All of the connectors that I have been working on have failed their inspection. The end caps have been measured and turns out they were made improperly. The drawing was wrong, which lead to the end caps being made incorrectly, which lead to a gap that the o-rings extruded through. With the o-rings disfigured, sea water was able to get in and corrode the metal. Ideally all that needs to happen is to fix the end caps and then the connectors should be fine. This week I also learned the importance of units as I torqued the connectors 12 times higher than they’re supposed to be at. Luckily this isn’t a terrible mistake; I just need to redo them at the correct torque.
One of the connectors had a hole in it! The corroded area measures 4 mm by 4 mm with the hole being 2 mm deep!
I also got to use this little wrench. It’s so cute!