Getting A Secure Fit With Your Grease Gun

hey guys Tara here with forest farm project today we're here to talk about how you put grease into a grease fitting and pretty simple process people been doing it as long as I've been around and a whole lot longer but I see people insert this little ball in there and then they try to hold the grease gun to it while they're trying to pump with one hand and it keeps popping well let me loosen it up a little bit it keeps popping off and they can't figure out why it won't stay on there and so many of them don't realize you just turn this little doohickey right here and it it grabs that ball and it's on there so just to you know it sits there and just to demonstrate that I'm gonna pop a little hole on this board right here and show you that it's actually really grabbing so we're going to just insert this little grease fitting in there well that was a good fit got lucky on that one so now normally people would come up there and slide that thing on it and they're having to hold it on there and if they get the pumping its popping around and it'll slide off most people don't realize you just turn this down like that and you can pull I could break that board in two it's on there it's not coming off now I've got two hands I can pump my grease going all day long and get what I need done and when I'm done then that thing loose and kind of pulled out on it and when it gets loose it pops right off you go to the next one pop it on there and it seems like some of them are a little tighter than others you might need to loosen a little bit extra pop it on it Snug it down pump your grease and go I like this grease gun because you can do it one-handed and you could hold it on there if you needed to but there's no sense in it it will stay on there if you crank that thing down and a lot of times you can't get grease to go into the fitting because it's not on there tight it's real wobbly where once you tighten it down and you've got it on there it's on there tight there's not much room that grease is gonna be more likely to get forced into that greaser so it's a simple little procedure but it works I'm going to show you a close-up of what how does this end works but basically what it does is you see this ball hitch right here this is the same as that greaser as you crank this around and clamp it down it's pushing those metal tabs in and they grab that ball and then they're stuck on and they won't come off you pump your grease in it and then when you're done you loosen it back up and boom they're off of there so let's let's go ahead and we're going to put this in the vise and I'm going to show you a close-up of that so in this close-up you can see that when you attach this grease gun to this fitting the fitting has this little shoulder all the way around so the grease gun slides over it in this area here it slides in there and you notice how these are kind of spread out right now and there's a gap there well when you screw this on there once you've placed it onto the fitting watch those little gaps close up and that's basically causing those things to pinch down around this once this is clamped down on the fitting you're hands-free you no longer have to hold this onto the fitting you can use your hands to work the grease gun or do whatever you need to do and then come back loosen it back up and it will pull off of that fitting again well I hope you guys found this video useful and if you like what you saw please give us the big thumbs up subscribe share with your friends and check backoff and we've got a lot coming guys thanks for watching

Channel: Forest To Farm

Views: 399,341

Keywords: foresttofarm, forest to farm, tool tip, grease gun tip, proper grease gun fit, homestead, homesteading, farm, farming, farmlife, howto, how to, milwaukee 12 volt drill, lucas grease gun, one handed grease gun

Id: Sq9MNUHwUFY

Length: 3min 53sec (233 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 11 2018