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How do you store your grease guns?
June 15, 2018, 07:42 AM
MNSIGHow do you store your grease guns?
I've bought cheap ones, expensive ones and in between. They all ooze and leak when stored. I'm looking for some good ideas to store them in my shop to keep them relatively handy and clean.
June 15, 2018, 07:50 AM
Haveme1or2Laying on news paper, flex hose tip in an old med bottle. Shop rags always near ! I do clean it up after use.
In an uncooled shop I doubt there is any way to keep them clean, I gave up. Lol
June 15, 2018, 07:55 AM
95flhrI use a PVC Pipe set-up similar to this one.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/351421577154596555/
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June 15, 2018, 07:56 AM
MuddflapI hang it from a wire coat hanger, on the end of a shelf, and put an empty plastic coffee container under it.
I don’t know of any way to keep it from dripping. All you can do is minimize the mess.
June 15, 2018, 07:58 AM
BillyBonesNYIn the basement, on a unfinished wooden board, seems to absorb the discharge
Have about 6 or so and a bunch of oil cans too.
June 15, 2018, 08:12 AM
1967GoatFunny, there was a thread less than a year ago about this topic. I store mine in a gallon ziploc bag (not zipped shut).
June 15, 2018, 08:13 AM
MNSIG^^^^
Apparently, modern technology has not yet solved the problem.
June 15, 2018, 08:16 AM
RichardCIn the original now-soaked cardboard box, in a plastic tub on the steel shelves in the garage.
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June 15, 2018, 08:24 AM
MNSIGHas anyone tried one of these?
https://www.summitracing.com/p...FEAQYBSABEgLgkfD_BwEJune 15, 2018, 08:48 AM
Southflorida-lawI really clicked on here expecting to see an M3!
June 15, 2018, 08:54 AM
MNSIGquote:
Originally posted by Southflorida-law:
I really clicked on here expecting to see an M3!
I'm not THAT cool.
June 15, 2018, 08:54 AM
PHPaulI have a shelf lined with "New Pig" oil absorbent pads. I buy them by the case from
Amazon.
Unless I have a big (and messy) project, a case will last me a year or more. Change them out as needed on the shelf, lay them on my work bench for working on oily/greasy stuff, also make a nice clean place to work on carburetors.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
June 15, 2018, 08:57 AM
kz1000In my Sherman.
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"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris
June 15, 2018, 09:42 AM
JellySince I have a few of them I put them nozzle up in a 5 gallon bucket.
June 15, 2018, 09:45 AM
PowerSurgequote:
Originally posted by 1967Goat:
Funny, there was a thread less than a year ago about this topic. I store mine in a gallon ziploc bag (not zipped shut).
Same.
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June 15, 2018, 09:46 AM
PowerSurgequote:
Originally posted by kz1000:
In my Sherman.
BOO!!
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June 15, 2018, 09:57 AM
sigcrazy7Store them in a cooler environment. If they set in a hot shop or garage, the oil and soap will separate. Do you have someplace else you could keep them?
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus June 15, 2018, 10:12 AM
lymanI put mine inside the leg that I cut off a pair of Denim jeans ,
fold the hose part up by the handle, insert, and store on top of a steel cabinet,
denim absorbs whatever drippage it has
https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/
June 15, 2018, 10:57 AM
tannerIf your my son, the bottom of MY tool box, where of course, everything becomes rust proofed!
June 15, 2018, 11:04 AM
dusty3030quote:
Originally posted by Jelly:
Since I have a few of them I put them nozzle up in a 5 gallon bucket.
This. 5 gallon bucket (aka Mexican toolbox) on my "oil rack" shelf.