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How do you guys perform an efficient transfer of grease from a five gallon bucket into your grease guns? I think I'm doing it the hard way by using a small spackle putty knife to then put the grease into a plastic bag, then I poke a hole at the bottom of the bag and squeeze the grease into the gun. Needless to say this takes too much time. Ideas?
 
I use a paint stick or a strip of woood . Push grease into the gun , then work air out with the stick occassionally . That"s how the old timers did it when I was a kid . Then they came out with the cartridges which make it easier & less messy . HTH ! God bless
 
You could get a pump that fits on the top of pail. Then if the pail was too clumsy, you could pump it into your hand held grease gun. Dave
 
Sounds pretty dangerous! You need to specify the weight of the pump, Dave. It could fall over and kill a cat or something. I would check the thickness of the pale or have an engineer recommend one. You can't be too careful about these things.
 
I didn't think pale had a thickness. I thought it was in reference to a skin color when you're ill. You should see a Dr. rather than engineer if you're pale. Dave
 
What has been posted here puts air into the gun, and it won"t work properly. Years ago, before tubes, we pushed the gun barrel into the grease as we pulled back on the handle, filling the tube without much air. Only used a stick to fill when cleaning out the pail. One "luxury" I took when starting farming on my own was buying tubes instead of pails.
 
Remember 2 methods from back on the farm, before cartridges were invented.
1-Stick the end of gun barrel into grease in bucket & pull the plunger handle back, lock it & put the head back on. Wipe off the excess with a putty knife or flat stick. Gets it about 3/4 full.
2-Dad got fancy last couple years, had a pump that fit 5 gal bucket, also fit approx 15 gal drum. Might still be available. Added fitting to gun head that matched fitting on pump. 4 or 5 strokes on pump filled the gun, no mess. Tube on pump went to bottom of bucket, pumped from bottom. Plate on top pushed down as grease was pumped out from below.
Willie
 

Some pails/buckets had a fitting on the side at the bottom that you screwed the gun barrel into then pulled the plunger back to fill the gun.

If you stick the barrel into the grease to fill, first dip the end into some oil, that will keep grease from sticking to the outside of the barrel. Then when filled you only have to wipe a little oil off, not as much of a mess.

Dusty
 
I have an old pump that we used to use to fill grease guns from a 5 gallon bucket. It has a fitting that you screw the barrel of the grease gun into. You pump the handle and when the grease gun plunger is forced all the way out of the gun barrel, you know it's full. Don't forget to lock the handle back before you unscrew the barrel from the pump or you're in for an unpleasant surprise. I haven't used it in 30 years because I got tired of the unpleasant surprises.

Paul
 
I use a loader pump from alemite to fill grease guns through a
fitting on the head. It doesn't introduce air, is relatively quick (as
long as the grease pail isn't really cold), and doesn't make a mess:

http://www.alemite.com/catalog/details.aspx?
identifier=pumps_grease_manual_loader
 
Lu Max is one brand. I just bought a brand new one still in the box at an auction for $2.00. I believe that napa sells those products.
 
Whether I filled with a paint paddle or a cartridge, sometimes it still got air in it and wouldn't pump grease. Made me aggravated one day years ago and I took it by the back end and rapped it on a rear tractor tire...lo and behold it done the trick...been doing it ever since. ohfred
 
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