Aircraft mechanic toolbox showing off

[Aircraftmechanicxav]

I remember spending 3 days looking for a 1/2 socket in an unheated hanger in Osan S korea in December. It was on a Ahw1 supercobra. The mech swore he dropped it while sitting on the stub wing, we found it finally about 3 feet higher. He was persona non grata for a while. I wanted to feed him thru the FOD sucking 16's operating next door.

I am surprised that they allow flawed maintenance

Trust me I was very surprised to, but again, its teach us that you should alway read the whooole procedure before not to be surprised about anything that might come up and to alway double check if theres nothing wrong with it.

On embraer if you want to install the door sill, there are no procedure in the maintenance manual at all. But there is one in the service bulletin. Its also about searching those manuals and everything. And also as long as the manuals then tell you for instalation the torque that you have to put on bolts and important stuff it still makes it safe.

 

[Aircraftmechanicxav]

Sweet set up!

How is the foam cut out for the tools?

There are multiple way, for socket i heat them up, while holding them with a socket extension, then drop them, and when they reach the depth i want, i pull out (giggity) and then put them in water. I use one size smaller so the hole will then be the right size, because of the side expand also due to the heat (if i foam a 7/16, i use a 3/8 to heat it up into the foam and so on).
For keys i do the same, and hold them with a magnet. For the ratcheting one i use the non ratcheting one as a mold and then use a soldering iron for contour of the ratcheting part.
For other part, i use an exacto wich i pass the blade in a heat gun at medium temperature so it pass thru like butter. If you heat the blade to much it will expand the foam so you have to be carefull with it. And so one and so on. For the foam that are multi leveled, i use a glue gun that you normally use in arts and craft, and used it to glue stack of foam on top of the other

 

[Aircraftmechanicxav]

The Battery on the Milwaukie driver

Nice guess but not quite. The battery are foamed. Theres one battery that isnt foamed but i leave it on the charger

 

[Aircraftmechanicxav]

So is the wing completely (or mostly) off the plane? Kind of looks that way from the picture. Amazing the amount of work you can do to keep these things flying.

No we dont take the wing of (thank god) but we do remove the bolts (2 at a time for non destructive testing) no what is missing on the wing are the flaps, so we can inspect the flap track for wear, corrosion, for inspection of the rear spar, for better access to the flap motors for inspection.

 

[Aircraftmechanicxav]

The Battery on the Milwaukie driver

The answer is in the drawer with the two round mirror in it, if you look in my extension line up, i removed the 3/8 drive bit holder. The 1/4 extension line up is supposed to mirror completly the 3/8 one.
It also show that even if you were to foam your toolbox, you also have to sometime look closely

 

[goingtoarizona]

Apparently I am still a child... when they reach the depth I want, i pull out (giggity)

 

[kbeefy]

FWIW, French Helicopters have metric fasteners. Had to carry twice as many wrenches and sockets when supporting them.

 

[greenskeeper]

 

[Chamkila]

Who makes that hammer? Fellow toolaholic and a&p

 

[MeanGene427]

I have an interesting set, a triple box Kennedy machinist set, well used, that came from the estate of an old Mare Island Shipyard machinist. He had raised up the second box a few inches to make a little bench space, and the set was pretty well loaded. Cool thing is it has the decals of the nuke subs he helped build up the side

 

[Zeke]

What happens if you loose a magic Marker? They aren't shadowed. (I know this is an old thread.)

 

[ZRX61]

Jesus, I'm a rude old fart, putting myself out there. Xav, your setup looks magnificent. You are a credit to the profession.
And I learned long ago that the mechanics save our butts every day.
Bill S

You'd probably **** if ya saw my set up... 27 linear ft of tool chests & rollaways etc.... & none of it is shadowed. If it was shadowed like the OP's set up, I'd probably need 4x the tool chests etc that I have now.

 

[OCD]

For a challenge, i removed one tool. If you can spot it, you are worthy of repairing aircraft maybe

Snap ring pliers?