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 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, BTDT but its messy (get out the rags and nitrile gloves)

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 vaguely remember my dad filling his by hand. It involved a piece
of shingle, a lot of patience, and shaking the gun to get the grease
settled. It was tough to eliminate the air pockets that would keep the
grease gun from working. He bought one of these:
http://tinyurl.com/2bckx4b
and life got easier. I have no idea if the $60 investment ever paid
off. He used it to fill his regular sized grease guns for farm equipment.
The other thing I remember is having to leave the business end of the
gun slightly loose at first to let the air out.

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. 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

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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

I've filled the little cartridges with an old spoon. Works reasonably
well, for me. Put a ring on the plunger handle, and leave the grease
gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly over a period of years)
goes up to the plunger.

--
Christopher A. Young
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"zxcvbob" wrote in message
...
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

On Jul 4, 5:28*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
I've filled the little cartridges with an old spoon. Works reasonably
well, for me. Put a ring on the plunger handle, and leave the grease
gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly over a period of years)
goes up to the plunger.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

"zxcvbob" wrote in message

...
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

"leave the grease gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly
over a period of years) goes up to the plunger."

Stormin's got the right idea.

I determined that it takes 6 years for the air to evacuate itself, so
6 years ago (2004) I bought a grease gun, hand-filled it and hung it
on a hook.

Then 5 years ago I bought another one, hand-filled that one and hung
it up.

I did the same thing for the next 4 years and finally, starting this
year, I have a grease gun (the 6 YO one) ready to use.

I'll use it this year, re-fill it (by hand of course) and hang it on
it's hook. Next year I'll use the 2005 model, and so on until 6 years
from now the 2004/2010 gun will be ready again.

I just hope I don't lose track of which gun is which.

On Jul 4, 3:28*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
I've filled the little cartridges with an old spoon. Works reasonably
well, for me. Put a ring on the plunger handle, and leave the grease
gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly over a period of years)
goes up to the plunger.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

"zxcvbob" wrote in message

...
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

==
Either keep on buying those itsy bitsy cartridges or go buy the guns
that take the regular size cartridges (the best bet). Trying to fill
those little cartridges is an exercise in futlity.
==

I have 66... 14 ounce cartridges for sale on craigs list, I'll even throw in
a grease gun if your interested. reply back
"zxcvbob" wrote in message
...
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

You need to buy different color grease guns. And then encode the data
on IBM punch cards, so the data can be retreived later.

--
Christopher A. Young
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"DerbyDad03" wrote in message
...

"leave the grease gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly
over a period of years) goes up to the plunger."

Stormin's got the right idea.

I determined that it takes 6 years for the air to evacuate itself, so
6 years ago (2004) I bought a grease gun, hand-filled it and hung it
on a hook.

Then 5 years ago I bought another one, hand-filled that one and hung
it up.

I did the same thing for the next 4 years and finally, starting this
year, I have a grease gun (the 6 YO one) ready to use.

I'll use it this year, re-fill it (by hand of course) and hang it on
it's hook. Next year I'll use the 2005 model, and so on until 6 years
from now the 2004/2010 gun will be ready again.

I just hope I don't lose track of which gun is which.

Many people have very strong futility, from lots of exercise.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
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"Roy" wrote in message
...

==
Either keep on buying those itsy bitsy cartridges or go buy the guns
that take the regular size cartridges (the best bet). Trying to fill
those little cartridges is an exercise in futlity.
==

On Jul 5, 9:49*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
You need to buy different color grease guns. And then encode the data
on IBM punch cards, so the data can be retreived later.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
*www.lds.org
.

"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

...

"leave the grease gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly
over a period of years) goes up to the plunger."

Stormin's got the right idea.

I determined that it takes 6 years for the air to evacuate itself, so
6 years ago (2004) I bought a grease gun, hand-filled it and hung it
on a hook.

Then 5 years ago I bought another one, hand-filled that one and hung
it up.

I did the same thing for the next 4 years and finally, starting this
year, I have a grease gun (the 6 YO one) ready to use.

I'll use it this year, re-fill it (by hand of course) and hang it on
it's hook. Next year I'll use the 2005 model, and so on until 6 years
from now the 2004/2010 gun will be ready again.

I just hope I don't lose track of which gun is which.

I haven't used my punch card machine in years. It seems sluggish.
Maybe it needs some grease.

I hope I grab the right grease gun so I can lube the machine so I can
write the program that will help me grab the right grease gun.

On 7/4/2010 12:27 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

just reload the cartridges by hand then use them.

--
Steve Barker
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On 7/4/2010 1:38 AM, Rudy 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, BTDT but its messy (get out the rags and nitrile gloves)



gloves? for grease? I'll bet it fun to watch you pack bearings.

--
Steve Barker
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On 7/4/2010 4:58 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Jul 4, 5:28 pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
I've filled the little cartridges with an old spoon. Works reasonably
well, for me. Put a ring on the plunger handle, and leave the grease
gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly over a period of years)
goes up to the plunger.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.

wrote in message

...
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

"leave the grease gun hanging, nozzle down. So the air (slowly
over a period of years) goes up to the plunger."

Stormin's got the right idea.

I determined that it takes 6 years for the air to evacuate itself, so
6 years ago (2004) I bought a grease gun, hand-filled it and hung it
on a hook.

Then 5 years ago I bought another one, hand-filled that one and hung
it up.

I did the same thing for the next 4 years and finally, starting this
year, I have a grease gun (the 6 YO one) ready to use.

I'll use it this year, re-fill it (by hand of course) and hang it on
it's hook. Next year I'll use the 2005 model, and so on until 6 years
from now the 2004/2010 gun will be ready again.

I just hope I don't lose track of which gun is which.

I was kind of wondering about that procedure..... I go through a
regular sized cartridge or two A DAY. i have no problems keeping my
grease gun working. You just have to understand how they work and how
to operate them.

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Steve Barker
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If you want to load a grease gun from a barrel of grease, its easy to expel
the air...load it by hand..yes get your hands greasy, pack it in like you
would pack a wheel bearing with grease. Stick a narrow stick down to remove
what air you can. (circular motion) Then place the cap on and pull and push
the plunger back and forth. Make certain the plunger is locked out and open
cap, add more grease and repeat if necessary ...Once you do this it becomes
second nature.
"Steve Barker" wrote in message
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On 7/4/2010 12:27 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

just reload the cartridges by hand then use them.

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email