Does anyone know what the large "R" signifies?
Does anyone know what the large "R" signifies?
IT IS NOT "RACE"....
As many have asked before......
It is the inspector/builder mark...
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Thanks - and if anyone would know it is you.
How rare is the stamp, I have never seen one before. Thanks for any insight.
I'll go ahead and be the ASS-ummer here but I would say if it is a inspector/builder mark it is pretty common as I would assume all wheels were inspected/stamped although I've been wrong before
Ive seen lots of wheels and never saw an R stamped on the pedal near the date stamp. of the 30 + fuchs I have had the pleasure to clean, never one...till now.
I've see the "R" many times as well as others....Some photos of wheels from a rack near me.
I noticed about half have some mark in the general area...
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Thanks - good feedback.
I am a scholar of information, a curious person and interested in learning about all things Porsche. When I see something that I personally have never seen before (in this case an R, or any other initial) stamped on a Fuch I was thinking I might be in possession of something cool...and before I sold it I was wondering what it signified. I didnt find it in online search so I came to where there are Porsche people. And wowza, I got the MASTER of Fuchs to inform me. I sort of feel wonderful that Harvey shed a shaft of light on me.
Last week I was holding all cool pair of brake calipers. Turns out they were all aluminum brake calipers built by the factory for racing that had a quick release for the brake pads...really cool.
Last edited by Chuck Miller; 03-19-2015 at 10:12 PM.
A little story about production and stamping...
While in college, I took a job at a manufacturing business that had a government contract. They said they didn't need an engineering student but maybe I could help with quality control since I understood the engineering criteria...
So My job was final inspection and in doing that job, I occasionally had to go back to see who performed a job or who inspected a assembly...
Every person that handled the part had to put his mark on it. I quickly found out that some of the old machinists weren't interested in following protocol and some preferred to have their own mark and not the government issued one.
Some would miss marking a part altogether...sometimes for days or weeks... Imagine the production at Fuchs about the same time...and they had beer in the break room!
We were dealing with a critical government part and getting everyone to put their mark in the right spot or even put it on at all was like hearding cats....
HTH
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Cool. That's what I thought.
At the end of the day, they're all just parts. If they could speak all they would do is laugh at us.
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