5. Cold soldered joints at the conduct or- to- socket 

 connection. 



6. Damaged springs in the socket contacts. 



7. Damaged coupling ring or receptacle threads. 



8. Improper mating of the plug to the receptacle, thus not 

 allowing the proper interface seal to be made. 



9. Chipped or cracked contact insulator materials. 



10. Bent pin contacts. 



11. Porous or cracked receptacle-to-component weld. 



12. Damaged or scratched 0-ring seal surfaces. 



13. Damaged or improperly molded 0-rings. 



14. Improperly positioned or sized polarizing key. 



15. Oversized (too thick) pin contact gasket. 



16. Improperly bonded pin contact gasket. 



17. Conductor fatigue failure inside the connector. 



18. Conductor kinking and breaking in the cable harness. 



19. Out-of-spec plug and receptacle dimensions. 



20. Conductor breakage due to high impact loads on the cable 

 or a sharp cable bend radius. 



21. Short circuit due to foreign materials at the plug-to- 

 receptacle interface. 



22. Swelling of seal and gasket materials due to the use of 

 improper cleaning solvents. 



23. Dielectric withstanding voltage breakdown of contact 

 insulations. 



24. Short circuits at the conductor-to-conductor termination 

 due to foreign materials in potting compounds. 



25. Loss of plug-to-receptacle seals due to foreign particles 

 on the seal surfaces. 



26. Conductor breakage due to axial tensile loads on the 

 harness. 



27. Dislodge keys in the receptacles resulting in loss of 

 polarization. 



28. Inadequate spacing between conductor terminations (move- 

 ment during molding operations) in plug or receptacle 

 which leads to electrical failure when cable seal is 

 flexed or subjected to sea pressure. 



29. Relaxation of the springs on the socket contacts with use 

 to the point where contact surface becomes critical and 

 leads to eventual electrical burn-out. 



30. Electrical failure resulting from flooding into conductor 

 termination area when female portion is exposed to sea 

 pressure as a result of no protection with pressure- 

 proof covers and also via cable jacket permeability. 



31. Corrosion of contact surfaces resulting in a critical 

 potential drop across the contact surfaces, resulting in 

 eventual burn-out. 



32. Failures resulting from general lack of quality control 

 during manufacture which were undetected due to inadequate 

 testing and inspection following fabrication. 



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