Shooting down rumors.Rumors about better ways to take care of your rifle, pistol or machine gun just don't seem to want to die. PS still hears reports of soldiers using lubricants lubricants preparations for the lubrication of passages to reduce frictional injury, e.g. oily preparations, including petroleum jelly, lanolin or water-soluble preparations such as methyl cellulose. and cleaners on their weapons that they've heard are better than what the operator TMs prescribe. Motor oil or a graphite-based lubricant works better than CLP 1. CLP - Cornell List Processor. 2. CLP - Constraint Logic Programming. . No way! Motor oil hardens and makes a mess of your weapon. Graphite will actually eat up and destroy aluminum and other alloys. You don't need that kind of help. Use CLP, LSA-T of LAW for lubing. The Army has tested them and has confidence that they will do the best job helping your weapon do its best job. JP-8 does a great job cleaning off carbon. Not really. Any JP-8 remaining on the weapon will actually cause worse carbon buildup--and it's difficult to get off all JP-8. The best way to prevent carbon buildup in gas systems on machine guns is to change barrels when you're supposed to. If you keep firing and firing the same barrel, carbon will soon plug up the gas system. CLP and your cleaning tools should usually get rid of carbon. Of course, don't use CLP on machine gun gas systems. Those you clean with the scraper See scraping. . Lube in the gas system causes more carbon. If you can't get off all carbon, your armorer ar·mor·er n. 1. A manufacturer of weapons, especially firearms. 2. An enlisted person in charge of maintenance and repair of the small arms of a military unit. 3. One that makes or repairs armor. can use cleaning compound solvent, NSN NSN National Stock Number NSN Nokia Siemens Networks NSN National Storytelling Network NSN NATO Stock Number NSN New Substances Notification (CEPA) NSN National Student Number (NZ) NSN Never Say Never 6850-01-474-2319, for tough cleaning jobs. But remember the weapon must then be re-lubed. Solvent washes away lube. PSST ... I HEAR JP-8 WORKS GREAT CLEANING YOUR MACHINE GUN. PASS IT ON. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHOA whoa interj. Used as a command to stop, as to a horse. whoa interj a command used to stop horses or to slow down someone who is moving or talking too fast ! DON'T PASS ON RUMORS! TAKE CARE OF YOUR WEAPONS THE WAY THE TM SAYS, NOT LIKE THE RUMOR 'EXPERTS' SAY. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LET'S SHOOT DOWN TWO OF THOSE RUMORS ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] OH, NO! YOU'VE USED A GRAPHITE LUBE ON ME! IT'S EATING ME ALIVE. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHY ... OH WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO MY TM? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STICK WITH YOUR FUEL JOB. YOU CAUSE CARBON AND I DON'T NEED MORE OF THAT. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IF THE ARMY APPROVES BETTER CLEANING OR LUBING PRODUCTS THAN WHAT'S ALREADY LISTED IN THE OPERATOR TMs, PS WILL LET YOU KNOW. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IN THE MEANTIME Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , DON'T LISTEN TO RUMORS. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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