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Jobs that are an utter Barsteward!

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Logging on to JPA at 8 am on a monday morning. Blunty c***s.

As a F4 DF, try convincing any rigger that the fault is a Trailing edge half up microswitch and it needs an actuator change.
 
Don't know if it's been done but...

Fitting / removing the refuel probe on the Harrier...

Removing the suction door, then the access panel... and even worse refitting and wire locking them. All whilst sat inside the intake not being able to see your hands.

But not seeing your hands whilst working is normal for A/C trades.
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Oh my god, I can't believe half the things I'm reading here!!!

Do most of you really believe that things like Harrier refuel probe cx's, Tornado FCU/NCU/TRCU cx's, Harrier FFP cx's etc are b*****d jobs!!!!!!

WTF is going on nowadays? Are the RAF employing Special Olympians as engineers now!!!!
 
Staffordshire Beef said:
Oh my god, I can't believe half the things I'm reading here!!!

Do most of you really believe that things like Harrier refuel probe cx's, Tornado FCU/NCU/TRCU cx's, Harrier FFP cx's etc are b*****d jobs!!!!!!

WTF is going on nowadays? Are the RAF employing Special Olympians as engineers now!!!!
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And what exactly is your forte then?

Explain for all of us great unwashed ones.

TW
 
Jobs that are an utter Barsteward!

Being an ex 1976+ Buccaneer Rigger and listening to all of your difficult jobs makes me smile. Wheel CX, piece of ps (ardrox spray to cool the axle bolts etc), Bomb Door Latch Jack CX the same (with your modified Locking Pliers), foot motor CX (Grab my feet and pull me out when I'm finished). What must be the hardest job, in my opinion, is making work the next day mid detachment, when all your mates have made you drink too much the night before.
 
On the vickys, the keel beam area is interesting, for example the bcv access panel which is er well far too small for anyone but a midget to fit in and located 4 foot sideways away from the valve itself, and the fin valves which the access is very very tight and made worse by the couplings being done up ubertight and some not touched since the 60's.
Water tank tank flap valve can be interesting access via the vccp bay for bigger chaps, as can the oil metering block on top of the HDU fuel pump.
Lets not even mention being a tank rat and squeezing through impossible holes within the wing.....
Finally putting on/off the hyd rig, (which connects above your heads in the engine nacelles) always raining lovely skydrol. Not hard but a very very poo job.
For those who dont know about skydrol- OX-20- horrendous fluid to work with, carnogenic, burns your skin and massively painful if it ends up in your eyes.
 
On the mighty F4

Battery change on a twin sticker with the seat pan in.

Bit worse than that, a thermocouple harness change with the engine still in and hot.
 
More of a pain in the bum than a barsteward....Anything that involves zone 19. Unless of course you are the worlds skinniest midget, have hands the size of a baby and are double jointed.
 
Fitting all 12 aux air doors on the harrier with or with out engine fitted, a job that will live in infamy and a real test of 'character'.:PDT_Xtremez_25:


Can I demand an extra elbow please storeman.
 
broonale said:
Being an ex 1976+ Buccaneer Rigger and listening to all of your difficult jobs makes me smile. Wheel CX, piece of ps (ardrox spray to cool the axle bolts etc), Bomb Door Latch Jack CX the same (with your modified Locking Pliers), foot motor CX (Grab my feet and pull me out when I'm finished). What must be the hardest job, in my opinion, is making work the next day mid detachment, when all your mates have made you drink too much the night before.
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Absolutely brilliant!

You remind me now of why I asked an Optician if my first pair of glasses would stay on while I worked for a few hours upside-down with my head in the footwell of a Bucc Cockpit!

I never used Ardrox - but I never seized the axles either!

Thanks for the reminders
 
worst jobs

worst jobs

Changing the Gate Valve on the toilet of the mighty Nimrod. Also once had a blocked galley sink when aircrew poured vegetable soup down the drain and it would not clear. Had a mate outside with a Nitrogen trolley blowing up the drain pipe and I had a poly bag over the sink. When it let go the pressure and high speed veg forced the bag off and veg sprayed all over the galley! Nice.
 
I think the worst job I had was trying to de blocked a B747 mid toilet it was not because of the obvious but in that the blockage was caused by a baby feed glass jar we disconnected the waste pipe in the wheel well and had to smash the jar, blockage unblocked and a few line maintenace personnel soaked and stunk.
 
Rigga said:
Absolutely brilliant!

You remind me now of why I asked an Optician if my first pair of glasses would stay on while I worked for a few hours upside-down with my head in the footwell of a Bucc Cockpit!

I never used Ardrox - but I never seized the axles either!

Thanks for the reminders
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Lot of jobs on the bucc seemed to involve being upside down in the footwell, canopy jett for us plumbers was a bit of a tw@t if I remember right.
 
Fitting an F4 Phantom recce pod without crushing the interface cables and your fingers into the bargain. Bit of a buggah trying to drink a pint with your fingers bandaged. :PDT_Xtremez_42:
 
grumpyoldb said:
Fitting an F4 Phantom recce pod without crushing the interface cables and your fingers into the bargain. Bit of a buggah trying to drink a pint with your fingers bandaged. :PDT_Xtremez_42:
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Thats what you get for trying to plumber's work.

F4 recce pods were a piece of p1ss, time consuming and maanpower intensive but a real doddle of a job.
 
gemarriott said:
Thats what you get for trying to plumber's work.

F4 recce pods were a piece of p1ss, time consuming and maanpower intensive but a real doddle of a job.
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It was the plumbers who used to crush the interface cables which the MOD wouldn't replace because of the cost. We lecky's had to make them in the bay everytime clumsy knuckles crushed them.
 
grumpyoldb said:
It was the plumbers who used to crush the interface cables which the MOD wouldn't replace because of the cost. We lecky's had to make them in the bay everytime clumsy knuckles crushed them.
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that's not what you said and I never saw any cables crushed let alone fingers, a recce pod was a doddle to fit.
 
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