Confusion; Time Pressure
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General Maintenance Action
Procedure
While working on aircraft cabin items at one of my assigned gates; there was a call out requesting maintenance at another aircraft at another gate for an undetermined amount of life vest pouch replacements. Work at the current aircraft was finished and we quickly headed to the shop to pick up supplies for the life vest pouch call out. As I arrived at the gate and tried to enter the aircraft; the door way was blocked by a person with their back to me. This person appeared to be talking with flight attendants standing in the front galley. As I tried to pass by to get to the cockpit and talk with the captain about the life vest pouch write ups; the person in the door way turned their head and saw that I was maintenance and said; 'Oh let me ask maintenance'. I then saw that the person had one of the forward flight attendant seats shoulder harness belts pulled out in their hand and ask if I knew what the limits were on frayed belts. I replied I did not know the exact limits and that I would have to go and look them up in the maintenance manual. Then looking at the belt and seeing that it was not frayed and feeling that it was clearly serviceable and only had a short span of slight edge fusing I removed the fusing with a quick pass of a cigarette lighter and then continued to the cockpit to talk with the captain about the write ups.I believe with whole heart the cause of this event is that while trying to maintain an on time performance I did not think and take the time to go and look up the limits for the belts that looked to me to be in limits and I used the lighter to remove the slight fusing from the belt edge that were later found to be within limits per the [manual].Had I taken the time to look up the [manual] limits once the question was asked; the belt would have been shown to be within limits and the fusing would have been left alone.
Performed unnecessary maintenance on a Flight Attendants shoulder harness that was serviceable.