Honda Car Forum

Tegger wrote:
<snip for clarity>
>>
>>> I'm an aircraft mechanic by trade........don't worry about what kind
>>> of "owner" I am.
>
>
> ...or you're making up the whole works.
>

there you go! aircraft mechanic that can't figure out a nut size???

"Tegger" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
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>
>
> Hey, I just thought of something: if you can't check the wheel nut size
> with a non-impact socket because you live in an apartment bulding that
> prohibits working on your car, HOW WILL YOU USE AN IMPACT SOCKET TO WORK
> ON THAT SAME CAR? Where would you legally plug the gun in and use it?
>
> The answer is, that you must be a thief...
>

Or that he is using a 12V impact gun. I consider it a luxury, but there is a
market. Or perhaps he does the work in the hangar he uses for his job...
most of the A&Ps I've known brought their cars in to work where there is a
nice compressor and lots of smooth floor and his tool box (he doesn't bring
that home at night, I bet.) If the sockets are where he works and the car is
at home it wouldn't be terribly convenient to check the size that way
either.

Mike

Many years ago, when I was in high school I worked nights at a dept store.
One of my older coworkers was an airplane mechanic and worked at the dept
store as a second job. It always bothered me that an airplane mechanic, on
whom lives depended, worked a second job. I wanted him wide awake at his
main vocation.


"ourkid2000" <ourkid2000@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I love doing that stuff but where I recently moved into a very large
> apartment building, it's hard to do work on your car........my tools
> are difficult to get down the stairs.
>
> I'm an aircraft mechanic by trade........don't worry about what kind
> of "owner" I am.
>
>

Aircraft mechanics get paid garbage wages and work garbage
shifts...........Its so bad, i'm going to leave the industry as soon
as I get a chance. Being responsible for so many people and getting
paid 22 bucks an hour while working nightshifts every night just ain't
worth it to me.

And yes, all my sockets are at work.........and its a big deal for me
to take tools home because our toolboxes are checked weekly for
missing items by the Quality Assurance department. If I have a missing
tool, it is assumed it was left on an airplane and its a huge fuss.

I can work on my car a little bit in the parking lot in this building.
I just wanted to know the nut size so I could go down and get an
impact socket!!!

Talking about tools and airplanes reminds me of an incredible story.

I think it was on public tv years ago.

They has a series on quality control worldwide.

In one story, one of the major contractors for the air force was given
notice that they might lose their contract to build a particular plane.
They were always slow, poor quality, and over budget. So the company
brought in an expert to figure out how to fix the problem.

Now this was incredible. Turns out that whenever they pulled out a
blueprint to build part of the plane, the first thing they did was spend 3
or 4 days hunting for all the necessary tools. The quality expert had them
buy a cabinet for tools for each component. Problems solved.


"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in message
news:dqGdnaPILOFiR1LbnZ2dnUVZ_oimnZ2d@sedona.net.. .
> "Tegger" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
> news:Xns99971F7646tegger@207.14.116.130...
>>
>>
>> Hey, I just thought of something: if you can't check the wheel nut size
>> with a non-impact socket because you live in an apartment bulding that
>> prohibits working on your car, HOW WILL YOU USE AN IMPACT SOCKET TO WORK
>> ON THAT SAME CAR? Where would you legally plug the gun in and use it?
>>
>> The answer is, that you must be a thief...
>>
>
> Or that he is using a 12V impact gun. I consider it a luxury, but there is
> a market. Or perhaps he does the work in the hangar he uses for his job...
> most of the A&Ps I've known brought their cars in to work where there is a
> nice compressor and lots of smooth floor and his tool box (he doesn't
> bring that home at night, I bet.) If the sockets are where he works and
> the car is at home it wouldn't be terribly convenient to check the size
> that way either.
>
> Mike
>
>

"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in
news:dqGdnaPILOFiR1LbnZ2dnUVZ_oimnZ2d@sedona.net:

> "Tegger" <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote in message
> news:Xns99971F7646tegger@207.14.116.130...
>>
>>
>> Hey, I just thought of something: if you can't check the wheel nut
>> size with a non-impact socket because you live in an apartment
>> bulding that prohibits working on your car, HOW WILL YOU USE AN
>> IMPACT SOCKET TO WORK ON THAT SAME CAR? Where would you legally plug
>> the gun in and use it?
>>
>> The answer is, that you must be a thief...
>>
>
> Or that he is using a 12V impact gun. I consider it a luxury, but
> there is a market. Or perhaps he does the work in the hangar he uses
> for his job... most of the A&Ps I've known brought their cars in to
> work where there is a nice compressor and lots of smooth floor and his
> tool box (he doesn't bring that home at night, I bet.) If the sockets
> are where he works and the car is at home it wouldn't be terribly
> convenient to check the size that way either.
>



Yeah, that's a good point.


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Tegger

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ourkid2000 <ourkid2000@gmail.com> wrote in news:1188055657.288683.124200
@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> Aircraft mechanics get paid garbage wages and work garbage
> shifts...........Its so bad, i'm going to leave the industry as soon
> as I get a chance. Being responsible for so many people and getting
> paid 22 bucks an hour while working nightshifts every night just ain't
> worth it to me.
>
> And yes, all my sockets are at work.........and its a big deal for me
> to take tools home because our toolboxes are checked weekly for
> missing items by the Quality Assurance department. If I have a missing
> tool, it is assumed it was left on an airplane and its a huge fuss.
>
> I can work on my car a little bit in the parking lot in this building.
> I just wanted to know the nut size so I could go down and get an
> impact socket!!!
>
>


OK, now it makes more sense.

Wheel lug nuts are either 19mm or 21mm. All the Honda ones I've encountered
are 19mm.

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Tegger

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"ourkid2000" <ourkid2000@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Aircraft mechanics get paid garbage wages and work garbage
> shifts...........Its so bad, i'm going to leave the industry as soon
> as I get a chance. Being responsible for so many people and getting
> paid 22 bucks an hour while working nightshifts every night just ain't
> worth it to me.
>

Sorry to hear that. The mechanic I knew was back in 1971 when things should
have been better for airline employees. Back before hubs and deregulation
and outsourcing to India.