U
ncovered battery posts can put a serious crimp in your day.
If a piece of metal touches both terminals—or touches the positive terminal and
a ground at the same time—you get a spark.
Throw some fuel fumes or battery gases into
the mix and you’ve got a fire or an explosion. You
don’t want a fire or an explosion!
So, order battery terminal cover, NSN 5940-00-
738-6272. You can get a pack of 10 covers for $5.
The covers are rubber rectangles folded in the
middle with a hole in the bottom side. Just slip the
battery post into the hole, replace the cable and
you can say bye-bye to spark-related accidents.
Batteries…
Put on
battery
covers
don’t
forget
to get me
battery
terminal
covers!
PS 626
JAN 05
40
Electrical Connectors…
T
he pins in electrical connectors must stand straight and tall. A bent pin means
a poor connection or no connection at all. And, eventually, a bent pin becomes a
broken pin.
But straightening bent pins is not easy. The tool most often used to straighten
pins is needle-nosed pliers. That’s the wrong tool for the job. Needle-nosed pli-
ers are too big and too clumsy. While you straighten one pin, you’ll bend or
break others.
not only good for removing pins, but for straightening them, too!
The kit comes with four tips
to adjust to different pin sizes.
Just slip the right tip over the
bent pin and gently, carefully,
bend it back in shape.
One more tip. Prevent bent
pins from happening by lining
up the keyway on a connector
with the key on the connection.
Lined up right, your pins should
always be standing at attention.
Use kit tips to straighten pins
Pins! Attention!
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other soldiers?
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from you!
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or
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