PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-638
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 638
JANUARY 2006
PS 638
JAN 06
13
Avenger
Missile
System…
Headspace & Timing Cable NSN?
MLRS, HIMARS…
MSU
Not
a
Coat
Rack
T
he mass storage unit
(MSU) on your MLRS or
HIMARS (high mobility
artillery rocket system) is
not something you should
be using as a coat rack.
If you hang stuff from
the MSU handles, the
weight causes the handles
to break or work loose.
Find somewhere else to
hang your equipment.
Dear Half-Mast,
Thanks for running the
NSNs for the on-board
Avenger M3P machine gun
tool kit in PS 630 (May
05). But you left out the
headspace and timing cable
-
and our Avenger unit needs
seven of them. Can you help?
SGT T.M.
PS 638
JAN 06
12
Avenger Missile System…
Dear Editor,
To fire blanks with the Avenger’s M3P machine gun you must first
install a blank adapter and that means removing the machine gun mount.
Any Avenger repairman can tell you that’s an industrial-strength
headache. The holes on the mount are too small to easily fit a wrench
through to get at the four nuts that hold the mount in place. It can
take hours of maneuvering to remove the mount.
I’ve found you can cut the job to 15 minutes by taking a 1/4-in
open-end wrench and grinding off its sides until the wrench fits easily
in the holes for the nuts. Then, of course, put that wrench someplace
where you can find it next time you need to remove the mount again.
SGT Cliff Peterson
C Co, 1/62 ADA
Ft Lewis, WA
Editor’s note:
What a good way to ease
into tight spots! Thanks for the tip.
Grind off sides of
1/4-in wrench…
…so it fits easily
in holes
you know
what
that
means!
SGT T.M.,
unfortunately,
the cable has
no
NSN, but you can
order it on a DD
Form 1348-6 with
P/N 13264858,
RIC B64 and CAGE
code
188
7
6. Hope
this helps.
man, there
go all my
plans for
tonight!
how are you going
to headspace and
time my m3p gun if
you don’t have a
headspace and
timing cable?
Got me!
we
broke
the
cable and we
don’t know
how to get a
new one!
Don’t hang stuff from MSU handles
tomorrow
I’m s’posed to
fire
blanks.
oh,
no!
I
have to remove
your machine
gun mount.
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12/1/05
4:30 PM
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