Embossed AC212CW Air Filter Element Age

[jeffschevelle]

Originally Posted by daveg

Ad said "survivor " takeoff from a 70 corvette.
Stencil under lid is nice but it looks like no decals on top ever.

Witness marks in dirt say this was together for a very long time. Thanks

PS the mesh looks soldered???

I refer to the version with the straight wires and square holes and a blob of solder on every joint as "soldered" mesh.

As far as I have seen, the mesh that looks like chain link fence wire can be either literal "expanded metal" (where a single flat sheet of metal is sheered and bent over and over to create each individual wire segment without cutting the sheet at the joints, as seen on many current filters), or separate individual curved wires that look like they were pressed together to fuse them to each other (which is what the first filter in the first post in this thread looks like, and what yours looks like in the one pic of the outside that you posted).

There is probably a name for that "fused" type of chain-link looking mesh but I don't know what it is. And maybe there is some solder involved in those fused joints too, although not as obvious as the blobs on the straight wire mesh. Regardless, I have just been calling both of the chain link fence shaped meshes "expanded metal mesh" because they are shaped the same. Maybe that was incorrect.

Regardless of the correct name, the pressed together or fused version of the chain link fence shaped mesh is older than the "true" expanded metal mesh version.