DC Essential Relay, Part Deux | F-4 Phantom

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Happy Easter everyone! We're back at it again this weekend, and we made some really good progress! As mentioned, one of our other ground crew came by during the week and finished pulling the bad relay, which paved the way for the replacement to go in. Looking forward to reconnecting the transformer-rectifiers and doing the electrical system checkout!
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29 сен 2024

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@jr0815_aka_gulredrel 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the video. Looking forward to the following one. Hopefully it will last a long time. Really inconvenient place to replace or change parts.

@barefootonasandybeach638 6 месяцев назад

Inside of every machine that takes to the skies are the remnants of skin donated from the knuckles of technicians that poke around under the hood.. it’s a right of passage.

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

Indeed! Ships too! Had my share of cuts, scrapes, bumps, and injuries serving on them.

@danielcoburn8635 6 месяцев назад

Congratulations on the R&R relay! Question; Back in the day, we used AF Form 781 ( I think?), aircraft maintenance forms to document all on-going maintenance. What kind of documentation are you guys using so you know what everybody's doing and keeping up with everything going on?

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! Not sure if it's the 781 form, but we do document the work and any gripes that we find that need attention.

@prillewitz 5 месяцев назад

Always fun to discover being an engineer how the aircraft was designed behind a drawing board. 😂

@JohnMckeown-dl2cl 6 месяцев назад

Congrats on getting the relay back in. Typical of the F-4 nothing is in an easy location. Looking forward to you getting the rest of the components installed and ops checking the system. You were lucky, your hand looked like ours on a "good day". Many times it was a day where you needed a box of band-aids and possibly a transfusion after some tasks. The worst ones came from safety wire sticking out. The corrosion preventing coating on the wire was also a healing preventing substance. Like a paper cut that never gets better. Thanks for the shout out to us former phantom phixers.

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! Yikes, safety wire. That's worse than zip tie ends that weren't flush cut.

@jorgemachado7784 6 месяцев назад

Man, what a nightmare. Glad it's finally done 😁.

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

I'm glad we got that one done too! Looking forward to testing it.

@steveminshew 4 месяца назад

And I thought working on the CH46 was a pain in the arse.

@DieselThunderAviation 4 месяца назад

Funny you mention the Sea Knight, there are a couple of flyable ones here at our airfield! Was able to video one up close a few months ago: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lXdTExJzrow.html

@T-Cup314 6 месяцев назад

I deliver garden furniture all over the uk and one of my customers to my amazement was an RAF phantom mechanic!. Also worked on the English electric lightning. Had a really nice conversation and recommended your channel and DCS lol obviously pointing out the upcoming f4. I do meet some amazing people and hope he’s watching you. I asked if he could record his story as we are all interested. Let’s hope.

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

That's awesome, thank you for that! Had something similar here. A neighbor that had recently moved away, turned out he was a crew chief on F-4's and served in Vietnam! Small world sometimes!

@T-Cup314 6 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviation aww mate think of the conversations you could have had haha.

@philipbrown2628 5 месяцев назад

RAF phantoms had Rolls Royce Spey engines !!!!!!

@dotbmp 6 месяцев назад

awesome, thanks for the answer!

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

Any time!

@TimberDCS 6 месяцев назад

Are there plans for it to fly again?

@eggnugget575 5 месяцев назад

I’m hoping so. I mean they are fixing it

@DieselThunderAviation 5 месяцев назад

Yes, that is the goal. She’s always been airworthy, just not currently flightworthy. The last time she flew was in 2019.

@TimberDCS 5 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviation Any ETA? The F-4 is my favorite bird of all time for sure.

@DieselThunderAviation 5 месяцев назад

Not a firm date, no. Optimistic for this year. Just have to finish the inspection. Big items left are putting the electrical system back together and resealing the right main landing gear strut (it had a leak).

@TimberDCS 5 месяцев назад

@@DieselThunderAviation This year? Dude you are doing god’s work. Keep it up!

@trespire 6 месяцев назад

Is that some nice "Gudebrod" #18 lacing tape there on the bench @1:40 ? Bleeding knuckles, busted skull, squished ribs and aching knees at the end of a day, signs you've been working on a Phantom. (our F-16 guys were never as banged and bruised) Shout out to Jack, welcome to propper Ground Crew work. Good help is always appreciated !

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! And that sure is wire lacing! Going to use that in place of the zip ties that were cut out.

@fsj197811 6 месяцев назад

Making progress. As always, thanks for sharing.

@DieselThunderAviation 6 месяцев назад

A pleasure!

@BuyLuxuryFootRestsFromTh-bw8ub 5 месяцев назад

Looks like so much fun working on that bird. My dad gave me a hat he got at red flag. Says Weasel Keeper on it. He said the AF flew him from Germany for that event. Love the F4. We had a drawing of one on the wall at home while I was growing up.