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4.3.4.2 Temperature conditioning. Each assembled initiator shall be conditioned for not less than 4
hours nor greater than 24 hours. When reconditioning initiators at -65bF, all condensation shall be
removed from the exterior surfaces before returning the initiator to the conditioning chamber.
4.4 Inspection of packaging. The sampling and inspection of the packaging, packing, and container
marking shall be in accordance with section 5.
5. PACKAGING
5.1 Packaging. For acquisition purposes, the packaging requirements shall be as specified in the
contract or order (see 6.2). When actual packaging of material is to be performed by DoD personnel,
these personnel need to contact the responsible packaging activity to ascertain requisite packaging
requirements. Packaging requirements are maintained by the Inventory Control Points packaging activity
within the Military Department or Defense Agency, or within the Military Department's System
Command. Packaging data retrieval is available from the managing Military Department's or Agency's
automated packaging files, CD-ROM products, or by contacting the responsible packaging activity.
6. NOTES
(This section contains information of a general or explanatory nature that may be helpful but is not
mandatory.)
6.1 Intended use. The initiator assembly is used in conjunction with other propellant actuated devices
in Aircrew Emergency Escape Systems. As the Aircrew Emergency Escape Sytems are designed only for
military aircraft, there is no commercial application for the M53 Cartridge Actuated Initiator Assembly
6.2 Acquisition requirements. Acquisition documents must specify the following:
a. Title, number, and revision letter of this specification
b. Issue of DODISS to be cited in the solicitation and, if required, the specific issue of individual
documents referenced (see 2.2 and 2.3)
c. Production test activity and lot size (see 4.2.1)
d. Directions for shipping radiographs of entire production lot along with ballistic sample to the
activity conducting production lot acceptance tests (see 4.3.3)
e. Level of packing and marking (see 5.1and 6.5)
f. That the safety precaution requirements of the "Contractor's Safety Manual for Ammunition,
Explosives, and Related Dangerous Material," DOD 4145.26M are applicable. NOTE: When this
specification is used as part of the description of work to be accomplished by a Government
activity, the safety precaution requirements of "Ammunition and Explosives Ashore," OP 5 are
applicable.
6.3 Hazard notice. The initiator described herein and certain of its components are flammable or
explosive and present hazards in manufacture, handling, storage, and shipment. The contractor should
recognize these properties and take appropriate measures to guard and protect against fire, explosion,
adverse environment, corrosive atmosphere, rough handling, and electrically induced incidents.
6.4 Definitions.
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