Old timer told me to stop using safety wire pliers for everything

Had a lead inspector watch me run safety wire on a 737 flap actuator last month and he said 'you're makin' a mess of that with those crappy pliers, learn to twist by hand.' Spent a weekend practicing on scrap and now I can do a single strand faster than I ever could with the tool. Anyone else swear off a tool after some crusty veteran gave you the business about it?

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wren_rodriguez13d ago

I dropped my pliers and almost twisted my own finger off trying that.

robin_campbell3613d ago

Tbh I'm not buying that hand twisting is genuinely faster once you've actually gotten good with the pliers. A lot of these old timers just hate new tools because they're stuck in their ways, not because there's a real issue. Honestly, whatever gets the job done right and passes inspection is fine by me.

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