Hot take: A pinched wire taught me more than 3 years of reading manuals

I was working on a Cessna 172 at a small shop near Tulsa last Tuesday. Had a weird intermittent fault in the nav lights that the schematic said was impossible. After chasing it for 4 hours, I found a single pinched wire behind the panel where a previous tech had stuffed everything too tight. Fixed it with a splice and some heat shrink, and the lights worked perfect. Made me wonder how many other 'gremlins' are just bad installs from years ago. Has anyone else found a fix that simple after going crazy looking at the prints?

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susan8119d ago

Ha, ain't that always the way - the simplest fix ends up being the one that makes you feel like a genius and a fool at the same time.

laura_black19d ago

Friend of mine spent three hours trying to fix his laptop, even took it apart and ordered a new battery. Turned out he just had to push the power cord in a little harder, felt like such a goof. @susan81 nailed it with that genius and fool combo, it's the universal tech support experience.