Robbing bits off gate guardians
Christmas treeing a gate guardian is an expedient way to obtain spares, but what does the system have to say about this? I had been under the impression that aircraft spares are lifed and strictly controlled/inventoried. I can quite see that say a lamp lens really doesn't matter too much, but where is the line drawn? An elevator? Wouldn't that be subject to corrosion? Subject to a drunken ******** jumping up and down on it on his way back to the OM?