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Pro tip: I stopped fights over torque values by making a paper log for every single one
I work line maintenance at a small field outside Wichita and for two years we had the same dumb argument about torque specs every time a job came in. One guy swears by the book, another guy goes by feel, and nobody could prove anything, so it turned into a yelling match in the hangar. Two months ago I started writing every torque value on a clipboard sheet along with the wrench setting, the date, and who signed off. Nothing fancy, just a pen and a $3 clipboard from the supply closet. Last week we had a nose gear bolt that felt loose on the next inspection, and because the sheet showed I torqued it to spec with the wrench at 42 foot pounds, we traced it to a worn washer instead of blaming the guy who did the job. The whole thing took maybe 20 seconds per task. Our lead even started keeping the sheets in a binder by tail number, and the arguing basically stopped. Does anyone else keep a paper trail like this, or do you just trust the torque wrench memory?
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haydenbutler5d ago
Buddy of mine ran a two bay shop up in Salina and had the same fight going for years, old timer on one side going by feel, young kid on the other reading the book. He finally taped a sheet to the toolbox and wrote down every value, the wrench setting, the day, and who did it. About three weeks in they pulled a wheel and the log showed the torque was right, so they dug deeper and found the nut had been cross threaded by somebody rushing. Saved the kid from getting blamed for something he didn't do and shut the old timer up at the same time. Twenty seconds of pen work beats an hour of yelling every time.
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