DEWALT 20-Volt Max Cordless Grease Gun Review (DCGG571B)

 

The Dewalt Cordless Grease Gun offers continuous flow

Through high school and even a few years after I graduated, I worked in an auto body/mechanic shop. Nearly every day I had to grease car and truck bearings, and I hated it. I really disliked constantly moving that lever up and down, up and down, up and down. Other than working with fiberglass, it was my least favorite job to do. Fast forward twenty three years, and look how far technology has come. We tried the Dewalt Cordless Grease Gun (Model# DCGG571B), and this is what we thought.   

Provided by the Home Depot Prospective Program for review

When you think of a grease gun, you think of a tool that you manually operate to release the grease, or a nozzle that is hooked up to an airline. One is faster but less portable, and one is portable, but a real pain to use. Dewalt fixed both of these issues with their cordless grease gun. It runs off of a 20v Max battery, its portable, and surprisingly it’s really fast.

At only eight (8lbs) the grease is pushed out of the unit up to 5.0 oz./minute in high-flow applications at 10,000 psi. That’s impressive considering there is no hose dragging behind it. Not only that, but Dewalt grease gun has a variable speed trigger, so you can control how much grease you want to be dispersed at any given moment.

Another nice thing about the Dewalt grease gun is that they give you a 42 in. extra-long and flexible hose designed for reaching hard to access grease fittings. And if that’s not enough for you, they also added a bright LED light on the front of the unit so you can see those hardly lit areas.

As for the built, it’s extremely durable and they designed it with an integrated no-mar foot design allows operators to rest the tool on flat surfaces. You can definitely beat this around, and won’t need to worry about breaking it. Some of the other features that Dewalt added were an air-bleeder valve built directly into the unit, and a pump filter screen to prevent dirt from getting into the pump mechanism.  

The only issue that I found with this unit was the grease cap that goes onto the tip of the hose. The secured it with a very thin piece of plastic that broke within the first hour of use. Why they would add such a cheap item to such a heavy duty grease gun is beyond me, but that was really the only thing that I found to be a negative about this tool.

It’s quiet, built very well (except the grease cap) and it pushes the grease into just about any piece of equipment you need it to. If you’re someone that is tires of dragging around a hose, or applying grease manually, definitely check the Dewalt grease gun out for yourself.