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Remove broken skirt bolts with ease.


Crewmen, don't underestimate the importance of the skirt skirt

abattoir term for diaphragm.
 bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces.  bolts, NSN NSN National Stock Number
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NSN NATO Stock Number
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NSN National Student Number (NZ)
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 5305-00-724-7222, on your Bradley.

Those skirts are very heavy. So if even one of the bolts vibrates loose, a lot of pressure is put on the remaining ones. They can snap and leave you with no bolts and a missing skirt.

Eyeball See eyeballs and eyeball driven.  the skirt bracket bolts before and after every operation. If any are loose or missing, tell your mechanic. He'll replace and torque 'em to 151-166 lb-ft.

Mechanics, despite the crew's best efforts, sometimes those bolts are going to snap. That leaves you with the miserable job of drilling them out so they can be replaced.

That job just got a whole lot easier with the addition of a special tool kit for removing broken bolts.

The kit, NSN 5180-01-518-6883, is designed to remove 1/2- to 3/4-in bolts without damaging the existing threads. Detailed instructions come with the kit.

You can also get a smaller kit for 1/4- to 7/16-in bolts with NSN 5180-01-508-6036. That kit will remove 7mm to 10mm metric bolts as well.

For more information on the tool kits, including step-by-step bolt bolt

Mechanical fastener, usually used with a nut, for connecting two or more parts. Bolted joints can be readily disassembled and reassembled; hence bolts or screw fasteners are used more than other types of mechanical fastener.
 removal instructions, check out the manufacturer's web site at: http://www.brokenbolt.com/
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Title Annotation:M2/M3-Series Bradleys ...; fighting vehicle systems
Publication:PS, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Oct 1, 2004
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