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Old senior tech at DAL taught me to trust my nose
Back when I was a new guy at the hangar in Atlanta, there was this old timer named Hank who barely talked. One day we had a MD-80 with a weird intermittent smell in the cockpit. Everyone was chasing wiring diagrams for hours. Hank walked up, sniffed the overhead panel, and pointed at a specific circuit breaker. That breaker had a tiny hairline crack heating up. Fixed it in 10 minutes. He just said 'your nose knows oxidation before your meters do.' Has anyone else had a weird smell save them time troubleshooting?
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casey3423h ago
Smelled a burning plastic smell on a rental car once saved me from a bad brake line.
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alex82049m ago
Right? My last rental smelled like burnt toast and I thought someone was making breakfast in the glovebox. Turns out it was the alternator trying to weld itself to the engine block. Saved me a few hundred bucks in towing fees at least, but man did the rental guy look at me like I was crazy when I pointed it out.
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