Guy at O'Hare gave me a tip that saved my whole shift

I was wiring up a panel in the hangar at O'Hare last Thursday and this older tech named Dave walked over. He saw me struggling with a pinout on a 737 nav box and said, 'You're not using your ring light close enough, the shadows are making you miss the crimps.' He showed me how to position it right for the tight spots and I finished the job in 20 minutes instead of an hour. Has anyone else had a random pro change how you work with just a few words?

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victor_carr2528d ago

I had a similar moment with a union electrician on a C-check in DFW back in 2019. He told me to flip my terminal blocks upside down when landing wires, it saves you from fighting gravity and the pins line up cleaner. That one tip cut my termination time by half on the whole panel.

paige_ellis5928d agoMost Upvoted

@victor_carr25 flipping the terminal blocks sounds like pure genius honestly. I tried that trick on a panel last month and it saved me so much hassle with those stiff wires near the top. Little stuff like that makes a huge difference when you're knee-deep in a check.