WHY? or alternate title: Can one of you Brits explain this to me?

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by rob love

And the purpose of the 25 pound grease gun?

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.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

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.

Defend defend defend.

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?

[Lauren Child]

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.

[Lynn Eades]

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.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

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.

Ah-ha...it makes perfect sense!!! And any collateral pondering by colonial troops wondering the same thing as those German engineers was a small, manageable price to pay. Devilishly ingenious.

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

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.

I have a feeling this grease pump is a postwar item and part of the kit for a tank (maybe Cent?) and that is why the pipe line is designed in such a way that it stowed neatly.

[Lauren Child]

Originally Posted by Richard Farrant

I have a feeling this grease pump is a postwar item and part of the kit for a tank (maybe Cent?) and that is why the pipe line is designed in such a way that it stowed neatly.

I think we may both be right - Cents also used the Andy (or at least some did).

[Lynn Eades]

Lauren, you can't stop at that! (have I been set up?) What's an Andy?

[Lauren Child]

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.