Shoutout to the guy who rewired that 737 panel from 1998

I had a 737 come in last Thursday with wiring that looked like a bird's nest from the factory. Took me three hours just to trace one circuit. The old timer who did the original install in '98 must have been in a hurry or something. Any of you run into a plane where the before and after is night and day after a proper rewire?

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eva_thompson2d ago

Are we sure the old guy didn't know what he was doing though? That bird's nest probably worked fine for 25 years without a single complaint, right?

kaih362d ago

and honestly, if you look at it closely, that nest probably solved a whole bunch of problems at once. Kept debris out, let water run through, and even let the bird have a place to sit pre-flight check. I had a heating duct once that was held together with foil tape and a bent coat hanger for like six years. The HVAC guy came out to fix something else and laughed, but then admitted it was actually holding pressure better than a lot of his patch jobs. Sometimes the "wrong" fix is just the fix that actually works for the situation, not what looks clean in a manual.

uma_taylor472d ago

Ha, reminds me of my uncle's old truck. He had this rigged up way of fixing the exhaust with a soup can and some wire. We all laughed at it, but that thing lasted like ten more years. Maybe there's something to that kind of stubborn know-how, even if it looks like a mess.