Lets make an all vintage Snap-on tool picture thread!

[ooba tooba]

I couldn’t find much of a difference from the one in the ‘23 catalog. B12 cabinet

 

[Ricky Joe]

Blue Point Supreme doe metric wrenches I own are dated 1948, 1955, 1961, and either 1949 or 1959, hard to tell.

 

[Shelbylex]

Good evening.
This is a new addition to my collection (and bottom half of my dream combo)

Does anybody know when SO moved from "outside" casters to the ones like on my box?

Did anybody try to get lock reset for a new key. The lock number is partially missing on mine: K on one side of the key opening 213 and unknown top part of a number - semi circular - may be 9 or 8 is all I have.

If anybody has a K200 box key (and ideally KR-56 key for reference), please make me a picture. Thank you!


...As it took me 3 years to find this one, I will probably put my K-420 mid on top of this one after I clean it up (and may be buy top KR chest with older logo if opportunity presents itself for short term combo)...
I hope I will get K60 for a reasonable price within next couple of years!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I think the wheels moved around 39 or 40, not sure. The catalog art was reused after the change,, so exact date unclear.. Here is a pic of a k200 key circa 1946.

 

[Shelbylex]

Thank you, Oldtuleguy. The key looks very different from KR-56 (I saw similar ones to my KR on eBay. I guess I should let it be - would be too hard to get one...

 

[outofbounds]

Here is a couple of Snap on metric sockets. no date codes Tapered, no knurling, 12 point. 1/2 drive.......

Not sure about this IM240 Impact socket (6 point x 1/2 drive), obviously later than yours, but.....around WW2? Dual marked 3/4" and 19mm. I suppose if there was ever a size you could get away with crossing over, it's a 3/4" but wondering what the rest of this socket's "contemporaries" looked like.

 

[Provincial]

3/4 = .750
19MM = .748
Diff. = .002

5/16 = .3125
8MM = .31496
Diff. = .00246

Pretty darn close!

 

[snapmom]

It does not have a WWll logo. Looks more 60s

 

[ooba tooba]

In case anyone is curious about the sockets in that old cabinet on eBay posted above, the seller informed me they are overstrike style.

 

[Shelbylex]

I do not remember if I posted this after I cleaned this up. The ratchet was soaked for a week in ATF and started working well (I was too scared to take it apart completely - cleaned everything except removing the part holding the ball and the spring). Put a new liner, cleaned everything up...

For the attentive eyes: the breaker bar and extension next to it are Indestro

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice set. Any date codes?

 

[ooba tooba]

That looks great lex!

 

[LesserSon]

Saw this today. Did not know Par-X boxes were a thing.

 

[snapmom]

SR-84 ratchet, date code 1950. only shows in the 48 cat. quite rare. only difference in the LR42 is the model number.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Nice. Those are rare.

 

[Shelbylex]

Never saw one - looks very interesting. Snapmom, you have some of the rarest things there!

 

[ooba tooba]

Never have seen one either. Cool stuff (as always)

 

[d42jeep]

I picked up this clean Blue Point grease gun at an estate sale yesterday. Today when I was wiping off the dust I unscrewed the barrel and much to my surprise it was brand new inside. It looks like it was made between 1975 and 1978 and never used.
-Don

 

[Shelbylex]

Looks nice! What type of grease would you put in it? Would it be something to use on 3/4" ratchets and sliders type of grease or automobile related one? (Asking as I got a Lincoln grease gun which I did not post yet as it needs to be cleaned...)

Please also post in on Blue Point tool thread

 

[d42jeep]

It would just take any common grease cartridge for full size grease guns. Any auto parts store has a wide variety of grease types.
I also found these on Saturday. I added the sockets to my regular toolbox and ordered the missing cap for the ratcheting screwdriver. Even though the screwdriver has been used hard it still works just fine.
-Don

 

[outofbounds]

I have no affiliation to the seller or auctioneer, but I tripped over this coming auction in Northern Kentucky, that might have an appeal to someone here from that area or Cincinnati, OH. Looks like quite a time capsule.

https://michigan.hibid.com/lot/88339387/snap-on-tool-box-and-tools--new-/?q=&ref=lot-list

Looks like that auction has several other pieces of merit, including a fairly mint looking 9d Craftsman Gray/Red roller cab.

Overall the auction has a massive collection of high-quality vintage petroliana, so maybe the tools will fly under the radar a bit......

 

[outofbounds]

Looking at an odd lot of vintage Snap-On. Generally nothing super special, but a decent size random acculumation of 1940s-50s drive tools. Beating it back and forth with the seller on price. Curious if this LA-52 3/4" F x 5/8" M has any particular place in War Era sets. Seems these command pretty well in general, and wondering if the "G" designation helps. Might push me over the line to make a deal......

 

[d42jeep]

Looking at an odd lot of vintage Snap-On. Generally nothing super special, but a decent size random acculumation of 1940s-50s drive tools. Beating it back and forth with the seller on price. Curious if this LA-52 3/4" F x 5/8" M has any particular place in War Era sets. Seems these command pretty well in general, and wondering if the "G" designation helps. Might push me over the line to make a deal......

I think I see a 1940 date code on that one so it’s prewar.
-Don

 

[outofbounds]

I think I see a 1940 date code on that one so it’s prewar.
-Don

Is this an O with a line through it? I thought I saw a "G".

 

[d42jeep]

Is this an O with a line through it? I thought I saw a "G".

The grease in the date code makes it kind of look like a G but I’m pretty sure that it’s a ‘40 date code right next to your thumb.
-Don

 

[Shelbylex]

Thank you, Don

 

[Shelbylex]

Recent pick up
Snap On
1/4 drive
MV-5 T handle
MV-71 ratchet
MVN10A breaker bar
MVX6 extension
1/2 Drive
25/32 SV251 socket
SVX25 extension

Sorry, some extras in picture to and MVX6 extension is missing (the ball is stuck inside, trying to free it by submerging it in ATF

Advise to everybody: if you ever take apart to clean MV71 ratchet, do not rotate the pawl 180 degrees to clean everything perfectly prior to lubrication. In my case the ball somehow flew up promptly and caused some searching for it (it's tiny)... Putting it back together without special tool and removing the pawl is complete pain in the ars!!! While trying to pit things together, the ball decided to roll off the table (working inside the plastic bag with such tiny peace did not work well for me). Darn, the search after it's attempt of quantum tunneling was extensive (as I quickly learned that kits are NLA). With a lot of swearing, wet napkins cleaning the library floor to kitchen table shine, magnet, little luck and Gods help I found it in the opposite side from where it rolled off the table. It somehow bounced 180 degrees and rolled away...
The only way to out it back together which worked for me after two search parties and multiple attempts was to chew on paper towels, create a leveled surface which is at the level of the hole (so it would not fall through as the hole is in the middle of ratchet, then carefully holding it and rotating the pawl 180 degrees back...) Wasted 2.5 hours of my life, but now it works like new after complete cleaning and lubrication!


...please click on the picture to enlarge it. I still did not learn how to attach larger pictures...

 

[d42jeep]

Recent pick up
Snap On
1/4 drive
MV-5 T handle
MV-71 ratchet
MVN10A breaker bar
MVX6 extension
1/2 Drive
25/32 SV251 socket
SVX25 extension

Sorry, some extras in picture to and MVX6 extension is missing (the ball is stuck inside, trying to free it by submerging it in ATF

Advise to everybody: if you ever take apart to clean MV71 ratchet, do not rotate the pawl 180 degrees to clean everything perfectly prior to lubrication. In my case the ball somehow flew up promptly and caused some searching for it (it's tiny)... Putting it back together without special tool and removing the pawl is complete pain in the ars!!! While trying to pit things together, the ball decided to roll off the table (working inside the plastic bag with such tiny peace did not work well for me). Darn, the search after it's attempt of quantum tunneling was extensive (as I quickly learned that kits are NLA). With a lot of swearing, wet napkins cleaning the library floor to kitchen table shine, magnet, little luck and Gods help I found it in the opposite side from where it rolled off the table. It somehow bounced 180 degrees and rolled away...
The only way to out it back together which worked for me after two search parties and multiple attempts was to chew on paper towels, create a leveled surface which is at the level of the hole (so it would not fall through as the hole is in the middle of ratchet, then carefully holding it and rotating the pawl 180 degrees back...) Wasted 2.5 hours of my life, but now it works like new after complete cleaning and lubrication!


...please click on the picture to enlarge it. I still did not learn how to attach larger pictures...

Nice looking tools. I won’t be taking mine apart after hearing your story.
I found a 1944 Ferret 1/2” universal socket at a sale yesterday.
-Don

 

[Shelbylex]

Thank you, Don. I tend to take apart every ratchet I buy to clean and lubricate (I try to use them, though some just for clean jobs). The only one I decided to leave alone was Hornet - the ring holding it together did not have an indent to push it to the side to open it and I was afraid of breaking it...)

 

[Username already in use]

Here's something a bit different. Not sure how 'vintage' this is, but it's the first SnapOn branded air gun I've seen.

 

[snapmom]

I have not seen one either. nice one to have in your shop.

 

[Nutria]

I think that this qualifies. Dang, it was hard to take the photos, because those octopus suction cups just would not let go of my hand at first.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

There are alot of suction cups on those!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Those are FSP, not Snap-on, and probably date to the early 1920's before FSP was making Vacuum-Grip pliers for Snap-on, but yeah, I post my FSP-branded Vacuum-Grip pliers here, too, because we don't have an FSP thread and the companies are so intertwined. Nice find. I don't think I've ever seen thin-nose parrot jaws before.

If you don't already know it, that patent date refers to patent D57,252, which Bill Myers owned. He was the president of FSP, and later, after FSP bailed Snap-on out of financial trouble, of Snap-on. It is the design patent for the suction cups grip!

 

[Nutria]

That's interesting, thanks. All that I knew was that FSP tools were tangled up with Snap-On in some way during the early days. I'll look up the patent-- I've always thought that the cephalopod discs were an amusing gimmick, but really cool nonetheless.

 

[LesserSon]

IIRC, FSP moved from Newark NJ to Newport PA in 1922, started marking pliers for Snap-on 1924, continued to market non-Snap-on-branded pliers for years after that. I agree they’re early, but I think early 1920s is a little too early, but likely before 1940.

“Nutria,” eh? I remember seeing them on vacation as a kid, thought they were semitropical. I did not realize they had expanded in so many areas.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

My understanding is that FSP V-G pliers (note, not Snap-on branded) first appeared on the Motor Tools Specialty pages of a Snap-on catalog in 1926, and weren't branded Snap-on until 1928. The other part of my conjecture is derived from the 1921 patent date marking. It's my understanding they didn't do that for very long. I could be wrong.

 

[Nutria]

It's great to learn some more about these pliers, thanks for the intel. These still get frequent use in my garage, now pushing 100 years old. I seem to grab them vs other slip-joint configurations for a lot of jobs.

“Nutria,” eh? I remember seeing them on vacation as a kid, thought they were semitropical. I did not realize they had expanded in so many areas.

Nutria (below) are not a Snap-On product, though they do snap at dogs when pestered. They hail from South America, but have been introduced widely, mostly for fur. Now there are bounties on them in some places, because of wetland damage, and there are marketing efforts for these large spiny rats as a meat product. I'm in the desert now, but I grew up with them in New Orleans and south Louisiana. Nutria are actually pretty tasty.
Nutria recipes; you know you want some:
https://www.nutria.com/site14.php

Thread drift alert.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

The alligators like to snack on them

 

[Provincial]

Oregon State University athletic teams are called the "Beavers" which is a logical name due to the states early history with the fur trade. Some years ago it changed the team logos from the traditional, beanie-wearing "happy" beaver:

To the "angry" beaver:

Which more than one older OSU alum calls the "Nutria."

Sorry for the thread drift, but I couldn't resist!