Mill-Max 350 Series Header Shoulder Issue

If you look at the 350 series header from Mill-Max, you may see that the header pin is sitting above the surface of the insulator, as below image.

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There is a “shoulder” appearing on one side of the part.

Mill-Max has confirmed that this is a normal condition and not considered “defective”. Sometimes the parts are assembled like this, it is a result of the tooling assembly process.