— Inspection #22
large spur gear
May 13, 2026, 8:43:39 PM · 14151ms · 3700 tokens · card #5
Overall severity
MEDIUM— Summary
Significant process buildup is visible around the valve body and gear teeth area, consistent with the technician's first-hand observation. The accumulation appears heavy enough to potentially obstruct gap measurement and warrant cleaning.
— Recommended action
Clean valve body and gear area; re-attempt gap measurements at all A/B positions after cleaning.
— Observations (4)
MEDIUM
Heavy dark process material accumulation visible on and between driven gear tooth flanks
confidence 82%
MEDIUM
Buildup extends across valve body region surrounding the gear, consistent with technician-reported significant accumulation
confidence 80%
NONE
Drive plate and adjacent hardware appear intact with no visible mechanical damage
confidence 70%
MEDIUM
Buildup density may obstruct reliable A/B valve gap measurement at affected positions
confidence 60%
— Classification
- part
- gear teeth
- type
- large spur gear
- view
- close-up internal view
- family
- gear drive
- reason
- Close-up of a large spur gear's teeth showing wear/pitting, with a mounting bracket and bearing housing visible inside a gearbox enclosure.
- source
- context
- confidence
- 0.6
- taxonomy_type_id
- null
- taxonomy_family_id
- null
— Retrieved examples
#3364#1830#3363#2841#1632
Top-K examples from the knowledge corpus used as visual context for this inspection.
— Metadata
- image_uri
- s3://luthier-assets/inspections/1/fc13d2b3-aeac-4b3b-81d7-77fa0e96f750-0012-fac21e7c617f1803.png
- model_version
- claude-opus-4-7
- prompt_template
- inspect-v2
- tokens (in/out)
- 2795 / 905
- cache (creation/read)
- 0 / 0
- latency
- 14151 ms