Authenticity Check for KMC X9
03-18-21 | 07:17 PM
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Authenticity Check for KMC X9
Hi everyone
need your help, does anyone know how to spot fake KMC X9 other than packaging? I was still checking thru onlines and forums but for X9 there are few materials out there.
Hoping for your help
thanks
need your help, does anyone know how to spot fake KMC X9 other than packaging? I was still checking thru onlines and forums but for X9 there are few materials out there.
Hoping for your help
thanks
03-18-21 | 07:31 PM
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try a search-been there done that.
03-18-21 | 08:39 PM
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What makes you think you have a fake chain? There are things worth counterfeiting but chains are cheap enough that it's really not worth the effort.
03-18-21 | 08:55 PM
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ISTR a very similar thread a few months ago.
An employee/rep of the company mentioned that the side plates will have different marks to identify the tooling/die used to stamp them out.
Defective #V's start showing up and they pull tool/die #V and install a new one.
Apparently there are fakes- See post18
KMC Chain authenticity question, bought on Taobao
An employee/rep of the company mentioned that the side plates will have different marks to identify the tooling/die used to stamp them out.
Defective #V's start showing up and they pull tool/die #V and install a new one.
Apparently there are fakes- See post18
KMC Chain authenticity question, bought on Taobao
Last edited by Bill Kapaun; 03-18-21 at 09:03 PM.
03-19-21 | 02:22 PM
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I just bought a KMC x9 9spd chain from a very reputable seller on ebay (that is also a large brick'n'mortar store) that came with no packaging but it looks genuine. One thing that makes me think so is the outer plates have numerous different stamping patterns - some say KMC, some K9 and others just numbers like 2 or 50 (which may be a way that KMC keeps track of different batches). I doubt a fake factory would go to the trouble of making 3 different dies if they just wanted to make maximum $.
