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Re: Grease fittings

To: TrmpetDave@aol.com
Subject: Re: Grease fittings
From: "Ernest(Chip) Brown" <ebrown@ms.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:52:55 -0400
Unless I'm missing something here, why not just buy an assortment of grease
nipples --- they are very cheap --- and unscrew the old one and put in a new
one? Are these special grease nipples??? Chip Brown

TrmpetDave@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/21/99 12:15:27 AM, Dave.Vodden@uk.ecitele.com writes:
>
> <<ou clearly have something in there. The hole that lets the grease out onto
> the outside of the king pin is really small and so cloggs easily.  Someone
> may be able to suggest a way of clearing it without dissassembly but I
> can't think how>>
>
> There is a gadget that looks like a centerpunch that you can get from JC
> Whitney, that you fill with oil, offer to the occluded grease nipple (or is
> that not what you are complaining about?), and then strike smartly with a
> hammer, that will open up most clogged nipples. Dave Collins, San Diego


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