Posted on 11/15/2024 2:43:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
“It was found lodged behind the low-pressure compressor (LPC) blades.”
I think every screwdriver I’ve ever bought is lodged in the exact same place.
Heads should roll as the proper response. They had a system, the system would have been effective if followed, but the responsible people flat out didn't follow it because it was an inconvenience to them. Perish the thought of having to get out of their cushy seats to keep looking for a tool until it was found!
Maybe the rest of them would run better if these things were left in the engines. ;^)
Anyone else find it weird how every time you find something that’s missing, it’s always in the last place you looked?
Has anyone seen my basin wrench?
nobody noticed the empty space on the pegboard???
Great Basin wench? I have and she’s fabulous.
Mine is in the plumbing tools/bottom drawer in the bottom half of the big gray with red drawers stand up Craftsman tool box set I got when I was about 17.
I am missing a small black tape measure from a big molded plastic tool box set of BS Chinesium tools I bought for a 2nd house. Have you seen it perchance?
Oh, My! A long time ago, before automobiles became computerized, I just loved tuning up, maintenance, etc. Timing and dwell, points and gappers, advancing or retarding the distributor.
A coworker found out, and asked me to look at his car. He kept buying new batteries, but they would die. I drove the car to my home, popped the hood, and there, on top of the wheel well, was a hack saw. Turns out the coworker’s brother had cut the serpentine belt because the air conditioning would not turn off. I told the coworker to NEVER let his brother near the car again.
Boy that's reassuring isn't it?!
I drove from Chicago to Philadelphia with only 1 lug nut attached, other 4 lug nits loose inside the wheel cover.
In Pennsylvania, at a gas station, the attendant checked fluid levels and I resumed driving through mountainous roads there. At next stop I open the hood to check fluid levels and discovered the brake fluid reservoir cover was left open and the brake fluid had escaped all over the engine. Luckily enough brake fluid was left to stop the car.
It's always in the last place you look LOL!
Maybe they should put a nightlight in there?
When I worked aircraft maintenance in the Air Force, ALL tools had to be accounted for when we returned to the shop.
Also, EVERY screw, nut, or bolt dropped must be recovered no matter what had to be taken apart to get to it.
Heads should roll.
they joined the mile high club...
And they would ground the aircraft until the tool/hardware, was found. I remember those days.
I also worked as a seasonal for the USAF as an AGE mechanic, primarily BT400 heaters. Each tool had a space hollowed out in the foam liner of a tool box. Each tool box must be inspected at the end of each work session and signed off. Any tool missing caused a work stoppage and it must be found. Period.
Now we had a supervisor no one liked. A co worker had Thorsen brand tools at home just like in the USAF tool box. He scribed the tool box number on the tool as though it were a genuine USAF tool and threw it out the window near the flight line. It was found, talk about hell being raised as to why it was there and not accounted for.
A few years back I had my Range Rover serviced. Two or three weeks later I popped the hood and found a large wrench like device in a cavity near the window wash fluid container. Called the dealership and they, as it was an unusual tool used only for a specific repair, immediately sent someone over to retrieve it.
The employee told me they had looked for it everywhere in the shop area as apparently it was an expensive tool, used infrequently so they only had one in their tool inventory.
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