PS Magazine - JULY 1976
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 284
JULY 1976
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BATTERieS NEED SHEAR WiRE
The battEry in your bird has to be
secure, knucklebusters. Any bouncing
around
in flight
can
damage
that
expensive energy source.
That's the reason for the built-in
locking feature of the clamps. If you
forget to screw the camlock down
before
flipping
it
to
the
secure
position, tho, you have a battery on the
loose .
±ven wing nuts, used to hold some
batteries, can come loose.
Which is why all batteries need a
safety.
Never use lock wire on the battery
clamps, tho. You may not have a pair
AW, COME 0acK±
BUDdY²
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TO
T³´ Yµ D¶wN
r·GHt ¸h¹s º³»¼!
of dykes handy when you need them.
just
that
when
.020²in
breakable
³here´re times when you want to
copper wire is used. NSN 6145-00µ
yank the battery in a hurry. YoU can do
236-9503 will get you a ¶-lb roll.
±very time you pull a Daily on your
OH²58A, make it a point to run the
deFgGing blower a few minutes.
This keeps dirt and grime from
collecting and hardening on the vane
assembly,
which can BUrn out t·e¸
blower.
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to make sure you've got a good¹ well-functioning
chip detector
doing
its
thing
in your Chinook´s transmission and aft rotor shaft? Sure
you do!
The detector is equºpped with a magnet: The detector is supposed to
support its own weight but because of variation in sizes it may not.
So check the magnetºc strength of
the detector with a \-in steel nut or
other steel object of equal weight. If
the »etector magnet won´t support the
weight of the nut, you need a new one.
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No need for you utility aircraft types to strain yoUr eyeballs looking for Army pUbs on yoUr new,
high-taileD, pressurized G-12A birds. Those babies are being main±ained Under a commercial contrac±,
using comMercial publications.
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