Hi Dean:
I would wipe it down with prepsol (I do not think with it will hurt the
paint.)
My concern is more that the gun can now be traversed (NOW before people
start flaming me for wanting to destroy a perfectly good gun....). In
traversing the gun, can little hands, feet, heads, peckers (Hey you never
know, I was a NYC Paramedic in Greenwich Village for a while<G>) get caught
, crushed, jammed etc...in any pinch points?
A buddy (A lurker on this list) of mine has a M106 Rechoiless rifle mounted
on his 151, and the action used to open...Kids love to play withthis stuff(I
did, still do..) He was watching as one kid, slammed the breach closed just
as another kid put his hand in the breach! Thankfully, the potential victims
hands were in a cutout (Don't know the correct terms) and the locking ring
missed severing the fingers by a small margian. He has now tack welded the
breach closed. It can be repaired and restored to opperating with a little
work, but it just takes a second to have a tragedy.
My way of thinking is similar to Jeff Foxworthys: "Hell, let little henry
see what happens when you put mr fork into mr electrical outlet. It will
learn him". (But unfortunatly many in this legalcentric society do not
agree)
Food for thought.
TTFN
Hank
----- Original Message -----
From: Dean L. Kellogg, Jr <kelloggd@uthscsa.edu>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:23 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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