PriyaBarnes0568 · 5 Jan 2026, 16:44 UTC
Look at the sleeve before the fingers touch it. Matching pads are useful to establish, but they won't make a sleeve sit square in a pocket that isn't supporting it properly.
13 pointsSome sleeves rock in the pocket by hand. Others sit flat. Same marked sleeve type.
10 pointsKeep one of each for comparison, with the pocket they came from.
4 pointsCould still be the pocket. I had a moulded part catch on a little patch of residue and spent far too long comparing parts because the ones with slightly different edges caught it more readily. Two things can cooperate to make you look daft.
5 pointsCompare both sleeves in the same identified pocket. Then compare that pocket with the intended seat. Otherwise you're changing the part and the support together.
11 pointsNaomi's comparison would tell you more than another pickup edit. Who is examining the part variation with quality? The same type marking doesn't promise identical actual bases.
6 pointsQuality and tooling have both samples. One has a raised moulding edge underneath. It touches the pocket floor.
15 pointsDoes that edge fall inside the sleeve's accepted condition, or is it a part defect?
19 pointsDon't let my residue story become the diagnosis, by the way. You've found a physical edge on the part now; I'd want quality's answer before anybody attacks the pocket with a file.
6 pointsQuality says the edge is permitted. The drawing locates on the annular face beside it, not that edge.
13 pointsThen ask tooling whether the pocket leaves that edge clear. A permitted part still needs the intended contacts.
18 pointsAnd keep the old point changes available for whoever restores the job after the mechanical work. Don't erase the trail and make them discover those offsets all over again.
2 pointsPocket drawing has clearance there. Fitted insert does not. Tooling identified an older insert in the tray.
3 pointsThere it is. Was the tray label identifying the insert or just the carrier? Ours said the right thing in very legible letters on the wrong bit of tooling.
6 pointsCarrier only. Correct insert fitted by maintenance; both retained sleeves now seat on the intended face. Job verification follows.
4 pointsInclude the permitted edge variation in that verification, plus release. The easy sleeve shouldn't do all the demonstrating.
11 pointsVerification complete with quality's accepted sleeve range, pickup and release included. Reviewed job now matches the corrected tooling. Thank you, Naomi, for pinning down the pocket comparison.
14 pointsGood result. I bet the old insert looked reassuringly familiar every time it went back in.
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