Plastic Engine Cases and Metal Engine Cases

[james64]

What saws of this family had plastic engine cases and which had metal engine cases?

Xl Automatic - Plastic
XL2 - ?
Super Red - ?
Super 2 - ?

I bought two open box new NOS engine cases and one was plastic and one was metal so I'm wonding which model the metal case goes to. Oh and I forgot to mention that both are short handle cases.

[undee70ss]

The XL Xl2, and Super 2 all had both metal and plastic cases

[james64]

I'm curious why they did that. Was one style of saw better than the other? More desirable? Different motors or all the same motor?

[ronaldt]

The early ones had metal cases and switched to plastic later (like everything else).

[james64]

Ahh ok, that makes sense. Thanks Ronald.