Dean....
Don't bother cleaning it...You just need to give me directions to your
place and I will come over and get rid of that old, politically incorrect
rust bucket........from you. I have several of them and they are looking
for a new friend...........
Jon
At 09:23 AM 11/15/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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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