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hannahs71
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2d ago
Soaked a stuck row of fasteners in Kroil for 3 days and they still laughed at me
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richard_mason
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3d ago
PSA: the lead at the Tulsa hangar showed me a ziplock of every cotter pin he ever pulled, and now I do the same
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olivia_lewis9
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4d ago
Chose the five year apprenticeship over the two year tech school and I still go back and forth on it
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carter.julia
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5d ago
A lead mechanic in Wichita showed me his 1980s torque wrench log and I've kept one ever since
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parkerb75
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5d ago
Pro tip: an old lead told me to stop signing off squawks I did not personally see fixed, and I still hear him
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martinez.val
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5d ago
Used to torque by feel for 11 years until a guy in Tulsa handed me a $30 beam wrench
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wades76
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6d ago
I dropped $180 on a "lifetime" torque wrench that lost its calibration in 5 months
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derek_murray
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7d ago
Can we talk about torque wrenches sitting in their case for 8 months?
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robert275
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11d ago
Warning: a 30-year AP told me to stop torquing by feel, and the number he gave me was 12
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janaf91
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12d ago
I thought the torque stripe trick was just old timer folklore until I tried it on an engine change
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richard_mason
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13d ago
The old timer at the hangar in Wichita told me to stop torquing by feel
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tarak17
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13d ago
Unpopular opinion: the new guy who won't touch a job without the manual open is doing it right
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jake_young
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13d ago
Switched from safety wire pliers to twisting by hand on small jobs, what do you guys do?
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lucas165
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15d ago
Just realized my old sup was right about torque specs back in 2016
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garcia.charles
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18d ago
Old timer at the Tulsa hangar said to torque dry, my A&P school said wet, and now I have a bent opinion
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