now is that ground into the gear? to me, it looks like someone hit it with a grinder, then wrote on it with a sharpie
I agree it looks like crap. It looks like an electric engraving tool made the writing. That is what mine looked like as well. There are several installs of Richmonds on gearinstalls.com that show the same thing. I don't know why its like that, it just is and is characteristic of Richmonds.
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