PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-709
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 709
DECEMBER 2011
51
DEC 11
The mechanical room is only about 30 square feet. But it houses a generator, two
air conditioners, ventilation and exhaust fans, a power distribution panel and more.
The room also houses some removable gear: eight wing jacks, a ground rod, a slide
hammer, screw jacks and corner jacks along with their extension base plates, stairs/
ladders and six 5-gal water cans.
A Packing Plan
Prevent damage to the mechanical room’s equipment. Pack
gear the right way. WP 0006 of TM 10-7360-226-13&P (Aug 01,
w/Ch 4, Mar 07) shows you how. It has a loose item packout
list of the stored gear. The work package leads you step-by-
step on how to pack items. It tells you where to store them
and how to secure them in place with brackets or straps.
Containerized Kitchen…
what’s the
hold-up? I’m
so hungry I
could eat my
boOt!
I’m glad they
packed this
kitchen up right!
Keep in mind, the
air conditioners
work
in tandem.
if one goes down, the
other one won’t work
either.
You may have to
replace them
both.
we’d be
waiting a lot
longer if the
equipment
had been
damaged in
transit!
Take
care
when
you pack gear in the
mechanical room
at the back of the
containerized kitchen.
Careless packing can
lead to
damaged
equipment.
The
problem
comes when
you stow this removable
gear
loosely
instead of
securing it in brackets or
strapping it down.
The air conditioners take the
worst
beating. The slide hammer, the
ground rod and the jacks
slam
into
the condensers and
bend
the fins.
it can bend the exhaust
pipe coupling and
smash
the circuit breakers
on the power entrance
panel.
Sometimes the gear rams through
the fins and
punctures
tubes
underneath, releasing high-pressure,
cold refrigerant. That liquid can
injure
you.
Either way, the
air conditioners
won’t
operate.
it can
puncture the
generator’s exhaust
tube
or the modern
burner unit’s (MBU)
fuel hose.
Once the fins
are bent, the
condenser
can’t
let heat escape.
Loose gear can shift
in transit… and cause
damaged equipment!
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