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Grease on the paratroop door tracks


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I hope this is the proper thread for this. Just an observation: the other day I visited a C-130 on static display, the crew had a small ladder set up to aid people in entering the paratroop door. As I climbed in the door I got grease all over my hand. Now, it's been well over 40 years since I crewed #877, but I seem to remember a rather senior 82nd Airborne officer telling me in no uncertain terms that he did not want his troopers getting grease all over themselves while exiting my aircraft. Norm Plantz and I came up with the idea of using soap on the door tracks, if anything at all. Mostly I made sure that the door tracks stayed "very" clean...Chris

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I recall more than one instance of getting that black moly grease on my hands and clothes. As a tech rep, many times I was on and off the airplanes with a sport shirt on (sometimes a white shirt).

I was really surprised to have one nice shirt really messed up from that grease, but it came out in the wash.....

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Wasn't at Racine, was at Truax in Madison. The soap was an idea cooked up by my bestest friend and myself. Worked very well as long as we had access to soap!! I think that Airborne Brigadier was simply flexing his rank and hassling a 2 striper. As far as a machine of war; we were at Pope (Fort Bragg) and everything and everyone was still spitshined-that changed very quickly.

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Well guys, my initial introduction to the "grease" situation was in late 1964, if memory serves me. I would imagine that a lot of tech changes occured over the years. As I said earlier; things changed rapidly from that time frame forward and aircraft maintance was sometimes erratic. The "nuts and bolts" of this whole thing is that I was surprised at finding grease on this recent static display. Chris

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