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MGC merblings from Richard Mixture, November 2016
C is for Cwick Coupler
H
ello again it’s Richard here
again and I’ve been having fun
playing with some nipples. Well actually it’s the Cs nipples and actually it’s
an Alemlube Quick Release Grease
Coupler.
Earlier this year, actually it was in the
March MG Motoring, Kym Dubrich
thought this nipple Coupler was worthy of a nomination for the Tool of the
Month. After seeing the article in the
Club magazine Graeme Menz bought
one and was so impressed that he
bought another one to keep at the
farm. He shared his experience with
our nice young Register Co-ordinator,
you know Ian, who was given one for
Father’s Day a couple of months
back. Ian reported that it was the best
Father’s Day present he’d received,
except the sample bottles of Talisker
scotches he received a couple of
years ago, anyway it was better that
socks or underpants again! Pity the
bottles weren’t full size rather than
samples!
So I had to buy one too and what a
marvel. I always had a couple of
sheets of paper under my kingpins to
collect and wipe the excess grease off
the nipples, you know the grease that
doesn’t want to go into the nipple. But
now, what a doddle. I’m greasing all
sorts of nipples and loving it!
The Alemlube Coupler is a bit like one
of those pickled onion pickers with a
syringe like handle, that, when you
depress the syringe button at the top
a number of spider legs come out
from the bottom and gap the pickled
onion in the jar. The Coupler has a
lever that when you depress it four
nipple grabbers come out at the bottom which can be pressed around the
nipple and holds it fast when you let
go of the lever. Very clever, very simple and very effective.
If you order an Alemlube Quick Release Grease Coupler you probably
want the one with the 1/8th BSP
thread, part #14512, so that you attach it to your grease gun.
The Alemlube Quick Release Grease
Coupler in the closed or locked position
The Alemlube Quick Release Grease
Coupler in the open position ready to
be placed on your nipples
Cold Starting an MGC
That nice old Queenslander, you
know who I mean, Bruce, found that if
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