Pads pass the first housing and mark the twentieth

Yes, same arcs as the contacts. There's visible residue on the pads, though we don't know if it's from the coating or the packing process.

Keep those used pads for the tooling supplier and compare them with unused ones, a fresh-pad beauty contest won't tell you how often the operator will need to clean or replace them.

Quality picked a viewing light and reference pieces with us. They reject the dull crescents. Thanks for the used-pad suggestion, those are going back with the marked housings.

We had a residue problem that only appeared after a packaging change. Did your sample housings all go through the same cleaning and packing route, or did somebody prepare the first few specially?

What will happen when a pad is replaced during production? The trial needs a documented pad condition and replacement method. Otherwise repeated use may look acceptable until somebody fits a different thickness and changes the contact geometry.

Exactly, ask the toolmaker to specify the consumable and its fitting method with the fingers, otherwise maintenance gets handed a part number and a small improvisation exercise.

First samples were wiped especially for the demo. The later ones weren't. We're repeating with our normal incoming condition and adding release and pad replacement to the trial, no material winner yet.