PS Magazine - SEPTEMBER 1986
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 406
SEPTEMBER 1986
You give some soldiers a brush and a pail of paint, and ·who knows what wiLl
get covered next. Remember the old adage, "If it doesn't move, paint it±?
FaCt is, it was probably some exuberant trooper in ²uster's ComMand who
gave the Painted Desert its name. And, maybe
01'
³aint was standing just a
LittLe too still at a P´ roundup in the Corral.
´ake no mistake, tho, Army equipment needs paint. It µghts Corrosion. It
makes some things easy to see ¶r sa¸ty's sake. It makes other things hard to
see, ¶r Camou¹age sake.
But, just like hot sauCe at a barbeCue,
too muCh of a good thing Can be a bad
thing.
To be a painting suCCess is ºretty
simple: Paint where paint is needed
and mask where paint in not needed.
I
between, use all the Common sense
you Can muster.
SAFETY »S WI³ED OUT by a Coat
of paint that Covers generator set load
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term¼Nal markings. Some o½rators w¾l
Kow whiCh terminals are whiCh-but
some won't. Pop! goes another light
bulb, or ¿À¿ PhÁ!
ÂÃÀ another radio
teLeĽwriter set.
²ombat vehiCle meChs Lose theiÅ
margin of sa¸ty when dÆÇ plates are
painted over-a tÈk's ballÉstiCs drive
QCaÊon plateË ¶r example. The data
on that pLate teLLs the meChs what CorÌ
reCtions to make in aligning sights and
weaÍns. That CorÎeCtion Can be the
diÏerenCe Ðtween hitting what the Crew
aims atÑor just Coming Close¿
Safety's lost when you ¶rget to mask
tem½rature and oil gages or Æ tÆChoÒ
meter be¶re you paint. Unless you hÆve
XÓray vision, it'lL be pretty tough to
read gages through a Coat of paint.
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