a complete listing of the NSTM chapters in chapter 001,
General - NSTM Publications Index and User Guide.
The chapters we have listed below are related to your
job, both as a technician and as a member of a ship’s or
station’s organization.
NSTM Chapter 79–Practical Damage
Control (DC)
This chapter provides broad guidance for
establishing a DC organization. This guidance is
designed to help organizations plan before damage
occurs, spend a minimal amount of time localizing
damage that does occur, and make emergency repairs or
restoration as quickly as possible after damage occurs.
NSTM Chapter 300–Electrical Plant
This chapter provides information and instructions
on electrical equipment, electrical safety precautions,
electrical insulation and insulation resistance, and
maintenance reconditioning of electrical equipment. It
provides the requirements we, as ETs, must meet in a
shipboard safety program, including use and
maintenance of organizational electrical and electronic
equipment and personal electrical and electronic
equipment.
NSTM Chapter 400–Electronics
This chapter provides major policies and
instructions pertaining to maintenance of electronic
equipment and safety information aboard active and
reserve ships.
NSTM Chapter 631-Preservation
of Ships in Service
This chapter provides instructions, requirements,
and information for prevention of corrosion of ships,
boats, and small craft. Topics include surface
preparation, painting, and application of other
preventive measures.
NSTM Chapter 634–Deck Coverings
This chapter provides information concerning
materials, installation procedures, maintenance and
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repair of deck coverings, gratings, sealing methods, and
caulking compounds used for sealing deck seams.
ELECTRONICS INSTALLATION AND
MAINTENANCE BOOK (EIMB)
The EIMB is the medium for collecting, publishing,
and distributing, in one convenient source, safety
information, maintenance policies and philosophies,
installation standards and practices, and overall
electronic equipment and material-handling procedures
required by Chapter 400 of the Naval Ships’ Technical
Manual. The EIMB is organized into a 13-volume series
of individual books.
EIMB General Handbook
This handbook provides data pertaining to
administration, supply, publications, and safety matters,
and contains the subject index for information contained
in the other handbooks.
EIMB Installation Standards Handbook
This handbook issues approved standards,
techniques, and practices for the installation of
electronic equipment aboard ships.
EIMB Electronic Circuits Handbook
This handbook provides the theory of operation and
circuit description of basic vacuum tube and
semiconductor circuits.
EIMB Test Methods and Practices Handbook
This handbook provides technicians with reference
information on the fundamentals of test methods and
basic measurements, step-by-step procedures for testing
typical electronic circuits and equipment, and fictional
descriptions of the theory of operation of the test
equipment used and circuits tested.
EIMB Reference Data Handbook
This handbook contains an encyclopedic
presentation of useful and informative definitions,
