Tool Tags

[pie club]

Why are the numbers on tool tags two different colours.

 

[John Lloyd]

Why are the numbers on tool tags two different colours.

That's for the colour blind, just in case.DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[spike7451]

They make great poker chips...

 

[snowball1]

Why are the numbers on tool tags two different colours.

To confuse AMM's

 

[PTR Hoar]

To get to the other side?

 

[PTR Hoar]

I dunno it felt like a random moment! There is a reason for everything in the RAF I suppose, no idea in this case tho!

 

[mild mannered janitor]

as they go against AMM's names usually green means you are useful and red means you are a walking disaster zone DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[Tin basher]

So pedants can insist that they all face the same way on the tool kit.

 

[Little Tronk]

It's based on the American 'traffic light' system of tool control.

 

[muttywhitedog]

To create debate on internet forums.

 

[Mug?]

To match the colours on a 731.....?

 

[fileeth]

Just because!!

 

[pie club]

no idea

no idea

That will be no idea then. looked in mil 145 but still mo idea

 

[dkh51250]

In days of old in MT control, one tag would be attached to the vehicle keys, the other would be on the display board and would be turned to reflect vehicle availability or otherwise.

The use of these tags in MT predated tool control as it is known today. Individual tool kits were issued against loan cards and snap checks were carried out by the Chief who ran the stores. That is the way it operated at Waddo in the mid 60s.

 

[Lamptramp]

In days of old in MT control, one tag would be attached to the vehicle keys, the other would be on the display board and would be turned to reflect vehicle availability or otherwise.

The use of these tags in MT predated tool control as it is known today. Individual tool kits were issued against loan cards and snap checks were carried out by the Chief who ran the stores. That is the way it operated at Waddo in the mid 60s.

I remember those line ups!! "anyone got a ratchet screwdriver to swap for a 2BA socket and a ball pein 'ammer?"

Memories of Stormy Gales on the Line E at Dispersal remembered.

pm. me if your era.

 

[grey haired chiefy]

No such thing as tool tags anymore they are tool tallys now.

Didn't matter what colour they were at Kinloss, Nimrod hydraulic fliud on your hands used to lift the colour striaght off so we had plain white.

 

[Stevienics]

Diversity obligations

 

[ady eflog]

I didnt even know they were numbered! Damn my red/green colour blindness!

 

[spike7451]

Couple of bay's I worked in used to put the red tag on the board if the tool was U/S or missing.Missing usually meant some git had left it on/in a jet he was working on!