Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-21 Thread Andy Pugh
On 20 Jun 2015, at 02:33, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I noted that there was only perhaps a fraction of an mm of clearance at best on 2 sides of the zerk style fitting Perhaps fit a small-bore copper pipe in the hole and place the fitting somewhere convenient.

Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 June 2015 14:52:18 Andy Pugh wrote: On 20 Jun 2015, at 02:33, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I noted that there was only perhaps a fraction of an mm of clearance at best on 2 sides of the zerk style fitting Perhaps fit a small-bore copper pipe in the hole and place

Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 June 2015 00:32:17 Jack Coats wrote: If in the USA, check W.W.Grainger at Grainger.com - not cheap but they have 'stuff'. If you can't find it in the online catalog, call the nearest store and they can help find it. A search of their online catalog last night didn't show but

Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 June 2015 05:30:24 Gene Heskett wrote: edirect=grease+fitting incomplete copy/paste. But it only showed me 4 fittings, 3 in zerk, one in some sort of a pressure vent cap. Tried to fine tune it, but was not able to get it to show me the nipple connector used on a grease gun. So

[Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; In the process of doing some trial assemblies of the motor to screw adaptors, I noted that there was only perhaps a fraction of an mm of clearance at best on 2 sides of the zerk style fitting installed in the Y nut, so I backed that adaptor off the nut and made some more clearance,

Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-19 Thread Jason Burton
Maybe switch to needle style grease fittings? Best, Jason On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; In the process of doing some trial assemblies of the motor to screw adaptors, I noted that there was only perhaps a fraction of an mm of clearance at

Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-19 Thread Jack Coats
If in the USA, check W.W.Grainger at Grainger.com - not cheap but they have 'stuff'. If you can't find it in the online catalog, call the nearest store and they can help find it. If you work for a big company, have a business card and they might be able to get you the 'big company' discount, if

Re: [Emc-users] Question on grease fitting, required clearance around for gun access?

2015-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 June 2015 22:03:50 Jason Burton wrote: Maybe switch to needle style grease fittings? I thought of that, but when I hit napa looking for a box of those in metric thread, came up dry. I think its probably a good idea, so the next time I'm in one of the other car parts stores here,