PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-555
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 555
FEBRUARY 1999
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ou’ve come up with a better way to
reduce the burden on the Army’s lo-
gistics community. Maybe it’s in main-
tenance, supply, transportation, or even
tools—anything that involves a better
or safer way.
How do you sell the Army on your
idea? Think SMART.
The Supply and Maintenance Assess-
ment Review Team (SMART), and the
Tool Improvement Program Sugges-
tions (TIPS) are looking for better ways
of doing business—and there’s a bot-
tom line in it for you. If your idea is
accepted, it could mean big bucks. Re-
cently, a soldier at Fort Bragg received
$8,433.
Since the program started it has
handled 14,000 ideas and recom-
mended 2,100 for adoption. These ideas
earned suggesters $885,000.
Put your idea down on a DA Form
5533, or any piece of paper. Be sure to
include your name, address and phone
number. Mail it to:
Project SMART/TIPS
Director of Combat Development for
Combat Service Support
3901 A Avenue, Suite 220
Ft. Lee, VA
23801-1809
For more info on the SMART pro-
gram, check out Chap 10 of DA Pam
738-750 in the Maintenance Manage-
ment Update.
You can also call the SMART folks
at DSN 687-0363/2406/2399, (804)
734-0363/2406/2399, or e-mail:
SMART@lee-dns1.army.mil
SMART/TIPS Program . . .
The Bottom Line
To apply the tubing, cut off a
3
/
4
-to
1-in piece. Slip the tubing over the rope,
leaving a little bit over the rope’s end.
Shrink the tubing with a heat gun or a
lighter until it’s tight.
Rope Hope
If the ends of your tent’s ropes are
unravelling, fix them like this:
Natural fiber rope
(hemp, cotton,
manila)—Wrap the rope end with cord
like this:
Use heat gun on shrink tubing
For a more durable fix for either kind
of rope, use shrink tubing. Tubing
shrinks to half its size, so order a size
from this list that slips easily over the
rope end. The tubing comes by the foot.
Or wrap the ends with reinforced ny-
lon tape, NSN 7510-00-582-4772.
Synthetic rope
—
Melt the rope ends
and mash the ends together.
Loops opened up for purposes of clarity
ka-
ching!
Lay loop along rope
Start whipping here
Last round through loop
Pull loop to center
End
Cut here
now I've
patched
the
holes
in my tent!
you'll be
high
and
dry
the
next time
it
rains!
Wrap rope ends
Diameter (inches)
NSN 5970-
1
/
4
00-815-1295
3
/
8
00-954-1624
1
/
2
00-812-2967
3
/
4
00-914-3118
1
00-815-1300
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