FSG 66 | Instruments And Laboratory Equipment

Includes azimuths; sextants; octants; compasses; plotting boards; underwater log equipment; air position indicators; drift meters.

Includes air speed indicators; rate of climb indicators; bank and turn indicators; pitot tubes; gyro horizon indicators; attitude gyro indicators. Excludes navigational instruments (fsc 6605).

Note-included in this class are gyro components of guided missiles. excluded are complete gyro mechanisms and nonairborne gyro components, both of which are classified in the same classes as their next higher assemblies. Includes automatic pilot regulators; directional, vertical, bank and turn, and hydraulic surface gyro controls; airborne and shipborne automatic pilot mechanisms; helicopter automatic stabilization equipment. Excludes automatic pilot training devices (fsc 6930); and automatic pilot mechanisms, guided missile (fsc 1420).

Note-instruments designed for use on both engines and other than engines are not included in this class and should be classified in the appropriate instruments class of group 66. Includes all engine instruments, including aircraft, marine, and vehicular; fuel pressure gages; manifold pressure gages; oil pressure gages; fuel mixture indicators; engine oil and fuel warning devices.

Note-this class includes all "basic" types of electrical and electronic test instruments, such as ammeters, voltmeters, ohmmeters, multimeters, and similar instruments, even if specially designed. excluded from this class by the modifier "except specially designed" are test instruments, other than "basic" instruments, which are specially designed for use with atomic ordnance, fire control, guided missile, motor vehicle, aircraft, or photographic equipment. such specially designed test instruments are to be classified in other classes in the federal supply classification. this class includes communications test equipment, infrared test equipment designed for communication, and night vision maintenance and test specialized equipment. Includes test leads and test lead attachments; test instruments designed for communication equipment; test instruments designed for use with electronic equipment classified in two or more fsc groups. Excludes radiac equipment

Includes acidity (ph) meters; gas analyzers; alakalinity measuring instruments; colorimeters. Excludes gas detecting equipment; manual gas alarms; chemicals; in vitro diagnostic substances and reagents.

Includes destructive and nondestructive inspection equipment such as fluorescent penetrant inspection units; magnetic inspection units; industrial x-ray machines; industrial x-ray film; tensiometers; material hardness testers. Excludes general purpose measuring tools (fsc 5210) and precision measuring tools and inspection gages (fsc 5220).

Note-this class includes only those environmental chambers used exclusively to perform controlled tests, under simulated conditions, to determine physical damage and/or changes in operating characteristics for equipments and components such as humidity; immersion; moisture; altitude; explosion; thermal shock; sand and dust; flammability; seal. environmental chambers included in this class provide data regarding service life and behavior of various items equivalent to actual service conditions existing in the field. Includes chambers; wind tunnels; enclosures specifically designed to simulate an environmental condition; weatherometers; fadeometers; specially designed equipment and components exclusively related to environmental chambers. Excludes general purpose prefabricated buildings, chambers, panels, and components (fsc 5410); controlled environmental conditioning kits and sets (fsc 4240); baths (fsc 4510); ovens (fsc 7310); kilns (fsc 3630); radiosonde baseline check sets (fsc 6660); divers recompression chambers (fsc 4220); altitude training decompression chambers (fsc 6930); and chambers used as training devices (fsc 6930); checkout and test equipment (fsc 6625); chemical analysis instruments (fsc 6630); electrical and electronic properties measuring and testing instruments (fsc 6625); and meteorological instruments (fsc 6660).

Includes laboratory glassware; laboratory funnels; laboratory furnaces; glass beads; laboratory white sand; litmus paper; paper filters; insect transfixion pins; laboratory glass wool; laboratory furniture, except dental laboratory. Excludes instruments covered by other classes in group 66; dental laboratory equipment; laboratory scales and balances; in vitro diagnostic substances and reagents.

Includes clocks; job recording devices; time recorders; time stamps, watch and clock movements; watches.

Includes binoculars; magnifiers; microscopes; periscopes; telescopes; optical elements; such as lens, prisms, windows; optical benches and associated devices; endoscopes, fiber optics (non-medical). Excludes fire control instruments, optical; surveying instruments, optical; photogrammetric instruments; octants; and sextants; optical instruments integrated with fire control equipment; opthalmological instruments; electronic fiber optic test equipment; medical endoscopes.

Includes geodetic, oceanographic and seismographic instruments. Excludes telescopes.

Includes meteorological ballons; radiosonde sets; radarsonde sets.

Includes radiac equipment; gas detecting equipment; land mine detecting equipment. Excludes manual gas alarms (fsc 6350).

Includes coin operated, household, industrial, postal, and laboratory scales and balances.

Includes drawing instruments, drafting tools; engineering and architectural scales; levels; transits; photogrammetric instruments; astrolabes; level rods; plane tables; surveying altimeters; theodolites. Excludes surveyors' tapes.

Includes liquid level float instruments; revolution counters; speedometers; rotation measuring instruments and apparatus; oxygen flow indicators; tachometers, including engine tachometers. Excludes combination instruments; (fsc 6695); meteorological instruments (fsc 6660); and automatic control valves (fsg 48).

Includes thermometers, including engine thermometers; pressure gages; thermocouple leads; resistance bulbs. Excludes clinical therometers; (fsc 6515); thermostatic and differential pressure switches (fsc 5930); and meteorological instruments (fsc 6660).

Includes flow-pressure instruments; taximeters; dynamometers. Excludes dental, medical, surgical, and veterinary instruments.