COPO BE rear on craigslist

[Kurt S]

I've never seen a misstamped axle that I can recall.

[69LM1]

Here is a BL coded rear I have in the garage:



This is the one here:



To me, looks like the bottom of the "E" in BE looks like the "L" in BL

Rich

[x77-69z28]

I'm with you on that Rich.

[L78steve]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kurt S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've never seen a misstamped axle that I can recall. </div></div>

He's one for you Kurt.
I have the POP to back it up.

[neresto]

[Kurt S]

I knew if I said that, pics would appear. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]
The second one looks like alphabet practice.

[70 copo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L78steve</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kurt S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've never seen a misstamped axle that I can recall. </div></div>

He's one for you Kurt.
I have the POP to back it up.

</div></div>

Both images look like the standard method of correcting a miss stamp at the factory.

First obliterate the previous mark and then correct. I have seen engine blocks where the stamping was corrected in this way. Not pretty but that is the way it was.

Thanks for posting.

[70 copo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kurt S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I knew if I said that, pics would appear. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]
The second one looks like alphabet practice. </div></div>

This condition is typical of the quality and performance issues encountered when a replacement worker is assigned to an element and does not understand how to properly perform the element.

More common than you would think.

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Honestly, this looks like a BL stamp to me that someone altered. The only way I would ever say this *might* be legit was if it had a correctly dated COPO posi unit and ring and pinion in it and it was in &quot;as found&quot; condition and not painted or fluffed.

[70 copo]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Fast67VelleN2O</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

Honestly, this looks like a BL stamp to me that someone altered. The only way I would ever say this *might* be legit was if it had a correctly dated COPO posi unit and ring and pinion in it and it was in &quot;as found&quot; condition and not painted or fluffed. </div></div>


Exactly....on the dated COPO R&amp;P portion of the comment.

I am not going to offer opinion either way on the subject rear end. What I will say is that the obliteration marks are consistent with a known manufacturing plant correction technique as recalled to me by the spring and axle line workers.

It is troubling that segments in hobby keep calling most everything with a stamp deviation that does not fit a narrow interpretation fake. If we do this most all of the time we are collectively doomed to learn nothing new before the &quot;living past&quot; transitions into history.

The living past in my statement is in reference to still living line workers who installed these assemblies.

Of course the matter is sealed and left to us to figure out what we can - when remaining workers who can tell us what happened eventually pass away.

That is when this portion of the hobby truly passes into the historical context.