I found a pretty rusty bucking bar in the tail of my Yale project.
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| Author: | shrike [ Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Tools found in Aircraft |
This post set me thinking http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=34145&view=unread&sid=5b7ecb2f9c15205f186893c6916a45e1#p481617 In every airplane I've taken apart, stripped to re-cover or otherwise open up, I've found at least one lost and abandoned tool. At least a wrench or screwdriver. In my current glider project there was a pair of 18" Channelock water pump pliers under the floorboard. I have no clue as to why those would even be around the airplane, 'cause there's no fastener big enough on the whole airframe to need them. What's the oddest / biggest / least appropriate tool you've found lost in the plane? If this thread takes off, we can follow up with 'largest mummified animal found' |
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| Author: | rcaf_100 [ Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
I found a pretty rusty bucking bar in the tail of my Yale project.
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| Author: | The Inspector [ Sun Dec 09, 2012 1:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Over the years things found inside airplanes that didn't belong that I've been involved with; For a while Boeing was delivering 767's (at least freighters to a certain greenish brown outfit) that came with partial toolkits in the rudders that were found while doing initial 'C' checks @ BADWRENCH. A CESSNA 172 that had the rudder tip bent over while being moved by the line guys @ Lake Front in N.O. for an R/STOL (where I worked)mod, when the FBO (who did the damage) guys opened it up, they found a 1/4 inch spring cleco holding the rudder post to the rudder bellcrank. An older SWA 737 in for a 'D' check @ BADWRENCH where one of the wing shop guys found a really rusty #4 bucking bar in a wing tip because it had vibrated a crack in the skin. No one wants to know what 'things' we found in the bilges of ex HAWAIIAN MD-80's, or the two Kilos of Bolivian Marching powder a guy found under a forward pit sidewall in an ex-EASTERN 757 out of the desert. We speculated that someone got whacked over the lost shipment (that might have happened as EAL was grounding airplanes and going out of business) or the fool who, after finding it, took it home  then thought better of it and brought it back in the next day-he was last seen leaving in a Sheriffs Office Crown Vic followed by a nondescript DEA sedan.  
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| Author: | ZRX61 [ Sun Dec 09, 2012 10:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Found a nice SnapOn flashlight buried so deep in a T28 that I suspect the aircraft may have been assembled around it... Lost a screwdriver in a P38 QEC for a few weeks until I found a strong enough magnet to retrieve it... |
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| Author: | Obergrafeter [ Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
A smell you will never foreget is a Snap On screwdriver melting on an exhaust pipe. |
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| Author: | bdk [ Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Remember to never put your name on your tools. 
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| Author: | b17engineer [ Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Not a tool, but a felloww I worked with found 2 kilos of cocaine behind the aft pit wall of one of our 757's during the open up of an A check. the plane had come from Columbia and was supposedd to go to New York, but was diverted to Seattle for the A check. Big investigation over that one. |
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| Author: | DB2 [ Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
One day I decided to tap along the bottom of an O-1 I had been flying, after another guy had to put one down with a jammed elevator. The clunk-da-clunk I soon heard turned out to be a 5 lb hammer AND a cold chisel. Needless to say I wasn't happy. Since then I've been a bit more religious about banging my hand in sensitive areas of airplanes...and have found quite a few tools over the years. Really pathetic actually, when you think about it. |
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| Author: | Tiger moth [ Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Hmmm let's see,how about 10 lbs of steel blocks used to support the movable tail on a Lockheed Jetstar during a pitch-trim actuator replacement. Or my favorite...our chief pilot allowed a friend of his and P-51D owner to reposition his plane inland avoiding an oncoming hurricane in our Corporate hangar.I retrieved a bagful of sockets,extensions and wrenches from the under seat area.Nothing ever said,not even thanks. All my tools have my initials on them. |
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| Author: | Fleet16b [ Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
C-152 - screw driver under floor near rudder pedals C-140 - 5 lb bucking bar in tailplane - old rusty been there sliding ariund for years DH 82C Tigermoth - set of goggle down in the tail of the fuselage |
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| Author: | Warbird Kid [ Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
After pulling the FG-1D off the pedestal, we found bucking bars, screwdrivers, etc... You name it, they left it when they buttoned her up in the late sixties. |
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| Author: | cooper9411 [ Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Customer calls complaining about rattling sounds coming from his 1946 Globe GC-1B "Swift". After removing cowling, canopy, and the access panels found the culprit! Clecos in the very tail section, owner knew nothing about why they were there and searching through the logbooks could not find any record of any repairs being done. Hmmmmmmm!!!!!
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| Author: | sledge39 [ Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
C-170...1" x 8" x 4ft board laying on top of control cables in aft fuselage... ...pulling back on control wheel didn't feel right...owner had been flying that way... . |
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| Author: | muddyboots [ Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
When I was a little kid I got my first flight--on the Sun Oil Float plane in Morgan City (I think it was MC) Louisiana. As we were taxing along the bayou to take off I looked out the window and saw a bunch of tools sitting on the float. I called the pilot (an old drunkard named Bob) and tried to tell him about the tools. He said "not now Clay" so I hunkered down and watched about two hundred and fifty dollars worth of tools slowly edge off the float as we took off. Looking back I think he was buzzed. Can't believe my ad let me fly with that old guy...Anyway, there is my tools and airplanes story. |
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| Author: | Matt Gunsch [ Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tools found in Aircraft |
Brand new 172, bucking bar in the wing Aero Commander, 1/2 drive ratchet with extension and sparkplug socket on top of engine 172, 1lb bag of rivets in the wing Piper Seneca, mag light flashlight in wing near fuel strainer T-6, wingtip with a dufflebag full of sand (was told it was to correct wing heavyness 172rg, reading glasses under cabin floor |
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