A better way to grease gears?

[GrifterGuru]

To be honest, I would rather use a grease gun with a fine tip over a syringe. At least you could swap the tip to then hit zerks with.

 

[Jake M]

To be honest, I would rather use a grease gun with a fine tip over a syringe. At least you could swap the tip to then hit zerks with.

Put a 1/8 npt zerk in the fine tip (or any other "special" grease tip) and the swpping thing all but goes away.

 

[Jake M]

So I just changed the oil in my headstock and was greasing the gears and thought "there has got to be a better way!". I've been using the digital method, which is to say that I get some grease on one of my digits and apply it to the gear teeth. This is messy, not just in operation, but in the grease that gets slung off in operation. (Inevitably some teeth get huge amounts of grease which is wasted as opposed to distributed as you might hope in an alternate universe.) So I thought I'd ask and see if any of you clever people has found a better way?

TIA,
GsT

Acid brushes work fine for this. How thick is the grease? 1 and less, a 1 inch paint brush (perhaps smaller) works fine if you trim the bristles down to 3/4 of an inch or so. Tooth brushes work great. An inveted cone fitting coupler or adapter, or a "grease injector" hypodermic needle grease gun tip or adapter on your grease gun will make a narrow bead around the gear that'll spread it's self nicely.

 

[Mauzinette]

I would rather use a grease gun with a fine tip over a syringe.

+1 I finally got myself a Dualco grease gun and it is joyous to use thanks to the interchangeable tips.

 

[Tom1948]

I don't use grease. I use spray on mototcrycle chain lube, the wax type.

I use that as well. Works good for me.

 

[mcostello]

Garage door lube works and dries,somewhat.

 

[mksj]

I use green super impact grease, takes very little and spreads out evenly, it is designed to stick to the gears and not fly off. It also significantly reduces the gear noise of straight cut gears. Downside is if you have to do change gears, it is very sticky. I have a tube, must be 30 years old and maybe used 1/4 of the tube through the years. Standard GL2 type grease flies all over the place, chain/chainsaw spray lube is also used, but I find that the super impact grease seems to just stick to the gears and they run much quieter. Primarily for open gears.