Re: grease zirks

Posted by HH56 On 2013/11/30 18:12:20

I wonder if yours is one of the grease gun fittings which are metric based & maybe cheaply made. Even though they are supposed to be "universal" I found some are a bit too tight.

I have a small cheapo import cartridge type gun where the fitting went on but on first use was very reluctant to release. On one of the 56 zerks that look exactly like yours, I managed to pull the press in zerk right out of the forging. Had to do some serious twisting and prying to finally release it from the gun.

Bought another end (also import) of the same type but looked to be better finished. It does not have the problem. I chalked the first one up to just poor mass production quality.