Can this also be used to grease a Volvo shaft seal?Lubriplate 130AA.
Can this also be used to grease a Volvo shaft seal?Lubriplate 130AA.
I thought of that. How did you do it? I can't find small cartridges of 130-AA. I thought I'd squeeze the 10 oz. tube into a mini grease gun, but I'd need an empty grease cartridge, and then to clean the empty cartridge and gun first.I put the Lubriplate grease into one of those small grease guns that take the mini cartridges. Works much better than the pump on the tube - probably cheaper too.
I've been using the syringe method for 7 years now. Works just fine.I doubt it works. The Max-Prop manual calls for pulling grub screws and replacing with zerks, and pumping grease in while manipulating the blades 'til grease oozes out of the hub. Would be impossible to do with a plastic syringe, I think.
How do you "connect" it to the port for the grease? Just press it in?
That's brilliant, thanks very much. I feel stupid now, for having ordered the kit with the grease gun that others say is useless. $35 for the kit, a tube of that grease can be had for $11. Doh!The syringe I have had quite a point on it. I cut the point off at the spot where it is approximately the size of the grease opening when you've removed the plug.
I fill the Syringe from the grease tube. Then press and hold it tightly in the opening. Press down on the plunger and rotate the prop back and forth slightly. The grease will ooze out forcing any water ahead of it.
Do one grease point at a time. Takes maybe 5 minutes total.
I learned the technique from the guys in our marina yard. They said it was so much faster than unscrewing the plugs, threading in the zercs, squirting the grease, removing the zercs and threading the plugs back in.
Oh don't beat yourself up. It happens. You do have a nice grease gun now.That's brilliant, thanks very much. I feel stupid now, for having ordered the kit with the grease gun that others say is useless. $35 for the kit, a tube of that grease can be had for $11. Doh!
You might have posted that idea before, that’s where I heard it,Oh don't beat yourself up. It happens. You do have a nice grease gun now.
I'd likely have gone the same route if the yard guy hadn't clued me in.
Don't feel stupid for doing the job the right way.I feel stupid now, for having ordered the kit with the grease gun that others say is useless. $35 for the kit, a tube of that grease can be had for $11. Doh!