Been Lurking Too Long He Says

[speakerman1]

Cen-Tech. Ours had to be cal'd once a month. Other things were every 3 and 6 months. Don't get caught with one in your tool box. I watched 2 guys drop 3 cable tensiometers. We were out. I went out on an engine run to do a vibe check and the dude was so anal about the throttles. He sai he was ready and I said I'm not. He asked why. I told him it is 0005. It went out of cal 5 mins ago. LOL

 

[laatsch55]

That would be your basic anal.

 

[speakerman1]

No really. If something happened and I used it out of Cal. I would be in that Federal prison you were in. You had to put the tag number and the cal due date. Not anal just part of the job. He didn't even try to ask me to fudge it. He got on the phone and had one flown in for the next morning.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

was everything " flown In " when you were short on parts working on airplanes??

 

[speakerman1]

Yes it is called AOG Aircraft On Ground. That fee was 50% of the price. Or if working the line you are hitting every shop to see if any one had a spare. As long as it had a yellow tag you were good to go.

Larry

 

[speakerman1]

And if we were doing a C check you would get a C-check kit. If you were early in the check you would just order it regular.

Larry

 

[laatsch55]

Was the military the same way??

 

[speakerman1]

No we always had spares. It was as anal though. When I was in any way. It just became part of the job. like having the MM with you at all times. That was the 1st thing you did was get your reference.

Larry

 

[orange]

Born under a Lurk Smilie
I've been anon since I could mouse
If it weren't for the internet
This Orange guy would write junk on paper....

 

[stuwee]

Hi Mark, and welcome to Phoenix Audio!!

Craig

 

[jbeckva]

Was the military the same way??

Just as much, yep. We had a shop devoted to calibration, matter of fact. Everything from gauges to "standards" (serious SERIOUS meters with the "meatball" label on 'em). Our benches themselves had to be "cal'd" on a regular basis. The main D/A for example - when we cal'd it to put out 2 volts, that meant 2.00000000 volts, right on the nat's ass.

Every 2 years or so (well, til the end when it was no longer "required") we'd bring in the Lockheed rep to do full bench verification. All 160 main i/o paths and 320 aux paths were "verified" to the n'th degree. Including programmable load resistors, which the rep used to bring with him in big bins (we would end up replacing quite a few).

Hehe.. and that was in a shop that didn't support the aircraft DIRECTLY.. we supported the circuit cards that came out of the boxes in the aircraft. Our "sister" shop did the boxes, and their bench was even older than ours and 6 times as big (wonder why they called it VAST heheh)