Hedge Cutter Grease

[spudulike]

You have to know me to know what my words mean.

A tad expensive = WTF, do I bend over so you can take me up the posterior, I will have to put the wife on the street corner to pay for that...you have to be having a forking laugh!!!

[nepia]

Not like you to say it straight Steve when crippling sarcasm will do 🤣

[Peter 1955]

2 hours ago, spudulike said:

You have to know me to know what my words mean.

A tad expensive = WTF, do I bend over so you can take me up the posterior, I will have to put the wife on the street corner to pay for that...you have to be having a forking laugh!!!

You must either have a very pretty wife, or a busy street corner. No way mine could earn enough. 😟

[Mike Hill]

If you take the fitting off the end of a regular grease gun,the threads on the hose match those on the Hedge cutter gearbox casing.

 

 

[pleasant]

On 13/04/2024 at 12:33, nepia said:

Likewise.  Bear in mind that the grease does tend to migrate to one end of the gearbox so plenty grease overall doesn't = good lubrication everywhere

Overfilling will cause hydraulic pressure if the grease has nowhere in the gearbox to migrate to. This will blow the seals where the blades extend from as will as any seal between the clutch housing and the drive gears and also the lower cover plate gasket.

 

Stihls advice is to only check and top up if required every 25 hours of use....admittedly that could be every week of a pro user but for weekend warriors that probably 3 or 4 years. Rule of thumb, if you remove the grease plugs and there is a 'tail' of grease on the inner side of the plug as its removed, then it shouldnt need any. We always give a quick pump of grease just to be sure, but even then, unless we are rebuilding a gearbox a tube of the special grease last our workshop considerable time, so doesnt work out much more expensive than some alternative 

 

 

[pleasant]

21 hours ago, Peter 1955 said:

You must either have a very pretty wife, or a busy street corner. No way mine could earn enough. 😟

You would from me...although im not fussy!