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Originally Posted by warningshot
I heard somewhere that when the M1 Garands first hit the WW2 Pacific scene that many were have lubrecation issues and jamming despite being well greased. The issue was that salt water would penetrate the grease and now it was steal on steal with lube/grease on top of the steal. Euro troops weren't seeing this because they weren't around salt water. A reformulated, not just garage-shop, grease was the answer. That's how I 'herd' it.
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The lube specified for the M1 Garand was (and is) Lubriplate. I first encountered Lubriplate by brand name back in the 1960s when the American Motors factory service manuals specified it
by name for certain applications on ... American Motors cars. Lubriplate is the ONLY lubricant product I have ever seen specified for an automotive application by name. Everything else is generally specified either by a manufacturer's spec number or an industry standard spec number (such as DOT-3 or DOT4 for brake fluid, or GL-3 or GL-5 for gear lubricant).