PS Magazine - MAY 1977
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 294
MAY 1977
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Like on breech bolts, for instance.
You can goof and get 2 bolts in the
same track.
Or you can put the first track in
backwards. Luckil±, the breech bolt
will keep you from reversing the other
track.
Either way, you wreck the canNon.
You can prevent either mistake.
Get down Under and use the old
eyeballs. It'll² keep you from over-
stuffing 2 bolts in one track. And
remember on the tracks the large
holes go toward the muzzle end³and
put ´em thereµsimple!
Even loading takes rea¶ care. Tim-
ing the feeder and cannon has to be·
say again¸Has to be, right on the
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whole
story
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mechanical items. ¹adar, and especialº
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2³your
receiver¼
transmitterµcan´ t be overlooKed. The
microwave chassis inside will overload
or the radar won´t operate if you don´t
tune
that
unit
after
you
make
a
frequenc± change. At best, you´ll lose
ra½ge
and
accuracy. Those
crystal
osci¶lators carr± a big ¶oad, but don´t
ask ´em to do the impossible.
One more thing. After ¾¿ÀSÁll oveÂ,
and you´re thru firing for the day,
you´ve one more target. That´s your
DA Form 2408Ã4, your weapon record
sheet. The count on rounds has to go
in before you forget, including rounds
c±cled as well as those fired.
Both
the
feed
system
and
the
cannon
itself
get
Periodic
maintenance based on the Äounds used
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. . . and if you forget once, you could do
it again .
.. and again.
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Èor a final caution When loading the
The equiÉibrators on ±our M163 can
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M163, keeÊ your eyes open. Ëhose
whack the driver´s or commander´s
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Êeepers are just about the onl± thing
hatcÌ if you traverse with the barre¶s
Íthat can keep you from letting an
deÊressed too low.
emÊty element get b±. You know what
that can mean in parts replacement.
It
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could spell oÊerator replacement.
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WHen loadÆnG
Ïhen tHe mod team puts your neW
conveyor on tHe MÐ63AÑ, you can
forget dummy rounds. You won´t use
´em. And no problem to speak of if an
occasional empty element gets by.
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