fishEH
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Thought I’d share a trick for greasing your swivel balls. I bought the One-Shot grease and quickly found the grease did not want to go in the fill hole. Much of it pushed out the very hole I was trying to put it in.
For about $7 I came up with a tool. Here’s the parts list:
Pep Boys: FloTool “The MixMizer” $4.98
Home Depot: SharkBite 38/” x ½” MNPT reducing connector $1.98
The MixMizer is basically a syringe used for mixing two cycle motor oil. It even came with a 4” length of tubing.
The SharkBite fitting basically is a brass threaded male to barbed adaptor.
Apply Teflon tape to the brass fitting and connect it to the tubing in the syringe. Thread the fitting into the fill hole on the swivel ball, hand tight is sufficient. Fill the syringe with the one shot grease and install the plunger. It took seven syringe fills to empty the one shot tube. Somewhat tedious but it’s a clean process and you can actually get the entire one shot tube emptied into the swivel ball.
Now to the pics!
Note: The grease seen on the housing is from my first attempt without the tool.
For about $7 I came up with a tool. Here’s the parts list:
Pep Boys: FloTool “The MixMizer” $4.98
Home Depot: SharkBite 38/” x ½” MNPT reducing connector $1.98
The MixMizer is basically a syringe used for mixing two cycle motor oil. It even came with a 4” length of tubing.
The SharkBite fitting basically is a brass threaded male to barbed adaptor.
Apply Teflon tape to the brass fitting and connect it to the tubing in the syringe. Thread the fitting into the fill hole on the swivel ball, hand tight is sufficient. Fill the syringe with the one shot grease and install the plunger. It took seven syringe fills to empty the one shot tube. Somewhat tedious but it’s a clean process and you can actually get the entire one shot tube emptied into the swivel ball.
Now to the pics!
Note: The grease seen on the housing is from my first attempt without the tool.
