[Tigers] All I have to do is learn how to type. "5s" & "6s" do look kind of alike.

[Larry Mayfield]

I heard from a guy who does this kind of stuff for a living. He said the
last "C" in the date code is actually the shift that it was manufactured
(machined) during.  1st shift is A, 2nd is B, and 3rd is C.   So my guess is
that the block was cast a couple of weeks before machining, then on the
early morning if the 31st of March it was machined and made ready for
assembly.  He said the probability of fonding a matching date code down to
the shift was pretty slim.  

 

Mayf

 

From: J D Johnson [mailto:j_d_johnson at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 7:34 AM
To: Larry Mayfield <drmayf at mayfco.com>
Subject: RE: [Tigers] All I have to do is learn how to type. "5s" & "6s" do
look kind of alike.

 

Unless I'm completely misinformed, the final letter of the assembly date =
engineering level change,

JD

At 05:08 AM 10/28/2017, you wrote:



Interesting date code you sent. What does that last "C" mean.. rest of it
says March 31st, 1966 [6=1966, C= March, 31is day of the month, last "C"
=?????]. Perhaps where it was machined?  
 
mayf

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