On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:53:05 -0400, Nate Nagel
wrote:

On 07/04/2010 01:27 AM, zxcvbob wrote:
I just bought a Plews mini grease gun that takes 3 ounce cartridges. Can
it be loaded with bulk grease instead of using those expensive little
cartridges? (Yes, I'm a cheapskate. Tell me something I don't know.) The
instructions don't say anything about it, and I don't see a good way to
bleed the air out. Thanks.

Bob

I hate grease guns.

There is always a problem with such guns. Remember the story of
Greasy Pete and the showdown at the Not So Hot Corral. Also there was
Wily Earp and Doc Slipandslide, plus some other gunhands.

Tension had been building up all day, but when they fired, they were
20 feet apart but the grease only came out about 3 inches. It got all
over the street and the horses tracked it all over the county. That's
when they banned grease guns in Tombstone, Arizona.

Only one I've ever had that didn't require fiddling
to keep working was a Lincoln that I bought online, after being
frustrated with all the ones available at my FLAPS and inherited from
older relatives... best $30 or so I ever spent.

Don't exactly know the answer to your question, but I assume you can,
the question is "how difficult is it?" I am pretty sure that most of
the FLAPS ones I've had have been Plews and at least one of them ended
up in the trash can.

nate