PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-697
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 697
DECEMBER 2010
52
PS 697
DEC 10
Dear Editor,
Through our work with the Ft Hood Command Maintenance Evaluation
and Training Team (COMET), we run into many cases where excess or
unserviceable CBRN items are left stored for months and even years.
That does no good for other units that might be able to use the
excess equipment.
This is a particular problem with JSLIST (joint service lightweight
integrated suit technology). When units prepare to deploy, they order new
JSLIST. If the new suits don’t come before they deploy, all the JSLIST
goes into storage. Sometimes this can mean thousands of suits sitting in
a warehouse serving no purpose. Meanwhile, the deployed units pick up the
JSLIST they need overseas.
This waste can be avoided if units order JSLIST at least 45 days before
they deploy. That provides enough time for the new JSLIST to arrive before
units leave.
If units have excess CBRN equipment, they should contact the
equipment’s item manager for turn-in procedures. Your local TACOM
logistics assistance representative can provide the item manager’s contact
info or you can look up the item manager by the item’s NIIN:
For unserviceable or obsolete CBRN items, contact the Defense,
Accountability, Reutilization, and Disposal (DARD) project. They handle
all CBRN items that aren’t classified as HAZMAT. HAZMAT items include
M256/M256A1 detector kits, water testing kits, M11 decons, all types of
batteries, simulator chemical agent detector tickets and mask canisters.
These items must be disposed of through your installation environmental
office.
To get DARD disposition instructions, email:
smblogcomjeap@usmc.mil
Don’t let CBRN equipment sit! Turn it in if you’re not going to use it.
Vernon Gales
Shirley Evans
COMET
Ft Hood, TX
Editor’s note:
Thanks for the
excellent info, Vernon and Shirley.
Now CBRN specialists know what to
do with equipment they aren’t using.
tm
3-4230-238-23&P for the new M26 Decon system lists a German product for the
water pump oil. That doesn’t do you repairmen much good.
Until the updated TM hits the streets later this spring or summer, you should use
SAE40 oil for the water pump.
PMCS calls for the pump oil to be
changed annually,. However, if the sys-
tem hasn’t been operated much and the
oil appears to be clean (i.e., almond blond
color—almost clear), your main-tenance
SOP may dictate when to change it.
If you drain the water pump, use
SAE40 oil to refll it until the oil is visible
in the middle of the oil level sight glass. It
should take about 2.1 quarts.
The engine itself uses 15W40 oil.
Before changing the engine’s oil, run the
engine until you feel heat coming off the
engine block. Add engine oil to the upper
marking on the dipstick. It should take
about 1 quart. Check out the procedure in
Fig 1 of WP 0051 in the -23&P.
CBRN…
Don’t Let
Exces ItemS ±it
what oils to use in
m26
decon
Fill water pump until middle of
oil level indicator is reached
Fill engine until
upper marking on
dipstick shows oil
Oil level
indicator
we’re not doing any good
sitting in here
doing nothing!
yeah,
I wish
they would turn
us in so a unit
who
needs
us
could give us
work to do!
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