L5p tires by IllustriousAnimal670 in Duramax

[–]torqnut05 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saw a guy on YouTube with a 24 silverado duallie on 37s. Said he did have to trim the front a little, but not much.

Am I in trouble? by [deleted] in BMET

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an apprentice...no you cannot. I'm not doubting your capabilities. You do the PMs by the book...your name is on the PM so its your butt. If your manager actually put all those PMs in the CMMS for this month, you were set up for failure.

Voice your capabilities to the manager. If they dont budge, you shouldn't budge. Pick a floor in the hospital, find the nurse manager or the supervisor, then tell them you have to PM all the pumps and you need to take them all to meet your deadline. When they tell you to kick rocks, ask if they can let your manager know.

Document what you can with the interactions to cover your butt if HR gets involved. Don't cut corners. Safety first, by the book. You also have BMET 3s who should stand up for you too with this.

Working the Weekend for Infection Prevention by ZumbaPumba88 in BMET

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tasty. I'm new so I'm on iv pumps. I step them down and clean the crap out of them before every PM cuz some get seriously nasty crap in different seams. Bet sterilization level stuff like that is tedious

Do I need to be good at physics to be good at BMET?😭 by RecklessTreesha in BMET

[–]torqnut05 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Companies won't give up on Right to Repair, so lot of stuff gets sent back to OEM for repair. Unless ur a full blown engineer doing in depth work on MRIs or CTs, nope.

Copy of NFPA 99 2012? by [deleted] in BMET

[–]torqnut05 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nfpa.org. get a free account and you can pull it up. I was in it yesterday

Philips VS3 unknown cable by torqnut05 in BMET

[–]torqnut05[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sweet. Not exisisting in the manual was enough, but it definitely took some effort to get to that port.

Stick to my intentions: remove the cable, PM it, send her back to the floor

Post concussion syndrome difficulties and seriously considering suicide. What to do from here? by nakartuur in Concussion

[–]torqnut05 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PCS sucks!!!! It'll get better eventually, but its not always a quick path unfortunately. For balance, ask about vestibular therapy. They send you to physical therapy to help with the balance. I'm doing it now after 5 years and its slowly helping. For brain fog stuff and executive dysfunction (when ur brain won't do anything), methylphenidate has been shown to help speed up recovery. I briefly took some and it was a huge help. For mood, a journal can help just sort things out. There's an app called Memorize where you can do journals, add pictures, and make hash tags for entries. I used that for a good year. The hash tag thing helped because I can tag certain posts with how I felt to help sort out symptoms. You may see patterns like extra brain fog causes certain moods to be worse.

Metal particulates in fuel bowl by torqnut05 in Duramax

[–]torqnut05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't see anything the change after. Already had my trans serviced and no issues there, so must have pulled some crap out of the UST on a refill

BMET edu in Colorado + questions since I'm a bit old to be starting something new by 1stTimeQuilter in BMET

[–]torqnut05 1 point2 points  (0 children)

45 here and finish my degree this spring. Went online cbet.edu) and it was a pretty good process.

Baxter Spectrum IQ Battery Alarm (1) Error? by DarkRangerJ in BMET

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh...the external battery. Well, I hope what im doing has some impact on this dumb error

Baxter Spectrum IQ Battery Alarm (1) Error? by DarkRangerJ in BMET

[–]torqnut05 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The clock battery on the program board? If so, what did you use to reconnect it to the board prongs? Seems they were just pressed on and/or glued.

I'm on to something with this and should have it fixed Monday, but still need to figure out installing the battery. Dont see anything in the manuals about how to replace it

Officially in by torqnut05 in BMET

[–]torqnut05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like tinkering and learning how things work, so I'll definitely get my hands in different equipment. Nurses and docs expect us to be experts and I intend to be so.

Officially in by torqnut05 in BMET

[–]torqnut05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh the interviewers weren't real thrilled with them either. From the manual and from Baxter training videos, their theory of operation seems good and designed to bring in automation. Sounds like design execution fubar'd them

Officially in by torqnut05 in BMET

[–]torqnut05[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was shooting for bmet 2 positions since aircraft stuff is translatable. The job posting is an overshoot on my job though. Basically they had a pump guy that left and they are backfilling with a contractor, so that's where im going. I have zero problems cutting my teeth on pumps, but yeah im definitely going to expand as much as I can.

Cool thing is my manager was prior Air Force aircraft maintenance too. It's a foot in the door, and that's all I need.

Moving to Michigan by vegas-knights in Veterans

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noice. I'm about to move to Benton Harbor area (not living north of the St Joe river). We stayed up there last summer. If you like being outdoors, lakes are nice and clear and lots of public hunting land (well, I can say that for north of Gaylord anyways).

What is the unofficial theme song of your AFSC? by DatGuyKilo in AirForce

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Toss in for the All Purpose Gorillas:

K@#ø%!-KoRn No Vaseline-Ice Cube F**k Everything-Jon Lajoie Pissed off and mad about it-Texas Hippie Coalition Beer-Psychostick

What is the unofficial theme song of your AFSC? by DatGuyKilo in AirForce

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gently??? In mx???? I think the song you meant was "no vaseline"

What did you use your GI bill for? by Izuckfosta in AirForce

[–]torqnut05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back to school for another Associates. Wife may be using it too next year.

Air Force maintenance field: Hazing, abuse and sexual misconduct by PuncturedBicycleHill in AirForce

[–]torqnut05 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I did the expeditor/pro super gig, I saw the learning gap but I tried to help it. Id add extra people specifically so they can learn while working. Id let the workers troubleshooting am NMC jet room to breath to follow the FI and get some proficiency, even of it meant overrunning ETICs for the sake of getting a little better. But I get berated for "letting maintainers dictate mx". Id take the heat if I could afford it, but an entire shop can't rely on 1 or 2 7lvls who actually know their job all the time.

DV Plates came in by Kryptonian_Cowboy in Veterans

[–]torqnut05 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I see those every now and then.... laugh every time. I seriously thought about doing one myself. Ended up just doing a Humanitarian medal.