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Top caps font

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:52 am
by Toby
Anybody ever notice the font is differs on the top caps for an S

Would there be a way of knowing during which time frame which font was used?

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Re: Top caps font

Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:22 pm
by littler
:lol: i thought i was the only sad enough person to have picked up on this, i had a bad set on a head and wonderd if some silly bugger had stamped them up as "fake" W caps!

Re: Top caps font

Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:07 pm
by scooperman
The Weslake Laboratories designed retainers I saw had the "W" like the one shown on the left of the picture, not like the other two. Higher tensile steel than a standard retainer, and it squeezes the spring (reduced installed height) by an additional 0.050" .