Never buy a tube of grease AGAIN!!! [well, almost]

[Guest]

Long story short, went to grease my frontend today and made two pulls on the trigger and no grease. I live WAAAY out of town,; don't feel like running in to buy a tube and Adavance doesn't deliver here on Saturday (commercial acount).

No tube grease anywhere, but I do have a fresh, full TUB for hand packing, Figures, I always have what I don't need at the time.

I hate grease, hate it on anything, especially my hands, so I'm not looking forward to spoon feeding my air grease gun.

Suddenly it hit me, "just put the end of the tube body from the gun in the TUB of grease with the empty tube still in it and pull the rod back".

V'ola !!!!! About half a tube of perfect air free grease !!!!!

Just a little to wipe off of the end, reinstall and bleed as normal.

Granted, it's not all the way full, but it'll get you where you need to be.

You can fill it all the way if you want, just make sure you stop BEFORE you reach the bottom of the TUB (got stuck there), and push the other grease to the middle and keep pulling back.

I'm so happy, I feel like the kid who made the flat bottom tacos.

Hmmmm, I might bring my wife to the Mexican joint for lunch.
I'll definatly be able to score some grease there !!!!!


Something tells me maybe this is how it was done before tube grease came to be, but that's before my time. Probably some guy thought "hey, let's put grease in a tube", and then they all went for tacos.

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Before you had replacement tubes, that's how we reloaded grease guns.
Used to do it every day.
You will learn to bang the can to pop the air bubbles out and settle it, the tap the gun case to do the same.
Put the case up, loosen 1/2 turn or so, and release the plunger.
That will pop most of the air out around the threads...and when it is obviously grease, quick tighten it.

 

[Guest]

Mine has a bleed on the top but it doesn't work right. I keep the hose a little loose and just pull it off and use my finger over the hose and bleed like that.

 

[CraigZ]

Is this the same kind of refillable gun you use to put oil in the steering rack?

 

[jlaird]

Yes, kinda, as long as it does not leak.

 

[texas_bugeye]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">You will learn to bang the can to pop the air bubbles out and settle it, the tap the gun case to do the same.
Put the case up, loosen 1/2 turn or so, and release the plunger.
That will pop most of the air out around the threads...and when it is obviously grease, quick tighten it.</span>

So you can eat more tacos!!

 

[Guest]

the tacos were most delicious too !!!!!!

......although they didn't have flat bottoms.....nor did they bring me nails and a hammer.....

I guess they didn't know the little boy or see the commercials.

Stupid me, the commercials are in ENGLISH !!!!!
( these are "fresh out the truck" folks we're talking about).

Ya know, leave it to us Americans to screw up perfectly good ethnic foods. I've eaten at SEVERAL "Mexican" places here, and HATED Mexican food........until I went to a small Mexican town (pop 1500) and MAN, TALK ABOUT GOOD FOOD !!!!!!!

......all this food talk is makin' me hungry again. I guess I better do something clever so I can get some more tacos.

 

[texas_bugeye]

Chips and salsa and and some good tamles and a cold beer sound good now .
Later I'm headed to Dos Choaros for Diner!