On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:21:06 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:17:21 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:04:50 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

I had a similar problem once a long time ago - back in the early '80s
on an oldish 20' Thompson. Had a hell of a time with it until a
machinist friend of mine suggested using light machine oil (sewing
machine oil in fact) to help the process along.

There's a product called PB Blaster, available in just about any auto
parts store, which is very good at this. There's another good one
caled Aero Kroil available on the web from Kano Labs:

http://www.kanolabs.com/


If you use this stuff when you are putting these things together the
corrosion is mitigated quite a bit.

http://www.tefgel.com/contain.php?param=tefgel_infor


One other thing. You probably didn't spend much time in the hole
while in the Navy, but BT's and MM's - and maybe the HT's - used
something called wintergreen penetrating oil.
Came in a GI can about the size of a pint whiskey flask.
Screw on top on one side, like on a can of boiled linseed oil.
Smelled like mint. Seemed to work as well as any of the commercial
products I used later.
Only commercial products we used on gear when I was in was Brass o and
Glow.
Suspect you're familiar with them!

--Vic