A-A-52069 Fiber Rope Assembly, Single Leg

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A-A-52069

2. QUALITY ASSURANCE.

2.1 Certification. The contractor shall certify and maintain substantiating evidence that the product offered meets the salient characteristics of the Commercial Item Description, and that the product conforms to the producer’s own drawings, specifications, standards, and quality assurance practices. The government reserves the right to require proof of such conformance prior to first delivery and thereafter as may be otherwise provided for under the provisions of the contract.

2.2 Quality conformance inspection. Unless otherwise specified, sampling for inspection shall be performed in accordance with MIL-STD-105.

2.3 End item visual examination. Each lot of fiber rope assemblies shall be inspected in accordance with MIL-STD-105, inspection level II. The assemblies shall be examined for consumer type defects, as follows:

Defects in design, construction, or workmanship: any cut, kink, broken or loose ends, bulged strands; not of continuous length; contains knots, splices, or otherwise secured to make a continuous length; tucks of splices not made against lay of rope; end strands of splices not tapered or trimmed; loose tucks, bulged splices or uneven splicing; any spot or stain clearly noticeable; served end not secured, served, loose ends not tucked in lay of rope; marking omitted or not as specified.

The lot size shall be expressed in units of completed fiber rope assemblies, and the same sample unit shall be one completed fiber rope assembly. The inspection level shall be II, and the acceptable quality level (AQL), expressed in terms of defects per hundred units, shall be 6.5.

2.4 End item dimensional examination. The finished fiber rope assembly shall be examined for conformance to the dimensions specified in 1.1. Measurements shall be as follows: