Which released bracket measurement belongs in our FR5 fixture brief?

CarlaAbbott0053 · 17 Oct 2025, 10:01 UTC

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CarlaAbbott0053
I found two inspection sheets for our gusseted support bracket. One says square in jig. The other gives an out-of-tolerance hole-to-base measurement after the part was removed. Neither identifies the bracket, so I cannot tell whether they describe the same piece. Our FR5 fixture proposal cites them as a before-and-after comparison. I would rather ask inspection one useful question now than commission a fixture around a story we cannot trace. Is there anything worth recovering from these sheets?

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SarahBrooks0850
Replying to CarlaAbbott0053

We once recovered a link from a job traveller kept outside the inspection folder, so I would ask whether the sheet numbers appear on anything that identifies the batch or part.

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FarahAli0243
Replying to CarlaAbbott0053

Even if they match, square in jig may refer to another feature. Ask what was actually checked.

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CarlaAbbott0053
Replying to SarahBrooks0850

The traveller links both sheets to the same batch, Sarah, but not an individual bracket. Farah, the jig check was a stop-contact check. It did not measure hole-to-base distance.

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SarahBrooks0850
Replying to CarlaAbbott0053

Then my traveller suggestion only got you partway, and Farah's point explains why joining the two readings would still be misleading.

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FarahAli0243
Replying to CarlaAbbott0053

Keep the failed final measurement available. I mean do not discard it with the attempted comparison; someone still needs to account for that failure when planning the work.

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CarlaAbbott0053
Replying to FarahAli0243

That is the useful split. I have removed the before-and-after claim from our brief and left the final failure as an unresolved example. We are asking inspection to choose a current comparison on identified parts.

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SarahBrooks0850
Replying to CarlaAbbott0053

Carla, will that comparison use the same drawing revision as the new fixture brief, or does the old sheet predate a change?

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CarlaAbbott0053
Replying to SarahBrooks0850

Both use revision F. The old sheet states it, and I checked the proposal attachment. Thank you for pushing the traceability question before we built a convincing chart from unrelated checks.

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FarahAli0243
Replying to CarlaAbbott0053

Does the current route include a correction operation before final inspection? That would need to appear in the comparison too.

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