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B-1. GENERAL.
APPENDIX B
MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART
Section I INTRODUCTION
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 application of the maintenance functions to the end item or
component will be consistent with the capacities and capabilities of the designated
maintenance categories.
Section III lists the tools and test equipment (both special tools and common
tool sets) 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
cal, mechanical, and/or electrical characteristics with
examination (e.g., by sight, sound, or feel).
b. Test.
To verify serviceability by measuring the
hydraulic, or electrical characteristics of an item and
istics with prescribed standards.
item by comparing its physi-
established standards through
mechanical, pneumatic,
comparing those character-
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
on instruments or test, measuring, and diagnostic equipment used in
surement.
Consists of comparisons of two instruments, one of which
standard of known accuracy, to detect and adjust any discrepancy in
the instrument being compared.
to be adjusted
precision mea-
is a certified
the accuracy of
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