Lets hear some of the funny and not so funny lost toll storys. I know you all have few of them...

Never lost a tool, but I was assigned the dubious honor of Tool NCO for our shop when I first got to MALS-26 Ordnance....

...Needless to say, there were several items that didn't "jive" with the squadron inventory list for testing equipment...and the previous Tool NCO was PCS'ed out already...YEAAAAAA...

...Nothing like having to do a "song and dance" with the Head Shed about why the items that "have always been there before" were now missing when I show up...even though those items were out of testing circulation for ohhhhhhhhhh....5 years!!!

What I hated was trying to turn in BROKEN tools that didn't have all the pieces...

And having to explain the fact that YESSSSSSSS, of course we did EVERYTHING we could to retrieve the the broken piece and YESSSSSSSS, the broken piece in a place that will NOT interfere with the function of that particular piece of gear....yada, yada, yada... FOD hazzard...gotta luv um...

I was a “Skid Kid” attached to HMM 263 “Red Dragons” in 1997.

“Someone” in Airframes lost an ENTIRE drill bit index. The consensus is that the index was stolen by some construction workers working on the next building. Anyway…… The entire squadron was downed until QA could rip apart each bird and inspect it.

Well after 3 days of looking on EVERY aircraft. (Phrogs, 53’s, and Skids) They did NOT find the drill index, BUT they found two scribes and a ratchet.

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BUT they found two scribes and a ratchet

bwaaahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Had they already been replaced???? I wonder how old they were...

We had a Engine shop guy by the name of Jost, nice guy but all thumbs. While working a grip on nite crew he came up with a missing socket. Since he was working on the Engine they downed the Jet and spent 1 day looking for the socket, in the end they Upped the Bird and fined Lcpl Jost. When the AMO told him he was going to be fined $50 he asked the AMO if the socket was found would he get a refund on the fine. Let just say the AMO told him at the top of his lungs to get out of his Office.....I don't think the socket was ever found for the refund....

I spun up a whiskey with out putting the tail rotor drive shaft cover on in the #1 engine deck. Pilots were at 100% checking controlls while I was trying to get those damn holes lined up, I was a lillte nervous. That was the first and last time I did that. I've got more TFOA stories than tools, but I did get the rachet bar from a power dyne dropped on my head once, thank god for cranials. Anyone know Cory Stem, 169?

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Originally posted by SgtCyns_New_Beginning:

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BUT they found two scribes and a ratchet

bwaaahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Had they already been replaced???? I wonder how old they were...

Thay had been there a LONG time. All of the items had been replaced.

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Any one ever lost a Tool?

Yes.

Every morning that I get up to go take a leak.

But I find it hiding under my belly.

I lose my toes too.

But I am working on that with diet and exercise now.

Is this what you are speaking of?

Back in training flying the T-45 I was on a division formation solo flight when my lead received a call telling him that the maintainers had lost a tool and they thought it was in my jet.

I broke off and headed home for a straight in approach with out any yanking or banking. Only slightly nervous that it might jam sovewhere unfavorable and just a little pissed that I didn't receive the call until an hour into the flight. Landed without any problems, I never did find out if it was in my plane or not.

Now Ron keep it clean, folks like you are why there is Moderator in the Wingers Section....

Just don't clean it too often otherwise it's not clean anymore.

Never lost any but somehow ended up with some of them when I got out...Now how'd that happen? Still have some of them.
Had my eye on an O-Scope, but couldn't come up with a plan...

man, i lose a tool just about every time i fly. i always end up finding it. that damn phillips screwdriver, and me always putting it down somewhere different. i lost one once, and i talked myself into believing the nugget that helped me unsecure and launch my plane must have kept it. about an hour into the flight, my copilot goes "hey ski"---- "what"---- "you leave a screwdriver in my seat, cuz it was pokin my azz, here it is"--- crap.

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Originally posted by RedRT:
"hey ski"---- "what"---- "you leave a screwdriver in my seat, cuz it was pokin my azz, here it is"--- crap.

AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAA

My comments to Ron where meant to be funny, not anything towards Ron. I think what his said was very funny.....please feel free to joke around with each other in this forum...

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Originally posted by piperdriver:
Just don't clean it too often otherwise it's not clean anymore.

That goes for parts too; they might just fall apart, some are so old and cannibalized...

I know that I will be showing my age from a by gone era, but this what we used to open and close phyrogs up, before and after preflight.



That is if we had not checked out a tool box for the hop.

Do they still use the tool boxes where the tool stands on its end, in its given slot, so that it is easier to find and easier to inventory when checking it in?

This type of tool box did away with lost tools on the birds, back in my day.

OK, So how many of you out there fly with a Leatherman?

Or the politically correct version "Non-Gender Specific Multi Purpose Tool"

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Or the politically correct version "Non-Gender Specific Multi Purpose Tool"

No personal tools are allowed to be used on Marine Corps Aircraft...