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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => Air Gun Gate => Topic started by: RedFeather on July 26, 2010, 09:53:29 PM
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Owners of FWB124's have been able to write the factory and request information regarding when their gun was made based upon serial number. This used to be a courtesy service but, recently, FWB has been asking for 60 Euros (about $45 USd) to make the search. They have also stated that guns in the 5K, 10K and 15K range can no longer be verified (per an email to one owner). I recently asked any owners who had factory-verified 124's to list their dates and s/n. Also, anyone who didn't know the factory date but remembered when they bought them new. The responses were as listed, below:
Per FWB Factory search:
S/N Model Date
5974 124 1980
10012 124 1977
17023 124 12/01/78
20400 124S 05/01/79
26000 124D 12/01/79
34476 124 09/01/80
37900 124D 04/01/81
39800 124 05/01/81
44001 124 10/01/81
49992 124 10/01/82
51631 124 1983
52589 124 05/01/83
57200 124S 05/01/85
57600 124D 03/01/85
61600 124 03/01/88
Per date of purchase by original owner:
12500 124D 05/01/78
23600 127D 09/01/79
29600 124 1980
31600 124D 06/01/80
35000 124D 04/03/82
45400 124D 07/16/82
51281 124D 04/01/83
61000 124D 10/01/87
Dates beginning first of month
indicate data was only known at
the monthly level. 5974 may be
a factory records error.
If anyone here on the GTA has such info for their gun(s), please feel free to post it. If Gene or someone could add this to the library, I would appreciate it.
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Thanks for collecting this information. I don't have a 124/7 yet, but this will be really handy if I do get one, and I probably will someday.
It looks like they were producing over 10,000 per year in those early years, so the 5974 must have been a first-year gun. I can see why FWB probably discontinued this model, by 1988 it looks like they probably made not much more than 1,000 per year.
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Good info redfeather. I will check mine out this week end.