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Post by sweepleader on Nov 19, 2019 13:34:34 GMT -5
Welcome to the House of Homelite.
That sn looks to be from the first half of 1965, could be from late 1964 but less likely from my view.
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Post by oldhomiecollector on Nov 19, 2019 14:43:15 GMT -5
Thank you very much! Sounds good
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Post by 2broke2ride on Nov 25, 2019 22:26:22 GMT -5
How about this one?
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Post by 2broke2ride on Nov 26, 2019 21:35:47 GMT -5
How about this one? Anyone have an approximate year on this? Early Super XL manual oiler only.
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Post by 5terrysupersaws on Nov 26, 2019 22:38:27 GMT -5
SUPER XL-m. SN:2469265 .. manufactured approx. mid-1967.
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Post by Jblack632 on Nov 27, 2019 14:06:18 GMT -5
I just collected a Blue XL12 in great shape with factory bar. Serial number 3002706. What date would this saw be built on? Thanks for any information!!
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Post by undee70ss on Nov 28, 2019 6:56:53 GMT -5
I just collected a Blue XL12 in great shape with factory bar. Serial number 3002706. What date would this saw be built on? Thanks for any information!! Your saw was built in 1969
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Post by Larry Butt on Dec 3, 2019 15:34:28 GMT -5
4003477
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Post by sweepleader on Dec 4, 2019 8:07:38 GMT -5
Hmm, that's a good one. Are you sure there are only 7 digits? Can you post a picture of the data plate? I am not finding any 7 digit numbers that start with 4. Anyone?
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Post by undee70ss on Dec 4, 2019 8:49:07 GMT -5
Hmm, that's a good one. Are you sure there are only 7 digits? Can you post a picture of the data plate? I am not finding any 7 digit numbers that start with 4. Anyone? I don’t see any either.
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Post by Charles0116504 on Jan 28, 2020 1:56:10 GMT -5
My saw is a homelite xl12 serial number 1837384 what year was this saw made thanks
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Post by 5terrysupersaws on Jan 28, 2020 3:10:44 GMT -5
My saw is a homelite xl12 serial number 1837384 what year was this saw made thanks Welcome to the House of Homelite. Homelite XL-12 SN:1837384 was built in 1965 .
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Post by Cody on Apr 30, 2020 7:12:57 GMT -5
I just got a super xl serial is AO 3029246. Anyone know the year?
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Post by sweepleader on Apr 30, 2020 9:51:37 GMT -5
Welcome to the House of Homelite.
That SXLAO appears to have been made in the first part of 1969.
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Post by Bond B on Jun 28, 2020 6:20:40 GMT -5
Good morning ladies and gents I recently acquired a blue Homelite XL 12 fully operational beautiful chainsaw I'm stumped the serial number is 302-4420 I'm estimating this is perhaps built 69 or 1970 I would greatly appreciate any information on this vintage gas powered Homelite all aluminum. Not sure what I'm going to do with this open to options thank you
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Post by sweepleader on Jun 28, 2020 6:49:43 GMT -5
...a blue Homelite XL 12 fully operational beautiful chainsaw I'm stumped the serial number is 302-4420 I'm estimating this is perhaps built 69 or 1970... Welcome to the House of Homelite. I would say you are correct after looking a Joyce's records. The dash in the middle has me going a bit though, I have never seen one in a Homelite serial number that I recall. Is that actually on the tag? Can you post up a picture or two?
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Post by Bond B on Jun 28, 2020 7:08:23 GMT -5
...a blue Homelite XL 12 fully operational beautiful chainsaw I'm stumped the serial number is 302-4420 I'm estimating this is perhaps built 69 or 1970... Welcome to the House of Homelite. I would say you are correct after looking a Joyce's records. The dash in the middle has me going a bit though, I have never seen one in a Homelite serial number that I recall. Is that actually on the tag? Can you post up a picture or two? - happy to post but there is no dash in numbers for whatever reason one was added in there I'm trying to figure out how to get a picture on here gorgeous although
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Post by lesorubcheek on Jun 28, 2020 13:34:16 GMT -5
With all the interest in trying to figure out when a saw was made using the 7 digit serial number, I thought it may be kinda fun to try to write a program that'd perform a lookup. Started looking through Joyce's sales records (many thanks once again for providing this!!!) and trying to figure out a way to implement it. Decided to make a spreadsheet with 1 month intervals, search the list for the highest serial number found close to that date. If there were months where the serial didn't increase, looked for the next obvious jump in a serial number and entered it on it's month, then back filled in the cases where a couple months didn't have realistic looking samples. OK, now to the point, I figured a graph would give a little confidence that the serials were close. If you assume the serial numbers really represent the number of saws built up to a given point, the neat thing that jumps out is there are 3 fairly distinct rates of production. From 51 up until around 56,57 is fairly constant, then from 57 up until around 63 is constant, and then from 63 up to 70 is straight. So, 56,57 was when the Gastonia plant was built, which makes sense based on the numbers and the need to higher production to meet demand. I didn't find anything about a new plant built around 63, but this was around the intro of the XL-12 which makes sense with it being a huge success. Anyway, just kinda seemed interesting so thought I'd share. Dan
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Post by sweepleader on Jun 29, 2020 7:09:19 GMT -5
That is VERY interesting, thanks for doing that.
Did you take into account the different serial numbers for different models? (Maybe they are not really different, just timed a little off? I don't know for sure, you have obviously spent more time checking them than I have.)
It would really be cool if someone could work a character recognition program on the data and digitize the lists. I have no clue how that would be done or work. Someone mentioned retyping the entire list but it took Joyce 50 years, some of us don't have that much time left.
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Post by lesorubcheek on Jun 29, 2020 12:10:33 GMT -5
That's a very good point Dan, and it is at the heart of the whole deal. I made a BIG assumption that serial numbers are not per model, but continually incrementing for each unit built. Question also if it's only for saws or all equipment. If this assumption is false, then it's really too much to think about trying to come up with a program to lookup a date range. Based on Joyce's records, I can't prove or disprove this assumption. It's very true though that the serials tend to jump around, but follow a general increasing trend. My guess was that some saws were sold soon after being received where others may have set for months or even longer. That's why I tried looking for an obviously larger serial after the previous one, ignoring the serials that were before. This may be a huge error, but no way to know. The only thing that I can feel confident in is that the serials selected tend to follow a trend and the rates of increase kinda make sense as talked about in previously.
I tried using adobe's OCR for character recognition, but it had so many incorrectly recognized characters that it was useless. Maybe something like Abby Finereader would work better, but I don't have a recent version of it. It'd take a very long time to type in all the entries, that's for sure.
Dan
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