PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-634

PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly

ISSUE 634

SEPTEMBER 2005
PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-634 - Page 28 of 33
Unit maintenance can handle repairs to small holes and tears in polyester tents
and vehicle covers—anything less than two inches across.
The Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles
(FMTV) has a soft top repair kit, NSN 2540-01-
496-4442. Use it to repair the FMTV cover and
other vehicle covers.
The tentage repair kit,
NSN
now comes with polyester
fabric. It has two yards of
camouflage green fabric,
two yards of desert tan fabric,
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Here are a
few items to
help you…
Order FMTV soft top repair kit
Tentage repair kit has
polyester fabric
Major Repairs
Minor Repairs
Here’s the latest story…
who
mends
it?
do you
feel a
draft?
how
is it
mended?
Coated polyester (some-
times called vinyl) tents and
vehicle covers have become
commonplace
throughout
the Army in recent years.
But
questions
still linger
about polyester
repair.
If your installation has a facility for making major repairs to polyester tents or vehi-
cle covers, that’s where you send them. But if your installation doesn’t have that
capacity, you’ll need to ask DOL to recommend a repair shop where you can send
your polyester. One approved fabrication and repair shop is located near Ft Hood, TX.
See Page 59 of PS 595 (Jun 02) for more details. You’ll find the article at:
Another option is to order polyester tent sections to replace those that are badly dam-
aged. Get them from the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Basecamp website:
Once you’re in the website, go to the white box with the links to various kinds of
tents. Each link will take you to a parts breakdown, including polyester tent sections.
Tents and Vehicle Covers…
A Plan for Polyester
sometimes
repairing
small
holes and tears
can prevent
larger
ones.
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