A Hint About Reading Serial Numbers

Caryc · Aug 31, 2016

I needed to get the serial off my Continental engine to find the year it and my tractor were made. I couldn't read it with my naked eye.

The plate was in pretty poor shape so I used my small digital camera with it's macro setting to take pictures of it from different angles.

The camera was just small enough to stick in there where my eyes couldn't go. After I took the pics I loaded them onto my computer and blew them up a bit and adjust the contrast so the numbers were pretty easy to read.

So maybe before taking a wire brush to yours and screwing it up more, try this digital camera thing first, it works great.

steve19438 · Sep 1, 2016

good tip!

if with my reading glasses and or mag. glass I can't read the numbers my wife or son can usually manage to read them.

if it just grease on the tag I use dawn dishwashing det. to clean it up. paint is another whole different matter.

Caryc · Sep 1, 2016

(quoted from post at 05:50:03 09/01/16) good tip!

if with my reading glasses and or mag. glass I can't read the numbers my wife or son can usually manage to read them.

if it just grease on the tag I use dawn dishwashing det. to clean it up. paint is another whole different matter.

The good thing about using a camera is that it can look down behind things that are in the way. I took 6 or 7 pics holding the camera at different angles to get at that plate. Then when you have that FEL frame in the way it just makes things worse.

Even in the pics the numbers were hard to read until I used the brightness and contrast settings really exaggerated to make those numbers pop out. Of course you have to have some kind of editing program.

A Hint About Reading Serial Numbers

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