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Saves keep filling up a small gun when you have to grease up something like a Ferret or bigger.
I have a similar ex-British army one with a flexible hose instead, which I converted to use for gear oil and it makes the chore of topping up wheel station levels on Ferret, Saracen, Fox, Dingo and so on any easy task. Also jeeps and anything else using gear oil.
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How difficult would it be to just admit that it's hard wired into the British mind to pass over a dozen simpler designs then latch on to the most complicated, over built and bizarre? |
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It looks a bit like an Oddy / Andy 5000. If it's doing the same job it's pushing grease at a much higher pressure than a normal grease gun. That would explain the metal tubing.
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Bruce, in Britain's defence, that hideously grotesque, user unfriendly, engineering nightmare, called a grease gun, was probably conceived during a rubber shortage.
Its primary function was to distract German engineers from their work, while they pondered what it was and how to use it. ![]()
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I think we may both be right - Cents also used the Andy (or at least some did).
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Lauren, you can't stop at that! (have I been set up?) What's an Andy?
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It's a big-ass grease gun that squirts at very high pressure - I'll take a pic tonight and upload it. You can use grease or oil.
It's called an Andy 5000, but people also seem to call them Oddy (and in some if the formal docs) so I'd imagine that's another brand. |
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