A vent loads up over a production length run

ReworkA413Leak4/5 confidence

What we learned

What worked

Cleaning the far corner vent between shots. Leak rate dropped from six percent to three percent on the next run.

What failed

Trusting a six part trial to predict a six hundred part run. Nothing that accumulates shows up in six shots.

War story

The trials all passed and the first production run leaked at four times the trial rate. Now any pressure tight part gets a trial batch at production length before it gets quoted.

Rework conditions

Rework method
Vent cleaned between shots
Defect
Leak

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Captured Jun 14, 2026