Walked into the hangar Monday and a 737 we pulled the radios out of last week had all new wiring overnight

Turns out the night shift lead decided our bundle was ugly and ripped it all out to redo it cleaner. Now the pins from connector J14 to the MMR tray are running a completely different path than what I stamped off on Friday. Have you guys ever had a walk-in where a panel looked like a different shop worked on it than the day before?

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colescott5d ago

Whoa hold on, I gotta push back on this one a little. I get that it's frustrating to walk into a rewire you didn't sign off on, but honestly, if the lead thought the bundle was ugly enough to start from scratch, there's probably a reason for it. @young.michael mentioned the strobe issue from the tail cone, but that's kind of the point - if the original work was borderline, the redesign might save you a bigger headache later. Respectfully, I'd rather walk in and see a clean, reworked bundle on Monday than have to explain to QA why my route was sub-par when they do a walk-through on Wednesday. Sometimes the night shift lead is just being a perfectionist, and that's not always a bad thing.

grantw415d ago

colescott's got a solid point. Best move I ever made was just letting a night lead's rework sit for a day before saying anything, turned out a loosely routed bundle was rubbing against a panel edge that would've chafed through on a test flight. Sometimes you gotta trust the perfectionist even if it stings your pride, saves a lot of arguing and a bigger mess later.

young.michael5d ago

Man that reminds me of the time I came in and found the whole tail cone rewired because somebody thought the cable ties weren't military spec, took us three days to figure out why the strobes quit working.