APPENDIX B MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART

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APPENDIX B

M A I N T E N A N C E ALLOCATION CHART

Section I. INTRODUCTION

B-1. GENERAL

This Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC) provides a summary of maintenance

operations for the tape cleaner. This document assigns categories of maintenance

for specific maintenance functions on repairable items and identifies tools and

equipment required to perform each function. Each maintenance function is assigned

to the lowest level of maintenance prepared to perform that function for the tape

cleaner. It should be understood that each maintenance function can also be

performed at all higher levels of maintenance. The higher levels of maintenance

will have tools and test equipment to perform the maintenance functions assigned to

and normally performed by lower levels of maintenance.

The following paragraphs of Section I present maintenance function definitions,

explanation of MAC column entries, and explanation of column entries of the tool

and test equipment requirements section. Section II presents the MAC for the tape

cleaner and Section 111 presents the tool and test equipment requirements for the

tape cleaner.

B-2. MAINTENANCE FUNCTION DEFINITIONS.

Maintenance Functions are limited to and defined as follows:

a. Inspect Determination of the serviceability of an item by comparing its

physical, mechanical, and/or electrical characteristics with established standards

through examination.

b. Test. Verification of serviceability and detection of beginning failure by

measuring mechanical or electrical characteristics of an item and comparing

those characteristics with prescribed standards.

c. Service. Performance of operations required periodically to keep an item in

proper-rig

condition. Such operations would include cleaning, preservation,

draining, painting, or replenishment of fuel/lubricants/hydraulic fluids or

compressed air supplies.

d. Adjust. Maintenance within prescribed limits by bringing into proper or

exact position, or by setting the operating characteristics to the specified

parameters.

e. Aline. Adjustment of specified variable elements of an item to the maximum

or desired performance.

f. Calibrate. Determination and cause corrections to or adjustments to

instruments or test measuring and diagnostic equipment used in precision

measurement. Consists of comparing two instruments, one a certified standard of

known accuracy, to detect and adjust any discrepancy in the accuracy of the

instrument being compared.

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