UT # Post

[jclark]

Can someone direct me to a post where I can find the manufacture date based on UT#'s. I thought I saw a post a while back but can't seem to find it again. I'm looking for the manufacture date for;

240 S/N:HN2440393 UT#10625R
330 S/N:HN3290059 UT#10604AR
550 S/N:603470112 UT#104584
Old Blue SXL S/N:HS0661038 UT#10045F

Thanks

[5terrysupersaws]

Jul 18, 2019 13:03:40 GMT -5 jclark said:

Can someone direct me to a post where I can find the manufacture date based on UT#'s. I thought I saw a post a while back but can't seem to find it again. I'm looking for the manufacture date for;

240 S/N:HN2440393 UT#10625R
330 S/N:HN3290059 UT#10604AR
550 S/N:603470112 UT#104584
Old Blue SXL S/N:HS0661038 UT#10045F

Thanks

 UT numbers identify the model and can give the last year the model was built.

Serial numbers are used to decode the date of manufacture, all info at:
                                      houseofhomelite.proboards.com/thread/6140/figuring-out-when-homelite-built

The 550 to get you started:
 *UT:10458-4  ( 550 )  SN:603470112 .. DOM: Friday, December 12th, 1980, unit 112, UT# last built in '82

[jclark]

Thanks 5terrysupersaws
That was the chart I was looking for. What do the letters preceeding the serial number mean "HN", "HS"

Thanks again

[5terrysupersaws]

Jul 18, 2019 15:02:55 GMT -5 jclark said:

Thanks 5terrysupersaws
That was the chart I was looking for. What do the letters preceeding the serial number mean "HN", "HS"

Thanks again

 You're welcome, glad to be of assistance.

"H" is the assembly line, "S" is the letter code for the year built.

 *UT:10045-F  ( SXL-Old Blue )  SN:HS0661038 ..assembly line H, S=1997, day 66=Friday, March 7th, unit 1038 built that day.

UT# was last built in 1998.

[jclark]

You guys are a wealth of knowlege, I really thought Old Blue was older than that.

Thanks again

[jerseyhighlander]

Jul 18, 2019 15:27:49 GMT -5 jclark said:

You guys are a wealth of knowlege, I really thought Old Blue was older than that.

Thanks again

The older Super XL's didn't have UT#'s. Somebody may correct me but I'm pretty sure the original Blue Super XL's were in manufacture a decade before UT #'s came around. If it's one that says "old blue" on it, it's kind of a modern commemorative version of the real "Old Blue".

[jclark]

Make sense.
Thanks