Ayup! Long ago new military weaponry came coated with cosmoline. Hot
water and G.I. soap were the standard answer to cleaning it off.
Gasoline worked faster, if you could get gasoline.

On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:29 PM, w.taggart@v... wrote:

>>> On Feb 23, 2011, John Ruth  wrote:>>> :: Acrylic
>>> Enamel Reducer also removes cosmolene PDQ. I'll start another thread
>>> about the> :: cosmolene-encrusted tool I bought at a surplus dealer.
>>> Very hot water (i.e., from your tea kettle) removes cosmolene PDQ
>>> also, and leave the item nice and clean. >> - Bill T.
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