u/United-Leader8423

My mother [59F] has always been a narcissistic emotional abuser. Threatening us, gaslighting us, all the usual. I got lucky and left for the military at 23.

I was always worried my brother would get stuck and suffer through and be stunted by my mothers attitude.

what irked me the most was when should would threaten to kick him out knowing he had nowhere else to go. But he called her bluff.

Yesterday I get an unusually early call from my mother, she was in hysterics. I hardly understood what she was saying. Turns out he got up early and left in the middle of the night with all of his belongings.

I called my brother and he said “I’m 3 states away, I couldn’t stand it anymore, how did she react “ I responded “she’s emotional, but I’ll handle it, I’m proud of you, never look back”. He’s free, and I couldn’t be prouder.

These MROs act as if it’s a privilege to be working for them. Newsflash, you need us more than we need you. I can roll my box down to the next hangar while you’re stuck with a halfway built up engine, good luck fixing that. Foh

I work at an MRO where we have a contract with the Air Force to do engine work.

I work in the tear down shop.

An engine came in that was FOD’d out in test cell. So it was simple tear down and save any good parts. One valuable part is the fan drive shaft.

There is a nut inside where we use a hydraulic wrench to loosen it and remove it. We were attempting that but the hydraulic kept getting to 25,000 inch-lbs and the nut wasn’t budging. So I stopped since that was the maximum limit on the torque the book stated not to exceed.

I immediately thought that the splined lock seat on the inside became twisted when the fod was ingested. I am thinking whatever it took in was big enough to slow down the fan just enough from the LPT that it was able to twist the lock seat out of position. My boss said to keep applying torque, we did and it eventually came off. But my hypothesis was correct, the lock seat was twisted on the inside.

So then all the other guys immediately pointed the finger at me saying I over torqued it and smashed the the lockseat against the inside of the shaft rendering it unserviceable. And now my boss is writing me up.

I tried explaining that the massive forces while the engine is running can make a small difference in force into huge damages. But they don’t seem to get that. Even if an engine is at 10,0000 rpm

Does that affect my license whatsoever?