PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-741
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 741
AUGUST 2014
26
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w
hen you think of the word clean, what should come to mind is wash, rinse and dry.
Well, that same process applies to your AH-64 aircraft.
Before you get your wash on, don’t forget to bag and tie your electronic components
to protect them from water like it says in the IETM’s caution statement. The same
goes for the pitot static tubes. You don’t want water to affect the tubes so that you
won’t be able to tell your airspeed and wind speed.
After a thorough washing of your aircraft, water can pool in certain areas. Not
drying up that water invites corrosion. Stopping corrosion dead in its tracks requires
that you look for water in the most likely—and unlikely—places.
For example, after washing your AH-
64, you need to check for leftover water
in the rotating swashplate area. If you
see water, use shop towels to soak it up.
Allow the area to dry and then apply
some corrosion preventive compound to
the swashplate like it says in the IETM.
An aircraft wash should not turn into a
major repair exercise, so take precautions
to protect parts and components from
water intrusion and corrosion.
AH-64A/D…
get rid
of
standing
water
If water pools in swashplate area, dry it up
this TurneD
ouT TO BE A
gOod wash,
rinse and Dry.
I don’t
SeE
Any
water!
Good!
thEn I
don’t have to
worry about
corrosion.
How The Vest Was Won
Part 1
Gran’pa Zeb, we
wanna hear the
story again. The
story of
how the vest
was won!
Billy, you’ve
heard it a hundred
times, maybe two
hundred by now.
The old West.
Nothing left of it now but
a few dusty mementoes, like a tattered
patch sewn on an old man’s vest.
But once that man was
young
and the world
offered a fistful of
adventure.
But it’s our
favorite!
Pleee
ease?
All right,
you little
pollywogs,
but then it’s
bedtime.
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