PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-568

PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly

ISSUE 568

MARCH 2000
PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-568 - Page 7 of 34
PS 568
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MAR 00
PS 568
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MAR 00
Keep Clips in
Their Place
M1-Series Tanks . . .
Looks like you’ve got that solution
all locked up!
Tight clip keeps
skirt in place
Unfortunately, that allows the
BII, tools, and other expensive
items stored there to be
“misappropriated.”
We’ve made a homemade lock
guard that keeps the sponson
boxes closed when they’re locked.
Here’s how to make it:
1. Cut a 5-ft concertina wire
picket, NSN 5660-00-270-1587,
in half.
Each half will make one
lock guard.
2. Place the picket on top of the
sponson box and mark where the
staples line up on the picket.
3. Cut a
1
/
2
inch wide slot for
each staple in the raised portion
of the picket at both marks.
W
ear and tear can take the starch
out of just about anything. That in-
cludes the retaining clips on your tank’s
skirt pins.
After a while, the metal loop on the
retaining clip doesn’t hold tight any-
more. If it slips loose, the retaining
clip can fall out. The next thing you
know, the track skirts are flapping in
the breeze like yesterday’s laundry.
Check the retaining clips as part
of your before-operation and after-
operation PMCS. If any of the clips
are missing or loose, get ’em replaced
right away.
gets a new clip.
Lock guard covers handles and
keeps sponson box closed
valuables stay where they’re
supposed to.
PFC Grant Chadwick
3/3d ACR
Ft Carson, CO
Lock lets handle
move enough to
open box
Dear Editor,
The locks on the sponson boxes
of our tanks don’t hold the
latches closed tightly enough.
Even with the padlocks in place,
you can turn the latch far enough
to open the box!
4. Paint the picket with CARC to
match the camouflage pattern of
your tank.
5. Lay the finished lock guard in
place on the sponson box so that
the staples show under the slots
in the guard. Then lock the
sponson box by inserting the
padlocks through the staples.
With the lock guard in place, the
handles can’t be moved and your
hey, smith
just took our
slave cable.
couldn't
have! i locked
the sponson
box.
HEH
HEH
HEH
WHOOPS!
I THINK I FEEL
A BREEZE!
PS 568
13
MAR 00
PS 568
12
MAR 00
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