dashx: Now you got me thinking, you could very well be right. After I left there I never gave the place much thought again, then this thread blew the dust off, but apparently not all of it. I was there the night the tail got fried, I was a crew chief, but now I think I'm running the fragments of wha...

dashx, The breakers were installed when I started there. I would think that they were installed when the heaters were installed. The procedure was that if you were going to tail a -8 into that corner, turn the breaker off before towing the plane in, this allowed it to cool down before putting the ta...

ourkid2000,
Run your scotcbrite wheel over the points of the diamond pattern in the jaws, that'll smooth them out a bit and reduce the nicking.
Tape won't stay on.

Hi, I'm new to the forum, but I've been wrenching for over 30 years. crazy-aviator - I was working at Shitty Distress when the tail of the Dash 8 got fried. Someone turned the breaker for that heater back on when we brought a -8 in, then we stopped for lunch, when we came back in we could smell the ...