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APPENDIX B
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART
Section I. INTRODUCTION
B-1 . GENERAL
This appendix provides a summary of the maintenance operations for Airborne Laser
Tracker Test Set, AN/AAM-55. 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 failures 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 preserve, 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 be made or to be adjusted on
instruments or test measuring and diagnostic equipments 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.
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