| [GMCnet] Storing Grease Guns [message #364680] |
Mon, 14 June 2021 06:12  |
Ken Henderson
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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Someone recently suggested taking the feed spring pressure off of grease
tubes in grease guns to reduce "bleeding".
Yesterday I noticed my primary gun parked with the plunger in, so thought
I'd follow that suggestion. When I yanked the pull handle back to lock the
plunger into the top cap, black moly grease came flooding out the plunger
hole. All over the grease gun, my beautiful white sneakers (only 10 years
old), the perfectly epoxy painted floor (about the same 10 years ago), and
my immaculate hands! Yep, the plunger had been allowing grease to leak
around it ever since I stowed it away a couple of weeks/months ago. :-(
That is not a cheap air-powered gun; I don't recall the brand, but it's
well known and respected. SO, I second the recommendation: ALWAYS store
your grease guns with the plunger retracted -- better the spring take a set
than to squeeze the fluids from your grease, or to cover yourself with
grease.
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