— Inspection #29
spur gear
May 13, 2026, 9:02:04 PM · 10762ms · 3607 tokens · card #5
Overall severity
LOW— Summary
Inspection of the RL Rotary Valve drive gear mesh area shows visible buildup/residue on the gear teeth and surrounding valve body, consistent with typical process accumulation. No obvious mechanical damage to the gear flanks or drive plate is evident.
— Recommended action
Clean buildup from gear and valve body at next outage; continue routine monitoring.
— Observations (4)
LOW
Process buildup and discoloration visible on driven gear tooth flanks.
confidence 78%
NONE
Drive plate assembly and mounting hardware appear secure and intact.
confidence 82%
NONE
Gear mesh engagement appears normal with no obvious tooth deformation or excessive wear.
confidence 70%
LOW
Surrounding valve body shows light accumulation typical of in-service operation.
confidence 75%
— Classification
- part
- gear teeth
- type
- spur gear
- view
- internal close-up
- family
- gearbox
- reason
- Close-up inside a housing showing a large spur gear with visible tooth wear and an adjacent mounting bracket.
- source
- context
- confidence
- 0.7
- 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/ca9d6746-b88b-431d-b61d-61f0bf2061f1-0012-fac21e7c617f1803.png
- model_version
- claude-opus-4-7
- prompt_template
- inspect-v2
- tokens (in/out)
- 2733 / 874
- cache (creation/read)
- 0 / 0
- latency
- 10762 ms