Individuals / Small Business

This page highlights the main features and benefits of the Lube-Shuttle® system if you generally fit this profile:

  • Small amount of grease per year (approx. 1-10 tubes)
  • Small amount of equipment (1 - 10 power units)
  • Homeowner with equipment / business owner with equipment
  • Hobby farmer / homeowner with acreage
  • You do the greasing yourself

What is Lube-Shuttle®? 

For a full description, go to the 'About' menu on our Home Page and click on Overview.  To learn more about Lube-Shuttle® grease guns click on the Grease Guns link.  To learn more about our main lines of grease, click on the Grease link.  FAQs are answered here.

Background

The grease gun in the current form used most widely in North America was invented in 1916 - over a hundred years ago. There have been very few innovations.  All that's really happened is different styles of gun have been developed.  Grease guns come in manual forms (pistol grip, lever grip), electric (battery-operated), and pneumatic (air driven, usually from a pail or 120 lb. 'keg' of grease). 

One thing that's common for every manual and electric grease gun is the spring and plunger design.  That hasn't changed.  When it's time to change a grease tube, users have to battle with the plunger to get it out, then remove a messy grease cartridge that still has 10-15% of its grease left in it.  That goes in the trash.  Then a new one goes in, full of air that has to be bled from the gun as it's primed.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  Out of a case of grease, at least one will get damaged and go in the garbage.

Because the grease gun isn't fully sealed at the bottom, the base oil separates and leaks out when it's not in use.  Grease and oil gets on everything.  Air exposed to the grease makes it harden.  Greasing is such a hassle that people all-too-frequently ignore the task, resulting in damaged equipment, waste, downtime, and costly repairs. 

This is what we hear all the time: My grease gun sucks. I hate it. It doesn't work reliably and it's messy. I've tried every grease gun.  Nothing works. 

The Lube-Shuttle® Format

In most of the rest of the industrialized world, they don't use the double open-ended grease tube like we do in Canada.  They use a Lube-Shuttle® cartridge.

A Lube-Shuttle® grease cartridge is threaded and goes in a Lube-Shuttle® grease gun.  There's no plunger and spring.  The gun uses a vacuum head to 'suck' the grease out of the tube.  It's light and easy to use.  Changing a tube takes about 10 seconds, and creates no mess.  Grease guns come in all the formats you'd expect, including electric (battery-operated).

Lube-Shuttle® is made by Mato in Germany.  They invented it over 15 years ago and it's become the global standard for grease guns.  Millions of Lube-Shuttle® grease guns are sold around the world every month, and in time, this will be the format used in North America.  Available in the U.S. for the last 8 years, Lube-Shuttle® is now available in Canada too.  The product is sold direct to consumers at www.lube-shuttle.ca.

Go ahead...Google Lube-Shuttle® cartridges.  You'll find every major lubricant manufacturer in the world (like Shell, Mobil, Total, etc.) as well as equipment OEMs (like Deere) selling grease in the Lube-Shuttle® format.

Why is Lube-Shuttle® Better for You?

Here are the main reasons why you're going to want to ditch your current grease gun and buy Lube-Shuttle®:

  1. No mess.  The threaded cartridge means changing an empty tube is easy and clean.  It won't leak or harden.

  2. Lower cost.  You will use all the grease you buy.  You won't waste 1 in 10 cartridges, and you won't leave behind 10-15% of the grease in the tube when it's "empty".

  3. More uptime.  You'll actually do the work you're supposed to do to maintain your equipment.  This will make it last longer and keep running, avoiding downtime and costly repairs.  

Lube-Shuttle® Greases

There are over 40 different kinds of grease sold in the Lube-Shuttle® threaded-cartridge format, but you'll probably only need one of the five sold at www.lube-shuttle.ca.

  1. G200 EP - premium general purpose grease
  2. MoS2 Moly - for heavy equipment
  3. Li400 - one grease for all applications
  4. KH150 - full synthetic for low temperature or wet/salty environments
  5. P100 - polyurea grease for electric motors, corn head drives, etc.

Greases are competitively priced with comparable grease products.  If you have any doubts about which grease you need or what's equivalent to the one you're using now, use the contact us form on the website to get in touch.  We offer free grease consultations.

Lube-Shuttle® Accessories

Lube-Shuttle® accessories are all as high quality as the grease gun and all made in Germany.  These include:

  • Locking couplers (SafeLOCK) - regular and long shaft
  • Hoses (high burst pressure, abrasion- and kink-resistant materials)
  • Couplers (hardened steel, 4-jaw)

Any type of accessory that you can think of is either for sale on the Lube-Shuttle® website or can be special ordered.  All are made in Germany with high quality materials and built to last.

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We try to customize our website content to your particular circumstances and needs.  As you can imagine, there's grease practically everywhere so this can be a bit of a challenge.  If this content isn't right for you or there's something missing that you're curious about, check out the pages for our other main user groups.  You might find what you're looking for.