The 326 box (Read 947 times)

After PUP the lower right corner had the DC power supply. Don't remember it's part number or even the 1600 ~ unit just about right under it in the NWW.

Seems like my opinion that all final adjustments should be on aircraft power. PUP made a dramatic difference.
Take care,
Black Bart

The 526 had to be the 1600 ~ unit. I was a Flt Line weenie with FDT training at George, eventually wound up in the M/U around Broad Jump. Met Joe A. at Niagara Falls Det1, 71 st FIS. With Joe, John Starkis and Willie Parker moved to Richards Gebaur and Joe and I work F/L for MSgt Santi. Then Joe went to Maelmtrom and I to Billings Det 1, 71st FIS and little known Det 1, 5th FIS. Then we both went to Thialand, with Santi, but the Specter line was so overcrowded that I went down to the Laser Shop. Boy those sensor guys from Beale were almost as weird as we MA-1 people were.

Joe moved on to Minot while I went to Grand Forks and I was transformed just in time for PUP to the M/U. The word got out that I was F/L so from then on, weekend duty (Sunday Night), I was up to my elbows on the problem child and normal time was M/U. TDY's were F/L and M/U.

Took the A/C to Fresno with George Howery (one of my trainers at George) and almost got fired because of PUP. That's another story about politics, then went to Langley.

At Langley, while clearing in, I stopped by the shop, the standard Avionic building. My first sight and thought on entering the M/U was "Oh Sh-t, it's Reddington", another memory from George, 14 years later. I'm sure that was his thougt too, because his first words were, "I knew there couldn't be two of you"!

After some small talk, he asked me if I knew the inside of the SCRG/PUP stand. I said that I did, "WHY!". Well it seems it was broke. Whenever you put a 289 on it, it was destroyed, and has been doing this for six months, "So Fix It!".

Now realize that I was not cleared in yet. No one was working there, so I shut the stands down. I then powered up the SCRG stand on but something didn't sound right.

Well I started to push the Press to Test lights and those toward the bottom right lit, the bigger ones. I thinh they indicated were in tne startup cycle you were, didn't remember that they ever did light in test, so why did these? Was I correct?

I went to the back M/U were everyone was working, and without even an introduction, asked if I could press those lights. Well I was correct, they didn't light in the press position.

Back around to the bench check M/U, I dropped the front panel that held the lights and there like a sore thumb was a yellow bus wire, stringing the lights together. A soldering iron and needle nose pliers solved that quickly, while SMSgt R. was watching out of the corner of his eye. I got the wiring book, checked a few things and wrapped it up.

I checked the forms and behold, no writeup! No writeup? No repair!

Told R. to get a new table and I was leaving. He said, "Are you sure that it is fixed?". I repied "Yes, do you want to know what was wrong?". He said "No!", But you do know what your job is!".

Well for those reading this, this illegal wiring unlocked the gimbals on the gyro's on startup, before they were up to speed and stable. The Stable Table was slapping itself silly.

So until retirement, it was the problem child on stanby weekend ("Please Bart we want to go home!") and every TDY working F/L and M/U.

I even repaired a RADAR Antenna in a sandstorm at Yuma.

This might sound like a bitch, but I wouldn't trade it for anything, even the Tornado Parties at Joe A. house at R. G.

As you can read, I miss the Old Girls.

I'll have to write "The Night Before Christmas at R. G. 1967". Only the Hughes Rep and I know this one.
Peace my brothers,
Black Bart