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c. e. g. TM 10-5411-205-13 APPENDIX B MAINTENANCE Section I. B-1. General. ALLOCATION CHART INTRODUCTION a. This section provides a general explanation of all maintenance and repair functions authorized at various maintenance levels. b. The Maintenance Allocation Chart (MAC) in Section II designates overall responsi- bility for the performance of maintenance functions on the identified end item or component. The implementation of the maintenance functions upon the end item or component will be consistent with the assigned maintenance functions. Section III lists the special tools and test equipment 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. a. Inspect. To determine the serviceability of an item by comparing its physical, mechanical, and/or electrical characteristics with established standards through examination, b. Test. To verify serviceability and detect incipient failure 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 (decontaminate), to preserve, to drain, to paint, or to replenish fuel, lubricants, hydraulic fluids, or compressed air supplies. d. Adjust. To maintain, within prescribed limits, by bringing into proper or exact position, or by setting the operating characteristics to specified parameters. Align. 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. Install. The act of emplacing, seating, or (component or assembly) in a manner to allow the system. fixing into position an item, part, or module proper functioning of an equipment or B-1