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Old tech at Pan Am told me to never trust a factory crimp
Back in '08 at the Miami hangar, this guy named Jerry who worked on 727s since the 70s pulled me aside and said factory crimps on cannon plugs are garbage. I laughed it off until last year I found a loose pin in a brand new Garmin harness on a King Air. Jerry was right, I check EVERY factory connection now or I pay for it later. Anyone else re-crimp fresh out of the box or just me?
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tylerw7219d ago
@betty_scott18 you must be lucky then because I've pulled brand new mil-spec pins with half the insulation hanging out of the crimp barrel. Just last month I had a factory harness on a 172 where the pin retention force was so weak I could wiggle it with my fingernail. If you're not checking every single connection on a fresh harness you are playing roulette at 10,000 feet.
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