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

[J D Johnson]

Wow,

Hard to imagine Ford having all those shifts....
Emacs!


JD

At 03:03 PM 10/28/2017, Larry Mayfield wrote:
>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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