
Originally Posted by
easyv

As primers were corrosive up to about 1952ish....and hot soapy water is also used to clean after using corrosive primers, this also may explain your showers....
In defense of cleaning your AR once in blue moon, if not after every range trip, it does give you the opportunity to check for such things as damaged/cracked parts, loose carrier keys, etc.
Maintenance does not only mean cleaning, it also means inspecting for wear and damage.
Or you can just shoot it until it breaks....
Chrome lining wasn't a characteristic of most firearms produced during that era, either, hence the 'pitting' and 3 days of cleaning BS. The carry over of that information by people in charge from that era & Vietnam was passed from one NCO/Officer to another, adnauseum. Funny how 'hearsay & BS' throughout the ages, is more regulatory in nature to this day, rather than the information that's actually current in the operator's manual for that weapon. It's called being to ****in lazy to read up and keep current and following the dogma/mantra/BS of previous lazy inept leaders.
It's like applying non-current info that doesn't apply from the first aircraft I ever flew 27 years ago, and trying to apply it to what I'm flying today. Not only would it would be completely incompetent, stupid and foolish, but I'd get my pilot's license cut in half by the Feds and fired by my company.
For God and the soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before! The danger passed, and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling
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