PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-727
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 727
JUNE 2013
35
PS 727
JUN 13
M
echanics,
Around the World in Eighty Days
and
Fast and Furious
are about races to
the finish. But preventive maintenance around your aircraft is neither a 100-yd dash nor a
marathon—it is a life-long requirement.
Take it easy when removing parts like cowlings, pylons or covers. Sometimes connectors are
attached to different parts of the airframe. When you hastily remove a cowling or a cover with
wiring attached, not only will the cover come off, so will the wiring. Slow down and remove
parts and components step by step like the TMs say.
When doors, covers and airframe parts are removed from your aircraft, make sure they’re not
tossed to the ground or into the wind, either. Just because they are made of strong lightweight
material like fiberglass, sheet metal or composites doesn’t mean they won’t be damaged if you
carelessly handle them. Don’t create expensive repairs by doing sloppy maintenance.
Just in case you forget, “No Step” still means no step, whether covers, parts and pylons are
on the ground or on the aircraft. They’ll still break under your weight.
All Aircraft…
Slow Your Ro
And
WAtch Your Fet!
you’re
moving
so fast,
I can’t
keep
up with
you!
pm is
not
about
quickness
but
thoroughness.
slow down!
man,
I’m
knocking
flash!
this
PM
out
in a
I owe you an
apology, young
man. Let me take
another look at
that flue-taming
contraption.
Gladly,
sir!
Now, Younger, I
think I have something
to give you in turn.
..
Plus this way, I now
get
two
assistants.
…My daughter’s
hand in marriage.
For, had you not
saved Cassie, I
would have lost
a most useful
assistant.
So, how about a honey-
moon culturing mold
spores in Borneo?
Sir, you could send
us to the moon, and
we’d not argue.
I think I’ll
call it a
“whirly-gig!”
So happily ends
the story of Carl
and Cassiopeia,
and begins the PM
legend of a very
handy, um,
gizmo.
ater, in
theiR New
House…
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