The whole door plug blew out, the size of a real door. Here it is on the ground where it landed in this guy's back yard................
Posted on 01/09/2024 5:04:14 PM PST by Red Badger
Assembled late on Friday afternoon, maybe? I remember changing a taillight on my wife’s circa 1980 vintage Escort. There was a bolt that was supposed to keep the bumper on, with molybdenum grease on it, and a nut sitting below it, waiting to be put on. Weird.
...and we wonder why Russia is making minced-meat out of Western ‘wonder-weapons’.
I had a 1980 Ford F-100 Stepside pickup that had a bad rear axel oil leak.
Took the wheel and hub off to replace the oil seal.
There wasn’t one....................
“I think using rubber belts would have solved it.”
Until the belt finally breaks when you forget to change it at the recommended interval.
Does Boing have a DIE hiring mandate?
Decades ago the Post office ran at a profit then LBJ set racial quotas and so many extra employees were required to get the work done while covering the unfireable that it’s been a money pit ever since.
Red Loctite?
The factory fasteners would fail just with street driven cars. Factory replacement nuts were pre coated with some sort of thread lock.
Apparently people who tracked their cars couldn’t trust just a reverse thread with thread locker and ended up drilling and safety wire or tack welding the nut.
That said, the fuselage for this plane is built in Wichita, the door "plug" is installed and the entire fuselage shipped by rail to Seattle for final assembly.
In Seattle, the door "plug" is removed to allow access inside the aircraft for workers, interior panels, seats, etc.
When the aircraft is completed, the plug is reattached. It's here, in Seattle, that we seem to have a problem. Either the plug bolts were not torqued properly, or the bolts were damaged from disassembly and reassembly, or something else entirely...
I think you have it correct...............
Was it a window or a door. So far I’ve read it was a window > it was a window on an emergency door > it was an emergency door that blow out.
On certain versions of the aircraft there is a ‘emergency door’ there that would open out over the wing for escape.
On versions where this is not necessary, a ‘Door Plug’ is installed that may or may not have a window in it depending on the model. A cargo aircraft would not need a window.
This model had the plug with a window for passenger seating.
Thank God the passengers near that hole had their seatbelts on....................
But was it an 8x12ish window or a man sized portal that blew out? That is what I’m unclear about.
I’m amazed at how many vehicles out there are missing the:
Valve stem covers on the tires
Battery hold down brackets
Even saw one missing the AC service port caps.
They didn’t leave the factory with this stuff missing...
Lots of lazy people out there. Some of them even get jobs on an assembly line.
The whole door plug blew out, the size of a real door. Here it is on the ground where it landed in this guy's back yard................
I’ll take a train, thanks
Thanks for clearing that up Red Badger. I appreciate it.
And just by chance that seat in front of that hole was unoccupied....................
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