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APPENDIX D
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION
Section I. INTRODUCTION
i.
Repair. The application of maintenance
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General
services (inspect, test, service, adjust, align, calibrate,
This appendix provides a summary of the maintenance
replace) or other maintenance actions (welding, grinding,
operations for AN/MYK-8(V)1 and AN/MYK-8(V)3. It
riveting,
straightening,
facing,
remachining,
or
authorizes categories of maintenance for specific
resurfacing) to restore serviceability to an item by
maintenance functions on repairable items and
correcting specific damage, fault, malfunction, or failure
components and the tools and equipment required to
in a part, subassembly, module (component or
perform each function. This appendix may be used as an
assembly), end item, or system.
aid in planning maintenance operations.
i.
Overhaul.
That maintenance effort
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Maintenance Function
(service/action) necessary to restore an item to a
Maintenance functions will be limited to and de- fined as
completely
serviceable,/operational
condition
as
follows:
prescribed by maintenance standards (i.e., DMWR) in
a. Inspect. To determine the serviceability of
appropriate technical publications. Overhaul is normally
an item by comparing its physical, mechanical, and/or
the highest degree of maintenance performed by the
electrical characteristics with established standards
Army. Overhaul does not normally return an item to like
through examination.
new condition.
b. Test. To verify serviceability and to detect
k. Rebuild. Consists of those services/actions
incipient failure by measuring the mechanical or
necessary for the restoration of unserviceable equipment
electrical characteristics of an item and comparing those
to a like new condition in accordance with original
characteristics with prescribed standards.
manufacturing standards. Rebuild is the highest degree
c. Service. Operations required periodically to
of material maintenance applied to Army equipment.
keep an item in proper operating condition, i.e., to clean
The rebuild operation includes the act of returning to zero
(decontaminate), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to
those age measurements (hours, miles, etc.) considered
replenish fuel, lubricants, hydraulic fluids, or compressed
in classifying Army equipment/components.
air supplies.
d. Adjust.
To maintain, within prescribed
D-3.
Column Entries
limits, by bringing into proper or exact position, or by
a. Column 1, Groutp Number. Column 1 lists
setting the operating characteristics to the specified
group numbers, the purpose of which is to identify
parameters.
components, assemblies, subassemblies, and modules
e. Align.
To adjust specified variable
with the next higher assembly.
elements of an item to bring about optimum or desired
b. Column 2, Component/Assembly. Column
performance.
2 contains the noun names of components, assemblies,
f.
Calibrate.
To determine and cause
subassemblies, and modules for which maintenance is
corrections to be made or to be adjusted on instruments
authorized.
or test measuring and diagnostic equipments used in
c. Column 3, Maintenance Functions. Column
precision measurement. Consists of comparisons of two
3 lists the functions to be performed on the item listed in
instruments, one of which is a certified standard of
column 2. When items are listed without maintenance
known accuracy, to detect and adjust any discrepancy in
functions, it is solely for purpose of having the group
the accuracy of the instrument being compared.
numbers in the MAC and RPSTL coincide.
g. Install. The act of emplacing, seating, or
d. Column 4, Maintenance Category. Column
fixing into position an item, part, module (component or
4 specifies, by the listing of a "work time" figure in the
assembly) in a manner to allow the proper functioning of
appropriate subcolumn(s), the lowest level of
the equipment or system.
maintenance authorized to perform the function listed in
h. Replace.
The act of substituting a
serviceable like type part, subassembly, or module
(component or assembly) for an unserviceable
counterpart.
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