Had an oil leak on one of our Airbus Engines at work the other night, had to smile when I took a closer look at where it was coming from...

Lol.... the last place I would want a oil pump from a fiat uno is on an Airbus!

Lol. I weld parts that go on those engines. Glad its not my parts.

Out of interest, what sort of parts Gavlar?
Hope it's not the brazed-on p-clip tabs on some of the fuel/oil tubes, those things are always breaking...

boilermansab said:

Lol.... the last place I would want a oil pump from a fiat uno is on an Airbus!

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To be fair, it turned out it was coming from the pipe flange at the top, you can see it beneath that lower bolt head.
All that technology and it's a £3 O-ring that lets it down.

Actually, knowing Aircraft parts prices, it's probably more like a £20 O-ring

I moan about car part prices, but you wouldn't believe what some things cost.
I worked in one of the Engine shops for a while when I was an Apprentice, we used to try and find the most expensive parts (for their size) in the parts catalogue.
I think I won, with about £12,000 for a 12" diameter ball-race :shakehead:
And that was around 1980...

I tig weld mainly brackets and large rings. I think the rings are main engine components. Don't know too much about the parts i just weld them.

Respect!
Welders with an Aerospace 'ticket' are probably the best in the world.

I used to go to our Welders regularly for little 'home jobs', mostly Motorbike stuff (before they were moved off-base)

The stuff they did was amazing, the finish was better than you'd see in a Welding text-book.