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From: zweig@parc.xerox.com (Jonathan M. Zweig)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Cosmoline removal suggestion
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Date: 24 May 91 04:18:54 GMT
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I have heard that very hot water and ordinary bath soap work nicely. (This
from a guy who had to get 1/4" of cosmoline off of his M1 when he was in boot
camp in WWII -- "we just took the damn things in the shower with us!"...)

-Johnny Clean