A little less sad but still pretty angry tbh Sort of pilot and sort of aircraft mechanic. If you've stumbled across my profile and decide you want to talk about or ask questions about aviation, feel free to DM me. I can go on about planes and the like for days
Jonah, Arizona
Company I work for replaces every piece of hardware on every engine we do, you could make a killing selling their scrap silver and steel
I wear a camera on my motorcycle helmet, big deal. If nothing worthwhile happens the footage gets deleted without a second thought
That's part of the fun! Especially dealing with Honeywell/Allied Signal manuals ?
I love Torties with mismatched socks ❤️
And you must not have seen what bones will do to compressor and turbine blades ?
If you can make her giggle and flirt, you can make her jiggle and squirt
Is the fish gonna be okay?
I started on a Rebel 500 and recently traded up to the new 1100, I loooooved that little 500. Such a fun bike to learn on
Even components will require an overhaul at some point, and its unlikely that they'd have the tooling and test equipment
Best of luck from MX! Stay frosty out there
The amount of jokes we make at work about swapping a Civic with a PT6A...
The 350 uses -60As I believe, those are large models designed for high performance. This is a small PT6A variant, but overall very similar
Itll likely be sent back to the customer or used for training, only takes a few minutes to get it reasonably workable
They can stay airborne at only 98 knots if fully loaded, if I remember correctly
She purdy
Glad you liked it, I enjoy what I do with these engines. They're iconic and quite maintenance friendly, its no wonder they're loved so well
I'm on a little Honda Rebel and I wave to everyone on 2 or 3 wheels, we are all one group with knees in the wind, respect each other
It gets easier after working on things a few times, and it doesn't help that you need a wide assortment of Pratt and Whitney tooling
Its my first, figured some people would enjoy seeing the inner workings of an uncommon career
- may fly an engine, say 6,000 hours for example, before it MUST be overhauled. So I'd assume they arrange engine swaps around their TBO
I wouldn't know, but I'd imagine they only do it on set intervals. Engines have a Time Before Overhaul requirement, wherein an operator-
- sends another one to them, exact same model and compatibility. So the company is waiting on the engine but not super critical
Actually most of these engines aren't even owned, they're leased. So they send one engine out for overhaul and their leasing company-
Yeah, this was off a team doing research in the Antarctic and their report was a .100" flake in the oil filter. Very bad day out there
Little bit of metal damage'll just give it character!
My work is inside a nice air conditioned facility so we only get as dirty as the engines, I can imagine the junk that gets inside those!
Followup post is up now!
Pics of that angry bearing have been posted!