PS Magazine - FEBRUARY 1982
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 351
FEBRUARY 1982
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M48/M60 Tanks-
The torque wrench needed is NSN
5120-00±22²³7983 from your No. 1
Common tool kit´
So how do you spread one torque
wrench amoµg your unit's tank crews?
You don't have to¶
SC 49·0-95¸CL-A74 for the tool kit
Will be updated to include the follow¹
Iµg:
"ºhe total quantity of torque
wrenches, NSN 5120³00-221»7983,
authorized
company /battery /troop
uµits having vehicles equipped w¼th
the º½42 track shall be based on ½
wrench per 4 vehicles or major
fractions thereof
.
Required additional
wrenches must be separately re-
quisitioned."
For now, tho, note the above in your
SC 49·0-95-CL³A74 aµd use TACOM
¾Essage DRSºA-MC 151930Z Apr
81 as authorization to get additional
wrenches¿
Àith thÁse wrenches, you cÂn get
the right torqUeÃ
The way you have to work nowÄ
with a cheater barÅthe track
Remember that TÆ42 tÇÈck iÉ "ÆiVeÊ
track with the bushings presseË in at a
16°
angleÌ The oµly place the bUshings
are in a position to seat aÆl the waÍ is
when the connectors are on the comÎ
pensating idler wheeÆ. That'É where
Íou torque themà Ïtherwise, your
torque woµ't hold the way it Éhould,
and your tracK Æife will go downÐ
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AN AwesomE Blossom .
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How to Make StEel Orchids
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a
rouµdÕ
YouÖll tUrn ÍoÑr gÑn tub× into a steel orchidØ
ºhÙs is aµ expeµsiv× floWerÚa replacemÛµt barreÆ costs Üor× thµ $8Ó000
Ýaµd you Þ
ght not eveµ be arouµd to eµjoÍ it after yoß maK× àtá
4·
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Try to avoid ge±±inG Dir± iN yOur Gun
tube. LIke, when ±here is a Dip in the
terrain that miGh± Dig YouR Gun tuBe into
±he D²rt, elevate ±he GuN so ²± wOn'± maKe
contaC±³
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