Year of manufacture

[Ted Crilly]

Hello,
How does one find the year that a tool was manufactured? I bought a used kapex KS120EB a while ago and was curious just how old it is. Is there a serial no. lookup somewhere?

Thank you

 

[squall_line]

Hello,
How does one find the year that a tool was manufactured? I bought a used kapex KS120EB a while ago and was curious just how old it is. Is there a serial no. lookup somewhere?

Thank you

On the tool, near the serial number and tool number, there's a year and month of manufacture.  Almost always in the form of YYYY/MM.  Older tools were only YY/MM.

I'd post a picture, but I don't have one handy right now.

 

[guybo]

Hi welcome to the fog,pic posted for a kapex  lower left down by the square symbol .guy[attachimg=1]

 

[Ted Crilly]

Great. Mine has an 06/15 above the serial no. So it looks like it’s 6 yrs old. Thank you for the quick responses! Cheers.

 

[woodbutcherbower]

Hi Ted,

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And yes - I realise that no-one in anywhere other than the UK will have the faintest clue what this post means 

 

[SoonerFan]

Great. Mine has an 06/15 above the serial no. So it looks like it’s 6 yrs old. Thank you for the quick responses! Cheers.

[member=76179]Ted Crilly[/member] enjoy the saw and welcome to FOG!  Hang around a bit, lots of good information and suggestions here.