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BillD
10-02-2006, 01:08 AM
This is a WT master cylinder stamp. Does it appear that the pad has been ground down and then restamped?
bertfam
10-02-2006, 01:30 AM
Bill,

Compared to my WT, yours looks like a different font. Mine seems to be more of a narrow type of font. (Sorry for the crappy picture, but I don't have a very good camera!)

Ed

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h52/bertfam/WT.jpg
bertfam
10-02-2006, 01:37 AM
Here's a comparison of yours (left) and mine (right). Note how narrow my "W" is compared to yours and also note that the top of my "T" isn't as long as yours. This isn't to say yours is not correct. I have no idea if more than one font was used.

Ed

http://www.freephotoserver.com/v001/bertfam/wt_comparison.jpg
BillD
10-02-2006, 02:02 AM
Ed, Thanks for the help. It's not mine, Just doing some pre-purchase research. I have a real WT on one of the cars here. It also has a font like yours and has a surface as cast on the pad. The one on the left looks like the pad has been ground down to me.
bertfam
10-02-2006, 02:08 AM
Yeah Bill. The pad does look a little deeper than mine.

Ed
TDW
10-02-2006, 02:57 AM
Bill...I just checked my WT M/C. It does not look at all like the one in your picture. It looks like the one Ed posted.
Pacecarjeff
10-02-2006, 09:28 PM
That is a restamp absolutly.
I noticed the trend a few years back, that people were stamping these.

It seems the 346 masters were used all the way through 1978, without a "thumb" pad, and no bleeders.

One day on ebay, I looked at a horrible pad surface, and bleeders that were not in the right place.
I started watching more carefully at them, and noticed more and more restamps.
The hackers, are getting much better since back then.

That surface is too smooth, and the WT should different then that one. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

I have 4 or 5 real ones, I will get a real good picture, as soon as my camera comes back from the shop.
(any day now) http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif
427TJ
10-02-2006, 09:50 PM
Can someone please tell me what these decipher to:

Looks like CT

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/BE427TJ/Y-Net%20Photos/CTStamp.jpg

Aluminum tag on cover hold-down bar:

18B P/R DC

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/BE427TJ/Y-Net%20Photos/MCTag.jpg
Pacecarjeff
10-02-2006, 10:03 PM
Don't know what the CT is from.
However, that is the correct "T" for the WT's http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif