Opening turbine oil cans properly?

[Dodo56]

Just you wait until someone starts a "best bacon sarnie" thread. 16 pages, guaranteed.

[Dr Illitout]

Some body will tell you that you and the rest of humanity have been eating them wrong.

Rgds Dr I

[TURIN]

Time for jetblast?

For Example...

Tomato ketchup on a bacon sarnie is an ABOMINATION!!!

Just my opinion of course.

[Flightmech]

So, when servicing the oil on a 747-100 with PW JT9's, are you telling me it's not best practice to open the oil cans with a can opener with "Greene King" stamped on it, obtained from your local when you were an apprentice, not invert, then pour the oil cans into said Homebase watering can with self made quart markings on the side and add to oil tank until such tank is full without said frothing, thus saving time.

[TURIN]

That reminds me, Flightmech of a supervisor who used to belt hell out of the tins to get them into the right shape, allowing the full contents to be poured into the neck of the filler instead of down the inside of the cowlings. JT9s, dontcha just love em.

Now I think about it, his action would have certainly shaken the contents.

[Dr Illitout]

USING A BEER CAN OPENER TO SERVICE AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE!!!!!!!!
You will NEVER get a job with Air Utopia.
It's un professionable and the action of using it is a health and safety issue!!!

TURIN.
Bacon should be crispy, No sauce and on brown bread.

Rgds Dr I

[Exup]

Using a perfectly good beer can opener to open oil cans is just wrong & should be discouraged if not made illegal. Use it for what its is designed for BEER.

[blackhand]

Air Utopia

USING A BEER CAN OPENER TO SERVICE AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE!!!!!!!!
You will NEVER get a job with Air Utopia.
It's un professionable and the action of using it is a health and safety issue!!!

Here at Air Utopia, we find that most Newbie Engineers have no problems lifting their standards to the exacting standards displayed by existing staff.

Air Utopia's SMS allows for the use of oil can opener as beer can opener only after it has been licked clean.

Bacon sangers must be safety checked by Chief Engineer or his delegate.

BH

[Krystal n chips]

Remiss of me I know, but there is one tool that deserves a mention due to it's versatile uses.......the Ice Pick !.....invaluable I find for equalising the flow when pouring oil from cans for example.....and as rigging pin.....and essential for changing the door damper cable on the 737.....

[nodrama]

Ask a technical question on this forum, and you're lucky if you get 10 replies.......

Ask what's the best way to open an oil can, 78 posts to date!!

Aren't we a strange breed?

[Dr Illitout]

"Aren't we a strange breed?"

We are Engineers, the strangest of breeds

Notice that there is a lot of things we were all taught waaaay back too.
"Flight International" coined a phrase about pilots once, "ARIA" Always Remembered Instructors Advice. looks like it applies to us aswell.
Now, were's my GS?

Rgds Dr I

[tristar 500]

Who are all these namby pamby`s who use can openers on oil tins??

In my day we used a GS screwdriver & a sharp bang on the handle with the flat of the hand!! It still went down the inside of the cowling though!!!

tristar 500

[flame_bringer]

Kiwiconehead

The engineers that i work with use the flat head screw driver for everything they intend to do , even at times for opening philips screws
And one time i was working with some engineer and he was asked to service the hydraulics and i went up with him to assist him but anyways, as he had to open the skydrol can , he pulled out his magical flat head screw driver and kept striking the can from the top untill he pierced it and since it was a mighty hot day that time ( 40 C ) as he pierced it the skydrol splashed onto his face and on me due to diffrential pressure of the air inside the can and outside .It was quite terrible
Albiet he regreted it a big time that day, he kept doing it even after that story and up till today he still opens skydrol cans with flat head screw drivers .

[lordofthewings]

That would be why you hold a rag around the end of the screwdriver
Think the diff pressure thing is funny though...

[blackhand]

That would be why you hold a rag around the end of the screwdriver

Or may be a subtle hint that you are using the incorrect tool.

This is the danger of teaching "bush" maintenance to new engineers, the improvised methods become the norm.

Cheers
BH

[MrMark757]

Reminds me of the way to get the whole can into a DC9/MD80 APU oil tank.

[NutLoose]

My preferred method is to get someone else to do it......


Bacon is loverly jubberly done in a Microwave...... Marco Pierre White came up with that little tip 2 slices about 2 to 3 mins

[kingstonboy]

And what has the "A" license system ever done for me ? stopped me pouring bl***y oil after some 25 + years what progress ! incidentally the fact that all the cans are bounced all around the airfield in the vans must at least slightly mix the contents ?(cant comment on hangar chaps though) you cant beat a sturdy can opener and two holes 180 apart, using the GS too bl***y painful ,as you will be only too aware if you have ever oiled the venerable JT9

[stevef]

Scenario: B747 parked up for a couple of days...
Pilot: 'Good morning! I'll just sign the Tech Log and then we'll be off.'
Engineer (sucks through teeth): 'Sorry, mate - I'll have to drain the oils and give 'em a good shake first. Come back this afternoon.'

[NutLoose]

Lol. The use by dates always got me, I had someone say this tin is out of date by a day, No probs I will get you a new one, but remember it will still be a few hundred thousand years old at least