PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-635
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 635
OCTOBER 2005
PS 635
OCT 05
35
P
reparing for a deployment, desert or otherwise? Protect your Black Hawk’s
AN/APR-39 antennas
before
you shrink wrap them.
Shrink wrapping a Black Hawk is very heat intensive. Shrink wrap melts the
antenna material as it seals. You won’t see the damage until the bird gets to its final
destination and the shrink wrap is removed.
A way to save your front and rear antennas from damage due to melting is to
place an 8-oz wax paper—not plastic—cup over all four of them and tape ‘em down.
if the AN/APR-39 antennas
are
not
protected during
the shrink wrap process,
you will be
replacing
all
four of them.
Cover
both front
and rear
antennas
with cups
cover my
antennas!
the cups’ll
protect
‘em
from the heat!!
Prep for Shipping Helicopters
you’re about to
get shrinkwrapped
and you want me
to do
what
with
these paper cups?
jasper, I
shouldn’t have
expected you to
take care of
the ship
and
the
passengers.
if we had left
you alone to do
your maintenance,
we wouldn’t be
marooned.
As God is my
witness, if I
ever get off
this island I’ll
never forget
PM again.
LoOK!
there’s
something carved
on this boat!
look!
we’re
not
the only ones
marooned here!
there’s
another
boat!
maybe
they can
help us!
UH-60…
I should have told
the cap’n I hadn’t
done pm. Now we’re
stuck on this
uncharted island.
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12:17 PM
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