Alemite Greaser Model 317500

whizkidkyus · Dec 18, 2011

Hi,

I have a friend who has an air operated greaser / grease gun outfit . It is a grease gun outfit that stores grease in a tank like a bucket and operates off of air. It is an old one , at least 20 years plus old. It is an :

Alemite
Model # 317500
Serial # 133193
Made by the Stewart Warner Corp. , Alemite Division
Made in the U.S.A.

Anyone have any info on this outfit as in it's age and value ? Any and all help is appreciated .

Thank you,
Whizkid

Michael Soldan · Dec 18, 2011

The garage I worked at had an Alamite grease dispenser.We opened pails of grease and this pick up installed into the grease pail,ran off air..thats how we lubed all vehicles when we did service on them. The system was at least 50 years old and worked great.The garage was originally opened as a White Rose gas station,then became a Fina and then a Shell. My friend's father ran the garage for thirty years,then my friend took it over..same Alamite system,and the new owner still has that system and uses it daily.

Michael Soldan · Dec 18, 2011

The garage I worked at had an Alamite grease dispenser.We opened pails of grease and this pick up installed into the grease pail,ran off air..thats how we lubed all vehicles when we did service on them. The system was at least 50 years old and worked great.The garage was originally opened as a White Rose gas station,then became a Fina and then a Shell. My friend's father ran the garage for thirty years,then my friend took it over..same Alamite system,and the new owner still has that system and uses it daily.

Paul from MI · Dec 19, 2011

Alemite systems are very high quality and reliable. Grease in pails used to be a lot cheaper than tubes, but I haven't seen any pails around in a long time. You might have to do some searching to find them. The big drawback is moving it around to grease large machinery, unless you have a long grease hose. We had one at the shop on a cart, and had air hoses everywhere, so it worked good.

The Dukester · Dec 19, 2011

Way back in the 1950's on the farm where I grew up we had an Alemite pail pump outfit to fill grease guns with from 35 lb. pails of grease and it worked great...much better than the stupid, messy, darned tubes we use nowdays. We even figured out we could empty the nearly empty pails into a slightly used new pail and minimize the loss when cleaning out of the pail and getting all the grease to use in the lever guns. The lever guns never got opened up, didn't have to be. We had to grease plenty...ever have a 2ME picker or Gehl chopper, blower and self-unloading wagons? I don't know about now, but back then Alemite made the best lubrication equipment.

Alemite Greaser Model 317500

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