Kriegsmarine Decree-Sheet - Stock preservation product
I have translated a part of a Kriegsmarine Decree-Sheet published by the Kriegsmarine High Command. The details about consumption rate and distribution are very interesting in my opinion.
317. Stock preservation product.
For the preservation of the rifle stocks, a protection and cleaning product as a substitute for Leinölfirnis (linseed oil varnish) get introduced for use at the troops and at the H.Za.
The stock protection and cleaning product is a vaseline-like paste of pure German raw materials, which is equally well suited for the care of the stocks made of walnut and laminate wood.
Designation: Stock protection and cleaning product,
Classification of equipment number: 47,
Equipment classification: Z,
Requisition number: Z.
The stock protection and cleaning product is basically only at the H.Za. kept in storage and can be obtained from there.
The rate of consumption is 1.5 kilograms per 100 K98k per month.
The procurement of the stock protection and cleaning product has been initiated. The procurement date will be announced in H. V. Bl.
Instructions for use of the stock protection and cleaning product.
The vaseline-like paste should be applied with a soft rag on the wood of the rifle stock and well dipped. After five to ten minutes, rubbed with a dry cloth. Gradually, a closed, waxy coating forms, which temporarily loses its shine on contact with water, but prevents water from penetrating into the stock wood.
The troop and units get occasionally instructed in the weapon-cleaning-lessons by the Waffenmeister about the stock treatment and stock care with the stock protection and cleaning product.
O.K.H., January 7, 1938
7941/37 Jn 2 (VII).
The decree also applies to the departments of the Kriegsmarine.
The new stock protection and cleaning product is to be requested from the ships and land-based Kriegsmarine units of the North Sea area from the Marinewerft (Navy Shipyard) and those of the Baltic Sea area from the Marinearsenal (Navy
Arsenal.
(V. Nr. 5731. MWa. IIIc. from April 27, 1938)
Regards,
Stephan