PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-670
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 670
SEPTEMBER 2008
34
PS 670
SEP 08
35
PS 670
SEP 08
None of this has to happen. Rushing to disconnect a ground cable leads to broken parts. The
only way to disconnect from a grounding point is to reverse how you hooked it up.
Too many mechanics grab the ground cable and yank it like it’s a vacuum cleaner cord.
Is that the way you disconnect your head phones from your stereo system? Yanking
means you’ll be calling the electrician for repair and that means aircraft downtime.
Carelessness is another key killer of grounding studs. A dropped tool, a misplaced
foot, or a poorly placed maintenance stand could lead to a snapped grounding stud if
the wire gets caught or tangled in anything.
Awareness is the key. Know where you are and where the grounding point is at all
times. Remember, Kiowa Warriors have two grounding receptacles on the right side of
the bird. For grounding and hangar shop practices, check Chap 2 of TM 1-1500-204-23-1.
All Aircraft…
Grounding
Your Birds
grounding your
aircraft is a
routine task, but
it often becomes
a pain in the
neck when the
grounding stud
is broken.
your electrician
will feel that
pain when he’s
wearing out wp
01
7
00 of tm
1-1500-323-24-1
trying to repair
the grounding
stud and the
area where it
was ripped out
because of
carelessness.
Plug here…
…hook here and secure wire
not
again!
eyewitnesses
said the four
daimler-benz
diesel engines
were burning
sparks
out
their exhaust.
‘‘nose’’
witnesses said they
smelled the unmistakable
odor of leaking diesel.
when the eyes and
noses were put
together, the face
of the mystery
became clear. the
sparks ignited the
fuel and it was
auf
wiedershen
to the
hindenburg.
we dug a little
deeper and found
that the man in
charge of preventive
maintenance on those
engines was adolph
hitler’s cousin,
dumbkopf hitler.
when dumbkopf
should have been
doing pm on the
engines, he was
practicing his nazi
salute. his salute
was snappy, but his
pm was crappy!
is there a
moral
to
our story?
of
course!
don’t
be
a
dumb-
kopf!
if you’re assigned
preventive
maintenance on a
piece of equipment,
do it!
if you
don’t, it could be
disastrous!
and
that’s
not
just a
lot of
hot air!
what th--!?
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8/8/08
1:54:06 PM
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