I’d PAY someone to remove Cosmoline ... I did one and it was like the never ending song, it just goes on and on and it never ends.
(Even snuck it in the Oven once and got chewed out, I was getting desperate, hope that isn’t why the wife left me)
Yeah, but at the end you had nothing but clean and pristine metal. The Philippines’ climate is rough on anything with iron content.
Can’t vouch for why the wife left.
Our entire recruit battalion got brand new Garands issued at P.I. Boot Camp back in the day.
We took the cosmoline off in a drum of boiling hot water.
Then running water, soap and scrub brushes.
I did one at home with a bucket of gasoline.
Both methods worked fine.
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Saw the armorers in VN, they took the M1’s out of the boxes unwrap from the greased paper then placed in a 55gal drum of boiling water. Kept them in there for I don’t how long.
They then broke them one by one for a complete drying, lubed up and they were good to go to the ARVAN