PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-736
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 736
MARCH 2014
Dear Editor,
In PS 731 (Oct 13), Terry Blount suggested that repairmen for howitzers
and mortars keep a personal copy of TM 9-1000-202-14,
Evaluation of
Cannon Tubes.
That way repairmen will never have to guess whether a cannon
tube is still usable or should be condemned.
Let me offer one further suggestion. Most shops support only a few of the
many mortars or howitzers listed in the TM. Instead of lugging around the
entire TM, just print out the sections that cover the cannons you support.
Staple them together, put them in a folder and store them with your borescope.
Karl Hayhurst
Ft Hood, TX
40
PS 736
MAR 14
Editor’s note:
Excellent idea, Karl. EM 0065, which covers
most small arms, has the TM, as does LOGSA’s ETM website:
It’s also a good idea to sign up for automatic email notiFcations. That way,
you’ll be notiFed if the TM changes so you can reprint the section you need.
Enter your pub number in the Pub Number Feld. On the next screen, click
the
Update Notifcation
button near the bottom of the screen. On the next
screen, select your pub(s) and Fll in your email address. Click
Continue
. Your
subscription will be conFrmed and you will be notiFed when there is a change to
your pub in ETMs Online.
“CROWS
equipment stays with CROWS”
seems like a pretty obvious statement.
But unFortunately that hasn’t been the case.
Units deploying back From theater are taking the CROWS tool bag, the weapons
adapter kit and the boresight kit with them. Without those items, the new unit can’t
operate CROWS. And it costs $23K to replace the tool bag and two kits. That’s a
pretty heFty bill to leave your replacements.
When it’s time to go home, leave your CROWS equipment with CROWS. That’s
where it belongs and it saves the Army maintenance dollars.
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Howitzer, Mortars…
Get the Book
Before
You
Evaluate.
..
and
Copy What
You Need!
CROWS
Equipment
Stays
with
CROWS
M249 Machine Gun…
CheCk for
New
Op Rod
Click Update Notification button…
…select pubs and type in email address
you
may be
going home,
but
I’m
not.
leave my toOl
bag here.
your
replace-
ment will
need
it!
There are
still
some
M249 machine gun
operating rods in the
field that have the
tower portion/rear part
welded to the tube.
These op
rods need to
be inspected
for bends,
breaks, burrs
or cracks.
you don’t
need that
whole TM to
work on me!
How ‘bout just
copying my part
and keeping it with
your borescope?
New op rod
has rod
screwed
into tower
portion/rear
part
Thread
Pin
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