Grease Gun Storage?(Naw..The Lube type)

[Fuzz]

Been "bugging" me for a long time. Though maybe someone here has a solution.

I use the tube type grease in the grease gun.
Don't need it a lot and it seems the oil will leak out of the grease and make a mess.
Been storing in plastic bag but still a mess.
How do you folks do it?Maybe taking out cannister and capping off,but I really doubt if that would stop it.
Thanks for any ideas.

 

[Archive]

FUZZ, same problem here. I have noticed that the synthetic greases don't seem to "bleed" out of suspension as much as coventional stuff. I tossed the old plastic Wal-Mart bags and keep mine wrapped up in an old bath towel now. Not a solution, but less mess.

 

[Bill Stockard]

Fuzz,

I store mine horizontal and keep a red rag tied in a knot on the "T" handle to catch the drips. It gets hot here in Texas in the summer and the grease does melt a little. Not very ingenious, but works for me.

Bill

 

[illflem]

I use an old sock over the grease gun, thicker the better, then a plastic bag followed by another thinner sock. Wrap it all the way up on the outside with a rubber band. Works excellent and you always have a rag handy when you grease. I fill my guns with a pump on a five gallon bucket though a fitting on the head of the gun, there is no need to remove the socks, some of my guns have had the same socks on for years.

 

[Fuzz]

Thanks all, good ideas. Guess I'll discard the Wal-Mart sack.
Fuzz

 

[slowneasy]

Have ya tried asking the wife to keep it on the bottom shelf in the fridge?!!

 

[boatpuller]

The gun I use for my old case backhoe sits in an old wooden box on the shelf in the garage, never sits long enough to turn to oil. Gun I have synthetic grease for boat trailer wheel bearings I keep in the bottom of a pant leg from an old pair of jeans, just cut it off at the knee and sew that end closed the other end is already hemmed and the denim is thick enough that it doesn't seem to leak out.
Going to have to try the old socks, sounds like a good idea, thanks Bill.
Caleb

 

[illflem]

Caleb, I use the pants leg trick also for covering hydraulic quick coupler hose ends when not in use. I'm not much of a seamstress though, I just turn the leg inside out and use a stapler to make my seam on the cut end. Turn it right side out and nobody knows I can't sew. The pants leg sack also makes an excellent cover for funnels and oil fill containers to keep dust out.

 

[Champane Flight]

I put mine in a peice of 3" PVC with a cap on the end. I mounted them on the wall. This works for about four years and then I have to change out the PVC,gets pretty ugly. I keep my rag bin right under the grease guns and usally grab a rag,then the gun.

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[Big-D]

Fuzz, I carry my grease gun on my tractor all the time. Winter and summer. I use a hydrualic fitting cap (3/8 or 1/2 inch depending on gun) to cover the discharge end and have never had a problem with grease running out. Even in the hot weather, direct sunlight. I just keep the gun facing downward with the handle in the closed position.

As a side note: I stopped using the cartridge type grease guns along time ago because the tubes are so expensive. Fill my guns from a five gallon pale by way of compressed air (hand pump types are avaialbe)and measure how much grease is in the gun by pulling the plunger handle out. Takes five seconds to fill and no mess from changing a cartridge.
Dave