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nelson.wren
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8h ago
Heard a new kid call a cannon plug "that round connector thing" and it hit me how much the slang has faded
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emma_wells83
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10h ago
My hangar lead told me my wire bundles looked like spaghetti and I've been lacing them by hand ever since
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scott.olivia
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15h ago
The retired C-130 at the Amarillo museum had a whole wiring harness held up by one zip tie
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river_scott9
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17h ago
My lead tech told me to stop chasing intermittent squawks in the cockpit and check the connector pins first
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adam_baker
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1d ago
Tried a ratcheting crimper on cannon plug pins after years of the old squeeze kind, and wow
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mark_green
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2d ago
Got a bad crimp on a cannon plug pin at 2am in Wichita, do you redo the whole harness or just the one pin?
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ryan793
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2d ago
3 months back I started writing pin voltages right on the connector with a paint pen and it fixed my swap delays
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morganmartinez
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4d ago
Showerthought: I wrote off torque seal as a gimmick until I saw a loose cannon plug in Wichita
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beth_hernandez
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5d ago
The gray-haired guy at the Tulsa hangar taught me more about wire routing in 20 minutes than my whole A&P program did
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mark_green
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7d ago
Spent 14 hours chasing a ghost fault on a King Air 350, turned out to be one chafed wire behind the CB panel
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fionafoster
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8d ago
Vent: spent 4 hours chasing a ghost on a King Air only to find a pin pushed back in a cannon plug in Wichita
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thomas_butler
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10d ago
Can we talk about how we used to check VOR receivers with a handheld box and now it is all software?
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abby726
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11d ago
Counted my squawk write-ups for 2024 and hit 312, that number floored me
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scott.olivia
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11d ago
Showerthought: A single bent pin on a connector cost me a whole weekend
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the_claire
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13d ago
I used to chase every wire by hand, now the $89 toner box does it in one shot
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