Post by homersimpson on Oct 17, 2020 21:30:07 GMT
physics
interestingly enough,as soon as people see radio active source,most will see it in a negative light. Bit of useless information ,but certain industries use Radio active cable ties, so they can scan for waifs and stray bits of them after maintenance procedures. Said cable ties are also very loud colours. I won’t go into further details, but it was a protocol adopted after bits of a cable tie couldn’t be accounted for after a routine mantainence job which resulted in a tear down to find the missing bits that cost several million pounds..
We use a company at work to maintain our fire alarm system and one of their engineers used to maintain helicopters in the military. Every time he cuts off a cable tie he puts it in his pocket.
He told me that when being trained they serviced a helicopter and at the end their instructor said that they had left something behind, all the covers came off and they checked everything. After a while the instructer pointed out their stepladders were leaning against it!
its on a rear wing too - I'd be more concerned if was on a door skin where the inner face of the skin is a lot more at risk to water ingress 
