PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-616
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 616
MARCH 2004
I
t doesn’t take a banana peel to make you slip inside the turret of your M1-series
tank, crewmen. When water, mud, oil, and hydraulic fluid collect on the turret
floor plates, it’s easy to take a dive when you least expect it.
And it’s dangerous! One soldier recently had two fingers partially amputated
and broke a third when he slipped on dirty floor plates.
Avoid slipups by cleaning dirty floor plates with a bucket of soapy water and a
nylon brush. Make sure you open the hull drain plugs so water has a way out.
Once you’re finished, take a close look at the non-skid paint on the turret floor
plates. If the paint has worn down to bare metal, you can slip even if the plates
are clean.
Apply a new coat of white non-skid paint, NSN 8010-01-499-0443, if needed.
Order the paint on a DD Form 1348-6 and put “NSN not on AMDF” in the
REMARKS block.
The -10-1 TMs currently require non-skid paint only on exterior surfaces and
the back of the loader’s seat, but a change is in the works to correct that.
Check out TM 43-0139,
Painting Instructions for Army Materiel,
for help on
preparing the floor plates for painting.
MAR 04
5
M1A1 Tank…
Dear Half-Mast,
I’m confused. How many periscopes, NSN 6650-01-320-5628, are
needed for the driver’s hatch center position and loader’s hatch on my M1A1
tank?
Item 1 on Page B-3 in the old version of TM 9-2350-264-10-2 (Sep
90 w/Ch 17) listed 1 ea as the quantity required. But when the TM was
updated in Apr 03, the quantity required changed to 2.
Do I need only 1 periscope, 1 for each hatch, or two for each hatch?
Help!
SFC I.A.C.
Dear Sergeant I.A.C.,
I can understand your confusion. The answer is a total of 2 periscopes,
one for the driver’s hatch center position and one for the loader’s hatch.
TACOM-Rock Island is going to modify the description in the next
change to the TM to clear up the confusion.
PS 616
MAR 04
4
M1-Series Tanks…
Give Dirty Floor the
Sl
ip
There!
now
maybe
I won’t slip
on your
dirty floor
plates!
wouldn’t it
make
more
sense to clean
and paint them?
The
new
description
will read…
Periscope, armored vehicle: driver’s hatch
center hatch position (1 ea), loader’s hatch
(1 ea) (19207) 12357848
is it one
periscope…
two… four?
I’m so
confused!
you’re
confused!?
how about
me!?
I can’t
see
any-
thing!
Stop the Confusion!
616. 04-05 (C)
1/22/04
4:46 PM
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