure and my machines have some
zerks that don't like to take grease. I would recommend having two
batteries. Overall I think the Lincoln guns are relatively durable.

 

[kito169]

We had one of the Lincoln 18v when I was shop foreman at large fleet trucking company. They were good. Never gave any trouble. I always preferred a pistol grip manual grease gun though. Back when trucks had probably 50-60 fittings I always enjoyed showing the new guys, right out of school, how to PM a truck with the manual gun. After about thirty minutes of squeezing on the pistol grip their hands would be tired and achey. They would comment on it so then I would tell them about the battery operated gun. Some of them laughed. Some got mad. Myself and the others always laughed.

 

[Russ from MN]

I have an inexpensive air one from Fleet Farm, works
great, but only on the end of the air hose! I have a
disc that needs a lot of grease and I needed three
hands to grease it with a hand pump one. If I needed
one I would buy a cordless, but I can't justify it,
and I suppose you need a new battery every 5 years
like anything else cordless.

 

[glennster]

i have a 14.4 lincoln at the farm, really like the unit, never had a problem. have air guns at the shop, as well as manual guns. the good thing about the cordless, its fun to grease stuff!!!

 

[Bryan inIowa]

I have a sanp on 18 volt. $$ but like it ,,and it takes the same battery as all my snap on impacts etc .

 

[Stephen Newell]

I guess I'm just old. I've never had a grease gun that wasn't hand crank.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Met a friend at Rural King this morning and he discussed getting a cordless grease gun. He mentioned the problem with most cordless tools is the battery goes bad and they are expensive to replace. He wished that dewalt made an 18v gun, because all his cordless tools are dewalts.

Perhaps if you buy a cordless gun, you may want to get one that uses the same batteries you have in your other cordless tools. Don't know if that is possible.

Does anyone know if dewalt makes one?

George

 

[Geo-TH,In]

JohnT

Me too, I have about every 18v dewalt tool made, but dislike their ni-cds. Their xrp batteries won't last more than 2. I use my tools every day. Even have a 12v charger in my truck. I have 2 lithium and 2 nickel metal batteries. One nickel will out preform 2 lithium batteries.
Nickel batteries, on ebay, are about the same price as xrp's.

George

 

[Ozlander]

(quoted from post at 04:35:35 08/16/12) I guess I'm just old. I've never had a grease gun that wasn't hand crank.

I must be older, I never had a grease gun with a crank on it.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

JohnT,
After reading this post a second time, I went out and greased my backhoe, has about 40 places to grease. I use a one handed gun, just squeeze the handle. Leaves my other hand free to hold the hose. I tried greasing one place that didn't want to take grease. That's when I wondered if I would even know that there was a problem with a cordless gun.

I have a pheumatic gun and don't really like it. Not sure if the gun wouldn't make a noise and not deliver the grease.

I'm with you, do it by hand. At least you get a feel and know it it's taking grease.
George

 

[johndeeregreg]

we have both craftsman and dewalt cordless tools and niether of which offer a grease gun according to thier websites

 

[JDseller]

The semi trucks we bought last year where owned by a guy with a battery powered grease gun. I got to replace just about everything that had a seal in it. He blew out all of them. He would just grease away until he saw grease. The brake cam arm bearing have a little o-ring to help keep the water out of them. There where four of them on the trailers that where ruined because of over greasing. So be gentle with the gun. You don't have any "feel" when things are full like you would with a manual grease gun.

 

[Jim Naden]

(quoted from post at 01:37:24 08/17/12) The semi trucks we bought last year where owned by a guy with a battery powered grease gun. I got to replace just about everything that had a seal in it. He blew out all of them. He would just grease away until he saw grease. The brake cam arm bearing have a little o-ring to help keep the water out of them. There where four of them on the trailers that where ruined because of over greasing. So be gentle with the gun. You don't have any "feel" when things are full like you would with a manual grease gun.

For effective lubrication you want a lot of flow and pressure to force the grease into the entire part to be lubricated, especially important on universal joints, drive shaft slip yokes, kingpins and shackles.

 

[Bill in Colo]

I'll upgrade as so as DeWalt makes one love my dewalt cordless tools

 

[BDT/NWMN]

(quoted from post at 19:00:03 08/16/12) JohnT,
After reading this post a second time, I went out and greased my backhoe, has about 40 places to grease. I use a one handed gun, just squeeze the handle. Leaves my other hand free to hold the hose. I tried greasing one place that didn't want to take grease. That's when I wondered if I would even know that there was a problem with a cordless gun.

I have a pheumatic gun and don't really like it. Not sure if the gun wouldn't make a noise and not deliver the grease.

I'm with you, do it by hand. At least you get a feel and know it it's taking grease.
George

Same here George. I prefer a pistol-grip grease gun with a flex hose.. I flat out do not like any electric or pneumatic powered grease guns.... not adequate feel...