Appendix C. MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION

APPENDIX C

MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION

Section I. INTRODUCTION

C-1. General.

This appendix provides a summary of the maintenance operations

f o r AN/GKM-2A and AN/GKM-2B. It authorizes categories of

maintenance for specific maintenance functions on repairable items

and components and the tools and equipment required to perform

each function. This appendix may be used as an aid in planning

maintenance operations.

C-2. Maintenance Function.

Maintenance functions will be limited to and defined as follows:

a. inspect. To determine the serviceability of an item by compar-

ing its physical, mechanical, and/or electrical characteristics with

established standards through examination.

b. Test. To verify serviceability and to detect incipient failure by

measuring the mechanical or electrical characteristics of an item and

comparing those characteristics with prescribed standards.

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

proper operating condition, i.e., to clean (decontaminate), to pre-

serve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, hydraulic

fluids, or compressed air supplies.

d. Adjust. To maintain, within prescribed limits, by bringing into

proper or exact position, or by setting the operating characteristics

to the specified parameters.

e. Align. To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring

about optimum or desired performance.

f. Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to he made or to

be adjusted on instruments or test measuring and diagnostic equip-

ments used in precision measurement. Consists of comparisons of

two instruments, one of which is a certified standard of known accu-

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

instrument being compared.

g. Install. The act of emplacing seating, or fixing into position an

item, part, module (component or assembly ) in manner to allow

t h e proper functioning of the equipment or system.

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