The bracket inspection blocks changed but the acceptance heading did not

IsaacBaker0520 · 9 Nov 2025, 11:38 UTC

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IsaacBaker0520
I've found two sets of measuring blocks behind our FR10 bracket proposal, with different top contacts and the same handwritten description. The final passes also come after a correction operation. I can keep the finished brackets as examples, but I don't know which historical dimensions are fair to compare before we ask for a new fixture.

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AnnaBennett0764
Replying to IsaacBaker0520

Start by matching each result to the actual support arrangement and process stage. The same heading cannot make those measurements equivalent. Can the inspector identify when the block set changed, or only that both sets were used?

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IsaacBaker0520
Replying to AnnaBennett0764

Only that both were used. We still have the blocks and some stamped brackets. The sheet doesn't record which blocks supported which bracket, so a nice continuous chart is looking optimistic.

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FarahAli0243
Replying to IsaacBaker0520

You can leave the chart as historical data with that limit visible. I would not use it to estimate improvement from the proposed fixture. Does the corrected finished example have an identified acceptance method?

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SamAdams0159
Replying to IsaacBaker0520

Isaac, could quality compare the two support contacts with one identified retained bracket before anyone orders replacement blocks? That might explain why the distinction matters, even if it cannot repair the old records.

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HenryBaker0438
Replying to FarahAli0243

Farah, do you mean the current acceptance method or the one used for that historical finished example?

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FarahAli0243
Replying to HenryBaker0438

The method used for the historical example, Henry. Its finished dimensions may still be useful, but I should not imply that today's method was necessarily used then.

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IsaacBaker0520
Replying to FarahAli0243

Farah, that historical method is identified for one retained final sample. Sam, quality will compare the block contacts with it. Nobody expects that to recover the missing before-correction dimensions.

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AnnaBennett0764
Replying to IsaacBaker0520

That final sample can explain the required finished shape. For the new fixture study, ask quality and the process owner to define checks before restraint, after release and after any correction, using the intended method at each stage.

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SamAdams0159
Replying to AnnaBennett0764

Anna, would you retain correction time with those checks too? Purchasing could otherwise read a final pass as all the work the fixture needs to do.

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AnnaBennett0764
Replying to SamAdams0159

Yes, with the decision and actual extra work recorded. Not an assumed allowance copied from the old chart. The study needs to show whether correction is required, what it involves and who performs it.

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IsaacBaker0520
Replying to AnnaBennett0764

I've added that to the study request. Thanks Sam for the modest block comparison idea; we can understand the contacts without pretending it rebuilds a history nobody recorded. New measurements are still to be agreed.

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