How to fill a grease gun

[ean_p]

its a lot lot easier to refil an empty cartridge because it is open at the far end which alows you to 'push' the grease in from the bottom. Also as far as i know and is quite possibly wrong the only real way to fill a gun is to push it down into a drum of grease while drawing back the plunger at the same speed so 'air' never enters into the equation. and that is a tub of grease with no disk/washer on top. these I've always understood were just to keep the grease clean and 'tidy' in the tub and not really for gun filling as that disk would take some pushing down for the length of a gun . for my part i always use a used cartridge (the same one) and a flat scraper.

 

[LadyInBed]

Gently heating the grease till it will pour would work, but I don't know if it would alter the properties of the grease - one for Vic maybe.

 

[No Regrets]

I used to refill our workshop ones with a wooden spatula.

Heating and cooling shouldn't hurt though, but lawd knows how hot it needs to be to go liquid.... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[LadyInBed]

It is hot enough when it starts to move around when the container is tilted /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif