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Mt.crewchief
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I was thinking of some of the trips I took with my plane other than in-country! One memorable and good one was a trip to Naha from CCK to have wingtip lights installed. It took several days and I got to leave and go get a room downtown (Naminouie), and renew old acquaintances!!!

Did all of the C-130 E's get that modification or was it just for the ones going to Viet Nam at the time???

Another TCTO (I guess it was one), was having a little urinal and "piss tube" installed back by the "honey bucket". Was that something that stayed with the airplanes or was it replaced by something more modern? I do remember that while you were in the area of the tube on the outside of the airplane(behind the left paratroop door) you had to remember to not lean against the side of the airplane or you might get dirty from the "over spray" !!! Needless to say this was an "in flight" urinal only!!

Just a few questions that need to be answered before I forget that I remembered them!!!!

Ken

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Ken, The wingtip lite mode was fleet wide. I seem to recall these lites, when on, interfered with the N1 compass. So they were deactivated. Don't remember the fix. To the best of my knowledge the aft urinal was there from day one. There were also two up front at FS 245. I rivited the fwd. ones closed. Was worried about leakage into the bilge. That yellow liquid is bad stuff on airplanes.

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Larry, You're right about the lights affecting the compass. Ours screwed up the compass on the way back to Taiwan right after being installed! We must have had them on!!

My plane only had the rear urinal and it was installed while I was crew chief on it! It may have had the fwd. ones installed later.

Thanks for replying. Now I can try to ask some more non-essential questions!!!

Ken

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Now you guys have got me wondering!! Maybe the rear urinal was already there on 62-1804 when I started on it after coming from Naha and A-Models in 1969!

I lived on that airplane for the next 15 months and definitely never saw any fwd. urinals!! I think I would have !! Maybe they had been removed before I got to CCK. There is another crew chief on this forum that crewed 1804--- after me! Maybe he can shed some light on this very important question!!!!!

As for the wing-tip taxi lights I remember on the trip back to CCK we got out of where we were supposed to be and got challenged by the Taiwan Airforce and I remember the scramble in the flight deck looking for the book on the codes on what to do next! I know there is a proper way to word this but right now I can't remember it! Anyway, the flight crew took it very serious! Kinda scared me as the engineer told me they would shoot us down!! I assume he was just messing with me but he looked serious!! Anyway, we were escorted to the right area and landed uneventfully.

Maybe one of the guys on that flight crew is on this forum and can clear this up and tell it right!!

Thanks for replying guys,

Ken

By the way, when the fighter jets intercepted us I could have gotten some real nice close-up pics of them but thought better of it at that time!!! Now I wish I would have!!!

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Here is the TCTO that added the lights

INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL TAXI LIGHTS,

C-130 AIRCRAFT

TO 1C-130-754

8 October 1974

I don't see where these light would interfer with the MAD they are wired with the postion lights unless someone screw up the routing. Because the TCTO is correct and made no chages addressing the issue that been have stated to have occured.

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Well, I know it happened and like Don said, he pulled the circuit breaker to avoid compass problems. The compass problem was what caused the experience I am referring to.

I see the TCTO you are referring to is in 1974. When the TCTO was done on 1804 it was in 1969 or 70!

I do recall something about steel screws being used during the installation instead of brass or copper??

I don't remember checking them on pre-flights later but probably did and they must have worked. Or possibly the CB was pulled permanently!

Thanks for your reply,

Ken

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I'm not a pointy-head so I probably don't have a clue about what I'm talking about, but I think I remember the wing tip taxi lights interfering with the flux valve -- whatever the hell that is.

Don R.

Don, that's what I remember when I started in '75. Before TO Checklist had us pull the CB for the wing tip taxi lights because it interfered with the flux valve, or so "they" said. But it was on the C/L, so......

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