Steve762us
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While BreakFree CLP and Tri-Flow are products with similar properties (the original BreakFree had Teflon while I believe the current version does not, while Tri-Flow still does have Teflon), I would have guessed they were always separate companies.
They were (separate companies, and separate products).
The original maker of Break Free CLP was the San/Bar Corporation of southern California. SafariLand and maybe somebody else bought the rights to
produce it. San/Bar (San-Bar? CRS) initially sent cases over to infantry units in Vietnam, pro bono. The GIs found it so much better than LSA (and
much less digusting to work with, no doubt) that the Army contracted for it--my first supervisor in Army was a recipient, and told me the story.
It's gone thru at least a couple of formula variations in the guvmint version, but has always had PTFE (what Dupont trademarks as "Teflon"),
AFAIK.