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Batteries do not discharge on concrete. Years ago battery cases were porous and they did discharge. Thanks for the great work

Should be a dial on the side of the wand to adjust sensitivity, or some way to adjust the sensitivity of the toner. You want the sensitivity to be just enough to get tone on one wire only. If you are getting tone on several wires than sensitivity is too high.

Hearing the pump kick on put such a big smile on my face. Can't wait to see her in the air after all this.

The tone generator works on two wire systems. I've spent tens of thousands of hours in telecom cabinets tracing pairs. If you don't have the generator connected to two wires, you're just going to get interference. If everything has a common ground, tracing single wires with an Ohm meter / continuity check is by far the fastest and least error prone. You already knew. 🤣

I don’t have a pilot’s license but watching your channel makes me want to!

Eight hours to trace four wires ... that is real dedication for you and your friends.

Great choice making the change to givesendgo.. no other way to tell the man he's wrong as WE THE PEOPLE won't stand for it.. Great Job jimmy!!

Jimmy in the early days (up until the late 1950's) batteries cases were made from bakelite and they would drain thru the bakelite since the 60's they use plastic and they don't drain hope this helps, from a retired mechanic

Hey Jimmy, going flying tonight for the first time in a decade. Flying a 310 from KANE to Chicago, then back. Can hardly wait. You're certain to be a topic of conversation. Keep up the exceptional work.

if you use alligator clips to ground the wire to the airframe he can check continuity between wire and airframe in the cabin. no extension cord needed because you’re using the airframe as a wire.

Jimmy, thank you for your channel. I’m a retired Air Force Senior Master Sargent (27 years). I’m about to start working on a barn find 1963 Cessna 172D. Never got my A&P but will get help as needed. Watching your channel gives me hope. Please keep them coming. Mark Chancey, Belton SC.

Jimmy hook the black ground to the frame and red lead to the wire your looking for you will get the stronger tone !

Leaving ‘gofundme’ is an awesome good move, as a lot of people just lost their trust and want to stay away from it. Love your videos. Good job Jimmy!👍🏻

I had used a 200EP inductive amplifier (Probe) in conjunction with a 77HP Tracer 2 unit for many years when I was employed in the audio field before I retired. The 77HP Tracer 2 I used has both a tone function and a continuity function. If you were to find a wire with the loudest tone you generally had the correct wire. However, the tone is induced in wires in close proximity giving false positives. By using the probe to find the wire with the tone you can verify the wire using the continuity method. If your unit (tone generator) is capable of a continuity test simply place the generator in the continuity mode attach one of the leads from the generator to the wire in question add a test wire which you will hook onto the other end of the wire you have located outside the plane and bring the other end of the wire into the cockpit attach the remaining lead from the generator and the light will light up confirming you have indeed found the correct wire. The added wire that I mentioned can be used from any wire on the outside to the cockpit to confirm continuity.

So glad to see you switch to givesendgo. As for the battery, I think it's an old wives tale that sitting on concrete is bad.

38 years in Telco Industry with C&P Telephone, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya Inc. we use tone generators and an induction probe to trace wire pairs in small and huge wire bundled cables, sometimes running for miles. Your on top of it now !!!

Jimmy, get yourself a proper ratchet crimp tool with dies for the electrical connections. It exerts the correct pressure and forms the crimp properly. 👍

Jimmy when you gonna fly out and help clean up the 401? Love to see a Collab between y'all! Always love your content

I’m an electrician, CONTINUITY is everything. My Professor loved that word.

I am so addicted to your channel, and I'm not really a plane enthusiast! Can't wait to see the 310 flying! Keep up the good work, Jimmy!

Keep in mind that using a wire tracer in an application like that can be very frustrating, I may help some but for it to be effective use it in continuity mode so the tone changes after a short. Something else that would be good for that application would be a power probe

I recommend using a power probe. Usually used in automotive repair. You can check power and ground audibly, visually, and supply power and ground as you wish with toggling a button on the probe.

Great video, a lot of patience and diligence needed on this particular part of the project. Loving your content down here in Sydney Australia

Thanks for these videos! They are fun to watch and I actually learn stuff!

Fill up the bladder with destiled water and leave it for 24h,after that dump the water wait to dry out.Use rubbing/denatured alcohol in small amounts to evaporate rest of the water inside. Ps small amounts and very short time.Hope this helps.

It doesn't matter if a battery is sitting on wood, concrete or steel. The reason a battery dies is from sitting.

Glad you took our advice. You are not doing anything wrong. Sometimes you will have crossover impedance. No one tool is the perfect tool for every occasion. Each has its place. The fox and hound should help save some time. Keep after it. Oh, and I appreciate your humor, even if your workers don't. :-)

Glad you are using givesendgo great choice!

Always look forward to the new videos! Thank you Jimmy for sharing. Clear Prop!!

Jimmy, watching you guys working on the plane brings back memories, not all fond ones, from early Air Force days working on F4 aircraft. I just loved working wiring. I believe a couple of other folks have already commented on the Fox and Hound "bleed over". With the amount of wring running together in such tight confines, it would be very tough to get the exact wire identified with that type tone generator tool. The tones are generally some type of square wave from 600Hz to around 2KHz and most of the wiring is not RF shielded ending up in a lot of bleed over. I agree with you and sparky that a continuity tester/multimeter and a LONG piece of wire work great but can take a while. Thanks for your videos and bringing back some fond and not so fond memories of spending 12 hours crawling though an F4 trying to find the break point on a wire. Dave

Major props for dropping gofundme. They have proven they cannot be trusted to be impartial and trusted with money.

Just wanted to say to the Vet with one leg. Even though my amputation was not USAF service connected it is still a BK amputation it does slow me down but doesn't stop me. I still restore old cars, mow 1.5 acre of grass each week, drive my truck. I did climb ladders, not recomended, but at 82 I don't do that now. But if we put our mind to it we can do most things we want to. Waiting now for a hip, and both knees replacements, already had both shouders replaced. Just hang in there and keep on keeping on.

Jimmy, back when I was looking to build multi engine time, i spent 2 weeks flying missions with a charitable organization called Skyark We flew a 1956 piper geronimo all over the USA transporting rescued dogs, cats, and even an iguana to their new adoptive homes. It was the adventure of my lifetime, and you can imagine tying grassroots aviation, with some of the nicest, most interesting people you will ever meet. This had the animal interest, human interest, and aviation adventure all rolled into one. It also provided a way for new multi engine pilots to gain valuable flight time flying on missions. Let me know if you have any interest in using mighty mouse on such a purpose.

Sparky has the patience of a saint! I am definitely impressed, WOW! ps thanks for switching to Give/Send/Go!

Your always kool to watch and as a Vet myself, your a brother as well. Thank you for your service, and thank you for your kind thoughts regarding our brothers and sisters who need a little help in life, due to their service to this Great County of ours. God Bless brother and keep the videos coming.

Another great episode! While I am an electrical engineer and have no problems understanding schematics and electrical components, I'd probably end up crying in the corner of the hanger curled up in a little ball if I had to deal with all of the wires being disconnected in your 310. Your persistence in tracking down the wires in any method and making the connections by the book will save lots of trouble and headache in the future and keep the plane safe. Also pretty cool you will be donating some of the 310's time to charitable causes. One day some one in need will say "here Might Mouse comes to save the day."

Jimmy you inspire us all to have fun and really learn to accept challenges. THANK YOU!!

I have spent a lot of times on similar wire messes. At the end of the day I have generally found it is easier and faster to rewire. And yes I have all the tools.

310 is a wonderful airplane . Worth all our time and support Jimmy . Juan Browne just had a wonderful series featuring his 310 .

Hey Jimmy, great video! love watching you and sparky head scratch and sort out the wiring! Cheers from Australia!

Hey Jimmy great job and the rest of the crew on the 310. Love what you doing

For the switch board you might as well just connect LEDs to each one and send a low voltage from the other end, that way you identify which switch corresponds to that system

Glad to see you have help...very hard working alone...

Wow, that VFR map is really cool :)

Jimmy makes my day. We need MORE Americans like Jimmy!

Really enjoying your adventure with the 310. I've learned more watching your videos than I did with the 4 planes I owned!

Believe it or not this is the only channel I comment on! As a veteran I see this doing so much good to help our fellow vets attain transportation to hospital’s in different areas. I have a friend who lives in Utah and had to travel to Greenbay Wi for a surgery. Luckily I was living in the area and was able to help him out. If there was a way to transport him for cheap or free would have helped him. He had to pay his way to and from then wait to get reimbursed. that was a lot for him since he is totally disabled and medically retired. Now this was about 15 years ago. Thank you for all you do. Keep the 310 alive.

Had my first MRE recently. Mad Props to our troops that have to rely on those on a regular basis. They make way bigger sacrifices for us but even the small sacrifices need mentioned. MRE aren't all that bad and in sure when it's all you got they taste even better. Thank you for your service and another great video!

The grime that tends to build up on a battery can cause a small voltage drop across the top of a battery slowly draining it. You can test this by using your multimeter set to volts dc. One lead on a post and another lead on the top of the battery. Should read 0v if not it needs a cleaning.

Absolutely love this channel!! Keep up the great work sir!!

It's like watching a trainwreck unfold before my eyes. I can't seem to look away.

Jimmy, I enjoy your posts, even though I am not a pilot. Keep up the good work and keep giving us posts to keep us updated.

Keep them coming Jimmy! Love watching and look forward to your and the band's adventures.

Jimmy...Disconnect the Batteries! Connect the Ground of the Fox to the Frame of the Plane, then the other Wire of the Fox to a Wire you want to Search. Then just Scan across the Bundle of Wires with the Hound. The Loudest Wire is the one your looking for.

Always wanted to fly but never could do it, living vicariously through you brother!!

Keeping a battery off of the concrete, was an issue in the old days of rubber base battery cases.

Good for you getting rid of GoFundMe, Jimmy. I am with you 100%

Glad to see you got use the serpentine belt tool in todays video! Couldn't get away for todays premiere. Great video! Thanks!

I earned my degree in Automotive Technology back in the 90s, and we didn't have the "fox-'n-hound" apparatus then; we did wiring the same way you and Sparky are doing it, which worked just fine. It just took a while. At least if we got a wire wrong, we didn't have to worry it causing us to fall out of the sky (Yikes!). You guys are an inspiration to all of us frustrated airplane mechanics who don't know a thing about airplanes but wish we did! God bless and "Clear Prop!"

Might be useful to use a power probe, they’re less then $100 and make quick work

Step one...always have the toner (fox) set to 2 tone mode! It should sound like a "deedle deedle deedle" kind of sound. Makes it much easier to distinguish from background interference. Secondly, place one lead from the toner to the aircraft ground, and the other to the single wire you are tracing. Third, you will need to learn how to distinguish the lead you are tracing, from the bleed over signal you can get from parallel wires. The primary lead will be considerably louder, but you have to learn that. Fourth, the sending unit should have a high and low power setting. If you are getting a lot of signal bleed over, turn the power down. Fifth, if the line you are tracing is grounded, or shorted to the second wire you have connected to the transmitter, the signal will be almost non-existent, very low, almost not readable with the signal tracer. I've been using this type of wire tracer for over 3 decades, and they do work, but they are not magic. You need to learn how to use it. That won't take long, but learning how to use it is critical.

Thanks Jimmy. Love the shade tree mechanic work in the keeps commercial.

Happy to see that you moved to givesendgo. Great and awesome videos

Trouble with Hounds and toners is when you connect to a "ground wire". It will make the whole plane to beep!

Those wire sniffers are great for twisted pairs, they don't work as well on a single wire with common ground. Though they're still extremely useful where you have no idea which wire in the bunch that you're trying to find. To use it, hook the generator to the wire under test at the known end (IE the fuel pump, light etc) and then move the reciever across the bunch at the other end a listen to the volume. When you get the right wire the volume will increase. Often with single wire tracing you'll get a couple of wires that signal pretty well, especially where those wires are run next to each other over some distance. Once you have the right wire, or a couple of wires, confirm it with the continuity tester. If you're only tracing to a bunch with half a dozen wires it's going to be quicker to just continuity test from the start, but if your end point is 50 wires all in a bunch the sniffer will help you narrow down which of them you want to continuity test very quickly.

Oh my God ! Wiring "I Hate It " GOOD LUCK ! 🥶

Thanks for the latest video Jimmy, great seeing you make some progress. Good luck; looking forward to the next episode!

As an electrician, I have used these to track cables in walls to see where and what circuits they're going. Also it just gives you a rough idea which cables to begin probing..

Your doing it backwards. Put the transmitter on the wire, use then tracer to trace along a bundle of wires to locate at switch panel.

Love this stuff Jimmy. All power to your camera guy *Silas you are a very patient LEGEND!

I love watching your world...and thank you for letting me in your world!

The battery discharge on concrete thought comes from the old days when batteries were made from paper. It is completely safe to keep batteries on concrete now, it will not cause them to discharge any faster.

the "Bell" tool is invaluable for roughly eliminating almost all wires in a loom the longer the wires run together the more they cross connect and the louder the adjacent wires are, always run a decent current like a test light 5 watts or so at 12v as that is the only thing that tests the wire

Hey Jimmy and co. fantastic progress you guys are making. I don't know about lithium batteries, but sitting a lead core battery on concrete or even the ground directly, will absolutely kill the battery. What's more, it will only take about 3 discharge/charge cycles before you end up with a dead cell. Hats of to everyone helping. I about fell out of the chair when I watched the video that revealed the switch panel's wiring in tatters. I've been there before restoring a 1983 Jaguar XJ6. None of the electricals were connected. Stay positive guys.

This dedication, hard work and cooperation like I see here, is what made America Great!!!!!

Jimmy, Check out Power Probe. Its a common tool used in automotive 12 and 24v troubleshooting. Not an approved tool to use in most aviation applications due to them being a little more delicate avionics wise. I think for what you're trying to do it would work great.

How resilient is the insulation on that old wiring? Looking at those spaghetti monsters, I can't help but feel trepidation at impending shorts and subsequent electrical fires. 😱

Thank you for the video Jimmy.

Hey guys, try to use different frequencies, also reduce the tone volume, and when approaches the wires touch them using the tip of the tool, and look for the wire which gets the louder tone, because the wires closer to the right one also will have tone, but the right wire gets a louder tone. Good luck! Reny

I've actually tested that battery myth. I put one of my batteries on concrete and one in a box on my welding table. Over the time frame of 2 months they both lost the same amount of juice. Sitting and age is what kills batteries, also temperature has a lot to do with a batteries life.

Holy C! It's almost all one color!!!! Better you than me. Good luck and thanks for sharing!

Scott that map is so cool. Thanks Jimmy and all the guys. This is definitely some high quality TV....

Hi Jimmy, greetings from Argentina. As an G. aviation enthusiast, I follow either your progress as well as Jason´s 401 and I enjoy them both. At the end of your presentation you asked us what kind of mission "Mighty Mouse" should have, and I´d like to drop a suggestion: since you and several others envolved in this task are military retired personnel, my idea splits in 2: giving veterans the chance to travel easier and faster with the 301 and giving young pilots the opportunity to build some flight hours when neither of the group can do the flight. I guess sometimes vets can´t stand long hours in buses or waiting in airports, so a direct point to point with the 310 will help them go to their destination faster and more comfortable. This idea came up to me after I saw a Marc Patey´s video in witch they flew from NYC to Utah in a private plane faster than an airliner. I just hope I diddn´t suggest some nonsense. Cheers from NE Patagonia.

as a technician, i feel im qualified to say that cheap wireless tools like that are garbage, just use the multimeter and tone everything out. itll be the quickest and easiest way to do it

You probably won't see this but wanted you to know your videos inspired me to get a job at a local airport at a flight school. I will also be attending the school as soon as I have enough saved up to get my self in the air. Thank you so much for making these videos. I never thought I would ever end up where I am now, it's a dream come true.

Hi Jimmy great work on the wiring, it can be very frustrating when its not going well. So kudos to you and your team for sticking with it. re labelling, you can get dymo printable heat shirk now, that would make identifying cable ends easier in the future, just print the item name on a label and heat shrink that on to the ends (along with the terminal number). Its a job to do all the harness from scratch, but as your in there anyway now is a great time to get the labelling sorted. I hope that helps, take care D

Jimmy, I love the videos! I’m a retired Marine flying out of KVDF. I’d love to come help you all doing mechanical work, not looking for any publicity, I just love aviation.

Love your show and passion for Aviation. I noticed you wear your watch when climbing on your planes, buy this is a prohibited practice on military flight lines. I've seen what happens when a ring catches on protruding metal and screws. . A friend lost 1/2 his ring finger when he jumped to the ground. No big deal except he left part of his finger hanging on the airplane. Same goes for watches. Stay safe...CLEAR!

I have one of those tools, used to use it a lot in my previous career. They are invaluable in tracing wires, you did right by getting one. HOOAH!!!

Great show i used to help out n the shop wen a kid. Seriously u r the son my dad never had n me .... stay kool ...

Awesome to see the progress on the 310 - I am about to start my lifelong dream of getting my PPL - see you in the sky!!

I can see that Jimmy is tryin to keep it light...bravo...

Enjoyed the show Jimmy and Sparky.

Great job showing and telling, keep up the good work on that 310 plane. Yes I love those plane’s , I painted or helped get them ready to paint. Back in about 1981 or 1982 it was fun well see ya next time see ya bye.

I told my eldest son about your show and he is watching now too. He is an A&P and has and still occasionally does work on many WWII aircraft including C-47s, B-24s, B-25s, P-51s etc... Now he does mostly general aviation stuff. I go to talk to him yesterday and he told me that he watches you when he can.

Greetings from Down Under mate. All I can say is that its a good thing you have a sense of humor Jimmy to deal with all this. I would have been absolutely certifiably insane after the second month of this project. More power to you buddy, keep up the good work

Nothing beats a straight continuity check with a basic digital multimeter. That's how I did it in the AF on A-10's and HH-60's. Quick and easy with NO doubt.

I have recently found your KZfaq channel and I am enjoying it immensely, mostly your twin-prop videos as they are my favorite, double your pleasure, double your fun. 😃Save the 310!

Happy to see you getting some sponsorship!!! You're the VGG of the air!!! If there was ever a colab to be had