Trivia #2

[artik]

This comes in one of the worst nightmares of a technician... and can be very smelly 

Why and How?

[-ammo-]

IDK -  Missing 1/4 drive (chitted out) ratchet?  Missing oil filter wrench?  Not sure but there is a tool missing in the top center

[colmbo]

Upper one is safety wire pliers.  Missing tools is bad, kind of like after sewing up the patient you realize a couple clamps and some sponges are missing.

[artik]

The missing tools on the board isn't the question (it is obvious) the question why is it a smelly nightmare

[FLOOB]

Dropped it in the toilet.

[-ammo-]

You had those tools stuck up your cavity?

[artik]

Guys...

It should be trivial: aviation, tools missing and smelly nightmare???

[earl1937]

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This comes in one of the worst nightmares of a technician... and can be very smelly 

Why and How?

B-29 test running engine, blew over "port-a-john" by door and it crashed into work bench?

[-ammo-]

Maybe a FOD incident?  When a tool came up missing, we had to shut the whole flightline down until it was accounted for and usually meant a long night.  I witnessed an F-15E ingest a frickin magazine on takeoff that flamed out the engine once.  Lots of fireworks between the flames from the engine and the tailhook dragging the runway

[715]

What are those weird looking pliers in the upper right?  They kind of look a little like wire twisters; if so, what on and airplane needs wires twisted together?

[colmbo]

What are those weird looking pliers in the upper right?  They kind of look a little like wire twisters; if so, what on and airplane needs wires twisted together?

Those are for twisting safety wire on fasteners.  Nearly everything on an airplane is safetied.

[artik]

Ok the answer:

- nightmare - because you are going to spend lots of sleepless days and nights searching for a missing tool
- Smelly... because all garbage cans would be emptied and searched to the last chunk of waste. The waste cans is very common place to find missing tools especially small ones like sockets.

ammo was the closest...

[artik]

BTW, once I stepped into a small hangar on a small airfield where ultralight planes were assembled and maintained (planes similar to RV in AH).

I was really unpleasantly surprised that they hadn't any kind of tool monitoring... When I asked about it they laughed on it.

Not good at all

[cobia38]

 really ? garbage can ? thats about the stupidest answer  i have ever heard 
 I been turning wrenches for over 25 years and have never in my life thrown a tool in the garbage can other then one that was broken.
 






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[artik]

really ? garbage can ? thats about the stupidest answer  i have ever heard  

In fact in one of the cases I had personally witnessed a socket was found in a garbage... It can happen much easier than you may think of.

Once a tool was found in an aircraft itself in a location that you should be blind or totally distracted to live it there - but it happens for real and it is frightening when you understand how and what could happen if no tool monitoring was properly performed.

I been turning wrenches for over 25 years and have never in my life thrown a tool in the garbage can other then one that was broken.

Have you been working in aviation maintenance? The fact that you personally have never thrown a tool to a garbage can it does not mean that it never accidentally happened to you and you just were unaware of it. If you don't monitor tools you will not discover it.

Actually once I had found a pliers under my cars hood (luckily it hadn't damaged anything in the engine) and several times I had found inside the car other tools.