Page flip ownage.

Ziptie assholes.

I like the lysol at the end. I have shoved a few cars right out the door on asshole customers.

Well FUCK COCA-COLA!  I just had my last diet coke 2 days ago.

Guess I'll spend my "white" dollars elsewhere...

Years ago, at a past job, there was a customer that brought his Baron in for work.  Guy was a lawyer, and his apparent default mode for dealing with people, was to threaten to sue them for anything he felt was wrong (and he didn't have any trouble finding things he felt was wrong).  Threatened to sue the mechanic that was working on his plane.  Threatened to sue the shop, when he saw the bill.  Shop manager eventually (after multiple times working on this plane, with threats of lawsuits involved with each one) got the company owner to agree that the guy was not welcome to bring his plane back to our shop (we were not saddened by this outcome).

A few years later, we were informed that the guy was bringing his plane back to our shop.  Much colorful language was directed at the shop manager, when he informed us of this.  Shop manager explained that the company owner had agreed to let the guy bring his plane back to our shop, because he had run out of shops in the region that were willing to even talk to him about possibly touching his plane (company owner felt sorry for the guy and thought maybe his attitude had changed).

Gotta wonder about the intelligence of someone that makes a habit of pissing off each and every person that works on their plane.

And if the guy's attitude had changed, it wasn't by much.

Damn it. Lawyers are some of my favorite customers. Generally low key and never pressure us.

Knives are used in a lot more homicides than rifles. I hope his wife never pisses him off while they are cooking or eating.

Yeah, some lawyers are great customers.  I can think of one who ran (and lost) for a state office as a democrat, but I can't recall a single incident of him being anything other than polite to the people in the shop.  A few years back, we all got pizza for lunch, after the work on his plane was finished.

Sounds like he actually adhered to their safety regulations.

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nvm

https://www.brenthamachek.com/post/understanding-and-embracing-the-role-of-the-21st-century-american-dissident

We need to awaken to the reality that we are not a majority. We are not a vocal minority with the same rights as the majority. We are now dissidents.


Do not entirely agree with this, but still some decent observations and different viewpoints.

Sounds like defeatism.  Look at the House elections:  R's+7.  D majority is razor thin.  Senate is 50/50, and would have been 52/48 without the fraud in GA.  The Presidential election was pure fraud.  There's no way in hell that Dementia Joe and the Ho got more legit votes than Bungo did.

Outstanding read.

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Pretty accurate display right there. We have a mix of decent doctor customers and shitbags

He is lucky his attitude did not cause a later rapid loss of altitude.

Supreme Court won't hear 2020 election case that questioned some Pennsylvania ballots

Inept and corrupt courts

That's all well and good but what brand cannon plug pliers are you using? People need to know


ETA or did I miss an earlier response?

Absolutely.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't expecting that result.

No you Didn't

If work changed so that I was back to frequently working on King Airs or some other turbine aircraft (and not focused on structural work), and I decided that I needed to buy a set, I'd probably be looking fairly seriously at Knipex (and I realize it would be a bit of 'buy once, cry once').

As things stand now, I deal with them so infrequently that I can continue to just use a normal pair of channellocks and do what I can to not chew them up (on really tight plugs, I have wrapped them with a strip rubber and then used the channellocks).

Yeah -- everyone pointed me to Knipex....those Germans...

Whether the SC is compromised or just plain afraid.... they have shown themselves to be absolutely unwilling to address Presidential election irregularities.  Which is pretty damn sad.

It very well could, and without involving any malice from the people that work on his plane.

Aircraft are required to go through periodic inspections, to find problems before they become a major issue.  Any issues are written up and presented to the owner with a quote on the parts and labor to fix them, for customer approval to do the work.  Many (most?) shops will break it down into two lists, airworthy and recommended.  

Airworthy items are required to be fixed, or the plane is not getting a signoff to continue flying - though a ferry permit can usually be obtained to take the plane somewhere else to be fixed, if there is a problem with having it fixed where it is, so it's not an issue of extorting the customer to approve the work to get their plane back.  

Recommended items are things that are, at that point in time, a minor issue that does not have an impact on the safety of the plane, but as the wear increases it will cause other things to wear and eventually become an airworthy issue - a hypothetical example would be saying a worn part is causing some play in a linkage and it's not yet to the point of being a serious problem, but if we fix it now, it'll cost $100, while ignoring it for two years could result in an airworthy writeup and a $3000 bill for replacing the additional worn components in the linkage.

A customer that habitually threatens a lawsuit, every time the list of items and their estimated cost to fix them is given to him, is eventually not going to see any recommended items included on the list, because management knows he isn't going to approve any of them and it's just a waste of time to look up pricing and availability on the parts for any recommended items.  They can even go a step further (I've seen it myself) and tell the people inspecting the plane to not bother writing anything up that is not clearly an airworthiness issue.  That can easily result in the guys out on the shop floor missing something, because management is pressuring them to not waste any time looking too closely at this particular plane.

As I said earlier, it's idiotic for the customer to have that sort of attitude toward every single person that works on his plane.  Even if there is no malice directed back at him, it will result in at least some people recalibrating their give a fuck meter.

But the more likely end result of owners like that, is they eventually end up with a plane that has a list of airworthy items that they cannot afford to pay for (put too many things off for too long, and it snowballs).  Then they may look for some unsuspecting buyer to sell their dumpster fire of a plane to, and the new owner (who didn't bother to get a proper pre-buy inspection done to identify any problems and negotiate the price down) gets their joy of new (to them) plane ownership ruined by having to re-evaluate their finances and determine whether or not they can afford to keep the plane (that they just bought) in flyable condition (I've seen that, way too many times).

I haven't been disappointed (except for the price) with my (limited) experience with Knipex pliers.  If I had a bigger tool budget, I'd probably own a few more of them.

...but I've got some Snap-On products in the tool kit I use just for building ARs (roll pin punch sets).

This is what worries me about them hearing any 2nd amendment related cases. I do not trust them in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
Have they been compromised or have they strayed from the principles that got them placed there in the first place?

I agree, they don't have enough that are willing to do their jobs.  

Justice Thomas responce to the vote.

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There are ppl there that have the common sense, and willingness to make a decision, but we're outnumbered by corruption.