"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 01/02/2015 at 10:18 • Filed to: None

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doodon2whls > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/02/2015 at 10:41

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This is really funny to Missile Maintainers that have worked on the Aim-9 missile system.

Since the AIM-9L/M has a small diameter body, the most efficient means of connecting the missile sections is with 'coupling rings'. In order to properly install the coupling rings, maintainers historically used a brass drift (with a Polyurethane insert) and a dead blow hammer to seat the rings between torquing the single socket head cap screw fastener. Once the fastener did not turn twice in a row between 'beatings', the coupling ring was considered torqued. Seriously... That was the procedure.

However, to the uninformed observer, it looked like the maintainers were beating the missile with a hammer, so it was fun to see their reaction when they would take a tour of the missile maintenance bays... ;-) Some of these visitors may or may not have been subjected to a similar experience depicted in the cartoon...

Now, they have a more civilized means of tightening the coupling rings with a coupling ring installation tool that resembles an oil filter wrench. This is probably easier on the Target Detector and G&C units, too. No more beatings...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > doodon2whls 01/02/2015 at 11:19

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Edifying, and funny as hell.

HammerheadFistpunch > doodon2whls 01/02/2015 at 11:38

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I have two ties to the AIM - 9.

1. a good friend of mine used to assemble them, then got sick of it, quite and starting selling ski boats, now he's the biggest distributor on in the west for a certain brand of nice boats.

2. My first job as a teen was photo shopping golf courses for a golf simulator program that used the same processor as the AIM - 9...for some reason.

Random story time....end.