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Learned to tag every wire the hard way after a 4 hour fuel gauge hunt in Wichita
Was doing a fuel quantity check on a King Air at a shop in Wichita and the gauge read dead empty with full tanks. Spent 4 hours chasing pins and swapping the indicator before I found one chafed wire behind the panel that someone had spliced with no label at all. Now I put a printed heat shrink tag on both ends of anything I touch, takes 30 seconds and costs pennies. Should I be tagging grounds too or is that overkill?
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charlier347h ago
Man, I used to roll my eyes at guys who tagged every single ground. Figured a ground is a ground, right, it goes to the airframe and you can see where it lands. Then I spent most of a day on a 206 with a flickering panel light because somebody grounded a new radio to a screw that had paint under it. Pulled half the panel apart before I found it. Now every ground I touch gets a tag too, same as the power wires. Thirty seconds and a few cents beats another lost afternoon.
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