APPENDIX B. MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART

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APPENDIX B

MAINTENANCE ALLOCATION CHART

Section 1. 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 authority and 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.

c. 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 are 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 (i.e., by sight, sound, or feel).

b. Test. To verify serviceability 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 (includes

decontamination, when required), to preserve, 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.

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