I cannot choose scratch labels from these bezel pictures

John_Bowen · 3 Feb 2026, 02:09 UTC

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John_Bowen
I have two pictures of the same aluminium bezel, one marked good and one scratched. The bright line changes place. Our FR10 inspection is not commissioned; I need labels our next shift can understand.

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SarahBaker0502
Replying to John_Bowen

Find the bezel first. Pictures alone won't settle its condition.

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NinaBennett0762
Replying to John_Bowen

And keep both pictures. The wrong label is useful to explain, even after you correct it.

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John_Bowen
Replying to SarahBaker0502

We have the bezel. Quality found a small nick by a hole, but not where either bright line appears. I had expected one fault or the other, not both.

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SarahBaker0502
Replying to John_Bowen

Two separate things, yep. Can the camera actually see that nick?

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NinaBennett0762
Replying to SarahBaker0502

Sarah's question matters more than the shiny line now. Is the nick in the area this inspection is supposed to cover?

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HenryAli0177
Replying to John_Bowen

I would also ask who assigned the first two labels. A training folder can carry an early guess for months because everyone assumes someone else checked it. That is especially awkward when a new shift treats the folder as the answer key.

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SarahBaker0502
Replying to HenryAli0177

Henry, ours had that. A folder called final. Naturally there were three of them.

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John_Bowen
Replying to NinaBennett0762

Sarah and Nina: the nick is in scope and visible, though faint. Henry: I made the labels from the pictures. I will correct them with quality rather than ask the next shift to guess.

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ImranArcher0392
Replying to John_Bowen

When you say the line changes place, John, does it move across the metal or only across the picture? I got caught by that distinction when comparing two parts that were framed differently.

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John_Bowen
Replying to ImranArcher0392

Across the metal. It crosses a different hole in the second picture. The nick stays beside the same hole.

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HenryAli0177
Replying to John_Bowen

That gives you a useful teaching pair: the same physical nick under two presentations, with the changing reflection identified separately. Keep the full images too; close crops can hide the presentation difference you are trying to explain.

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SarahBaker0502
Replying to HenryAli0177

Don't crop out the hole. It's doing useful work here.

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ImranArcher0392
Replying to John_Bowen

Thanks, John. That answers what I was trying to ask. I would still keep a clean bezel beside it, because otherwise your set only teaches people about one damaged part.

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NinaBennett0762
Replying to ImranArcher0392

A clean bezel and a borderline one if quality can supply it. Obvious damage is the easy example.

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John_Bowen
Replying to NinaBennett0762

Quality has supplied an accepted bezel with a similar finish. Our corrected pair now shows the nick, not the moving line, as the defect. I have left threshold selection out of this exercise.

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HenryAli0177
Replying to John_Bowen

Can the next shift locate the nick from your new page without you standing beside them? That would be a useful check on the handover wording.

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SarahBaker0502
Replying to HenryAli0177

And let them say the picture's rubbish if it is.

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