Appendix B. MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION - TM-11-5821-277-200041

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APPENDIX B

MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION

assembly) in a manner to allow

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ing of the equipment/system.

`his appendix provides a summary of the mainte-

nance operations covered in the equipment litera-

ture. 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.

B-2. Maintenance Functions

Maintenance functions will be limited to and defined

as follows:

a. Inspect. To determine the serviceability of an

item by comparing 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 rendition, i.e., to clean,

preserve, drain, paint, or to replenish fuel/

lubricants hydraulic fluids or compressed air

supplies.

d. Adjust. 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

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item to about optimum or desired performance.

f. Calibrate. To determine and cause corrections to

be made or to be adjusted on instruments or test

measuring and diagnostic equipment used in preci-

sion measurement. Consists of the comparison of two

instruments, one of which is a certified standard of

known accuracy, to detect and adjust any discre-

pancy 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 a manner to allow the proper function-

ing of the equipment/system.

h. Replace. The act of substituting a serviceable

like-type part, subassembly, module (component or

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