At a good paint store they sell STPP, sodium, tripolyphospate, comes in
quart boxes, used to remove wall paper, is a powder, mix about a quart in a
5 gallon bucket with about 16 oz of the cheapest liquid dish wash you can
find, and about 8 ounces of home machine dish wash powder, wet gun down
with it and rinse with warm water if possible. also, would be a help if
mixture was as hot as you can make it. If you have to use cold water may
take two applications, do NOT let dry on surface. If you cannot find STPP
use about two quarts of laundry detergent
Everette
The strongest reason for the people to retain
the right to keep and bear arms is,
as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in government
Thomas Jefferson
>From my cold dead hands
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean L. Kellogg, Jr" <kelloggd@uthscsa.edu>
To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 9:23 AM
Subject: [MV] Cleaning 37mm AT gun, grease, and little boys
> Learned listees,
>
> HELP! HELP! I have created a HUGE MESS.....actually huge messes!
>
> The school my 3 little boys attend has a late 1930's 37mmAT gun that they
> use as a saluting battery for their drill and parades. It had been
sitting
> out in the Texas sun for a long time and was pretty weathered. One wheel
> was rusted out. I decided it needed attention before some mother started
> pressing for th"eye-sore" to be junked. Over the summer, I brought it
home
> and with the help of my 3 guys, removed little rocks and seeds that had
> been lovingly placed in every hole and crevice on the gun by schoolboys,
> got a new wheel, removed the old paint, re-primed it, painted it a WW2 OD,
> put the school crest on the blast shield, fixed the traverse mechanism,
and
> finally GREASED IT! The only problem that I could not solve easliy was a
> bushing on the traversing mechanism that would be driven out of place as
> the gears turn in the traversing mechanism. The school had their first
> parade of the year coming up and wanted the gun, so this problem was left
> unresolved. We returned the gun on 11/3/00. AND IT LOOKED GREAT!
>
> It turns out that the grease may have been an error...especially in
> combination with the bushing..I had overlooked the the dangerous
> combination of little fingers and grease. The little fellows naturally
> traversed the gun in their play and thus pushed the bushing out. With the
> bushing out, the grease that we packed in the traversing gears oozed out
> when the guyscontinued to traverse the gun.....little fingers go to the
> grease.....little fingers then are cleaned by smearing the grease all over
> the blast shield, the barrel, EVERYWHERE!
>
> I WAS AMAZED AT HOW LITTLE FINGERS HAD PAINTED THE GUN WITH GREASE!
>
> Can anyone suggest a good way to get the grease off? I thought of
> something like GUNK....but it takes the paint off.....
>
> boys and their toys....live and learn,
> dean
>
>
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> Dean L. Kellogg, Jr., MD, PhD
> Department of Medicine
> The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
> 7703 Floyd Curl Drive
> San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900
> (210) 617-5311 FAX (210) 617-5312 e-mail:kelloggd@uthscsa.edu
>
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> d
>
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