On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:35:45 UTC, "Bill Daniels"
bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote:

: It would be easy to dip one end of the slotted links in, say, tan paint.
: Seeing a link assembly with two white dogbones but with one showing a tan
: end would indicate that the link had been assembled correctly.

I'm pretty sure that I have seen genuine Tost weak links in which the
slotted ones had a paint band round the middle. But that may have been
added by the club in question. It's a sensible thing to do.

Ian