Thread: grease nipples?

Originally Posted by Sprint

Ding ding ding ding ding! we have a winner!

Me: have you ever greased this thing?
Customer: No, are you meant to?
Me: Its got grease nipples.
Customer: It has?
Me: *points*
Customer: Nobody told us when we bought it
Me: If something has grease nipples its usually self explainatory.....
Customer: Oh.....

Tank, I rarely use a clip-on coupler, instead I have a couple of different grease needles, it limits the mess because the grease goes directly into the nipple, if I need to exert undue force to get the grease in, it encourages me to investigate before things get messy, and I can get a grease needle in where traditional couplers dont fit.....

In other news.... I was a little shocked on sunday night working on some old machinery to find some button type grease nipples that were stamped with the makers name.... guessing they come from a time when a manufacturer wasnt ashamed to advertise who made the product....

It was a joke Joyce, a bit of levity, Regards Frank

Originally Posted by Sprint

In another thread I think it was Rick130 that reccomended Caterpillar Desert Gold as a good multi purpose grease, part number is #129-1937 for a 450g cartridge to suit most common grease guns. Its what I've been using since his reccomendation.

SNAFUBAR: i think everyone else took your reply as a humerous answer......

That grease does have impressive specs. How is the price?

I had to buy a special adaptor (at vast expense) to grease the front end on a customer's early 60's Rolls Royce. Oddball looking grease nipples on that thing.
My grease gun at work gets used a few times a week as I do quite a few 4wds. Some of them look to have never been greased when I first see them.

Originally Posted by Dougal

That grease does have impressive specs. How is the price?

$10-$15 a tube I think.... I dont really worry too much about the price, grease is generally the cheapest maintenance you can do....

I've also been given a tube of Castrol SBX to try out.... havent tried it yet, but it seems to spec pretty well

Ive got some machinery at work, made in USA. The service manual calls grease nipples "zerks"

May be a brand name like Crescent applied to adjustable sapanner?

First maker was Zerk way back

Originally Posted by Sprint

$10-$15 a tube I think.... I dont really worry too much about the price, grease is generally the cheapest maintenance you can do....

I've also been given a tube of Castrol SBX to try out.... havent tried it yet, but it seems to spec pretty well

That's excellent. I've paid over $100 per tube for kluber and skf before. Special applications of course.

The CAT stuff is cheap Dougal, can't recall what I pay at Westrac but usually buy half a dozen tubes at a time.