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Old 08-26-2018, 05:08 PM   #47422
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Originally Posted by Sapphireho View Post
Good job getting it out. I can say in my wrenching i have done similar things more times than I care to remember.

Just last week I was taking the access panel off the front of the lotus to check the brake/clutch fluid and with my crappy hands dropped the allen wrench thru the grill over the radiator. It was dangling there ready to fall behind the radiator. I'm thinking, great, now I'll have to pay a grand to have the front clam r&r to get the wrench out. After a half hour of fiddling i too got lucky.
I once almost forced a mission scrub because, in a last minute fix, I lost a 1/16 allen wrench somewhere between the airplane, flight deck, and maintenance control.

After furiously looking everywhere I was working, with my cheek against the floor, sighting along with a flashlight, I found it in a crack between the floorboard and rear cabin wall. I jumped up to grab it just as the maintenance officer poked his head through the main hatch.


Wasn't even one of the tools I used.
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