Armed American Report

In case you missed it last week, I had a couple HUGE announcements!

1) Our new Armed American Report blog, where all the emails I send out will be archived for easy reading: ArmedAmericanReport.org.

2) Our very own radio station! Since last week, we’ve added our broadcasts to iTunes as pod-casts, which you can subscribe to and download at the Armed American Radio station: ArmedAmericanRadio.org.

Now, this week I have an Armed American Report for you that is like a seminar on gun lube. Lubricating firearms is a mystery for some and almost like a religion for others. Today I present to you some varying opinions on the subject from an article by Grant Cunningham, forum posts from our own subscribers, and a review of a great product by Cody. When educating ourselves about anything, it is imperative to get good information and real-world experience from those in the field. We have all that covered today and a lot more. Enjoy!

== USCCA Laugh of the Week ==

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“SHOOTING AND FIGHTING:
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE”

“…No, it’s not crazy…it’s STUPID….”

by CR Williams

I have a friend who lives up north of me. Young fella. Likes rifles. Has an M14 he’s particularly enamored of. Carries a pistol, a Glock of some sort, daily. But you can tell he really doesn’t think about it as much as he does the rifles.

I’ll tell you how I know (aside from because of our ongoing discussions about rifles–another essay about that later). About two weeks ago, he said this to me in a message:

“Man did you know that I’ve NEVER practiced drawing from concealment? Nope… not even one practice draw. Pretty crazy, eh?”

Now, I know he practices shooting with the pistol. He’s said as much. I’m pretty sure he practices more than I do, ammunition supply permitting, and I’m almost certain that he dry-fires more than I do. I would not be surprised if he was a better shot than I was, given that I don’t practice shooting as much as I think he does.

Still, even if I had remembered that, my answer to him, would have been the same as it was:

“No, it’s not crazy…it’s STUPID.”

Fortunately, I responded to him before I thought about it, because if I had thought about it before I responded, I would have gotten angry–like I did after I sent the response and did have time to think about it–and if I had been angry when I wrote back, then I would have risked not getting the point across to him properly, that point being…

IT’S NOT ABOUT SHOOTING - IT’S ABOUT FIGHTING.

Understand, please, before we go on… History is full of cases and examples of men and women who did nothing more than obtain a weapon, whether it was a gun or a knife or a pointed stick, set that weapon aside and never picked it up again until the day they used that weapon to successfully fight off an attack. There are, I have no doubt, thousands upon thousands who have not thought of fighting until the very moment when they realized that they had to, and then without training or experience, that’s what they did, and successfully. There is no question of that.

A question I do have, however, is how many others who obtained the same kind of weapon and set it aside later died because they did not know how to fight with it. How many more good people would we have?–how many less evil people would there be?–if only some of them had gone beyond just running a few shots through to test it, or beyond standing and shooting at a target every so often. How many would have lived if they had understood in time that there’s a difference between fighting with a gun and shooting a gun?

I wonder… I wonder…

And don’t get me wrong, either–you need to be able to shoot before you start learning to fight with a pistol…or a rifle or a shotgun, for that matter. When someone is trying to kill you, it is a Good Thing to have the sight picture, master grip, trigger control, and other fundamentals set down as automatically as possible. To have the best chance of winning the fight, you have to go through the basics–how to form a fist, how to set your foot for a kick, how to grip the knife, how to work the trigger on the pistol so you can get the sight picture back after the last shot, things like that. It helps to have a workable grasp of the techniques. You don’t need an absolute mastery, just the workable grasp. But you do need them.

And you need to understand that those techniques are not the same thing as fighting.

You can put two shots into a circle the size of a quarter from twenty yards away.

That’s shooting. That’s not the fight.

Can you put two shots into the heart of a man ten yards away, aiming a gun at you, screaming murder, you shooting one-handed as you run or jump ten feet to where you can get your car’s engine block between you and the bullet that he’s about to fire at you?

That’s not just shooting. That’s the fight.

From the holster, you can put the first shot in the A-Zone of an IDPA target twenty feet away in less than 1.25 seconds by the timer.

That’s shooting. That’s not the fight.

Can you drop your newspaper, draw from under your buttoned suit coat, and start pumping rounds into the person that announced their psychotic break by screaming and pulling a knife as they charge at you from thirty feet away before they get in edge’s reach of you? Can you do that even as your body naturally and desperately and automatically tries to put the newsstand or the park bench between you and the screaming psycho? And what if you’re sitting on that park bench when the attack starts?

That’s not just shooting. That’s the fight.

You need to know the difference. You need, like my friend does now, to realize the difference. And like my friend has started doing now, you need to train for the fight and not for the shot.

It could be important.

It could be the difference between living and dying for you.

And if that difference is not important…what is?

“Coffee and Miracle Lubricants
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE”

by Grant Cunningham

Coffee is one of those vices in which I do not indulge. Not from any religious objection, mind you - it’s just that I can’t stand the taste of the stuff. I admit to loving the smell of brewing java, but coffee is one of those things that smells a whole lot better than it tastes!

Stay with me, I’ll get to the point.

A number of years ago I knew a district sales manager for one of the major coffee companies. (Coincidentally, his first name was also Grant. Obviously a man of superior intellect, charm, and modesty.) Grant told me that the coffee brand with the largest market share at that time was Folgers, due largely to their “mountain grown” ad campaign.

He commented that the campaign was so much hot air, as all coffee was grown in the mountains - but people had been conditioned to believe that since a) the mountain environment was desirable, and b) only Folgers was grown in the mountains, therefore ac) Folgers was the only coffee to buy.

Yes, the mountain environment was desirable, because without it there would essentially be no coffee, but no - Folgers wasn’t the only coffee which was grown there!

His story came back to me this week when I received yet another email from what was obviously a salesman for one of those multilevel marketing (MLM) “miracle lubricant” scams. One of the consistent claims by all such snake oil concerns is that their product “bonds with the metal at the molecular level”, that it is a very desirable thing to do, and only their product does so.

Think “coffee.”

Reality time: all oils bond with metal at a molecular level, because that’s what oils do. Were there no molecular attraction between oil and metal, the oil would simply slide off of the surface to which it was applied. Not drip off, not ooze off, not pour off - slide off with absolutely no trace of itself left behind. No film or residue, not a single atom of the oil would remain. Absolutely nothing.

Of course, that doesn’t happen. Apply any oil to a piece of metal, then turn the metal upside down; the excess oil may drip off, but a layer of slippery liquid is always left stuck to the surface. That is molecular attraction - bonding, if you will - at work.

Those who wear glasses know how difficult it can be to completely rid lenses of even a drop of oil; there always seems to be some that stubbornly refuses efforts at removal. This is because there is a molecular bond between the oil and the material from which the lens is made, and the same thing happens when oil is applied to metal.

Molecular attraction is why the water in your coffee is in liquid form, rather than the elemental hydrogen and oxygen from which it is made. It makes metal alloys possible, and is why lubricants - all of them - work. The companies which claim their product “bonds with the metal at the molecular level” are simply saying that their oil does the same thing that all other oils do.

Admitting that fact wouldn’t sell much oil (or coffee), would it?

Grant Cunningham is a nationally known gunsmith who specializes in repair and customization of double action revolvers. He also writes a popular blog dealing with a wide range of self defense and shooting topics. Grant can be reached via email at info@grantcunningham.com or through his website, www.grantcunningham.com

Review of Sentry Solutions
Armorer’s Kit, Marine Tuf-Cloth & Tuf-Glide

written by Cody S. Alderson

USCCA GEAR REVIEW

The subject of lubricants and corrosion preventatives still causes controversy in this modern age of science and technology. We have the hard core side who are sticklers in pointing out that there is nothing that is really new. We also have the avid consumers who just about fall in love with every new product that has fancy advertising. And we have those set in their ways who insist on using products not ideal for lubrication and corrosion protection of firearms.

My take is that some old lubricants and corrosion preventatives are better refined and formulated with more effective synthetics as technology advances. A better machine or method that makes the effective substance purer makes it better. These better machines and methods come along over time. This can make an older class of product much better. I still shy away from products not specifically designed to be used on my firearms.

We want our guns to never rust and to perform flawlessly with every press of the trigger. After good design along with quality parts, manufacturing, and assembly, we have lubrication. Some guns such as Glocks run with hardly any lubrication, and some others, as a few black rifles still in production, need to be run nice and wet with lots of lube. Either way, we gun owners need to have some method of lubricating the moving parts of our guns where they come in contact with bearing surfaces, and we need to apply a corrosion-inhibiting material to stop the never ending threat of the gun’s metal being eaten away. Even for guns with parts made out of so-called stainless steel, the stainless steel is much more resistant to corrosion than plain old high carbon steel, but it can still corrode.

Taking a look at the shelves in the gun stores that hold all of the fancy cleaning products, we are met with a dizzying array of options. It used to be we saw Hoppes No. 9 and 3-In-1 Oil on the shelves of the hardware slash tire slash sporting goods slash gun stores of my youth. Places like Western Auto. Remember them? Then WD-40 became popular as a lube for just about everything. I’ve used it myself on some gun parts without having any problems, but I clean my guns regularly. However, there can be problems that arise with some of the older lubricant products or products not really meant for guns such as WD-40.

Older oil-based lubricants can literally gum up the works of modern firearms. Some newer firearms are made to tighter and much closer tolerances that are sensitive to gunk and grime. Some of the old oils and greases were slick enough to get a stubborn action to move or keep a good action moving, but they would attract and hold just about any kind of dust, dirt, grime, and grit. Maybe that would be okay for guns such as some old rattle-traps that I have shot in the past. Most of us have probably owned or still own a few guns that have parts fitted so loose that they rattle if they are shaken.

There are also the problems of the carriers that get the older lubes to get to where we want them to go. Carriers get the slick stuff of whatever the main lubricant is from the container or rag to the item being protected. Carriers may stay on the item for a long time or may evaporate immediately. The problem is a carrier that, when evaporated, leaves behind a thick varnish like substance that is sticky instead of slippery. Some lubricants have ingredients that will evaporate or dissolve at different rates, which end up leaving behind a sticky varnish-like substance instead of the slippery lubricant that it was when first applied.

Then there is the single product that is supposed to work on every part of the gun. I don’t agree with that because parts that are under pressure when moving need a lubricant that will stay in place as the parts squeeze against or slide against one another as where the slide contacts the frame rails on a pistol. This is a good spot for a grease type of lube. Now for the trigger mechanism, I want a fine particulate lube that won’t gum up the parts like a grease would.

I’m a fan of super slick lubricants that can be applied in a dry form, as well as be applied to the surface with a carrier that is made to evaporate and leave behind only the lubricating material and not any sticky gunk. For some applications, I prefer lubricants combined with a modern carrier that does not contain oils or silicone. What I like best about dry lubricants for firearms is that carriers can be modified to suit the need of the part that is being lubricated.

A dry lubricant can be applied in some instances to parts in its dry form, such as on the inside of a barrel or on the action of a trigger. A wet carrier can be added to get the lubricant into some tight places, or maybe I might need a carrier that has the viscosity of grease to keep the lubricant right where I put it. This is one area where Sentry Solutions lubricating products shine.

Sentry Solutions makes lubricating products that are based on Molybdenum Disulfide. Probably a few of the readers who are Vietnam Vets remember the slick dry lubricants that were preferred to keep their weapons working. Good old Moly! Well, Sentry Solutions has an updated version of Molybdenum Disulfide dry lubricant. They also make Tuf-Cloth and Marine Tuf-Cloth that contain proprietary ingredients in a mineral spirits carrier.

I understand why a company will use the term “proprietary ingredients” but it also scares me a bit. Coke doesn’t advertise their formula, but I can read most of the ingredients that are in the can by looking at the label. That part that says “natural ingredients” can mean a lot of things. In today’s market where cheap knock-offs are being made overseas and unloaded on American consumers, I do understand a company’s need to keep some things under wraps. Still, I would like to know what the ingredients are that make up both the lubricants and rust inhibiting properties of the Tuf-Cloth, and the other version that has more rust inhibiting ingredients— the Marine Tuf-Cloth.

The good thing is that the ingredients are declared by Sentry Solutions to be non-toxic after the mineral spirits carrier dries. This comes up as a concern when a knife is coated with the product, and that knife is used to prepare food. Sentry Solutions advises to wipe or wash the blade before such use, and then use the Tuf-Cloth or Marine Tuf-Cloth on the blade again when convenient. My dad who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1985 would use his old Barlow knife to cut his fish from his fish dinner at the old Kmart diner in Washington, PA. He used to use 3-In-One Oil on everything. I couldn’t tell you if it is non-toxic or not.

Below are before and after photos of an old pair of lineman’s pliers where I shined up one handle a bit with some sandpaper then rubbed the section to the right of the red mark with Marine Tuf-Cloth before soaking the handle with a mix of salt, vinegar, and water. After I soaked the handle, I put the pliers outside overnight on a paper plate. Just a few hours later there was rust forming on the untreated part of the handle. You will notice a tiny spot on the treated side. This is where a thick glop of my salt, vinegar, and water solution stuck.

Right away just with a simple test on an old pair of already rusted and pitted pliers, the product proved its worth. I used the old pliers because I’m not messing up any of my guns for you guys and gals no matter how much I like you.

As for the Molybdenum Disulfide in Sentry Solutions other products, it works at temperatures from minus 65 degrees to plus 650 degrees Fahrenheit. Working well under temperature extremes is a trait of the stuff. Being slicker than a snotty doorknob is another trait if you’ll pardon the analogy. Using the Tuf-Cloth for corrosion protection and the Molybdenum Disulfide for lubrication is a great combination for guns as well as many other products.

As I said earlier there is a reason that Sentry Solutions shines as a product. Shines as in being a bright idea. The super slick Molybdenum Disulfide is available with different carriers which make it perfect for use on firearms. Their Armorer’s Kit contains a Tuf-Cloth for rubbing down surfaces, and it is easy to take with me in it’s resealable pouch. As the mineral spirits carrier is used up in the cloth, one can add more odorless mineral spirits to recharge the carrier, or a bit of Tuf-Glide can be used. A wetter cloth gets more lubricant onto the item being protected.

Tuf-Glide can be precision applied with its needle tip applicator. It is great for other things besides firearms. I have it on my workbench to lubricate and protect my fishing reels and just about anything else that has moving parts that I want to keep the rust away from. I like how it is designed to stay on the item that I put it on.

That’s where the bonding questions come up for me. The advertising for Sentry Solutions mentions bonding of its products to the metal surface, and other products use words such as molecular bonding. Lubricants can be removed with solvents unless there is some secret that I just don’t know about. Coatings can have a built-in slipperiness to them that can protect the metal underneath. The bonding of a lubricant to me is the stuff staying where I put it on the gun or other item I am lubricating. Then if the bonding resists being easily removed, it is better. If the product stays where I put it, doesn’t easily come off, and protects the items moving parts from wear, or in the case of corrosion inhibitors it protects against corrosion, then I’m happy. Sentry Solutions stays in place and does its job, but there are different carriers for different needs.

For example Sentry Solutions Hi-Slip Grease lubricates, stops rust, and resists being washed off. The Molybdenum Disulfide is in a grease type of carrier so it stays where I put it, and it only takes a tiny amount to do the job. It is best for high load-bearing surfaces, such as where the slide meets the frame rails on a pistol, or anywhere where a super slick lubricant is needed and needed to stay put or be used under load. Got a firearm that has Titanium rubbing up against another metal and you want to prevent galling of the Titanium? This is the product to use.

Sentry Solutions BP 2000 powder can be used on triggers or as a bore treatment. It is the Molybdenum Disulfide in dry powdered form. The particle sizes of the dry powder are sub-micron in size. It gets to where it needs to go and makes the parts nice and slippery. Smooth-Kote is the Molybdenum Disulfide in an isopropyl alcohol carrier. The alcohol allows the powdered Molybdenum Disulfide to be easily applied to parts, and the alcohol evaporates leaving behind the slippery lubricant without any sticky gunk.

The Armorer’s Kit also contains a pair of Nitrile gloves, cotton swabs, alcohol swabs, pipe cleaners, cloth patches, application brush, and some large and small foam-tipped applicators. Everything a gun owner needs to slick up, but not stick up their guns. But what makes this version of Molybdenum Disulfide as a lubricant better than the old stuff?

Well, it is the purity for one thing. If I’m going to spend money on a quality lubricant to protect my expensive firearms, I want it to be what I’m paying for. I don’t want to be under the impression that I’m putting Molybdenum Disulfide on guns to have it be Molybdenum Disulfide with impurities in it that could be anything. Maybe even something abrasive that defeats the purpose of using a good lube in the first place. That’s where trust in a company’s claims come into play, and Sentry Solutions has a good name.

I must say that since Sentry Solutions has proven its products superior performance to U.S. Navy Seal Teams, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, New York Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it is good enough for me. It’s nice to know that I can use modern products to protect a hundred year-old shotgun or a new pocket pistol.

The Sentry Solutions lubricating products that are in the Armorer’s Kit can also be purchased separately. The Kit retails for $39.95. I can treat a bunch of guns with the amount of product in the Kit. Compared to the retail prices of lubricants and corrosion protection offered by some other products, this is a great deal. If you don’t want to get all of the items in the kit and maybe just want to try out the powder on your triggers or bores, then get the BP-2000 Powder that retails for $8.95. Maybe you just have blades you want to protect? Then get the Knife & Tool Care Kit which retails for $24.99.

We all get stuck in our ways of doing things, sometimes to the point of our own detriment. I personally know some fine folks who are great people, but set in their ways. It’s tough for them to try something new. I’m that way myself for some things too. However, I am always continually trying to learn things, and I’m willing to change my mind when new information comes along.

The basic ingredient of Sentry Solutions dry lubricant comes from our ancient Earth. It is being presented to us now in a form that we can use to protect and lubricate our fine firearms no matter how old or new they are. The stuff works. Try it for yourself. I’ll be using it on everything from my new Ruger Mini-14 to my old S&W Model 669, and everything in between.

Check out all of Sentry Solutions products at www.sentrysolutions.com.

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Lubrication: What do you use, how do you use it, and why?

Over time lubrication has become more sophisticated. Previously, it seems, it came down to “oil or grease” and maybe graphite. Now, we have Teflon, Molybdenum disulphide (Moly), and graphite. This stuff is suspended in all manner and type of oils, greases, and who knows what else. The delivery options seem more varied now too with most things being available in cans, syringes spray containers, etc.

My own lubrication schemes are somewhat set now:

1-When temperatures are moderate (shirtsleeve) and dust isn’t an issue I like the oil and grease approach.

2-When it gets downright cold or really hot I like to have moly conditioning (the moly has been deposited on and worked onto the metal surfaces) on the metal sliding surfaces. A moly treated surface isn’t temperature dependant like oil or grease is. A very light coat of some kind of preservative oil (I like Breakfree LP for this) is necessary to keep rust at bay, especially if the humidity is high. Moly has no significant rust prevention properties.

I know graphite will work but have never used it so far in firearms. Graphite doesn’t mix well with oil or grease. From my perspective, once I’ve worked the moly into a surface – i.e. coated it with moly containing oil or grease and worked the handgun to get the moly plated onto the surface – and removed the carrier oil or grease, leaving the moly behind plated onto the metal surface, I can later add oil or grease onto the surface without regard to any moly that’s already there. It doesn’t evaporate or get “worked out of” or “off of” whatever it’s put onto which makes it a good “insurance policy” against temperature extremes. So the firearm has “all season” lubrication.

The only issue I have with moly is that it sometimes “works too well” at reducing friction for my tastes. I therefore hesitate to put in on a trigger as it may well make the thing too light and is very hard to remove from a surface it’s been worked into. As well, when putting it on slide rails I’ve often found myself installing a higher weight recoil spring, etc., to offset potential slide battering.

I don’t sell any type of lubrication and have no commercial interest in any company that does.

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Gun lube 101 - Part 1

Introduction

Firearms enthusiasts are the targets (pardon the pun) of some of the most misleading advertisements regarding the proper lubrication of their guns. The purpose of this article is to give a background on basic lubrication concepts, the technology behind them, and some guidelines for selecting lubricants based on facts, not hype.

Before going further, let’s make something perfectly clear: with a very few obvious exceptions, firearms lubrication isn’t terribly difficult. Compared to many more common objects, guns just don’t make big demands of their lubricants! That’s right, firearms pose no actual “extreme” situations with which a lubricant must deal. There are thousands upon thousands of 100-year-old-plus guns out there that are functioning - just fine, thank you - on a diet of “3-in-1″ oil.

However, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t something better! This article, it is hoped, will help you determine just what “better” means to you.

Let’s start at the beginning…

Why lubricate something? First, to prevent wear and second, to promote a certain level of performance. To put it more clearly, what we’re trying to do is to keep parts from rubbing directly on other parts, and to make the interaction of those parts as smooth as possible.

As it turns out, those polished surfaces that rub against each other aren’t all that smooth. Looking through a microscope, even the most highly finished metal surface still looks like a forested hillside - with all kinds of huge voids, depressions, and valleys. Imagine, then, what happens when that surface meets the surface of it’s companion part! Not only does the combination become difficult to move, but the tops of those trees get broken off - that’s how wear starts at the microscopic level.

That’s why we lubricate those surfaces. Lubrication works in a couple of ways: “hydrodynamic” and “boundary”.

Hydrodynamic lubrication is essentially when the parts ride on the film of liquid (or semi-liquid) lubricant; the lubricant fills all of the voids, and the film itself serves as a buffer to keep the surfaces apart.

This works really well, except when a load is applied and the lubricant is squeezed out of it’s space between the surfaces. When that happens, the surfaces grind together and wear. What if we added something to the mix - something that was a bit more “solid” than the lubricant, which wouldn’t be easily squeezed out? Well, that’s just what “boundary” lubrication entails - adding small pieces of more-solid material to serve as a physical separator between the surfaces, keeping them from tearing each other to pieces.

The solids that provide this service are known as “anti-wear” or “extreme pressure” (AW/EP) additives - solids of microscopic size that are mixed into a lubricant, in order to maintain a protective boundary (get it?) under load. “Moly”, a generic term for several molydenum compounds, is one example; others include sulphur compounds, zinc, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, aka ‘teflon’), zinc diakyl dithiophosphate (ZDDP), phosphors, boron, antimony diakyl dithiocarbamate (and it’s derivatives), and many more. Each of these has certain properties that the skilled tribologist (lubrication scientist) will balance to achieve the optimum lubricant for the application.

Regardless of the physical characteristics of the product, lubricants are a “package” - the primary lubricant plus boundary additives, thickeners (as in greases), and other things (tackifiers, pour point depressants, detergents…the list is endless and chock full of chemical names I can’t begin to decipher!)

My exaggerated interpretation of the primary lubrication states.

Read Part 2 HERE.
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USCCA QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Sometimes a good quote will inspire or motivate you. Sometimes, they’ll just put a smile on your face! Here is the quote for this week…

“So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you Mr. Gore. From my cold, dead hands!”

-Charlton Heston

Self Defense Story OF THE WEEK

Every day, thousands of Armed Americans use their firearms to preserve human life. Let this section of my newsletter serve as a record of this fact!

“Shootings Found to be Self-Defense”

Spartanburg County, South Carolina deputies determined that a man who shot two people Monday night outside his residence was acting in self-defense and charged the two men on Tuesday.

Daniel Scott Byrd, 22, of 115 Keith Street, Greer and Josh Duncan, 24, of 207 Church St., Wellford were each charged with one count of assault and battery.

Byrd’s stomach was grazed by a bullet and Duncan was struck in the buttocks during a fight Monday night outside a Keith Street residence.

Larry James Pruitt Jr., 41, told deputies that a group of people were causing “a bad ruckus” outside his home and he asked them to keep it down. Pruitt said Byrd and Duncan then came into his yard and began choking and assaulting him. Pruitt said he pulled a revolver from his pocket and fired several times, then ran into his home, reloaded his gun and waited for deputies.

Multiple people who said they witnessed the incident told deputies Pruitt was truthful about what happened. When the deputy arrived, Duncan and Byrd were still on the ground outside of Pruitt’s home.

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