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Can anyone help me with getting these drawers off? There are no discernible detents, i found a nearly identical Mac box on youtube but it had holes in the slider where you could disengage a pawl. I don’t even feel a pawl, and I don’t have the holes on mine. I have slid a hacksaw blade all the...

Herbrand S-10 1/2” ratchet, I believe from the mid to late ‘40s Picked this up a long time ago for a dollar, one of my favorite tools and it sees plenty of use.

That box looked like the SK-24 in the catalog you posted so I did some digging and it looks like they ran that and the TC-65 through the late 50s, the 56 catalog looks closest to these. It’s amazing that people have put these up on the internet archive, now I have to keep my eye out for matching...

I am also curious to know if anyone can confirm the two units are matching, it looks like the badge on the top box was entirely unlike the one on the bottom. I’ve heard that Tool Archives may have this information but I am really not sure how to use/navigate that site.

I picked up some Simple Green but I read that it can cause rust if you’re not careful, so I have been using a soft bristle brush and a sponge and some WD-40. Clay bar sounds interesting, do you clearcoat after that? I don’t mind the paint damage that is existing but I would like to prevent any...

Hey all, Picked up this beautifully dirty old box last week and I am looking primarily to clean it up, I have cleaned one of the lower drawers so far but good lord is it a lot of elbow grease to get at this grime. Looks like a lot of the grime and paint damage is very old, as some of the...