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Appreciation post: the Tuesday everything went right in the hangar
Tbh last Tuesday I knocked out a fuel pump swap on a Cessna 172 in under 3 hours, no stripped bolts, torch came off clean, and the leak check passed first try at 40 psi. Then Wednesday I cross-threaded a panel screw on the same plane and spent 45 minutes fixing it, so tell me your worst one-screw day.
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harpery471mo ago
Watched a guy drop a nut into the cowling of a 182 once and instead of pulling the panel he spent two hours fishing with a magnet on a stick, swearing the whole time. He finally got it out and it turned out it was the wrong nut anyway, so he had to do the whole thing over with the right one. My worst was probably a simple oil change that turned into a three hour mess because the drain plug was torqued on by someone who must have been mad at the world. Snapped my breaker bar on it, had to go buy another one, and the whole time the plane is just sitting there dripping. Funny how one stuck bolt can turn a quick job into your whole afternoon.
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