Re: prior to Zerk fittings, what did they have?

Posted by Bob Kerr on February 16, 2002 at 08:14:30 from (64.12.103.166):

In Reply to: prior to Zerk fittings, what did they have? posted by Greaseman on February 15, 2002 at 09:51:58:

Red Dave is right, one old type is called Alemite and it has a cylinder with two pins, you slip on the end of the gun and twist it to lock it on. I have one that fits on a lever type gun. The other type, and I forget what it was called had just a straight nipple with no latch. Look at some of the Old 10-20 and Regular Farmalls. They have tons of that type. The name of them is in the old Farmall parts books but mine is packed away right now. They were originally to be used with heavy oil (140-160w)and not the thickened grease we have now. The oldest cups I have seen were nothing but a trough cast into a bearing block. the trough was packed with cotton waste or Lambs wool and let the oil filter down and into the bearing. Problem was , there is no control of the oil flow. I have a hand crank grist mill from 1880 and it has that type but has a flip top lid made from cast iron also!. Then there were the screw on grease cups and flip top oil cups some of the others have mentioned. Also back in the early 1900s there were mechanical lubricators that look like a box with anywhere from one to twenty pipes coming out of the side. They mount near a rotating or occilating shaft and have a lever that works off that. the lever runs a pump or some kind of device and puts oil into those pipes which travel all over the machine to lube all points from one location. I have seen those on real old cars, tractors, steamengines, machine shop equipment.

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