they arent all keeping quiet
http://www.rbnlive.com/mechanic.html#email
he found some extra hoses in the toilet apparently
Oh God! Good find man. Comic genius. I dont make it a point to make fun of paranoid schizophrenics, but damn. I hope this guy isnt really a mechanic, but if he is, I'm sure he gets the crapper tank cards frequently....
I could trace the control wires from the box to the pumps and valves but there were no control circuits coming into the unit. The only wires coming into the unit was a power connection to the aircraft's main power bus.
Translation: I have no idea what I'm talking about and trying to sound smart, but failing miserably. Maybe thats why I'm working on crappers.
It was a standard looking avionics control box but it had no markings of any kind.
Thats because most "control boxes" dont have any markings on the front. You have to...gasp...know what the hell it is from experience, or look it up in a maintenance manual.
If you look closely at the wings of a large airplane you will see a set of wires
Wires? wrong!
about the size of your finger
wrong!
extending from the trailing edge of the wing surfaces
almost not wrong!
I discovered that the pipes from this mystery system lead to every 1 out of 3 of these static discharge wicks. These wicks had been "hollowed out" to allow whatever flows through these pipes to be discharged through the fake wicks.
Hmmm, hollowed out 3/16" wicks which are affixed to a a very solid base which is fastened into surface of the elevators/ailerons/rudder which move indepentantly, wiping out any possible notion of tiny pipes running through to the wicks....What a doofus.
I was called to replace an engine temperature sensor on a plane due to take off in two hours. I finished the job and turned in the paperwork
As if! Thats a sparkchaser's job. Maybe he meant the crapper tank overflow sensors?
The system had 1 large tank and 2 smaller tanks. It was hard to tell in the cramped compartment, but it looked like the large tank could hold about 50 gallons
Hmmm, an aircraft mechanic that doesnt know what the engine/cargo fire bottles look like?
When I had a chance to look for this connection under the plane I found it cunningly hidden behind a panel under the panel used to access the waste drain.
You mean they are pumping in evil chemtrail juice through the potable water fill port? I'm never drinking coffee on a plane again.
I began to trace the piping from the pumps. These pipes lead to a network of small pipes that ended in the trailing edges of the wings and horizontal stabilizers.
How did he trace this? With xray glasses or did he defuel and sump the wing tanks, pop open the tank plates and climb in for a peek or was he merely looking at hydraulic lines that run along the aft spar?
"Now you know what happens to mechanics who poke around in things they shouldn't. The next time you start working on systems that are no concern of yours you will lose your job! As it is, I'm feeling generous, I believe that you'll be able to go back to work soon." CLICK.
Translation: In a union shop, you got in somebodys way and it ticked them off so they filed a grievance.
Not the way to work ones self from changing tires and emptying crapper tanks.....
Funny stuff.