PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-579

PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly

ISSUE 579

FEBRUARY 2001
PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-579 - Page 30 of 33
PS 579
FEB 01
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PS 579
FEB 01
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Cut three sides of the garnish and tie back the flap with plastic straps, NSN
1080-01-022-8633 for woodland or desert screens and NSN 5975-00-111-3208
for snow screening. That way, you can close up the hole when you’re through,
using the same straps.
The flap protects your radio set, too.
The screen’s metal content can reflect
radio RF output and damage its transmitter.
NSN 1080-01-
Type IV Pattern
NSN 1080-01-
Type I Pattern
Radar Scattering
Radar Transparent
Woodland
Desert
Snow
Special
Desert
Desert
Snow
Special
Desert
073-3220
081-1021
325-4994
The Type 1 woodland screen is no longer available. A replacement screen is in
the works and should be available later this year.
Y
our camouflage screens may be fire retardant, but they
will
burn or melt if
they get near something very hot—like exhaust pipes and stove pipes—or a
transmitting radio antenna.
So keep screens cool—and safe.
When you set up your screening, cut a hole in the garnish and fold it back so
that the exhaust pipe, chimney or antenna is at least 8 inches from the garnish
in all directions.
Once you’re set, don’t think everything will stay in place by itself.
Eyeball
the camouflage screening daily or every hour or so during high winds or snow.
Support poles can sink into soft ground or shift around. Then screening can
move and touch hot spots. High winds or snow can cause the screening to shift,
too.
Knock off snow before it builds up.
If your screening gets damaged, use a repair kit to fix it. Use only matching
fabric from the proper repair kit for the job. Radar scattering screens are either
Type II, III or IV.
Type II screens can be repaired with Type II, III or IV fabric.
Type III can be repaired only with Type III and IV and Type IV can be repaired
only with Type IV. Radar transparent screens are Type I only. The following
repair kits are available:
Cut screen away
from stove pipe
266-1832
266-1834
266-1830
325-4995
Camouflage. . .
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1/9/01
6:56 PM
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