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I answered too soon above - just found the attached "do not use grease" change to FM 23-5 - it is from Change 2, dated 1/30/42. I wonder if they never made this change, how long it might have been...

LavaTech, here’s a scan from my copy of the 7-40 edition of FM 23-5. It does say to grease before firing, in generally the same places we do today, and the same ones listed on the SXS-77 and...

Many thanks for all the good comments on this.

- Bob Seijas, thanks for the GCA Journal reference, outstanding magazine. I found two mentions of the early grease from you, in V28/2 page 20 with...

This is not a “what grease should I use” thread, at least I hope not. After I answered a friend’s question about Garand lubrication, I realized that I know less about the grease history of this...