i am wondering if there are any military mechanic that owns a 3rd gen. seem like everyone here want their car to be perfect. what happened to the 100mph tape thingy.

 

"100mph tape" is DEFINITELY NOT military maintenance!! As a Maintenance Officer at my previous squadron, I can atest to the standards being FAR higher than ANYTHING you'll see on this board or auto racing in general with a few possible exceptions (F1, ALMS, CART, NASCAR?).


Here's what this military "mechanic" hand-created as a case in point:





Hope you noticed the "Helicopter Tape" on the leading edges of the splitter!

 

You are a MO? In what squadron? From your avatar I take it that you are on the HS or HSL community.

It is more called like 500 mph tape or Ordie tape. IYAOYAS!!!

 

I'm not a maintenance officer, but I am an engineer in the Air Force. I completely agree with carlos. I do every little bit of work on my car, including the (two) recent rebuilds on it. I also have built many engines for local RX-7 owners. I have yet to use zoom-tape...

https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/pics-my-engine-rebuild-402944/




-Rob Bailey
MachSeven Motorsports

Mechanical Engineer
Aeronautical Systems Center, WPAFB OH

 

No I Am Not Talking About The Guys That Sit In The Office. I Am Talking About The Joes That Work Down The Line With Thier Tool Boxes. Btw Go Walk Down The Motor Pool Sometime, You Might Be Surprise.

 

I am fairly **** about my cars, although not a maintenance officer either. But I regularly see them at work, and can assure you that 100mph tape is not used. Following correct maintenance procedures is a safety issue and is taken very seriously. BTW, it's very handy to borrow their gigantic torque wrenches for the flywheel nuts.

 

There is a difference between military and civilian maintenance.

Military maintenance has unlimited money and unlimited paperwork. If you have an FD which weighs 2800 pounds, you need 5600 pounds of paperwork before the maintenance on the FD is complete.

 

I take it that you never had to work on A-6's. Trut me we used 500 mph tape so we could lunch it out to complete a mission over Iraq. Also I just received "new" jets from another squadron and there was tape inside the gun cavity.

 

I've got aircraft parts

 

can some of ya'll clarify what this stuff is for...

 

i apologize to the guys in the field (hondasr4kids) - totally different world. never have enough stuff, never have enough time, and everyone is on your ***. and yeah, speedtape does save the day, lol.

 

Excuse my ignorance (or lack thereof), but what the hell are you trying to say? All of my soldier friends can spell high-school words correctly and write clearly, in addition to being able to do pushups, shoot a rifle and wake up early in the morning.

-s-


PS, Dubulup, what's the black canister between your IC and battery? ^^

 

No experience with Navy maintenance at all, LOL. We have F-16, C-40, and C-22, all without tape, afaik. I will make some specific inquiries next week just to be sure, and let you know if otherwise.

 

Battery?? canister?? j/k

the battery is a MSD 6A ignition amp and the canister is my electric airpump...I'm getting close to being able to drive up and pass Atlanta emissions.

If you can find my avatar in the picture you'll find the engine harness connector I was talking about.

 

I'm a former Marine Jet mech. Wish my project was coming along as good as some of yours. I'm going to be a poor sob now that I'm out and going to college.

 

are you talking about the cannon plugs?

 

Cannon plugs are one of the few good things about jets. No need to splice. Just twist on and twist off. I wish I had stolen some of those before I got out. I got a bag of lint free rags used for cleaning ejection seat parts.

 

EJECTION SEAT?? Is that mounted on the driver side in case you need to punch, or passenger side to get rid of undesirable riders?

 

Hey there everyone...Well i dont know if this counts but im in the Marine Corps. Iv been in now about 6 months...i was already on this forum before i joined...but yea im a Motor T Driver and i keep my car in good AZZ conditoin...and maintain it hella good..but yea just thought i would let you guyz know...peace

 

Chinoflyer: So tell us where you developed all of these insightful observations of the "joes" that work "down in the motor pool?" Sure does come across like you have some personal embitterment regarding the heirachy in the armed forces?!

hondasR4kids: I was the Det MO at HSL-42 on my second cruise. I just finished my tour as the Officer-in-Charge of HSL-48 Det NINE onboard USS ROOSEVELT (DDG 80). The picture attached of "East Coast Playas" was taken on our transit back home from the Gulf.

As for the use of non-standard maintenance during combat, it's been well know since the first Gulf War that more Class-A Mishaps (More that $1 Million dollars in damage or one or more deaths) happened as a result of non-combat related causal factors that did due to combat. The trend has been the same since. If you don't believe me, search the Naval Safety Center website (http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/).
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so they got your parts on thier car, so how do you explain that. lol
Standard my ***.

 

I've seen your quick-disconnect engine harness thread, it's very nice. Where did the air pump come from?

-s-

 

HSL-48 out of Mayport Fl? One of my "kids" (an AO2) is trsaffering there in Oct. But yeah we had a couple of Class A mishap in my 2 years at VFA-82, we lost one jet and we FOD'd an engine recently.

 

Yes, you may be poor, and your car might not be as far along as you would like it to be, but your a Marine! You know Marines are always doing three things which consume all of their time.
(A) Working, because we actually do work unlike some. (hence why your car is not done and they have cars that look like that.)
(B) Getting f**ked with by Sr. Marines.
(C) F**king

I will give you guys MAD props, amazing FD's! Wish I had the time to do the same thing to mine.

 

Never mind he is going to HSL-46. You got lucky