Coil spring tape/tag location

[Robert P.]

Re: Coil spring tape/tag location

Gary , those pictures are very close to the ones i sent you . On mine the ends did not meet up perfectly and you could see the dirt on glue side that was exposed to the elements
regards Bob

[Gary B.]

Re: Coil spring tape/tag location

Bob,

Thanks for reminding me of your photos. Were all three of your photos of the same tag? I have a hard time imagining how your tag(s) connected together, now that they are in their unwrapped configuration. Good evidence nonetheless.

Gary

[Gary B.]

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Gary
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[David H.]

Re: Coil spring tape/tag location

Here’s another example of GM’s wanting to complete the spring ID tagging as quickly as possible, without regard to precision. ...

Gary

Tom Russo's Restorer article (V32:3 Winter 2006) nicely describes line workers use of Broadcast Codes, in your case, green tags on front springs. Well worth a read, just working to get correct parts on cars - you're right not much precision here.

On the other hand, for Flight Judging, we're getting into the weeds here. 1963-67 assign 4 Originality points to front springs. Splitting 4 into 3 for springs and 1 for tags (IMO too much for tags) means these issues are minimal. A missing tag - half a point, both missing - one point. Tag cut lines would be a configuration issue, 20% of 1 point - making a notation at best. 1968-72 Flight Judging assigns only 2 Originality points to front springs. Out of 4500 total points-not much.

Dave

[Gary B.]