PS Magazine Issue 109 1961 Series [109 ed.]

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guns fire . Sub·zero temperatures and ice plus a blanket of snow spell plenty trouble. A winter wonderland is a dream world for a song writer. But to you

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IN THIS ISSUE ARTICLES Features M14 Rifle TK·87/ U & TK·88IU Repair Kits Tents: Use Protective Compound _ Heavy Equipment: WinterOperalion Aircraft Choppers: Blade Abrasion Strips Flight-Une Equipment: Safety Paint Wrenches: II They won't fit. Send A UR 50 Hangar Housekeeping 51·53 Missile Hawk-Loader-Transporter . , ' 42 Fire Control Cable Preservative 42 little John Rocket •. 42.43 Wheeled Vehicles M38 & M38Al Jeep Steering Knuckle 14 MIS1: Where to Put Fire Extlnguishe~s 16 MI25 Trucks: Spare Tire Lug Nut 38 MI09 Shop Truck: Info on Getting Main Cable 40 Semitrailers: Interchanging Parts " .. 41 Subzero Engine Oil; Keep An Eye On It 57 63 G741 "A·ton Vehicles: Carb Idle Screws . Heavy Equlpment IHC TO-6 Tractor: Glow Plug Operation 58 Huber·Warco Model 40 Grader: Idling 59 Barber-Greene Intrenching Machine . 60 Mode! 4262 Unit Rig Trencher 60·61 Tracked Vehicles Ml Cupola: Cocking SO·cal Machine Gun • 17 63 Scorpion: Where to Hook Track Fixtures Gener,,1 13 New Publications . MWO Kits: Send For Help , •• 15 fire Control Equipment: Keep Nitrogen Charged 16 Wrecker Boom Hooks: Keep 'Em lubed 17 MI Rifle Gas Cylinder lock Screw • 18 Cummins 150KW AC Generator: Thermostat 59 Grease Guns: How to Make 'Em Fit . 62 Towing: Make TaJl & Stop Light Cable 64

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i gun crew, line gang, radar team, or operating any outdoor equipment in this man ' s army, it's bad news. It means sludge in crank and gearcases, dead batteries , Irozen luel lines, ice all over-and all the other winter maintenance headachesare on your back_ There's only one way to ease the Ireeze and stay ahead 01 the winter game. Put the heat on your Preventive Maintenance-do it more careluliy , more thoroughly and more olten than usual.

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DEPARTMENTS Connie Rood 14 Joe's Dope ,. • • _• 29 Question and Answer 37 Contributions .• _ ' •.. '. , , 62 Inside Sack Cover Connie ROOd's 8riefs

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The slide rules're Out and Ordnance is workingon something to beef up the battery cover plate on the XMSOIEI and XMSOIE2 Hawk loader-transporter. Meanwhile ... you can help keep the

cover plate from getting cracked by keeping your boots-with you in 'emoff [he thing. . . . . . . . . In other words ... walk around it-e not on it.

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SOMETHING NEW There've been some changes madethe kind you missilemen want to know about. The rubber preservative coating that's been recommended for protecting your fire control cables has been exhausted to some new material. The nomenclature is the same: Preservative Coating, Rubber. And the stock numbers shape up so:

BE A WEIGHT WATCHER Here's something that every on-theball Litdejohn crew never forgets. It doesn't let anyone remove the thrust neutralizer from the rocket unless he knows the score. And that means he knows the neutralizer weighs in at 26 pounds. If you don't have a eight hold on it. the rocket in bad shape. Your feet wouldn't exactly feel so and it gets away. the neutralizer can shear the battery and switch assemblies good either if that 26 pounds of dead from the nozzle. And that'd sure leave weight landed on tHem. 42

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rules're our and Ordnance is working on something to beef up the battery- cover plate on the XM501El and XMSOIE2 Hawk loader-transporter. Meanwhile ... you can help keep the

cover plate from getting cracked by keeping your boots-with you in 'em-

off