DAE see people skip the final torque check on wheel bolts?

I watched a guy at my old MRO in Phoenix just slap the last socket on and call it good, no wrench. That's how you get a loose wheel on rollout. What's the most skipped step you see?

Update: I was looking at an old program from 2008 on a floppy disk today.

It was for a simple bracket, and the code was three times longer than it needs to be now. We had to write out every single canned cycle back then. Anyone still have a machine that can even read a floppy?

My buddy tried to get an AI to write a love song for his wife and it went totally sideways

Honestly, he was using one of those new lyric generator tools and typed in 'romantic song about my wife, she loves gardening'. Ngl, the thing spit out a chorus about 'my dearest compost heap, your decay is so sweet' and we couldn't stop laughing for a solid ten minutes. Has anyone else had an AI completely miss the point in a hilarious way?

Warning: I used to just ride my old bike through the winter salt in Toronto, but after the chain seized last February I switched to a full winter wash routine and it's a total game changer.

Rant: A customer brought in a sporterized 1903 Springfield last week, wanted it 'restored' to original.

He had already taken a file to the receiver bridge and cut the stock down himself. Told me he saw a video on how to do it. Now the metal's messed up and the wood is too short. How do you even start explaining that some things can't be fixed?

Showerthought: My old boss said something about torque wrenches that finally clicked for me

Honestly, I was chatting with my old lead from the Kansas City shop the other day. He asked if I still calibrated my torque wrenches every year, and I admitted I sometimes stretched it to 18 months. He just said, 'You trust that tool to hold a wing on, but not enough to give it a checkup?' Tbh, that hit different. It's not just a tool, it's a promise to the next guy who flies that plane. I booked calibration for all three of mine the next day. How often do you all actually get yours checked?

Hot take: Our shop switched from manual layout to 3D modeling for pressure vessel heads. The rework rate went from about 15% to under 2% in a year. Was it the software or just better training?

Finally organized my open house flyers and it saved me a ton of time

I always used to just print a big stack of the same flyer for every open house. Today, I made two versions: one with a big photo for the yard sign box and a simpler one with just the facts for the door hangers. Having them ready to go meant I wasn't scrambling to sort papers while people were already showing up. Has anyone else found a better way to handle open house materials?