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15-12-12, 04:03 PM
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REME Officer Badge Anomaly
Received this badge yesterday. Obviously REME but I was not sure which one as the pic on eBay was not good, but I could make out the non-voided legs of the horse, both front and rear. It turns out to be an officer's silver and gilt. Compare it with my 'good' badge, both of which are 'F & S' maker marked. I can only guess that the horse escaped one of the voiding operations during manufacture, but how did it get past quality control! The rear view of both badges clearly shows that both have come out of the same tooling. Not a bad buy for GBP 3.75 including P&P.
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15-12-12, 06:36 PM
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Its probably been thrown in the "scrap" bin as a reject and has then been "rescued" and then (unofficially) sold on to a dealer etc. That process has gone on for years and accounts for a great many of the rather odd anomalies which exist in respect of badges.
Dave.
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16-12-12, 06:46 PM
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Marc and Dave. QC? indeed! I had considered that the badge was a 'reject' and rescued from the scrap bin, but why did the process go the the final stage, combining the two parts and attaching the lugs?. Not being 'aux fait' with the manufacturing process, if not totally automated, one has to assume human input at some point and therefore the badge would have been 'scrapped' before completion! Who knows. Another mystery.
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16-12-12, 07:43 PM
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John,
You have to remember that they could be making an order for 100's possibly 1,000's of these badges. The process is fairly fast and parts of it although may be done by hand, is such that someone with these badges flashing in front of them at a fairly quick pace would probably not notice. In fact you have to look twice to notice the defect now. The quality control comes at the end when each badge is examined before packing. It could well be that thirty or more of these badges were rejected (with the same defect) and chucked in the bin. Of that number all but two or three may have gone for destruction. Its an interesting variation. Just think, if it was a stamp you would be a rich man! Dave.
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17-12-12, 07:49 AM
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Quality control does not necessarily mean inspecting every badge , possibly 1 in a 100 , or even more, would be given a quick look over so if a fault arises in the process it could be possible for lots of "faulty" badges to have passed through before it was rectified and if it was a minor fault may have been allowed to go through,after all it wasn't precision engineering .
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17-12-12, 11:57 AM
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I would have thought that it would have been spotted earlier as the two parts are put together by hand, it being only a semi-automated process.
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