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On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 06:18:50 -0500, Poco Loco
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On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 01:00:58 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:18:53 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 12:30:59 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:27:32 -0500, Poquito Loco
wrote:

If you get sand into a mechanism, you have to remove all the grease to clean it. The ultrasonic bath
excels at this task. My guns have thus far been spared, but I've used it to clean bicycle chains and
freewheels, as well as carburetors.

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In basic training we used to get sand in the M-14 trigger mechanism
all the time. The unauthorized but effective cure was to wash it
under hot soapy water, rinse, dry, and re-oil immediately.

We washed our M-14 under hot (really hot) soapy water in OCS. Then we rinsed them in hot (really
hot) water. Each individual then waved the hot pieces around to air dry them. Worked well.

I think the hot soapy water thing started when they were using
corrosive ammo.

This was in the mid 60's. Don't know if the ammo was corrosive or not. Never heard that term
mentioned in the years I trained with the M-14.

Some of the Russian stuff, like the 7.62x54R for the Mosin Nagant, is very corrosive.

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For us it was just a strategy for removing the gritty, sandy dust that
we were training in. Nothing else seemed to be nearly as effective as
hot soapy water.

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