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Grease fitting on a bearing A grease nipple on the driver's door of a 1956 VW Beetle. A grease fitting, grease nipple, Zerk fitting, grease zerk, Alemite fitting, or divit is a metal fitting used in mechanical systems to feed lubricants, usually lubricating grease, into a bearing under moderate to high pressure using a grease gun.
Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California. It operates a chain of retail stores, as well as an e-commerce business. The company employs over 28,000 people in the United States, [5] and has over 1,500 locations in 48 states. [6] [7]
This edit by 75.131.110.5 removed every mention of the inventor of the grease fitting, Oscar Ulysses Zerk, and the word Zerk. This seems like vandalism. I've put back the fact that Zerk invented it, but the vandal did quite a job and I don't feel up to fixing every removal of "Zerk". Vaughan Pratt 04:59, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
A grease gun (pneumatic) A grease gun is a common workshop and garage tool used for lubrication. The purpose of the grease gun is to apply lubricant through an aperture to a specific point, usually from a grease cartridge to a grease fitting or 'nipple'. The channels behind the grease nipple lead to where the lubrication is needed.
Two or more passenger or freight cars may be attached by means of a drawbar rather than a coupler. At each end of the permanently coupled vehicles there is a regular coupler, such as the North American Janney coupler or the Russian SA3 coupler. The use of a drawbar eliminates slack action.
With gooseneck couplers or offset shank couplers, the horizontal centerline of the coupler head is above the horizontal centerline of the coupler shank, or shaft, and the draw gear. This arrangement is designed for use with low-floor freight cars , to lift the coupler head high enough to match the couplers on other rolling stock. [ 18 ]
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The Port of Cleveland is a bulk freight and container shipping port at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River on Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the third-largest port in the Great Lakes and the fourth-largest Great Lakes port by annual tonnage. Over 20,000 jobs and $3.5 billion in annual economic activity are tied to the roughly 13 ...