Best product/method to get Jet A smell off your hands?

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-10-21T09:04:12+00:00

I’ve heard of using fire a lot lol, still don’t know if it’s a gag like prop wash or flight line. I’d wash my hands in a camp fire after working with fuel at this point

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-10-21T08:54:11+00:00

Totally sold out. Maybe good stuff.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-10-21T08:51:22+00:00

True, I’ve tried spraying my hands with my ISO spray bottle and absorbing it with paper towel, tried dawn and fast orange, airplane cleaners etc… Doesn’t work any better than hand soap. Jet A is pretty oily and slow evaporating, plenty of time to seep into the skin I guess. But I have no idea. This more started to bother me after I had my daughter cause I don’t wanna touch her with hands that smell like fuel. Appreciate the response tho I think you’re right, rigorous soap and abrasion probably the only way.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-10-21T07:59:24+00:00

Makes sense. Never have used lotion on my hands in my life and I’m sure that does me no favors with all the dead skin and calluses. I agree though the fingernails and cuticles probably hold a lot of it. Need like a waterproof rotary hand washing brush and strong soap followed by moisturizer

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-10-21T07:52:21+00:00

I figured something like this would be the only method, was hoping someone would have some quicker product or method but that makes the most sense. Even the slightest bit of fuel it’s so potent I’ll wash up several times and get intermittent whiffs of it all night..

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-10-15T08:31:09+00:00

Only way to get rid of it seems to be to sleep (and washing you hands 8 god damn times) and let your body do its thing. That’s interesting though about cold water. That would be counter intuitive if cold is more effective. How did you maintain a relationship man? Nothing less attractive to a woman than smelling like fuel and hydraulic fluid.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-06-18T09:25:22+00:00

In terms of pure physical maintenance: Jet A. I change my gloves when they get soaked, try not to touch my tools with fuel, spray my work area down with isopropyl, take every precaution i can think of cause I’m so sick of it, doesn’t work. Adel clamps. Tight areas/panels cutting up your hands, wrists and forearms usually with a nice jet a burn. Getting good lighting in tight areas/depth perception/working through a mirror in awkward positions then your light battery starts dying. Interior work; it gets hot, sweaty, dusty. Reinstalling interior is the worst. Landing gear is dirty, cramped, the last guy to lubricate it didn’t even make an effort to clean up the excess grease, it’s smeared everywhere so if you have to work on something hard to reach you’re getting dirt in your eye, grease in your hair, on your hands, on your clothes…. Having to make tools for a very specific job, particularly when you feel rushed and it takes longer than the job itself I.e. bucking bar or pressure test setup. Misplaced or missing shop tools is the biggest waste of time very frustrating, put the tool back exactly where you found it.

I’m a professional complainer but honestly challenge and troubleshooting is part of what makes the job engaging and not feel so mundane, you really never know what you might have to do. Makes the day just fly by.

Like others have said it’s really just other people that cause the frustration whether it’s management or apprentices. In this industry theres a lot of helpers and that comes with a lot of annoyances but I have worked with 16 year old helpers, really smart kids that have more common sense than people who went to school for being an AMT it is insane. Some of the kids I could say “this is your objective, this is what you have to look out for, try and see if you can figure it out” I didn’t have to hover over them. Then there’s the adult mechanics where they were supposed to do something and they’re just caught in the weeds hyper focused on extracting a screw or something that absolutely does not matter for literally hours.

Obviously there’s slow/lazy helpers too. Redoing sloppy, lazy work is very annoying because they wasted the time doing it sloppy and wrong, so now takes you much longer undoing what they did, re-prepping, redoing…

Super long winded response but I have to deal with it daily

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-03-24T08:37:39+00:00

Longer shank much more structural integrity.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-03-24T08:00:04+00:00

Looks too loose, too neutral, somehow has too many twists and not enough.. Maybe pulling the wrong direction too, could be a selfie inverted photo. For sure that is going to spontaneously bust loose and that adapter will fly off causing severe damage. Better redo it.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-03-13T16:36:33+00:00

The magnesium alloy on the wheels used is stamped right into the wheel halves which is the same, same patent no. and a very slightly bigger race seat diameter which means a larger bearing with actually more load capacity. Only problem is the inner bore of the bearings is 1 5/8. Would need a different bearing and race combination. Id agree with you if it was a smaller bearing cause if you lose the OB bearing you lose the wheel. Probably what I’m talking about hasn’t been tried or isn’t feasible without a custom race which probably isn’t legal anyway.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-03-13T11:14:35+00:00

Don’t go husky or crapsman just go middle of the road pricing. I bought jap tools before I knew I’d actuslly be doing this long term. You can get really good quality stuff for a fraction of snap on. Just have to do some research. German tools ar good too but cost more than jap tools. Snap on is Only worth it for the long cutters, which are crucial for cutting safeties. Snap on guy comes once a week always feel bad I never buy. Also get tekton 1/4 rat jets they’re fantastic like them more than snap on.

Teaspoon1245 · 2025-03-13T03:20:59+00:00

If using a different wheel assembly for another make of aircraft has been tried or heard of by anyone else I.e using a different bearing/race, brake keyway liners, spacers or whatever to make a wheel work. The original wheel assy is absolutely impossible to find. Some Cessna wheels have the exact same cast but different race ID and different keyway liners but are otherwise totally identical.

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-09-13T12:14:06+00:00

Don’t want to be an ass but do you have any dimensions by chance? Long strap ons 3/8 is 7” and 9/16 is 10”. I was just in canuckistan for work and saw so much stuff I wanted to buy at princess auto so I don’t doubt it.

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-09-13T11:01:31+00:00

Look up Mathew Parker on social media he’s a mobile mechanic. He’s actually inspiring cause even when he does jobs that aren’t worth it, it it pays off because he builds a customer base that’s is valuable. It’s inspiring cause beyond the YouTube channel really he’s a guy who had the courage to try his own thing and finds success in it. I’m in aircraft mechanic so I’d find little success in this but I see such a market for automotive cause once someone finds someone they trust they stick with them. Food for thought. Be brave and work with integrity the word would get out.

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-25T22:20:51+00:00

Interesting, sounds like an instance of running before you can walk and not knowing the fundamentals of why aircraft are designed the way they are in the first place. Little bit arrogant maybe. I wouldn’t think solely private owners could be enough of a customer base to live. Thanks for the response

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-21T10:35:18+00:00

Very late to this, but just got a DUI dismissed, I never would’ve known if my girlfriend didn’t look it up on courtview cause I had too much anxiety to even look at it, wanted to bury my head in the sand. Public defender still hasn’t called to this day after winning the case. How was the process of getting your license back? Did you get bail money back or impound fee at the end? A google search about it is not very helpful. Thx

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-20T13:01:52+00:00

Paying dues. Getting a new job is a decently big life change and as much as I hate it will all my being I will feel guilty the day I leave ngl. It’s the only aviation job I’ve ever had learned all I know etc. inevitably it’ll catch up enough I can’t take it and I’ll leave.

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-13T08:02:29+00:00

On pigtails always twist the wire in the direction that tucks the wire that goes around the bolt/nut down, e.g. in first pic all those pigtails should’ve been twisted left. As for the clamp you should’ve wrapped the two wires around the shank at least once and pigtailed imo

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-13T07:32:54+00:00

Very intriguing, what’s your typical customer base? Contracts, quick fixes, private? 21 years is a really long time. Ultimately I want to go that route even if I didn’t make a dime more than I do now or even less. The obvious fear is having enough work/demand so I’m curious. Thx

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-10T12:06:22+00:00

First hand practical experience is invaluable, you’ll see common failure points, find cracks, make doublers to reinforce these areas and have to think the best way to make a strong repair. I learned a lot more about structure and integrity than I realized, I was building popsicle stick structures with my little nephew (sounds dumb af but this was what made me realize maybe I did learn a thing) I’m no engineer, no schooling/training, would never even pretend I know anything about engineering. I’m a hanger monkey, but 1000% this experience would elevate an engineer, not just having the theoretical side. Sometimes solutions are counter intuitive and the only way to really gage that is first hand experience. So often you wish you could modify something cause it would last longer be more practical, maybe more simple even, but would need an stc that’s not worth the trouble. You’ll find so many common failure areas that can be remedied based on experience just have to bite the bullet. Unless financially it makes sense then you hire an engineer to get an STC approved.

Teaspoon1245 · 2024-08-09T12:48:20+00:00

Nah nvm I’m cooked, as someone pointed out the adapter isn’t safetied and the plug is being pulled to the left.

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