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I don't know about the "cubes" with the pulls that look like tongues sticking out, but I'm told that the square-cornered ones were used U.S. Army armorers to store gun parts. That would account for some of them being O.D. green. A friend has a couple that his Guard unit was throwing away back in...

That cabinet looks like an electrical equipment rack , although the ones I've seen were 6 or 7 feet high. That line of holes along the sides of the opening are probably tapped about 10-32 ,to hold equipment front panels in place. The manufacturers also made accessories such as brackets, which...

Nice looking job on a scrap candidate. These old timers are way better than the off shore junk being sold these days. Tom

Thanks for the blend, Don. I won't paint anything brown. Sears had a good idea when they let you pick your toolbox color. Tom

I'll bet the sockets fit well enough to slip off what you're wrenching, too, adding fresh blood to the knuckles. JHC, what junk. Tom

The outhouse brown on my old Kennedy 520 has got to go. Does anyone have a paint code or formulation for the the old S-K crackle finish green? Tom

With the green handle - looks like vinyl - It could also be an S-K. Tom

Just looked mode closely at the pictures. Yeah, a small Gerstner or a Kennedy 520. Tom

Looks like the metal version of what the Winchester carpenter shop made as riser boxes for Gerstner machinist boxes. Very stoutly made, by the look of it. Is the shelf a fat 20" wide? Tom

I don't know who made them, but they sure look like a bank teller's cabinet. Tom

I worked in a truck tire recapping shop where one of these was used with a coarse wire wheel instead of a grinding wheel to prepare tire casings for full tread recapping, section repairs, and patching. Tom

That grinder looks like a "Prairie". IIRC they were sold by Silvo Hardware, in the '70's.

Cool lining. Here's a site which sells restoration supplies for machinist boxes : http://machinistchest.com/site/ Tom

Try this site: http://machinistchest.com/site/ That latch looks like one they sell. Attention machinist box restorers!

I don't know how the OP is fixed regarding zoning, but if you're working in a residential area you might not want that big yellow/white truck plastered with "Snap-On" coming to the house regularly. This might be a reason to order direct or meet the guy somewhere else. I don't see a problem...

I use mine in my shop to store taps and dies. Tom

Hi. all. Working in a 22' x 26" garage in southern Indiana. Car repairs, metal work, wood work, I almost have room to PARK cars. Tom