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OK guys, educate me. What's the big deal about CLP and why all the tongue in cheek jokes?

I think it's a military acronym for "Clean, Lubricate, Preserve" which is a product that is issued to soldiers for their duty weapons and just so happens to turn into a compound not unlike old rubber cement.

That's my theory anyway. Hypothesis may be a better word.

"Clean, Lubricate, Preserve"

when applied to anything Government...is funny

CLP does mean Clean, Lubricate, Preserve, or a variation of those words. It doesn't turn into a compound like rubber cement though, what you see in it that looks like kinda like white rubber cement is teflon, shake it up and it should mix with the oil. Theory is that as you clean and oil a film of teflon will build up and keep eveything lubed.

Not really any joke, we were just giving mnmiller7 a hard time because he asked whether he could use CLP on his Taurus PT145 like he does his M16. Guess he was concerned that the CLP might damage the polymer receiver of the Taurus, there are plenty of polymer parts on an M16 and it hasn't damaged them.

I think somewhere in that thread there was also mention that he had been told he could use break-free but not CLP, Break-Free is CLP so someone was feeding him a line of crap. We also touched on LSA (that's gun oil for you Navy guys) and I think RBC (that's like Hoppe's #9 for you Navy guys) which were replaced by CLP (that's break-free for whoever told mnmiller7 not to use CLP).

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BluemontGlock wrote:"Clean, Lubricate, Preserve"

when applied to anything Government...is funny

That pretty much sums it up...
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Our way of welcoming him to the forum, Speedy.

Well... see there? Despite my efforts to the contrary even I learned something today!

Thank. I knew what CLP was, I just didn't get the joke. (I can be a little Medicated^H^H^H^H^Hslow sometimes)

herohog wrote:OK guys, educate me. What's the big deal about CLP and why all the tongue in cheek jokes?

It's actually an elaborate hoax created by the Members of VGOF to fool you and make you post this thread. Congratulations you WON.

Did I win any CLP? I hear it turns into white tar heroin after a while...

herohog wrote:Did I win any CLP? I hear it turns into white tar heroin after a while...

Toss in a couple Sudafed's and it will turn into crystal meth

Actually the 1st 2 things I think when I hear "gubbimint" is Clean and Lube.
So they should issue the Army CL.

Why clean? When it comes to the government all you need is the lube, and you really don't need that.

As in clean you out, and give you a lube job.

Moccasin wrote:Why clean? When it comes to the government all you need is the lube, and you really don't need that.

See my post in the other thread. I hear they are also going to issue CLP to the medical corp. Standardization...