Grease guns

[gooffeyguy]

The last 2 or 3 grease guns I've owned over the last 10-15 years end up leaking grease juice onto my work bench while stored hanging up on the pegboard. Is this normal or do I just buy bad/cheap grease guns? Should they not be stored hanging up?

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[George B]

Mine does to. I always thought it was my grease.

 

[Doubeleive]

I keep mine in a drawer of my toolbox I don't know if it leaks

 

[wjburken]

My grease gun suffers from incontinence as well. I store it on top of three or four shop towels on a shelf.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Same experience with my grease gun.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Well dang, I was looking forward to buying a new grease gun, but it seems the majority of them leak. I think I'll just stop hanging it up and put it on a shelf or in a drawer with some towels under it.

 

[exp500]

I use pistol grip alemite guns, and store them in a 5 gal bucket hooked on lip, oil adapters and such in bucket too. Using Mystic greases,(jb8 and tetrimoly). no probs with dripping. Great greases.

 

[Rocket Man]

My last pistol grip one leaked so I threw it away and bought another more expensive pistol grip one that supposedly doesn’t leak according to hundreds of reviews. It leaks.

 

[wjburken]

Found this article on grease storage.

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/28761/storing-grease-to-avoid-bleed-separation-

 

[gooffeyguy]

From reading that article, I'm guessing I'm doing several things wrong, lol

I keep my grease gun in the garage (detached from house). It has heat but I only turn it on when I'm going to be out there, so in the winter it will get in the 30's-40's. No AC, it has an exhaust fan and industrial ceiling fan that I'll turn on in the summer if I'm going to be out there, so it will get in the 90's, maybe close to 100 on the hottest summer days.

I also don't use the grease gun that much. Usually every 6 months or so during oil changes, and that's not much grease.

Maybe I should just look for a smaller/mini type grease gun that takes smaller cartridges? I'd think though that I'd be limited to what types of grease I can use/find in the smaller cartridges.

 

[wjburken]

From reading that article, I'm guessing I'm doing several things wrong, lol

I keep my grease gun in the garage (detached from house). It has heat but I only turn it on when I'm going to be out there, so in the winter it will get in the 30's-40's. No AC, it has an exhaust fan and industrial ceiling fan that I'll turn on in the summer if I'm going to be out there, so it will get in the 90's, maybe close to 100 on the hottest summer days.

I also don't use the grease gun that much. Usually every 6 months or so during oil changes, and that's not much grease.

Maybe I should just look for a smaller/mini type grease gun that takes smaller cartridges? I'd think though that I'd be limited to what types of grease I can use/find in the smaller cartridges.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion.

And keeping it in the house, like on my workbench in the basement would just be a pain in the ass when I'm in the garage and decide to use it and have to go all the way inside to the basement and back out to the garage...lol

Plus it would still probably leak!

 

[PG01]

tractor supply (and many establishments) has mini grease guns and 3 packs of mini grease tubes in every variety you like. 1 problem with the minis is it doesn’t have a flex tip (never looked into changing mine tho) i use both big and small ...depends on what i’m doing. and yes... they all leak....towel, shop rags in the bottom drawer of a tool chest....

 

[George B]

Fixed....

 

[wjburken]

Fixed....

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Might need to up your pegboard game.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Fixed....

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That looks just like my current grease gun. I also have red leakage around it, I use Redline synthetic

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[Rocket Man]

Found this article on grease storage.

https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/28761/storing-grease-to-avoid-bleed-separation-

Yeah, I’ll just store mine on paper towels and use them to clean up the inevitable mess that will be there when it’s time to use it. That article was exhausting. I need a nap now.

 

[Doubeleive]

looks just like mine also, I don't even remember where I bought it, no name on it but most likely came from autozone, sears, harbor freight, or ebay. maybe walmart

 

[George B]

looks just like mine also, I don't even remember where I bought it, no name on it but most likely came from autozone, sears, harbor freight, or ebay. maybe walmart

Mine is an ATC from Bumper to Bumper. I have a bunch of military surplus High pressure grease that even leaks in my shop cabinet. I have a lifetime supply of it too!

 

[George B]

looks just like mine also, I don't even remember where I bought it, no name on it but most likely came from autozone, sears, harbor freight, or ebay. maybe walmart

Mine is an ATC from Bumper to Bumper. I have a bunch of military surplus High pressure grease that even leaks in my shop cabinet. I have a lifetime supply of it too!

 

[Doubeleive]

pulled mine out and it looks like it had a little oil separation around the push-rod area that wiped right off