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Pump up your tank.


A little exercise never hurt anyone--and it can do the M256 cannon on an M1-series tank a lot of good, mechanics.

Without it, the seals on the recoil recoil /re·coil/ (re´koil) a quick pulling back.

elastic recoil  the ability of a stretched object or organ, such as the bladder, to return to its resting position.
 mechanism dry out and leak (programming) leak - With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. . It's only a matter of time before the cannon won't fire. The tank is NMC NMC Nursing & Midwifery Council (UK)
NMC NSSDC Master Catalog (NASA)
NMC Northwestern Michigan College (Traverse City, Michigan)
NMC National Meteorological Center
.

That's why, during semiannual Semiannual

An event that occurs twice in a calendar year.

Notes:
A bond with semiannual coupons would issue payment once every six months.
See also: Annual, Bond, Coupon Bond
 maintenance, you need to check the tank's DA Form 2408-4, Weapon Record Data, to see when the cannon was last fired or exercised. If it's been 6 months or longer, you're required to exercise the cannon using the information in TB 9-1000-234-13, Exercising of Recoil Mechanisms and Equilibrators.
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Title Annotation:maintaining M256 cannon on M1-series tank
Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2003
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