Tool name for wire-locking wheel nuts (B737)
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Tool name for wire-locking wheel nuts (B737)
Possibly completely off the grid but back in the halcyon days of BA Out-Station Engineering when we had to wire-lock each individual wheel nut after the odd nosewheel change in the driving snow and -20C, what was the name and even part number of the very useful spinning hand-held tool used to speed the twining process prior to the seal being clamped into position?
Yep as above, Wire Locking Pliers or Wire Twisters.
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£147 for a set of Bahco ones... still using a set of them ex RAF Bahco and still going strong and in daily service 40 years on, springs gone and cutter jaws a bit knackered because some idiot tried to cut to thick a wire (me)
New Blue Point ( Snap On ) £50
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Snap-On-B...8AAOSwcSxfulzO
even cheaper US Pro tools £18.20
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/US-PRO-To...Cclp%3A2334524
New Blue Point ( Snap On ) £50
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Snap-On-B...8AAOSwcSxfulzO
even cheaper US Pro tools £18.20
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/US-PRO-To...Cclp%3A2334524
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Finding room for both hands in order to hand wrap often detemines the need for wrapping pliers or otherwise; I'm sure we have all had the skinned knuckles and accompanying fruity language. I think they are a great piece of thinking for a simple tool (not me, the pliers). 🤔
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Yup, aircraft engineering is like gynaecology, often peering up and working in small confined holes... it just on average smells better. 
you can get locking pliers in several sizes btw.
you can get locking pliers in several sizes btw.
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Or you think just one more twist to tighten it and it snaps, or you twist it down and find its still loose as you had to many twists between the two items.
I have used then but didn't find them that useful in confined spaces.
I also used to have a piece of 3/16 rod with a file handle at one end and two 1/16 holes in the other end that was very useful for hard to reach places. I lent it to someone and it never came back.
Favourite job was BAe 146 NLG retract jack pin in the E&E bay, over the Football on the LH side. Those that know will know what I mean.
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I'm with you KnC.
I have used then but didn't find them that useful in confined spaces.
I also used to have a piece of 3/16 rod with a file handle at one end and two 1/16 holes in the other end that was very useful for hard to reach places. I lent it to someone and it never came back.
Favourite job was BAe 146 NLG retract jack pin in the E&E bay, over the Football on the LH side. Those that know will know what I mean.
I have used then but didn't find them that useful in confined spaces.
I also used to have a piece of 3/16 rod with a file handle at one end and two 1/16 holes in the other end that was very useful for hard to reach places. I lent it to someone and it never came back.
Favourite job was BAe 146 NLG retract jack pin in the E&E bay, over the Football on the LH side. Those that know will know what I mean.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRCRAFT-...wAAOSwh9FZ1LAd
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Yep! And seen grown men (and women!!!) scream in sheer frustration and anguish when they have spent ages, and ages, and ages ..... only to find they'd anti-locked the hardest of hard things to wire lock! I found investing time in figuring the correct direction while suspended, inverted, at full stretch round a most inconveniently placed bit of pointless Sooty ducting designed purely to frustrate access to said bolt or whatever was time well spent!
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Yep! And seen grown men (and women!!!) scream in sheer frustration and anguish when they have spent ages, and ages, and ages ..... only to find they'd anti-locked the hardest of hard things to wire lock! I found investing time in figuring the correct direction while suspended, inverted, at full stretch round a most inconveniently placed bit of pointless Sooty ducting designed purely to frustrate access to said bolt or whatever was time well spent!
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Still do............
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Just looked on Nutloose's ebay site, nostalgia central. These look just the job, although we used to make our own from scrap. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRCRAFT-...UAAOSwdGJaui2B
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Just looked on Nutloose's ebay site, nostalgia central. These look just the job, although we used to make our own from scrap. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRCRAFT-...UAAOSwdGJaui2B