Thanks for the reply.
The first item you mentioned is way beyond my price range. I am a home user; not a pro. The second item was sold at auction and was not well described anyway.
I just popped the links in so you would know what the numbers looked like.
I paid $ 25 for the K9 and bought a carton ( 24) of the Tricors for $ 50 .
You don't have to buy things new, but you won't get good stuff from places like Auto Zone, Walmart or Harbour Freight.
However the USA is a bloody big place and there is a lot of pro grade gear going for a song on the used grease gun market.
Also thousands of garages going broke every week so lots of clearance auctions ( where I got the first K9 from ) .My first one came from a car dealer who went broke, the second from a farm clearing sale , the third was from a forklift mechanic who went broke. The box of Tircors came from a distributor who went broke.
I use these because they are CLEAN and don't drip out solvent when the oil separates from the soap in the grease.
Every grease gun with a plunger leaks and makes a filthy mess.
This is even more important for home owners where a grease gun might get used twice a year if at all.
I gave away 5 of the same ( or similar ) small guns that Darryl uses some with rigid nozels, some flexible.
I took all of the big guns to a swap meet and sold the lot ( around 10 or so ) for $ 50 which was probably less than the value of the grease in them.
The good thing about using name branded gear is you can get parts for them that actually fit as different from an Auto Zone gun with non standard fittings.
And II go back to my original suggestion, undo the bolts and turn the spindle housing around so you get clean access to it.
If it is hard to access then yo won't grease the spindle.
If it is easy to do then you will do it regularly.
