On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:06:23 -0500
Ed Huntress wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:59:51 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:07:00 -0800
Larry Jaques wrote:

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This is the type of oil gun you want.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JP-Reilang-0...-/201253137581

Egad, the price! What's that, $20 an inch?
http://tinyurl.com/nrozgo2 Will either of these work? g
http://tinyurl.com/ndwhhxx

You use to be able to get the second one at Harbor Freight. Item number
36629. Don't see it on their website anymore. Might get lucky and
find some old stock at your store yet...

You have to really snug down the spout to keep it from leaking at the
crummy gasket. I'll try making a replacement gasket or try an o-ring
someday. Works okay for the little ball oilers on my 9x20 lathe.

I use a piece of bicycle innertube rubber with a hole punched in it. I
put the rubber over the spout of my pump-type oil can, centering the
hole over the hole in the spout; push it up against the oil fitting on
the lathe; and pump away.

It's a little sloppy but it works, it's easy, and it's cheap.

On the HF Pump the spout is maybe 3 inches long and screws into the
rest of the pump. If you look at Larry's link/image
http://tinyurl.com/ndwhhxx this is where the yellow part attaches to
the black part. There is a small gasket there, typical chinese junk.
When you jam the spout into an oiler fitting like on a lathe, build up
some pressure, it wants to leak at that point...

I bought three of them, two in use and all of them have the same crummy
gasket.

Now some bicycle inner-tube material would probably be an excellent
replacement gasket for that spot ;-)

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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