I totally agree with what you are saying innuendo about it not being 100%.
The point I am trying to make is that unless you have the docs, 18v, or xx7/xu3, it is always going to be a "could be". All you can do is like you say try and find the indicators that help add to the evidence.
The trouble is , and this has been said in other threads, everything else is a bolt on/ bolt off. If when I start the full restoration I find under six layers of paint there are blackouts it still doesnt prove, like you said, that it is. This may have been done on layer six and there is layer seven and eight under that.
The strips could have been placed after or not optioned by the buyer, from what I have read they were put on by the dealer and towards the end a lot of people didnt want them.
Believe me the excitment has not got me carried away. I am in no way claiming that this is a genuine sandman xu3, I am mearly trying to do like you and absinth have said and gather what i can to add to the positive side of the scales.
The thing is that even if it has all the indicators, all of the things that go into making a sandman, even then, without dealers papers or documentation stating that it was, xx7/xu3 or 18v, it and every other sandman out there without solid proof, will only be "could be's".
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