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That one inspector at O'Hare who grilled me on a ground wire splice
Back in 2019 I was working a 737 tail light swap at O'Hare and this older inspector stops to watch me for a solid 5 minutes. He points at my splice and says 'that's gonna fail in 6 months because you didn't stagger the shield drain.' I told him I followed the manual to the letter and he just shook his head. Two days later the splice tested fine but I couldn't stop thinking about it. Sure enough 7 months later that same light had an intermittent fault and guess what the root cause was. That guy was a grumpy old jerk but he saved me a lot of headache down the road. Has anyone else had an inspector call out something like that that actually ended up being right?
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laura_allen28d ago
My buddy Jake had something similar happen at O'Hare a few years back. He was working on a de-icing rig and this crusty old inspector walked up out of nowhere and told him his torque wrench was out of calibration. Jake had just had it certified three weeks before so he brushed it off. Sure enough a month later that same wrench was reading way off and he almost over-torqued a critical fitting on a freaking 767. The inspector had noticed a tiny wobble in the handle that nobody else caught. Jake still talks about that guy. It drives me nuts when people act like those old inspectors are just being difficult because they usually end up being right.
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