Lubed your Zerk Fitting recently?

macman26, Sep 22, 9:12am

Learn something new every day. Never heard it called this before.

mrfxit, Sep 22, 4:23pm

LMAO, never heard of either before.
Zerk or Alemite fitting

Always just been a grease nipple to me
But yea, it's just being PC to use those 1st names

esky-tastic, Sep 22, 5:50pm

Yanks have always called them Zerk fittings.

sifty, Sep 22, 5:51pm

Yeah a US thing.

ntalke, Sep 22, 5:53pm

Out of the Bible Belt
They don't like Nipples

mrfxit, Sep 22, 6:01pm

Bottle fed, huh = sad

hkjoe, Jan 11, 4:07am

Zerk fittings were patented to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929. In fact, Alemite Manufacturing Corporation was the assignee in this instance. This is why Zerk fittings are also known as Alemite fittings.

Before the existence of Zerk fittings, bearings were lubricated in different ways. Most of these methods were maintenance-intensive and ineffective.

Most machinery bearings in the 19th and 20th century had a cross-drilled hole to receive grease and other lubricants.

This system was not very effective since dirt and debris would get collected in the bearings while lubricating them. Zerk fittings were the answer to this problem.
http://www.bearingsinc.info/what-are-zerk-fittings-or-grease-fittings.html

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