433rd M-TECH shop makes new C-5 parts using state-of-the-art "water jet"
Senior Airman Craig Nicholson, a metals technician with the 433rd Metals Technology shop, places a sheet of aluminum inside the filtered-water bath of M-TECH shop's water jet to cut out a replacement C-5 throttle-locking plate. The jet-machining center, which just arrived at the shop in April, manufactures certain C-5 components for an aging fleet whose parts are no longer commercially made or available. The M-TECH shop belongs to one of three maintenance squadrons at the 433rd Airlift Wing, a C-5 equipped Air Force Reserve unit located at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
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