I’m not having much luck in getting an answere as to weather the ID
Plate on a 120 Generator is brass or silver color.
Gentelman and Ladies please get up go out to the garage and take a look
for me.
My Id Plate is brass, but the new one I just received from British Auto
is silver in color. I called them and they told me the orignal plate
was brass .but plated over with a silver color metal.
I don"t want to change the plate if the new one I just purchased is
incorrect.
Thank you
Frank A. Rubino
XK120 OTS
670834
Sept.29,1950
The Gen. ID plate was Brass base and plated a sliver colour could have been
Cad. Plating.
Aaron Couper
Rupert, VT USA
Couper’s Classic Cars
www.coupers-cars.com-----Original Message-----
From: FRANK A. RUBINO FRANKRUBINO@webtv.net
To: xk@jag-lovers.orgxk@jag-lovers.org
Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 4:11 PM
Subject: [xk] Generator ID Plate
I’m not having much luck in getting an answere as to weather the ID
Plate on a 120 Generator is brass or silver color.
Gentelman and Ladies please get up go out to the garage and take a look
for me.
My Id Plate is brass, but the new one I just received from British Auto
is silver in color. I called them and they told me the orignal plate
was brass .but plated over with a silver color metal.
I don"t want to change the plate if the new one I just purchased is
incorrect.
Thank you
Frank A. Rubino
XK120 OTS
670834
Sept.29,1950
I’m not having much luck in getting an answere as to weather the ID
Plate on a 120 Generator is brass or silver color.
Gentelman and Ladies please get up go out to the garage and take a look
for me.
Nag- nag- nag, that’s all you get these days.
Well, OK- I looked at my MK VII generator which I’m told is the same as
some 120’s and it’s brass but that’s because I rubbed the faded siver cad.
plate off in preparation for a batch of plating I was going to do but then
abandoned. So there-
not a very helpful answer-but at least an answer!
regards, JM
Now that you’ve stirred a bunch of us out of our chairs…
I, too, purchased one of those new generator ID plates and have trouble
(as you) believing that normal usage could possibly wear off all that
shiny plating and expose only the brass base metal. I once removed the
plate (the rivets have a spiral twist on their shanks) and don’t recall
that the underside was anything but brass colored also.
I have only seen installed ID plates in their “brass” condition. Can any
of our “original condition” owners shed other light on this?
Do you need anything else as long as I’m out here in the garage?
Nag- nag- nag, that’s all you get these days.
Well, OK- I looked at my MK VII generator which I’m told is the same as
some 120’s and it’s brass but that’s because I rubbed the faded siver cad.
plate off in preparation for a batch of plating I was going to do but then
abandoned.
I’m going to change my mind here and agree with Peter Wyatt’s statement that
the plating was nickel-not cad. I had a closer look at it after I read
Peter’s comments and I believe he’s right so please Frank, don’t send me out
into the cold,dark garage again.
Regards, JM
In a message dated 12/12/98 9:32:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, FRANKRUBINO@webtv.net writes:
<< My Id Plate is brass, but the new one I just received from British Auto
is silver in color. I called them and they told me the orignal plate
was brass .but plated over with a silver color metal.
Frank,
This sounds like our discussion of carburetor damper screw tops. The
unrestored special equipment generator that I have from 1951 is brass. with
“black” stamped letters. The generator is still cad or nickle plated.\
Frank, I always thought the plate on the gen. was brass, but maybe all the
ones I remember had the nickel or whatever worn off. Bit like the dashpot
tops for the carbs? Regards, John Elmgreen
A Big thanks to all of you who got up out of your comfortable over
stuffed chairs and voyaged out to those cold garages to inspect ID
Plates .
It appears that the consenses of opinions is that the plate is made of
Brass but plated over with nickel,(or some silver metal)
Do we all agree on that?
A Big thanks to all of you who got up out of your comfortable over
stuffed chairs and voyaged out to those cold garages to inspect ID
Plates .
It appears that the consenses of opinions is that the plate is made of
Brass but plated over with nickel,(or some silver metal)
Do we all agree on that?
Frank A. Rubino
XK120 OTS
670834
Sept,29,1950
Harumph, snort,grunt-whatzat? Whadya say? Oh yeah-s’right, nickel-now leave
me alone-I’m trying to get back to snoozin’-I was dreaming about a lady
driver in French Blue Borrani Rexine knickers 'till you butted in now go’way.
Grumpily, JM
Enough of this back and forward without commenting.
I’ve just checked an extremely original untouched engine, with its untouched
11 51 dated Special Equipment generator, displaying its untouched ID plate
with all information areas for stamping in natural brass, but all
surrounding background in nice shiney (OK a little dull now) Nickel plating.
It is also apparent that despite this ID plates easy life in Australia’s
(California should be envious) extremely car friendly environment that in a
few areas the Nickel has thinned/eroded a little that you can start to see
brass coloring underneath. Clearly, very very thin and fragile plating
which would account for most cars no longer having any obvious Nickel
remaining.
Now that you’ve stirred a bunch of us out of our chairs…
I, too, purchased one of those new generator ID plates and have trouble
(as you) believing that normal usage could possibly wear off all that
shiny plating and expose only the brass base metal. I once removed the
plate (the rivets have a spiral twist on their shanks) and don’t recall
that the underside was anything but brass colored also.
I have only seen installed ID plates in their “brass” condition. Can any
of our “original condition” owners shed other light on this?
Do you need anything else as long as I’m out here in the garage?
Harumph, snort,grunt-whatzat? Whadya say? Oh yeah-s’right, nickel-now leave
me alone-I’m trying to get back to snoozin’-I was dreaming about a lady
driver in French Blue Borrani Rexine knickers 'till you butted in now go’way.
Grumpily, JM
Harumph, snort,grunt-whatzat? Whadya say? Oh yeah-s’right, nickel-now leave
me alone-I’m trying to get back to snoozin’-I was dreaming about a lady
driver in French Blue Borrani Rexine knickers 'till you butted in now
go’way.
Grumpily, JM
In a message dated 12/15/98 6:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, warrensj@together.net writes:
…in the south of France. >>
…in the automobile museum near Cannes, wearing Chanel (and little else).
My plate is solid brass with the central area plated with what looks like chrome
or nickel. The areas where numbers are embossed, are not plated. The number is
22462B. Another window next to it has GC51 in it. Below it has C45PVS/5.
Other windows say 12V and 1153, but I don’t know the significance other than
the voltage. At the bottom is an arrow, which probably indicates direction of
rotation.
My car is a '52 OTS, # 672229, with spats over therear wheels.
John Morgan wrote:> >A Big thanks to all of you who got up out of your comfortable over
stuffed chairs and voyaged out to those cold garages to inspect ID
Plates .
It appears that the consenses of opinions is that the plate is made of
Brass but plated over with nickel,(or some silver metal)
Do we all agree on that?
Frank A. Rubino
XK120 OTS
670834
Sept,29,1950
Harumph, snort,grunt-whatzat? Whadya say? Oh yeah-s’right, nickel-now leave
me alone-I’m trying to get back to snoozin’-I was dreaming about a lady
driver in French Blue Borrani Rexine knickers 'till you butted in now go’way.
Grumpily, JM
I’m not having much luck in getting an answere as to weather the ID
Plate on a 120 Generator is brass or silver color.
Gentelman and Ladies please get up go out to the garage and take a look
for me.
Nag- nag- nag, that’s all you get these days.
Well, OK- I looked at my MK VII generator which I’m told is the same as
some 120’s and it’s brass but that’s because I rubbed the faded siver
cad.
plate off in preparation for a batch of plating I was going to do but
then
abandoned. So there-
not a very helpful answer-but at least an answer!
regards, JM