PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-599
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 599
OCTOBER 2002
“Unless you have done PM on your
stoves before you leave
-like coating
them and reinforcing their stacks
-
that oily soot will ignite and burn
your men and more than likely destroy
your stove.”
YOU’RE
RiGHT!
That
very thing
happened
when I was
on expedition
in 1908.
YOU ARE
TAKiNG
TENTS,
CORRECT?
“OF COURSE. THERE
iS NO WOOD NOR
SUFFiCiENT SNOW
FOR SHELTERS.”
“YES.
..AND I UNDERSTAND
THAT THE WiND iS SO
STRONG iN ANTARcTiCA…
that iT WiLL BLOW THROUGH
THE WALLS OF A TENT.”
HAR
UMPH! THAT’S
TRUE,
SiR ERNEST.
IN ALASKA, I
SMOKED A PiPE
iNSiDE A TENT.
“on my honor
sir… the
smoke
never
rose. It blew
sideways.”
I agree. It is an
ill wind
that blows
no
good fortune.
and I intend for
good fortune to
blow my way.
so, you say
that this
pm
can
stop the wind?
“No. I can only
tell you that a
tent
coated
and
sealed
now is the one
I would prefer
to sleep in.”
and
clothing?
I’ve packed
the heaviest
I can find.
PS 599
OCT 02
30
PS 599
OCT 02
31
Yes, but it
makes generous
amounts of oily,
sooty smoke,
does it not?
MORE ABOUT
PM.
599. 30-31 (C)
8/26/02
5:43 PM
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