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APPENDIX B
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART
Section I. INTRODUCTION
B-1.
GENERAL
a.
This section provides a general explanation of all maintenance and
repair functions authorized at various maintenance categories.
b.
The maintenance allocation chart (MAC) in section II designates overall
responsibility for the performance of maintenance functions on the identified
end item or component.
The implementation of the maintenance functions upon the
end item or component will be consistent with the assigned maintenance
functions.
c.
Section III lists the special tools and test equipment required for
each maintenance function as referenced from Section II.
d.
Section IV contains supplemental instructions and explanatory notes for
a Particular maintenance function.
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 (e.g. , by sight, sound, or feel).
b.
Test - To verify serviceability by measuring the mechanical,
pneumatic, hydraulic, or electrical characteristic 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 (includes decontaminate, when required), to
preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, chemical fluids,
or gases.
d.
Adjust - To maintain or regulate, within prescribed limits, by bringing
into proper or exact position, or by setting the operating characteristics to
specified parameters.
e.
Aline - To adjust specified variable elements of an item to bring 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
precision measurement.
Consists of comparisons of two instruments, one of which
is a certified standard of known accuracy, to detect and adjust any discrepancy
in the accuracy of the instrument being compared.
g.
Remove/Install - To remove and install the same item when required to
perform service or other maintenance functions.
Install may be the act of
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