Start up and shut down right.Starting up and shutting down your tank should be as easy as flipping Flipping Buying shares in an initial public offering (IPO), and then selling the shares immediately after the start of public trading to turn an immediate profit. flipping a switch, right drivers? Wrong! If you want your tank to start tomorrow, follow these critical startup and shutdown shut·down n. A cessation of operations or activity, as at a factory. shutdown Noun the closing of a factory, shop, or other business Verb shut down tips today: 1. Never use the combat start info in TM 9-2350-200-BD-1, Battlefield Damage Assessment and Repair--unless you are in combat. 2. Never press the START button for more than one second at a time. 3. Never turn OFF any circuit breaker circuit breaker, electric device that, like a fuse, interrupts an electric current in a circuit when the current becomes too high. The advantage of a circuit breaker is that it can be reset after it has been tripped; a fuse must be replaced after it has been used once the start cycle has begun. Violating steps 2 or 3 puts too much fuel into the engine. The extra fuel explodes, damaging the engine. 4. Always idle the engine at least two minutes to cool it off before shutdown. And never gun the engine during or after the cool-down period. Idling prevents heat soak, which cracks turbine turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. rotors, clogs oil passages, and ruins the rear module. Also, ignoring the cool-down period results in enough heat to boil boil or furuncle (fy  r`ŭngkəl), tender, painful inflammatory nodule in the skin, which becomes pustular but with a hard center (see abscess). the engine oil. That cokes bearings and clogs oil ports. Dry bearings will ruin the engine.
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