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Old 06-05-21, 10:53
Jakko Westerbeke Jakko Westerbeke is offline
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If you cannot get in there with a small hand held media gun
I don’t even know what a media gun is, aside from assuming from context that it’s a tool to do with sandblasting

Thanks for the tips, though I may not be able to go back before the tank gets sandblasted in order to try some out

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if the stamping are not there (light struck) then they are just plain not there.
Technically it should be possible to bring them out with the right equipment, due to the invisible deformation the stamping will have caused in the underlying metal, but that requires all kinds of forensics-type kit, like that used to retrieve filed-off serial numbers from guns. Somehow, I think I won’t have access to that either …

Also, someone pointed out to me that the second digit is probably a 0, not a 1. It’s odd, but when I was looking at the real thing it looked definitely like a straight number 1 to me, but in the photos I see the round shape of a 0 instead … So it’s probably 2030X.
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