Battery grease gun

Tomr10

Member
Got a Sealey 18v, it’s a generic one that comes under a few brands.

Nothing wrong with it at all except the battery doesn’t last overly long, probably a low Ah rating.
Have a sealy also two batteries with it more than enough for even a dairy farmer
 

KennyO

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Angus
Got a Sealey 18v, it’s a generic one that comes under a few brands.

Nothing wrong with it at all except the battery doesn’t last overly long, probably a low Ah rating.
Our sealey works ok but batterys are rubbish. Have two completely dead batteries and one which is useable but really needs to come straight of charger before use.
 

stevedave

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While on this thread are the g couplers worth buying? And are the harder to get in to tight spots for greasing? Want a battery grease gun but wondering if just changing the end would make it easier
As said they are very good wide angle PTO shafts can be a bit awkward but other than that very good but I do need a normal coupler for the odd grease nipple.
 
While on this thread are the g couplers worth buying? And are the harder to get in to tight spots for greasing? Want a battery grease gun but wondering if just changing the end would make it easier


I've got a G Coupler on a manual gun. It works, but I don't find it easy to get it to come off sometimes. I've just bought a Doost coupler to go on a new Dewalt electric gun. Neither unpacked yet as I've been unwell.
 

carbonfibre farmer

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Arable Farmer
For the penny pinchers like me Makita also make a device that converts a cordless drill into a cordless grease gun:


I have one, I had a spare cordless driver that I never used, it now lives on the above attachment, has made greasing a LOT easier, and all for £60+vat..........
I take it,it's not too cumbersome?
I have a number of battery drills and that solution looks good for (A tightarse like) me.
 

Goweresque

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Location
North Wilts
I take it,it's not too cumbersome?
I have a number of battery drills and that solution looks good for (A tightarse like) me.

I've not found it cumbersome, you can wield it with just one hand on the drill handle, and that leaves the other free for locating the grease nipples etc. I've never used one of the purpose made cordless greasers so couldn't compare with them, but its definitely a step up from a manual grease gun for sure. I've certainly put more grease into my excavator since I got it anyway!
 

Gruffalo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Midlands
Have recently got a Milwaukee grease gun and makes greasing easy, although it does airlock a bit which is annoying, not sure if it’s the type of grease cartridges? It came with a right angle end as well as the straight one which has its own nipple on so a push fit adapter which is great.
 
I currently have a number of Speedy Grease guns. Like that cartridges are easy to replace with little mess, long hose, magnet and give a decent amount of grease with each pump. What am I likely to find much better about an electric grease gun? Have other Milwaukee power tools and batteries so would probably prefer this. Old style changing of cartridges look a negative though.
 

Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
I currently have a number of Speedy Grease guns. Like that cartridges are easy to replace with little mess, long hose, magnet and give a decent amount of grease with each pump. What am I likely to find much better about an electric grease gun? Have other Milwaukee power tools and batteries so would probably prefer this. Old style changing of cartridges look a negative though.

They all look like big lumps to me too.
 

Toms820

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Another vote for sealey. Had mine 3/4 years and even survived being ran over surprisingly. I bought it thinking it would only last a year but still works absolutely fine. And it was only about £100
 

jamesy

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Location
Orkney
I bought the makita attachment 18 months/2 years ago....... I bought a Milwaukee 18v the other day, just couldn’t get on with the makita for air locking & not emptying cartridges cleanly. When it wasn’t airlocking it worked well with my wee impact driver. Milwaukee is problem free with the same cartridges.
 

Ormond

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I've a milwaukee one...its started squeezing under a tiny bit of load like somethings slipping....any ideas anyone? Get plenty of cartridges I'm stock....ypu fly through them which is only a good thing
 

Slug Herder

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Arable Farmer
Just starting to look at cordless grease guns. How do you measure the volume? When greasing manually you count the number of shots but every Makita video I have watched just shows the chap squeezing the grease in until the grease pops out. I can only imagine the number of seals popped out.
 

Agriimark

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Arable Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
Just starting to look at cordless grease guns. How do you measure the volume? When greasing manually you count the number of shots but every Makita video I have watched just shows the chap squeezing the grease in until the grease pops out. I can only imagine the number of seals popped out.
Just treat it the same as a hand pump gun. I normally stick to 4 shots. The people in these videos have probally never had the joy on changing seals and bearings from being over greased
 

Slug Herder

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Arable Farmer
Just treat it the same as a hand pump gun. I normally stick to 4 shots. The people in these videos have probally never had the joy on changing seals and bearings from being over greased
Do all cordless greasers pulse shots, is it something you hear, or pull trigger for each shot.
 

Pan mixer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Do all cordless greasers pulse shots, is it something you hear, or pull trigger for each shot.
The Milwaukee you can pre-programme how many pulses to put in and just keep the trigger squeezed until it stops. I had an air operated one where you had to squeeze the trigger for every pulse and I got RSI in my finger after a while.
 

ACEngineering

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Location
Oxon
Do all cordless greasers pulse shots, is it something you hear, or pull trigger for each shot.

They tend to have a piston in them so you can hear by the sound its making how many hot its done to some degree, i dont ever find it a problem IMO and my alemite doesnt have a counter like the milweeke, spelt it like that on purpose due to the plastic gearing in side them that strips when used regular on blocked/tight nipples.

Alemite 14v never misses a beat, one about 10years old never failed other than battery, now gifted to a friend. its replacement exactly the same but with lithium battery not ni-cad, about 18month old no problems although not used it that much IMO but its exactly the same other than the battery so no reason it wont last as long as the old one.

More expensive yes, but i like the shape off them and the performace and i couldnt kill that old one no matter what other than the ni-cad battery. I doubt very much that the milwaukee would last that long with the use it had but it is cheaper, I just hate the shape/design of the thing compaired to the alemite.
 

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