Chassis number and engine number punches

I’ve read a few threads but can’t find a definitive answer

Is it possible to buy the punches (correct font and height) for the chassis no. And engine number for defenders?

or is it possible to find out what the height and font should be?

Yours been ground off?...

Haha yeh you got me. I’ve got a whole yard of old Land Rovers whose numbers have just ‘fallen’ off.

payydg said:

Haha yeh you got me. I’ve got a whole yard of old Land Rovers whose numbers have just ‘fallen’ off.

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Ive got a full set letters & numbers, got any 90s looking a new home.

I think you will find generic punches are all rather square compered to the real deal.
Stamping engine nos not to hard, chassis nos much harder as the chassis will flex making the punch bounce.

lynall said:

I think you will find generic punches are all rather square compered to the real deal.
Stamping engine nos not to hard, chassis nos much harder as the chassis will flex making the punch bounce.

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Done it before?...

lynall said:

I think you will find generic punches are all rather square compered to the real deal

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Would think generic are softer as not used that often compared to constant use which appear to be sharper so maybe harder...

lynall said:

I think you will find generic punches are all rather square compered to the real deal.
Stamping engine nos not to hard, chassis nos much harder as the chassis will flex making the punch bounce.

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Doesnt bounce if youve got the magnetic holder, what I have found that is that you can indent the
chassis cause its a tad thin.

kevstar said:

Doesnt bounce if youve got the magnetic holder, what I have found that is that you can indent the
chassis cause its a tad thin.

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Or it punches straight through the rust...

Shippers said:

Or it punches straight through the rust...

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You can tell if its going to hole it maybe you should get rid of Thors hammer

@kevstar excellent I’ll be along with the loot… I mean genuine vehicles soon.

@lynall I can imagine. To be honest you could just stamp with any punch roughly the same size and I doubt anyone would ever notice.

But seriously though how can you get hold of these or are they just now relegated to history?

payydg said:

@kevstar excellent I’ll be along with the loot… I mean genuine vehicles soon.

@lynall I can imagine. To be honest you could just stamp with any punch roughly the same size and I doubt anyone would ever notice.

But seriously though how can you get hold of these or are they just now relegated to history?

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All the years I spent in motor trade not once did we check a landy stamped number.
No one cares as chassis rot for fun & so many are modified these days so just check the
metal plate or windscreen no.
Pm me with the job lot

I have two kit cars where the numbers on the chassis were stamped by the plods.
Each time they said, "This'll get a Q reg"
Each time they were wrong!

Shippers said:

Done it before?...

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No need all my Land Rover original chassis even the 59
I have stamps as used to stamp aluminium HGV trailers with their new ministry number

It’s more if you wanted to do a trip crossing a few borders and wanted everything to be in order.

where would this information even exist?

I stamped my new chassis with the original number using teaps bought off ebay roughly the right size.
From my experience with classic bikes and illegible/missing and strange numbers nobody either checks or understands classic vehicle numbering systems or the "correct" fonts on a classic vehicle even if they could locate it in the first place apart from marque nerds and the owners clubs.
I have had bikes MOTed with the MOT tester simply applying a sticker to the chassis from the V5 number to satisfy the tick box on the MOT saying "chassis number present and correct" and others with it completely invisible under layers of paint. It took me days to find the chassis number on my BSA Spitfire when I bought it,even though I knew where it was, then promptly painted over it again to protect the steel!
Vehicles prior to the VIN plates being used as nowadays I wouldn't worry about it, stamp the number into the chassis for security and comfort but nobody is going to look and if they do they won't understand it. The VIN number is repeated on the VIN plate attached to the bodywork anyway, mine is on the rad mount with the chassis number stamped into it.