jackstands
It's a darn heavy car kids, just reading that first thread gave me the creeps.
In 1989 I was working on the landing gear of a 310B (think Sky King). Now, once you jack it up, the (very tall) jack stands have a cone shaped indentation in the top of the shaft, and the underside of the AC has cone shaped metal 'tits' at the jack points, So thinking I had the cones in the indentations I was cycling the gear up and down when one wing jack point decided to fall the last 1/2 down into its cone shaped recepticle on the jack stand. To this day, I don't think I could move that fast again, the noise no doubt covered the sound of me soiling my pants. I actually injured my back trying to move out from under it so fast.
Chock it, brace it, do whatever you have to do to stablize it, then minimize your time under it. I keep a small set of steel chocks in my trunk, tucked against the spare just for that reason. Better safe than sorry.
ITS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!
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