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derek_schmidt6
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1d ago
Just realized the fuel tank connector on a 737 is keyed so you can't cross plug it
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grant_hart
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6d ago
DAE think a cheap heat gun beats a $400 IR thermometer for finding a bad connector?
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parkerp80
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8d ago
Watching a guy reflow a cracked solder joint on a 20 year old comm radio made me rethink my whole bench setup
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ryanc63
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9d ago
Appreciation post: the $6 headlamp from Harbor Freight that beat my $90 Streamlight on a night shift
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jennys72
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12d ago
The new guy at our hangar asked me why I still ring out every connector by hand, and I didn't have a good answer
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tyler_wilson
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14d ago
Pro tip: I called contact cleaner a waste of money until a King Air gremlin humbled me
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dylan_bell
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14d ago
Took 4 hours to chase one intermittent fault on a CRJ, felt like a win when it was just a chafed wire
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ruby_patel27
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15d ago
Stopped chasing intermittent squawks on a King Air by wiggling every connector I could reach
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clark.robin
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15d ago
Ribbon cable on a King Air 200 bit me at 2am in Wichita
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william_carter
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15d ago
Am I the only one who didn't know wire color coding is a total fiction?
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danielr94
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18d ago
Rant: my test bench hit 500 logged squawks and half of them were the same pitot heat issue
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the_thomas
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19d ago
Showerthought: I used to ring out every wire by hand, now I let the box do it and I feel weird about it
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claire_wells87
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19d ago
Can we talk about how I stopped using a meter on connector pins and it made me feel dumb
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king.derek
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23d ago
TIL the wiring in our shop's test bench went from 40 separate splices to 6 clean runs, and it took one retired guy from Wichita two afternoons to do it
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alicesingh
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23d ago
I wrote off torque seal for 7 years until a CRJ-200 captain in Tulsa told me why he checks it every walkaround
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