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Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:03 pm**

Hi,

All the pictures show nice smooth edges, but my new 8GB PI 4 has rough edges (e.g. along the edge near the GPIO pins) like it's been snapped off of a bigger board and not cleaned up. Even seemed to have a few strands of fibreglass which I pulled off.

Is that normal?

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:46 pm**

jajaj wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:03 pm
Hi,

All the pictures show nice smooth edges, but my new 8GB PI 4 has rough edges (e.g. along the edge near the GPIO pins) like it's been snapped off of a bigger board and not cleaned up. Even seemed to have a few strands of fibreglass which I pulled off.

Is that normal?

Quick answer - yes (there are old threads referring to this). IIRC Pi boards are built/populated/assembled/tested in blocks of (at least) 6, maybe 9 or 12 - there's an old (ancient) blog w.r.t to B+(?) production I think.
Trev.

Posted: **Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:52 pm**

Locking because of this post: viewtopic.php?f=63&t=278939
(not seen until after my reply above)
Trev.

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