Cannot price the FR10 bracket fixture from these mixed measurements

NinaBrown0936 · 1 Jul 2026, 07:08 UTC

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NinaBrown0936
I've got gusseted-bracket records that look reassuring until the clamps come off. Then the drawing failures appear, followed by unexplained correction and a final tick. Before this gets priced into our FR10 plan, which of those readings can honestly support a fixture decision?

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FelixAdams0110
Replying to NinaBrown0936

The restrained and released readings answer different questions, and a final tick after correction doesn't tell you what the fixture achieved on its own; can you see how the bracket was supported for either released measurement?

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NinaBrown0936
Replying to FelixAdams0110

There's a photograph of the inspection bench, not a support record for each part. Same bracket drawing revision on the sheets. The correction column has initials but no method or duration.

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ElenaBrooks0862
Replying to NinaBrown0936

Keep the measurements, but do not calculate a restrained-to-released difference unless the references and conditions make that comparison meaningful.

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FelixAdams0110
Replying to ElenaBrooks0862

Elena, would you still use the correction initials to show that the process had an extra operation? I'd hate the missing duration to turn into a zero-minute allowance in Nina's quote.

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ElenaBrooks0862
Replying to FelixAdams0110

Yes, as evidence of recorded correction on those entries. Not its duration, cause or effectiveness without the corresponding records.

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NinaBrown0936
Replying to NinaBrown0936

That gives me a useful boundary. I've marked the identified correction entries as extra work with time unknown and removed the calculated springback column; it was subtracting readings whose supports we can't establish. The fixture choice remains open. We need comparable first released checks, not a tidier subtraction.

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FelixAdams0110
Replying to NinaBrown0936

And someone must own collecting those checks before the quote quietly becomes a commitment. I wouldn't stop the estimating work, but I'd make the unknown work visible where the decision-maker sees the price, not buried in the old inspection folder

3 points

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