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I thought torque seal was just grease pen theater until the shop in Wichita proved me wrong
For 9 years I skipped marking fasteners after torquing because it felt like extra steps for nothing, then last April a guy at a shop in Wichita handed me a plane with 3 loose bolts on the same panel and I spent 2 hours second-guessing every nut I'd touched that week. Now I run a stripe on everything I torque before I sign it off, and the inspection turnaround went from a crawl to about 20 minutes because nobody has to re-verify my work. How do you all mark yours, one stripe across the nut and panel or something else?
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simon_lane11mo ago
Three loose bolts on the same panel is what gets me. Not one, three. That means somebody either skipped the torque or the wrench was out of spec, and either way the whole plane was flying around with a panel that could have let go. I would have torn that shop apart looking for answers. Marking every nut does not fix a bad wrench though, so did you ever find out why those three let go in the first place? Feels like the stripe saved you on paperwork but the real story is still sitting there.
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