tinyclark

I am fortunate enough to have been given a ticket to attend the Masters golf tournament practice round on Monday.

I have officially scratched it off of my bucket list!

I am stoked.

If the igniters are coming on, then something is definitely amiss in the wiring.

Unless someone used the little engine junction box as a FOD or tool holder and forgot to empty it, I would have to agree to R2 the engine.

I always like to go back and find out what was done before the problem initially started. Any corrosion on the Misc connectors?

Was it in for ISO or HSC?

If the igniters are coming on, then something is definiteluy amiss in the wiring.

Unless someone used the little engine junction box as a FOD or tool holder and forgot to empty it, I would have to agree and R2 the engine.

I always like to go back and find out what was done before the problem initially started. Any corrosion on the Misc connectors?

Was it in for ISO or HSC?

Here is a list of firwall connectors for the aircraft side. These connectors match the connectors used in the QEC, and have a self locking feature.

Misc #1 P185 FH3406KT-32-6S-30 5935-01-373-3933

Misc #2 P127 FH3406KT-32-7S-30 5935-01-232-3360

Misc #3 P171 FH3406KT-28-16S30 5935-01-385-5945

Misc #4 P325 FH3406KT-32-8S-30 5935-01-373-3932

AC Gen Power 40/50KVA P121 MS3456KT28-22P30 5935-01-347-6417

AC Gen Power 60/90KVA P750 FH3406KT36-5P-30 5935-01-349-5939

AC Gen Control P408 FH3406KT18-11P-30 5935-01-374-9290

Quoted from the TCTO:

"The purpose of this TCTO is to inspect the lower surface of the center wing for generalized fatigue cracking on aircraft with high Center Wing Equivalent Baseline Hours (EBH). Upon completion of these inspections, and any required repairs, the effected aircraft will be returned to service with flight restrictions removed for a minimum of 3500 EBH from the completion of the TCTO inspection. The final length of unrestricted service will vary depending on evaluation of inspection effectiveness and statistical analysis of initial inspection results. The length of unrestricted service shall not extend unrestricted service beyond the 45000 EBH threshold."

This is a depot level TCTO requiring over 2000 man hours to accomplish. This TCTO came about as a result of the findings from the fire fighting C130 that crashed in California.

I don't have any idea about any Lockheed bulletins.

Yea, I can see the toilet lids popping up now.

Yea, I loved the APX-64.

After I started working it on the bench, I decided to take the back cover off and found the filter circuit card back there under it. I thought it just housed the connector. Well, it was plug in, so I decided to pul it out and found a lot of corrosion on the flat pins (same connection type as the other modules).

I opened them up on every RT I worked after that, and about every one had corrosion on it. It seemed like we had less RTs coming thought the shop after that.

You gotta love adjusting the bell curve.

Sorry to hear of the loss. My heartfelt condolences.

I didn't know you were with the Raiders. A very good friend of mine, Mike Frioli, was a NATEC rep for your outfit for many years at El Toro and Mirimar.

Steve, I posted the front page of the TCTO a couple days ago.

From the "For What it's worth department", and I have no idea what this crap actually means, but as said, there is always a +/- tolerence for the indicators.

Here is the info form the Lockheed Service News mags on the history of the outer wing, melded into one pdf file by some dude who likes adobe 8 pro.

Here's the first page of the TCTO.

There is no requirement on the drawing to mark them with that info.

Steve, this is out of the old T.O. B-2-5, and reflects the same info in the new books, and on all the H-1s, Es and now HCs I work on.

Got chrome? Or at least, any left?

Can someone explain this BS to me?

It is BS. I saw one black A/C at Ramstein during my six years there, for one day. I guess they never did any pre, post, thru, HSC or ISO inspections on it.

Must have been a CNN news reporter.

UM, the wings installed during TCTO 1039 DO HAVE externally mounted fuel probes. They are 3-3/4" across and have 4 screws in them.

The information label for the wing should be on the training edge around OWS 180.

Another reason why I consider the Gunship the most effective modern weapon.

My hat's off

The problem appears to be fixed, but they changed all 4 transducers, the valves, the wiring... so we really don't know what fixed it.

You should be able to order NSN 1560-00-659-1367. This would be the -3 assembly, which includes the -4 seal and -7 seal. The -7 is just a foam tube that slides into the -4 seal. This creates a stiffer and tighter fit.

It's not out of a book, it's the production install drawing (370123) of the truss mounts.

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APU will not start. Fuel flow w/ ignitors. Recommend swapping the ASR with the FHR? How can I download the ALSOCM 11-201 16.0 from home computer?

I know what an AFI 11-201 is, but never heard of ALSCOM.

If this is the sway brace y'all are talking about, the install drawing shows sealant.