What is your Revelle Type VII Mold date?

[Snipah]

I was dremeling out my flood holes (Oh Joy) and I noted the mold date on my Type VII. Just wondered if everyones is the same.

GMBH 2003 stamped into mine. What has everyone else got?

Regards

Brett

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Why should we care?

David

[Snipah]

To see if your an Antique collector of course.
Trying to guage the age of the plastic.
Being nosey. :-)
A break from dremmelling.
Lots of reasons...

I was following another thread on plastic turning brittle over time.
Mine maybe 3 years ago from a 2003 mold.

Hows my order :-D

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

To see if your an Antique collector of course.
Trying to guage the age of the plastic.
Being nosey. :-)
A break from dremmelling.
Lots of reasons...

I was following another thread on plastic turning brittle over time.
Mine maybe 3 years ago from a 2003 mold.

Hows my order :-D

All good, valid reasons. I was being an Ass.

David

[Snipah]

I know mate, I've seen your style of posts over the years lol, Alls good here I can take it :-)
I was being a smart ass back :-)

[Subculture]

The date would reflect the age of the tool rather than the plastic, I would have thought.

[Snipah]

Quite Correct, so are you confirming the same tool is being used? Noone has matched my date yet. Just sayin

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Quite Correct, so are you confirming the same tool is being used? Noone has matched my date yet. Just sayin

So, my reputation precedes me ... that's alarming.

To be serious. The tool-stamp does give one pause as to why its there. May I suggest: As a tool is used for decades and if made from the appropriate alloy, will generate injected parts identical from the first shot to the last, why the ID number? I assume inventory control, when it's pulled from the press and put into storage. Also, the code may be an intrinsic part of that tools product code -- used to identify it for inventory control and as an identifier when it's leased out, shipped, or refurbished/modified by an off-site shop, etc.

Might also that code be used to inform the press set-up guys as to the particular means and forces needed to secure the tool elements in the machine to get good shots from the get-go.

I'm spit-balling here -- anyone out there know why those numbers are there and why?

David

[Subculture]

I notice my little Revell 212 kit has a 2005 date stamp on it. probably there for a reference as to when the kit was moulded, perhaps they introduce revisions from time to time, if better reference comes long.

[trout]

I will open my Revell type VII kits tonight and post what I have found.

[satlite440]

mine is 2003

[trout]

wolfpack is 2003
atlantic is 2003

[urban warrior]

Hello All,

I hope you don't mind that I as a newbie jump on this topic.

The "2003" is definitely the information when the injection mold tool has been created or when the date changes when it has been reworked completely.

An indicator for the date a part has been molded looks otherwise:

http://www.google.de/imgres?q=datumsstempel+f%C3%BCr+spritzgussform&hl=de&sa=X&biw=1920&bih=1031&tbs=isz:m&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=3sxOyYPYx7DVbM:&imgrefurl=http://www.directindustry.de/prod/cumsa/datumstempel-fur-formen-und-werkzeuge-15599-270239.html&docid=2iOBHk41yxPfGM&imgurl=http://img.directindustry.de/images_di/photo-mg/datumstempel-fur-form-und-werkzeug-15599-2529997.jpg&w=492&h=500&ei=S9QvUNWqB8Twsga8qIDABQ&zoom=1

But most plastic models or rc models will rarely have this indicator featured in the parts the customer receives, since it doesn't play such a great role how old our models are. Look, in Ebay you will often find kits 20, 30 or more years old, which are still able to be assembled together.

You will find this indicator in molded parts where it is important to know how old this part is. Due to reasons of possible deterioration or when it is important for a classification of spareparts (e.g.: only a dedicated list of parts will fit to a sequence of years of manufacture of a car).

Kind regards
Martin

[Snipah]

Welcome aboard chief! Thanks for posting that bit of info