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The gray-haired guy at the Tulsa hangar taught me more about wire routing in 20 minutes than my whole A&P program did
I was reinstalling a bundle behind the panel on a King Air last month and this old timer named Ray stopped and watched me for a minute. He asked why I was zip-tying every 3 inches and said 'son, let them breathe or the chafe will eat you alive,' then showed me his 2-finger gap rule he learned working C-130s back in the day. I tried it on the next 6 runs and the bundle sits way cleaner around the avionics rack. Anyone else pick up tricks like that from the old heads instead of the manuals?
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hugotaylor4d ago
That "let them breathe" line is real, had a guy show me the same thing on a 172 panel and it killed so many random com issues I was chasing. Guess the manuals never bothered to mention that wires don't like being strangled.
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