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Tire inflation with Nitrogen or ?
Lynn Coffelt wrote:
The geniuses at Rockwell designed the T-39 with bolt on wings. This meant the 6 (3 per side) fuel quantity pip connectors were in the wheel wells. Instead of using water proof connectors they used standard pip connectors that had no seals. We had to periodically blow them out with nitrogen and re-wrap them in F-4 tape. I will refrain from using the language here that I used when working on those [expletive deleted] airplanes. As an aside I love those pip connectors. They used to be made by Dage. I have no idea who makes 'em now. I sure would like to find out since I need some. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired I think the T-39 wing was basically a rehashed F-86 wing. The F-86 wing we took off and reinstalled (to gain access to the fuselage main tank) was a real challenge to us green behind the ears greasemonkeys. We showed our chief inspector the parts we had left over.......... After a "one-time" flight back home, he made us do it over, and not have any parts left over. I served my time hammering on several F-4 models, but I just never heard of "F-4 tape", so I had to Google it up, and I'm not sure I ever used any on F-4's but I recognized the "Googled" description and think it was the stuff we used a lot around the T-38's at Edwards. Old Chief Lynn F-4 tape is the silicone tape that only adheres to itself. It comes in red or black. It's been called that since at least the mid 1970s in all the circles I was in including the years I was on F-4Es. I don't recall the correct nomenclature. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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Tire inflation with Nitrogen or ?
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I served my time hammering on several F-4 models, but I just never heard of "F-4 tape", so I had to Google it up, and I'm not sure I ever used any on F-4's but I recognized the "Googled" description and think it was the stuff we used a lot around the T-38's at Edwards. Old Chief Lynn F-4 tape is the silicone tape that only adheres to itself. It comes in red or black. It's been called that since at least the mid 1970s in all the circles I was in including the years I was on F-4Es. I don't recall the correct nomenclature. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired Mid 1970's? My gosh, Dan, you're just a kid! That's when I retired! F-4 tape name maybe came after I left the struggle! Old Chief Lynn |
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Tire inflation with Nitrogen or ?
Lynn Coffelt wrote:
. I served my time hammering on several F-4 models, but I just never heard of "F-4 tape", so I had to Google it up, and I'm not sure I ever used any on F-4's but I recognized the "Googled" description and think it was the stuff we used a lot around the T-38's at Edwards. Old Chief Lynn F-4 tape is the silicone tape that only adheres to itself. It comes in red or black. It's been called that since at least the mid 1970s in all the circles I was in including the years I was on F-4Es. I don't recall the correct nomenclature. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired Mid 1970's? My gosh, Dan, you're just a kid! That's when I retired! F-4 tape name maybe came after I left the struggle! Old Chief Lynn I know I am not getting older, the GIs are getting younger When I go out to the base the active duty types look unbelievably young. Then again my father has a picture of me when I got out of the Army in 1973. I look like a child in it which shocks me when I see it since I aged so much in Viet Nam. I had to retire when I used the terms "auto lean" and "recip" and no one around me knew what I was talking about. Anyway, back in the brown shoe days...... In actuality I am neither maturing nor aging, I am fermenting. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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