PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-703
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 703
JUNE 2011
34
PS 703
35
PS 703
JUN 11
A
portable fire extinguisher with a broken safety seal or an expired DD Form 1574 yellow
inspection tag deadlines an aircraft.
Turn the fire extinguisher into the shop for technical inspection. The shop will weigh
it, recharge it, replace the safety wire, and retag it. If this cannot be done before the next
mission, replace the fire extinguisher.
If your unit SOP allows and you have your commander’s OK, borrow a good
extinguisher from another bird of the same model. Write it up in that aircraft’s logbook
and note what aircraft it came from and what aircraft it went to. When the mission is
over, make sure the fire extinguisher is returned to the same aircraft it was taken from.
It is also important to protect fire extinguisher data plates. The data plate is important
because the extinguisher gets inspected and weighed every 6 months to ensure the gross
weight has not dropped 4 or more ounces. Check the info on the data plate.
If the weight measurement is not legible on the data plate, the fire extinguisher is
unserviceable and must be replaced with a new one, NSN 6830-00-555-8837, like it says in
Para 2-5C, step (5) in TM 1-1500-204-23-1.
To protect the data plate information, use the attached DD Form 1574 serviceability
tag to cover the data plate. Overlay the tag with a piece of clear plastic. Then tape it
down with duct tape, NSN 5640-00-103-2254.
Aircraft Fire Extinguishers…
K
eep
A
ircraft
F
lying!
did you
pass your
inspection?
yep!
we’re
good-
to-go!
yiPpeE!
PS
Magazine
remains as relevant to the Army today as it was in June 1951, even
though Army equipment is now far more capable and lethal. Nonetheless, the effects
of OPTEMPO, friction, vibration, heat, cold, sand, water and chemical reactions still
produce corrosion, equipment wear and metal fatigue that remain as destructive as ever.
Then, as now, maintenance is about reducing these harmful effects and making
sure equipment is capable of performing unit missions. Unfortunately, mission and
maintenance are often seen as competing actions.
Truth is—they are Fip sides of the
same mission success coin.
Tactical operations are planned with the expectation that equipment will work as
intended. Skip PMCS and sooner or later equipment won’t work. That places mission
success and Soldiers at risk.
The
PS
slogan, “Would You Stake Your Life,
right now,
on the Condition of Your
Equipment?” gets right to the heart of risk management and mission accomplishment.
Are you keeping your equipment ready?
Preventive maintenance is what keeps the world’s best equipment in the hands of
Soldiers. That equipment works best which is best maintained.
Here’s to another 60 years of
PS Magazine
and preventive maintenance!
The Editor
Celebrating Relevance
where’s
PS? it’s
his
party!
I thought you
had a
party
to
go to?
can’T celEbrate!
Not when there’s
work
to be
done!!
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