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At one point, the F.A.A. observed Spirit mechanics using a hotel key card to check a door seal, which was “not identified/documented/called-out in the production order,” according to a document describing some of the audit findings.
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At another point during the audit, the F.A.A. saw Spirit mechanics apply liquid Dawn soap to a door seal “as lubricant in the fit-up process,” the document describing some of the audit findings said. The agency also saw the door seal get cleaned with a wet cheesecloth to remove the soap and debris, according to the document, which said that instructions were “vague and unclear on what specifications/actions are to be followed or recorded by the mechanic.”
Journalists who have never done mechanical work fuckin love this dish soap thing, it's like they think using dish soap to lubricate seals for fitment is gonna make planes fall out of the sky because they didn't use some special $50/qt aviation lubricant whose ingredients are functionally identical to dish soap
So that’s what I keep thinking. It’s a cheap lubricant that won’t degrade the rubber.
and it's water-soluble, so it'll clean off easily
pretty common to use it to seat tires
I think it's less "just dish soap bro" and more "every step of the process must be designed, completed, and accounted for with no exceptions"
I think that's the actual problem, yeah, but there's a reason every journalist who writes about it makes sure to include the dish soap part because they think it's ridiculous
You're right, I was drunk and tires when I wrote that and gave them too much credit