PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-575
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 575
OCTOBER 2000
he metal around the safety wire holes on the external oil filter bowl of your
Kiowa Warrior is easily broken. When that happens, TM 1-1520–248-23 says to
replace the whole bowl.
But instead of replacing a bowl because it can’t be safety-wired, you can now
just make new holes.
An upcoming change to the TM will let AVUM shops drill additional holes in
the housing flange instead of replacing the bowl.
Each new hole should be 0.048 to
0.057 inch in diameter and should be
drilled at a point on the bowl that’s 30
to 45 degrees from the damaged hole.
Treat the edge of the new hole with
alodine conversion coating to prevent
corrosion. The coating is listed in your
TM’s expendable supplies and materi-
als list as Item 57, NSN 8030-00-057-
2354.
f you’re throwing away bad XM296 .50-cal machine gun oil buffer body
assemblies, NSN 1005-00-550-3941—
stop
! The supply system is out of those
OH-58D machine gun buffers and is having problems buying new ones. So turn
in those bad assemblies instead of tossing them.
A change to TM 9-1090-214-23&P will modify the buffer body’s SMR code
from PAODZ to PAODD which means you turn in the body for repair. The
recoverability code in FED LOG-AMDF already requires turn-in.
For turn-in instructions, contact TACOM-Rock Island, at DSN 793-1935 or
(309) 782-1935, or send an e-mail to:
maug@ria.army.mil
Aircraft Pubs . . .
Where to Find Cold Weather Info
A
viators, your aircraft –10 TMs often refer you to FM 1-202,
Environmental
Flight
, for additional info on cold weather operations.
Forget that! FM 1-201,
Fundamentals of Flight
, has replaced the old FM 1-
202
.
The new pub has updated cold weather info and includes the info from FM
1-203,
Fundamentals of Flight
; TC 1-201,
Tactical Flight Procedures;
and TC
1-204,
Night Flight Techniques and Procedures.
OH-58D . . .
there's
no
need
to toss mY
HOUSING out just
because THE safety
wire holes are
busted
!
just get
your avum shop
to drill some
new
holes
in my
flange.
i guess it's
the
trash
for
this machine
gun buffer.
not so fast,
soldier!
turn that buffer
body assembly
in for
repair
!
Drill new hole in filter housing
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