Topic: Spring Stripe orientation

[DaveF]

After searching the library as well as several posts, I am still a little unclear as to how my Spring stripes will be viewed when they are on the car. My Build Sheet says that they are Gold-Pink for my car. So if the springs are painted upside down, will the stripes be presented as Pink-Gold when they are on the car? Also, there is no color shown for the right spring. Does that mean that only the left one has paint marks, and the right one is left bare? Thanks

[Bob Gaines]

After searching the library as well as several posts, I am still a little unclear as to how my Spring stripes will be viewed when they are on the car. My Build Sheet says that they are Gold-Pink for my car. So if the springs are painted upside down, will the stripes be presented as Pink-Gold when they are on the car? Also, there is no color shown for the right spring. Does that mean that only the left one has paint marks, and the right one is left bare? Thanks

There is no left and right spring . They are the same and consequently striped the same. The assembly line worker is looking for the build sheet two colors to identify the correct coil for the given car. The order in which the colors are viewed is irrelevant to the worker.

[rockhouse66]

This is how they were done on the '69 San Jose car I owned.

[Bob Gaines]

This is how they were done on the '69 San Jose car I owned.

The springs were typically painted with the coil sitting on the flat end as the brush strokes in Jim's picture indicate . The coil is installed opposite of that when mounted in the car. That brush stroke direction is something to be aware of if marking the springs when they are already mounted . 

[CharlesTurner]

The springs were typically painted with the coil sitting on the flat end as the brush strokes in Jim's picture indicate . The coil is installed opposite of that when mounted in the car. That brush stroke direction is something to be aware of if marking the springs when they are already mounted .

In Jim's pic, the gold paint marks are running down the sides of the coils, like it was laying on the side.

[Bob Gaines]

In Jim's pic, the gold paint marks are running down the sides of the coils, like it was laying on the side.

My observation is not seeing the brush strokes distinctively running to the side like if it was laying down when painted . It could of course been painted  standing up when painted and then it was laid down for whatever reason if you see some slight sag in the paint . That is why I said "typically" instead of a absolute like this is the only way it was.  Logically the easiest and most stable way of marking is standing up on the flat rather then rolling unstable like if laying on its side. There is the typical and the less typical. I was remarking about how it was typically done.

[J_Speegle]

After searching the library as well as several posts, I am still a little unclear as to how my Spring stripes will be viewed when they are on the car. My Build Sheet says that they are Gold-Pink for my car. So if the springs are painted upside down, will the stripes be presented as Pink-Gold when they are on the car? Also, there is no color shown for the right spring. Does that mean that only the left one has paint marks, and the right one is left bare? Thanks

Excellent answers. As for the orientation of the stripes that IMHO also supports the coils laying on the side or up side down when marked here is a picture of a 69 Pink gold front coil spring. Often you can even see the direction as to how the stripes were applied and the related  brush marks (rounded start to the end with the bristle marks) on the application but not always if the brush was on the dry side with not as much paint or at the end of the pass



As you can see, since the spring is up side down as how it would be installed, that on this example the colors would be backwards from the buildsheet order