So,
I have a couple of classic valves with non-matching serial numbers, and the other day I began to wonder how such things happen.
I mean, how DO you come to have separated reg and valve bodies?
Someone built these two with parts from different valves, so presumably those other parts are out there somewhere. But how to account for it?
Do people just sit around unscrewing all their valves in a single pile and then accidentally lose some, or forget which piece goes with which?
Do evil fairies come in the night and steal just one half, leaving the other behind?
Seriously. It really is bizarre when you think about it.
Where are all those other halves, and how in the world did they become permanently separated from their mates?
And do any of them find their way back home? In which case, what happens to the unmatched half it was temporarily living with?
Just wondering if anyone else finds this impossible strange, or knows how to account for it.
Presumably some could be accounted for by way of those goofy aftermarket reg backs, but surely not so many.
And this still doesn't account for their corresponding fronts, which now need a mate. There weren't any aftermarket fronts, so even if we say that the original reg back taken from one valve and replaced with an aftermarket was paired with a different front, what happened to the reg back from that front?
Why not just keep them together in the first place?
It's just dizzying. And seeing sales threads where the matching serial thing is listed as though it's a big deal is even more strange.
What do you all make of it?
I have a couple of classic valves with non-matching serial numbers, and the other day I began to wonder how such things happen.
I mean, how DO you come to have separated reg and valve bodies?
Someone built these two with parts from different valves, so presumably those other parts are out there somewhere. But how to account for it?
Do people just sit around unscrewing all their valves in a single pile and then accidentally lose some, or forget which piece goes with which?
Do evil fairies come in the night and steal just one half, leaving the other behind?
Seriously. It really is bizarre when you think about it.
Where are all those other halves, and how in the world did they become permanently separated from their mates?
And do any of them find their way back home? In which case, what happens to the unmatched half it was temporarily living with?
Just wondering if anyone else finds this impossible strange, or knows how to account for it.
Presumably some could be accounted for by way of those goofy aftermarket reg backs, but surely not so many.
And this still doesn't account for their corresponding fronts, which now need a mate. There weren't any aftermarket fronts, so even if we say that the original reg back taken from one valve and replaced with an aftermarket was paired with a different front, what happened to the reg back from that front?
Why not just keep them together in the first place?
It's just dizzying. And seeing sales threads where the matching serial thing is listed as though it's a big deal is even more strange.
What do you all make of it?
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