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12d ago
inPanel beeped at 2am on a Tuesday install in Reno, found a door contact full of spider eggs
Used to skip the foam, bugs changed my mind fast.
14d ago
inDAE think open transport is always the way to go? A guy at a truck stop in Amarillo flipped my whole view
Did that guy ever say how often he actually hauls cars, or is he just going off one bad run? Half the chips and cracks on open loads happen when the driver is lazy about strap placement, not because the trailer had no walls. I've done plenty of open runs on nice trucks and never paid a dime in damage, so paying double up front for one story from a truck stop seems like a lot.
28d ago
inWent from hating torque wrenches to using one every day after a bad call in Phoenix
Once you crack one fitting by feel, guessing stops being an option.
29d ago
inTorque wrench calibration drift caught me on a 737 brake job
Redoing every fastener sounds like overkill to me. A wrench reading 12 low once doesn't mean every nut you touched that morning was about to fall off, and modern clickers are pretty stable unless you really abuse them. Plenty of shops run theirs for years and just check them against a beam or a known good wrench every few months instead of mailing them off. If you're worried, do a quick sanity check before a big job, but treating a single drop like a fleet-wide grounding seems like a lot of drama for a hangar floor.