THIS Was At A Pawn Shop? - Entry Level A&P Mechanic Toolbox Tour | Matco Triple Bay
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2023
- William just finished A&P school, and is now on his way to his life long career fixing planes. Former bicycle mechanic, to full fledged aircraft technician; William is following the Wright Brother's path. This was my first outdoor toolbox tour, and I loved it - I hope you do too. If you enjoy this video, give William a thumbs up! Thank you all for watching!
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It would nice to revisit William in the future to see how his kit has expanded.
This guy is smart. Bought a quality box for cheap. Didn’t worry about the scratches and such.
Not lying that he knows his terminology, but I will say, he can go with dropping all the potential FOD hazards
how much was his toolbox?
looking to upgrade from a small one to a 60+ inch one
@@tunafish4557all toolboxes in aviation should be shadowed
You don’t need a box half that size
This young man is knowledgeable for his age . Thank you for not talking over the people you interview and great job on camera work and editing!
He really is an up and comer. He has a bright future ahead of him. Thanks for watching
trust me we get a lot of information thrown at us in A&P school and for the tests, the 60 question general test that I just passed had over 600 different questions that are possible on the test. Its even more with the Airframe and Powerplant tests and orals/praticals too.
In the Navy, our avionic's tool boxes had to be checked after each repair and signed off. Tool accountability is very serious in Aviation. If a tool or part, even just a nut was dropped or missing, all hands on deck had to walk the hangar and flight line looking for it. Only QA could stop the search and sign off on it. Some searches took hours.
My friend told me about how the new guys get hazed in the military. Someone will take a socket out of the newbies box and hide it somewhere so they have to shut the entire hanger down for hours while everyone searches for hours. Newbies end up taking a ton of heat for it.
@@ToolBoxTour That's a good one. Our entire squadron got in trouble and had to work 2 weeks straight painting the entire hangar because a softy couldn't take being tapped to a chair and given a wash at the emergency eye wash/shower station on his birthday. 😂 Good times!
@ToolBoxTour yea my unit was to busy todo stuff like that, it was taken extremely seriously nobody messed with tool control
In small shops and OEMs nothing is really organized
@@I_Died_2_Weeks_Ago Thank goodness I didn't go into the military
Excellent video! William seems like he's got a bright future ahead of him and what a cool box with a matching cool story. You really blew his mind with the punch and chisel handle 🤣🤣🤣
Haha! I’m usually the one with the blown mind. I’m glad I was able to help for once. Thanks for watching James!
Congratulations on completing school. Well done on the tool box find. 👍👍 The previous owner should be good with the young man taking care of his box and not planning to flip it for a quick buck.
I think if I were the previous owner, I would be proud of where the box is now. Thanks for watching!
What a great box for a young bloke starting in the industry.
The hard Snap On screwdrivers were definitely better than the soft ones for aviation.
Hemostats are great for holding P clamps.
I seem to have a LOT more tools for extracting screws.
I love how the safety locks on all the air tools are disabled. 😂 Same as every aircraft workshop.
I like this kid!!
very knowledgeable and humble , rare traits these days. Good luck to you in your career
William is cool as hell. Way good tour.
I just recently traded my snap on airport box, for a Mercedes Benz engine for my car! I had the box since 1974. I just purchased a new to me Snap On box. I only got rid of my airport box because I’m only using it in a residential garage area. I don’t have the luxury of space as when I was working professionally. I use to own a Porsche Shop in Glendale California, after I closed my shop I worked for Carroll Shelby. Your tools, & box are awesome!
Thanks for sharing!
So cool, I hope my 3 boys grow up to be like this young man.
You can tell he has good head on his shoulders. Hopefully I can go back and take another tour in a few years to see how he’s progressed.
Thanks for watching!
@@ToolBoxTour that would be epic! Something worth asking in your interviews is if they worked on stuff with their dads when they were younger. I doubt very much this young man learned everything he knows in 18 months, the way he holds the tools you can tell he’s been doing this for a long time. Thanks again for the great content!
That’s a great idea! I’ll have to remember that for the next time I do an entry level tour. Thanks!
Am I the only one who made it through school with like 300$ in harbor freight tools? holy shit dude is stacked, I gotta start checking pawn shops.
Pawn shops ftw! Thanks for watching!
Bro was already wrenching before graduating
He doesn’t need over half of that stuff. Been doing it for 34 years and that is nonsense…
Glad to see all of the young mechanics that you interview. With passion and a desire to be professional. Keep up the good work 👌🏼
Much appreciated!
I just saw this video. Nice job! And it seems like William will do well in his career too. He has a humble quality that will work well for him. Oh, and by the way... The wrenches he was referring to around the 14:28 mark? Those are tappet wrenches. I used to use them to adjust the tappets on valve trains when I worked for Louie Unser Racing Engines. Yes, he is one of the brothers of Al and Bobby Unser, the Indy-car racing family. I still have that exact set in my own box to this day. Cheers!
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing! I think William is well on his way to being at the top of his industry in no time
Great guy. Thx for the tour. Watching from Ontario Canada 🎉
Sweet box right there....
Cool. I got my A&P by 1978. I spent most of my career at UAL in management, my first decade was in GA. Loved the work. Good luck on your career. It was a good life.
Just starting off and off to a good start no doubt free tool and a custom box
cool seeing all these videos on A&P guys you have. currently in school for that myself :)
Wow, I learned a lot of things I didn't know about aircraft aviation repair
So did I! Haha
Been looking forward to your next video! As a diesel mechanic and tool fan, I love the content!
Thanks Alex! I have more content coming! Work caught up with me, so it’s been a minute. I’m working on some more videos 👍
@@ToolBoxTour no worries bud! Keep doing what you do!
You had such a great interaction with the “kid”. Thanks for the great video.
He’s got a bright path ahead of him. Thanks for watching!
17:20 those work great for compressing brake caliber pistons in for new brake pads on vehicles... I bought a huge one specifically just for doing that....
AWESOME Video. Nice to see young guys getting into the aviation industry.
I graduated from AME "M"(A%P ) school in 2003. Was a hard time back then as the industry was very unstable after 911. Worked on and off in aviation unto 2012 ish. Just decided to dedicate my time to just Automotive after that. Master Porsche technician now but i do definitely miss wrenching on aircraft and turbine engines. .
Interesting to hear about job instability after 911 but makes sense. Porsche tech? I haven’t been to a Porsche dealer yet 🙂
I was also a bicycle mechanic for just over 3 years and now an AME (canadian A&P) after 18 months of school! Really stoked to see the similarities! Also at 9:06 , we use hemostats mainly for holding Adel clamps together while we try to fasten them
Get yourself a clamp keeper. The sell them on aircraft spruce or you can make your own.
@@Mike-kq7nh I got those too 😉 but sometimes in tight spaces they don't fit, and that's where you can't beat a hemostat
Legit tool box tour
back in the early 2000s believe it or not $6-$8/hr was common for GA A&Ps, the bicycle Mechanics were making more $/hr than us.
That’s crazy to think about. Thanks for watching!
Great looking setup right out of school!
I thought the same thing! Thanks for watching Matt
@@ToolBoxTour What I enjoy about these toolbox tours is the huge variance between the different type of mechanics boxes. The fact that his socket selection is very modest is interesting to me. I have a drawer just dedicated to 3/8 drive SAE. LOL
Honestly, I enjoy it so much. It’s like you never know what’s going to be inside of a drawer.
I'm pretty sure I work for the same company that this Guy does! I was in salt lake for job training and I'm almost 100% positive I saw this box sitting in the corner of the hanger! Super rad
After listening to more of the video, I'm positive we work for the same company. I also work on old twin turboprop beechcrafts. Rock on dude!
That’s awesome!! If you ever see him in person, you should say Hi! 👋
Textron?
I almost missed that brake cable puller trick using it for zip ties. That’s genius since you’re not pulling up on the things you want to secure down and it doesn’t cut up your fingers doing it.
I thought the same thing!
I work on motorcycles and cars, 98% of the time I only need metric. I also work on boats, and they’re SAE. I’m stuck paying double lol
On a related note, when are we going to stop using screws? Esp flathead? Why are they still around? Allen screws should be free retrofit upgrade hardware and we can all throw away screwdrivers
Solid young cat highly intelligent
He’s going to go far with that attitude 👍
For the question about the hemostats, I can add some more info for you. Most A&P's use hemostats to not only hold things in place but to also reach for things in tight spots. For example, imagine you were putting a cap on an actuator body and the diaphragm that sits on top of the piston has somewhat rolled over. You would use hemostats to reach in there and grab the diaphragm since they not only fit but they also won't damage the diaphragm.
Thank you for sharing that! Makes sense to have a few pairs on hand.
I really enjoyed this one super nice seeing that young fella explain the use of his tool , mostly the security wire was really interesting
Man I wanna know what he scored that for because that matco setup is insane
Anyone else think its wild that everything in aviation is SAE?
Hello Fly Alaric
Hopefully, I can answer your question. If you go back to the Wright Brother's (USA) when Aviation was started. SAE/STANDARD hardware was all they had. Another point. English is the standard for pilots and air traffic control. All car until recently were SAE/STANDARD. I hope that helps.
For the most part, yes. Diamond aircraft uses some metric and I ran across a Hawker 600 in the 80’s that had metric and SAE fasteners.
Aircraft standardization fell into the hands of the USA, a lot of which happened during WWII. As opposed to the automotive industry having very strong roots in Europe and Asia making metric very common.
On a different topic, you have all these countries using metric sockets on an imperial drive (e.g. 3/8” and 1/2”). 😁
Even wilder is that even Airbus’ are, effectively, SAE.
Reason is NACA - the precursor to NASA. Back in the day they spent lots of taxpayer money developing standards that were so well done they became the… standard.
It always made me lol to read drawings with ‘6.83mm’ holes for bolts
Hello Everyone who responded
Thank you, even an old dog like me can still learn something new Lol 😆 Again thank you
Pawning a box is stupid since selling them gets a lot more money. BTW ask your local tool truck guys to let you know when they repo a box because when Bubba spends too much money his box gets repo'ed. However tool dealers don't want to sit on stock so they often sell at a bargain price.
It’s possible the mechanic passed and his family sold the toolbox to pay for burial because it’s rare for someone to have that kind of cash immediately.
Yeah, tough to say what happened here. It’s possible the guy passed or just needed cash quick. Either way, William scored on this one.
Man that sucks for the guy who lost this box and tools to a Pawn shop, maybe he was done with it and sold it to them but usually people do not sell to a Pawn shop they pawn it and if they don't pay then they loose it. In a perfect world the guy sold it and now a new guy (kid) can use it in his career
Yeah bitter sweet forsure.
That is an awesome box and sounds like he got a heck of a deal. I am wondering if that is a wrap or sticker and not painted on the front of the box, willing to bet it is not paint.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was just a decal. I would wager if he took it off, it would look like a brand new box under there
The tool you show in the video 24:24 in. Do you have a model number? Thanks
Sioux 1AM1551
Sioux 1AM1547
hemostats i use for fishing
Really cool box, Thanks! Do you know what he paid for it in the pawnshop?
I'll see if the owner can chime in on that. Thanks for watching!
18 months to get a licence? Its 5 years in Europe. 18 months is a crazy short time. damn it takes 4 years to be a qualified mechanic here in Ireland.
Yeah I was surprised too
That’s because EASA is the real deal…FAA license just scratches the surface
All the A&P mechanics have more tools than I do.
My box has the same graphics on it.
Awesome!
Hello, i'm not Amiercan, but maybe someone can answer me some questions:
Do you not get tools from the company you work for when you are mechanic? Or why does he have to buy it himself? Is that common in America?
Also, more like a special aviation question but:
i was at an aircraft workshop once and they had all their tools numbered and at fixed places, everything clean sorted. They told me it's so they can easily spot missing tools and they said if something at the end of their work is missing they can not let the plane leave until it is found, because of the danger of it being lost inside the plane and potentially damaging the plane during flight. They also told me tools in the aviation industry have special requirements, like most tools are screwless, or screws are replaced by rivets (Example: backplate of a ratchet). Seeing his toolkit, i wonder if this more like a guideline in specific countries or companies rather than a general one?
Hello,
Yes for the most part mechanics in the United States are required to have their own tools. I prefer it to be honest because I can buy what is best for me if that makes sense. Yes for me at least we have to keep a log of our tools and if anything is missing the aircraft cannot take off until the tool is found. Doesn’t just go for tools though. If you drop a nut or something inside the aircraft the same applies. I’ve never heard about the screwless tool part but it does make sense.
Not screwless tools per say but they call them FOD less (Foreign Object Debris)tools snap on makes some but not a lot. Not sure but probably mostly sold to US government aviation not a lot in the civilian market. They just make it so the small screws on ratchets don’t have them or are designed so they can’t fall out. I’ve only seen the FODless ratchets online. In the military we had to have glue on the tiny screws on our tools for that reason.
I can concur with the previous answers as well. I went through A&P school and for each class they had a tool list. So, by the time you graduated and started working you would have the basic stuff needed to do the job. I worked for McDonnell Douglas Flight Test on MD-80's, MD-11, and then on the C-17. We could check out of the tool crib tools for certain jobs. And when I got laid off from them, I had a lot of sheet metal tools like rivet guns, drills, etc. A lot of my friends built side boxes for their "taco stands". That's what we call the larger rollaways" because of their size. Good times! 🙂
Silly Willy billy boy!
Wright Brothers were bike mechanics before they created the Aircraft
Find a garbage truck mechanic, promise you will be happy you did!
I would like to see that!
That would be awesome. Hopefully in the future it’ll happen
Come back at 4:20 for hemo
Sae. Is great. I live in America. Better quality. Stronger.
The big question is , How much did he pay ?
Hopefully the owner will chime in! Thanks for watching
That sucks being in aviation and getting air sick.
Thought aviation needed to have shadow box foam
Some private sector companies don’t require it (it’s discussed in the video 👍)
@@ToolBoxTour whoops sorry about that, Must have missed that part.
All depends on the company.
Never worked for a company that required it.
Need a screwknocker,trust me, Eck usmc
Company should provide that…at a real company.
*debris
Woowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
18 months 6 hours a day 5 days a week. 3 weeks off the entire time
I made over 200k last year with that little piece of paper.
yikes. thats all i gotta say
What’s yikes?
@ToolBoxTour the dudes that call themselves a&ps now and days. These dudes are soft, they're probably the best manual memorizers in the class!
He literally just got out of school a week ago.
@ToolBoxTour it's been a year. Gaurantee you it's not any better
God i watched it again, well part of it. Its terible. Its like someone reading off a tool catalog. Zero real experience but he thinks he is ready to go and knows everything@ToolBoxTour
If you want to represent Knipex, it is pronounced: Kuh-nip-ex
Yawn
How much you pay