where to buy good quality grease/oil stuff?

Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
"Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the trash. I am quite
jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause it just works... is
there anywhere to get quality tools without paying Snap-On prices?

nate

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Nate Nagel > wrote:
>Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
>buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
>"Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
> bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the trash. I am quite
>jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause it just works... is
>there anywhere to get quality tools without paying Snap-On prices?

I have an industrial grease gun I ordered from Applied Industrial Technology
and I am very happy with it. Grainger Supply probably makes something similar.
--scott
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Nate Nagel wrote:
> Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
> buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
> "Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
> bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the trash. I am quite
> jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause it just works... is
> there anywhere to get quality tools without paying Snap-On prices?
>
> nate
>

Look for a Lincoln grease gun they can be filled from bulk or using
tubes. Take a look at the link and you might notice that the Lincoln
looks familiar.
http://snipurl.com/1ln94 for a Lincoln
http://snipurl.com/1lnai to look at the same gun at Snap-On

Lincoln also makes a good suction gun.

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Nate Nagel wrote:
> Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
> buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
> "Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...

Years ago I bought an expensive and supposedly high-quality grease gun.
It never worked right from the beginning. I never noticed before, but
the plunger has no seal on it; it's just a metal plate 1/4" smaller than
the barrel that goes right through the grease instead of pushing it.
The other day I bought a pistol-grip "Performance Tool" gun, and it feels
so much more like a quality tool than the expensive "high-quality" gun
it's replacing. It is also indistinguishable (except in color) from the
$40-50 pistol-grip guns I saw elsewhere under different brand names.
It even has a bulk-fill connector (useless to me) and an air bleed valve.

If by suction gun you mean the vacuum testing type units (some of which
come with tiny brake-bleeding kits), I bought one the other day for $17
or thereabouts at Harbor Freight that seems to be considerably better
quality than the plastic brand-name $35 unit (MityVac?). I even had a
blunder where I got it full of brake fluid, and now that I've drained it
even the paint is unchanged.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92474

Note please that normally, the worst-quality tools I buy are Craftsman.
Anything lesser that I buy is bought in a pinch, or for a one-time
function (i.e. if it works once it's paid for itself).

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Nate Nagel wrote:
> Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
> buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
> "Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
> bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the trash. I am quite
> jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause it just works... is
> there anywhere to get quality tools without paying Snap-On prices?
>
> nate
>
I buy that cheap Walmart crap. It works fine for me.

Broderick Crawford wrote:
> Nate Nagel wrote:
>
>>Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
>>buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
>>"Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
>> bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the trash. I am quite
>>jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause it just works... is
>>there anywhere to get quality tools without paying Snap-On prices?
>>
>>nate
>>
>
> I buy that cheap Walmart crap. It works fine for me.

You mush have better luck than I do. The suction gun would only suck
for about 1" of its stroke, for me... making filling a transaxle a long,
painful process. Was actually easier to disassemble the gun, pour it
full of gear oil, then use the gun to push the gear oil into the trans,
lather, rinse, repeat.

nate

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clifto wrote:
> Nate Nagel wrote:
>
>>Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
>>buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
>>"Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
>
>
> Years ago I bought an expensive and supposedly high-quality grease gun.
> It never worked right from the beginning. I never noticed before, but
> the plunger has no seal on it; it's just a metal plate 1/4" smaller than
> the barrel that goes right through the grease instead of pushing it.
> The other day I bought a pistol-grip "Performance Tool" gun, and it feels
> so much more like a quality tool than the expensive "high-quality" gun
> it's replacing. It is also indistinguishable (except in color) from the
> $40-50 pistol-grip guns I saw elsewhere under different brand names.
> It even has a bulk-fill connector (useless to me) and an air bleed valve.
>
> If by suction gun you mean the vacuum testing type units (some of which
> come with tiny brake-bleeding kits), I bought one the other day for $17
> or thereabouts at Harbor Freight that seems to be considerably better
> quality than the plastic brand-name $35 unit (MityVac?). I even had a
> blunder where I got it full of brake fluid, and now that I've drained it
> even the paint is unchanged.
>
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92474
>
> Note please that normally, the worst-quality tools I buy are Craftsman.
> Anything lesser that I buy is bought in a pinch, or for a one-time
> function (i.e. if it works once it's paid for itself).
>

No, I meant something used for changing fluids in, say, a rear axle with
no drain plug (suck old oil out, clean gun, fill with new fluid, push
into axle)

nate

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Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Nate Nagel > wrote:
>
>>Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
>>buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made by
>>"Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight quality...
>> bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the trash. I am quite
>>jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause it just works... is
>>there anywhere to get quality tools without paying Snap-On prices?
>
>
> I have an industrial grease gun I ordered from Applied Industrial Technology
> and I am very happy with it. Grainger Supply probably makes something similar.
> --scott

Now that you think about it, I'm going to have to place an order with
either Grainger or McMaster-Carr soon, and I have yet to be disappointed
with the quality of either's products (usually drill bits, taps, reams,
etc.)

nate

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Steve W. wrote:
> Nate Nagel wrote:
>
>> Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
>> buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made
>> by "Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight
>> quality... bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the
>> trash. I am quite jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause
>> it just works... is there anywhere to get quality tools without
>> paying Snap-On prices?
>>
>> nate
>>
>
> Look for a Lincoln grease gun they can be filled from bulk or using
> tubes. Take a look at the link and you might notice that the Lincoln
> looks familiar.
> http://snipurl.com/1ln94 for a Lincoln
> http://snipurl.com/1lnai to look at the same gun at Snap-On
>
> Lincoln also makes a good suction gun.
>

Thanks, looks like a possibility. I know they make decent welders but
I've never used any of their other products.

nate

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In article >,
Nate Nagel > wrote:

> Steve W. wrote:
> > Nate Nagel wrote:
> >
> >> Specifically I need a grease gun and a suction gun... where does one
> >> buy this stuff? All of the stores around me sell the same stuff made
> >> by "Performance Tool" which looks to be of about Harbor Freight
> >> quality... bought a suction gun anyway and it's already in the
> >> trash. I am quite jealous of my buddy's Blue Point grease gun 'cause
> >> it just works... is there anywhere to get quality tools without
> >> paying Snap-On prices?
> >>
> >> nate
> >>
> >
> > Look for a Lincoln grease gun they can be filled from bulk or using
> > tubes. Take a look at the link and you might notice that the Lincoln
> > looks familiar.
> > http://snipurl.com/1ln94 for a Lincoln
> > http://snipurl.com/1lnai to look at the same gun at Snap-On
> >
> > Lincoln also makes a good suction gun.
> >
>
> Thanks, looks like a possibility. I know they make decent welders but
> I've never used any of their other products.
>
> nate

16 bucks

http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/ling112.html

Ships out of Fort Wayne In. you should see it in a day or two.