Wrenches
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A&Ps, IAs, and anyone who has bled a brake at midnight. Post the weird finds. Somebody here has seen it before.
12 members · 10 posts · Maintenance
A&Ps, IAs, and anyone who has bled a brake at midnight. Post the weird finds. Somebody here has seen it before.
Ray Ortiz (pinned)
Post your weird finds. I will start. Cracked exhaust stack behind the heat shield on a King Air, caught on a routine 100 hour. Owner wanted to monitor it. We did not monitor it.
Luz Bermudez
all three writtens done. for anyone apprenticing rather than going to a 147 school: the writtens are the part where you are on your own, because the shop teaches you the airplane and nobody teaches you the book. i used the FAA handbooks and about four hundred practice questions and nothing else
Salvatore Ricci
Parts desk, weird find of a different kind. Received a rotable with a serial number that had already been overhauled and tagged by two different shops on paper. One of those records was fabricated. Check your traceability on anything that arrives cheap and fast. Yellow tags are photocopied all the time.
Tobias Kerr
Paint shop perspective on a thing that costs owners money. If you are doing any structural work in the next two years, tell us before we paint, not after. Stripping fresh paint off a panel we shot four months ago is the single most avoidable bill in this industry and I send it about twice a year.
Winnie Osborne
Structures tech checking in. Weird find for the thread: corrosion under a doubler that had been installed over an unprimed repair in 2009. Looked perfect from outside. The airplane had passed every inspection since. Somebody did a fast job sixteen years ago and it became my three week job.
Ray Ortiz
Nine week lead time on an eleven dollar fuel drain. Who do you call when the usual suppliers are dry? Building a list and I will share it back here.
Luz Bermudez
apprentice reporting in, passed the general last month. the thing i did not expect about this trade is how much of it is reading. i thought it would be hands. it is about half reading and then hands
Priya Raman
From the pilot side. Thank you to every mechanic who has written a legible logbook entry. I read them. They matter when I am deciding whether to take an airplane.
Bruno Vargas
weird find thread contribution. mouse nest in a pitot static drain on an airplane that had flown two weeks earlier. altimeter read fine on the ground. would not have read fine at altitude. check the drains, they take 30 seconds
Priya Raman
Pilot question I have never asked out loud. When I write a squawk, what makes one useful to you instead of useless? I want to write better ones and nobody has ever told me how.