PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-677
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 677
APRIL 2009
55
PS 677
APR 09
•
The fuel shutoff valve and
throttle also break if you’re not
careful. Be gentle when pushing in
the shutoff valve. If you jam it, the
valve snaps off.
When you release the throttle at
the end of operations, don’t let it
snap back. That eventually causes
the wing nut bolt for the throttle to
break and then the throttle won’t
stay in one position. Guide the
throttle back into place.
•
Short soldiers may have trouble
starting the pump because they
have difficulty pulling the handle all
the way back. It’s easier if you put
your left foot on the top bar of the
frame, grasp the handle with both
hands, and then use your body and
leg to push off hard as you pull back
the handle.
Dear Editor,
Here are a few tips we’ve come up
with at the U.S. Army Chemical School
to keep the 125-gpm pump pumped for
pumping water:
•
The item that breaks most often on the
pump is its pull handle. Operators yank on
the handle (as they must to start it) and
the cord snaps off. Before you leave the
motor pool, slowly pull the handle all the
way out and check the cord for fraying.
If the cord’s worn out, get it replaced
before you go to the field.
I
f you must wear an M45 pro-
tective mask because you can’t Ft
into an M40 or M42 mask, then
you need to keep the M45 when
you transfer units.
M40 and M42 masks stay with
the unit when a Soldier transfers.
But it’s a different story with the
M45 if it’s used for a hard-to-Ft
Soldier. As long as that Soldier
stays in the Army, he should keep
that speciFc M45 mask.
SSG Brian Francis
U.S. Army Chemical School
Ft Leonard Wood, MO
Editor’s note:
Your suggestions
will help decon units pump up,
Sergeant. Thanks.
125 GPM Pump…
Pump It Up!
M45 Mask…
Hard
to Fit?
Keep
Your
M45!
paragraph 1 in wp
0001 00-3/4 of tb
3-4240-341-20-1,
which covers mask
fitting problems,
authorizes this.
ve
vant to
pOmp
you
up…
…vith Dese
suggestions!
I’m
pumped!
let’s
go!
Pull handle all the
way out and check
cord for fraying
Be gentle
with
shutoff
valve
Letting
throttle
snap back
eventually
breaks
wing nut
Guide
throttle
back
Use whole body
for more power
well, I’m moving
on to my new unit
so I’m turning in
my mask.
no,
that’s the
m45 mask we
ordered specially
for you because
you’re hard to fit.
you need to
keep
that
mask as long
as you’re in
the army!
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3/3/09
3:17:58 PM
SSG B.F.
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