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Thinking about getting this. Anyone have one and comments ? Thanks, Ron

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My buddy has one for his restoration shop. I don't know if it's the same brand though. They're nice. If you're greesing 2-3 cars per week, then it'd be worth it. Otherwise, realize that those type of batteries (unless they're the newer lithium ones) will only last a few years, and then you'll have to buy a new $50-80 battery every few years.



If you can't live without one, then at least try and find one that's uses the same battery all your other cordless tools run, so that the batteries are interchangeable.

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willy74 wrote:

My buddy has one for his restoration shop. I don't know if it's the same brand though. They're nice. If you're greesing 2-3 cars per week, then it'd be worth it. Otherwise, realize that those type of batteries (unless they're the newer lithium ones) will only last a few years, and then you'll have to buy a new $50-80 battery every few years.



If you can't live without one, then at least try and find one that's uses the same battery all your other cordless tools run, so that the batteries are interchangeable.

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Your right about the battery life. This may be better and less expensive. Thanks, Ron

dustymaxhudson

I purchased these for my techs to use for maintenance on the cranes at the terminal and the price listed is half what we pay for them with our discount. They work very well, but the techs tend to forget to put them in the charger and we replace quite a few batteries. I will say that it is a nice grease gun, but for infrequent home use, you're probably better off with a quality manual pump gun.

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I never got enough pressure out of this gun to grease my Hudson or anything else, and I just threw the gun away.

MikeWA

Notice the seller's stats- almost 16,000 transactions, 100% positive ratings. How do you do anything 16,000 times, and not screw up at least once? Seriously, though, Ron, I'd go with the air model, and use the money you save to buy cigarettes ;<)

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Ron P wrote:

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Thinking about getting this. Anyone have one and comments ? Thanks, Ron

From Walt. Don't use anything but a hand held grease gun on your Hudson. Most important, be very careful when you grease the kingpins. A pressure gun will blow the lower grease plug right out and you are in trouble. Better check your kingpins to see if the lower pressure plug is still there. If not, you are wearing he bottom harden bushing out. That plug that is in the middle of the cup opens after 5 lbs pressure for that is what it takes to force the grease that comes down through the middle of the king pin to lube the bottom bushing. Do not install a solid plug as that will blow the seal out between the spindle and the spindle support. Better check if yours are still there and save yourself a repair job. It takes special tools for this job, but it gets butchered when using a hammer and chisel.

RL Chilton

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From Walt. Don't use anything but a hand held grease gun on your Hudson. Most important, be very careful when you grease the kingpins. A pressure gun will blow the lower grease plug right out and you are in trouble. Better check your kingpins to see if the lower pressure plug is still there. If not, you are wearing he bottom harden bushing out. That plug that is in the middle of the cup opens after 5 lbs pressure for that is what it takes to force the grease that comes down through the middle of the king pin to lube the bottom bushing. Do not install a solid plug as that will blow the seal out between the spindle and the spindle support. Better check if yours are still there and save yourself a repair job. It takes special tools for this job, but it gets butchered when using a hammer and chisel.

Ron-



This sounds like good advice, I was told the same thing and it's the only grease gun I've ever used (a hand-held one). Keep in mind, that "back in the day", it's all they had available then. What was good enough then, still works today.