02-01-2009, 09:46 AM
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Mr. Dual Eggloft
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Illinois: where our Governors make our license plates.
Posts: 585
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Originally Posted by 5x7
I posted earlier about Estes E15s with a date code of 13X10, with the X being 1993 I think. If 'X' is 1993 that would make 'A' 1970. I have mini motors and B14's, and 1/2A6's with full dates (like 2/27/76) printed on them as late as 1976, with no letter date code on them. So I have two questions if anyone has any idea:
1) What was the first year to use the letter date code?
2) Why wouldn't Estes start the date codes with 'A'?
Thanks for your help!!
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They started with the coding around 1976. The story I heard was that wit the start of freshness date coding on food, folks were returning motors as "expired".
The coding was origined to the year Damon purchased Estes from Vern.
BTW, the really old (pre-metric) motors I have are market with cryptic date codes rather than the actual date of manufacturer.
And I believe that all of the date codes used since 1976 are the Monday of the week they were produced. Date codes were updated weekly, not daily.
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