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I have some britool tools. I have various metric, a/f and whitworth 1/2 sockets and various a/f spanners. This is some of the more interesting stuff though. I have 2 EB687 sockets, presumably from different eras, the one on the left being older. But nice not seen that kind of knurling before...

I have a few bit only 2 are interesting really. I haven't done anything with either of these yet. I have this old enox, bought as it was cheap. Done nothing with it. I had planned to use it as a buffer But just recently I picked this old 10" black and decker up This has already lost all it's...

Sometimes you just have to go to where the stuff is. My recent beach tool box purchases were 4 boxes, from 4 different sellers. Took 9 hours driving round in a big loop picking them all up in one go. I should get that box put in the back of a pick up, import the truck, sell the truck when it...

That's nice! Shame it's 3912 miles away from me.

Looks great!

Now if it looked like that, I'd probably leave it be! I've only played around at polishing it, it may come up better. Your box there looks great and wears it's age well. These just look tatty. It's the sticker damage and scratched graffiti that annoy me. No decisions have been made yet though.

That's the plan. My favourite is unusable as it is and the welding it needs will mean it will definitely need paint. I'll start a thread on it when I get going.

Looking at the pics I've posted, it still doesn't look THAT bad. I look at my pics and think I'll leave it, then I see it in real life and I'm not so sure.

I'm in the UK, so rivet stuff is harder to source. Not impossible though. I have calipers to measure for the rivets, it's the diameter I won't know untill I remove one. As for the setting tools, I have a lathe (quite nice actually, 1902 Drummond, maybe I should do a thread on it one day), so...

The autopro top box is rough, rusty inside, and needs some welding (rear of lid has split, hole bottom left front, spot weld gone on top front corners). I don't think this will get away without 're paint. The Gray top box is pretty good, but the front has had flames, a name, and various other...

I think the pictures flatter it. It's worse in real life. I'll take some better ones. I've heard sunrise red is a good match, but it's but available in the UK Cardinal red and cherry red are, but not easily. I can get good enamel paint, but need to order it by code. If I paint it, I may even...

This is my newly acquired beach/autopro/Gray set. I have an autopro branded 6 drawer top box too. It could probably do with a repaint but there are 2 things I'm struggling with. I have to order the paint, which means I need to know a ral or bs paint code that will match well. I really like the...

Thanks, but I tend to just pick stuff up when I see it cheap.

Not if I needed it to be grease. If I'm happy using it in a situation where a coating of moly will do what I want then maybe the grease aspect of it would be irrelevant. Although I have dry sprays for that I can use. Anyhow, this has worked fine on the few things I've put it on, but I've never...

I'll keep my eyes open

Thanks. No trace of anything like that left u fortunately, but always good to learn about these things. I didn't know the make when I bought it, had to look it up when I got home. It just looked good quality and felt really nice in the hand so I bought it. Probably my favourite spanner! Just...

Thanks. That let me find out it's called speedratchet. Did other companies make similar? Is tee handle ratchet herbrands name, or just the type? Now I know they exist, I want one!

I've just been reading and all I have found is that it has a shelf life as it can become irritating to the skin. I'm sure it will still do some aspect of its job, depending on what I'd want it to do. It's the moly that does it's thing, the grease is just a carrier really isn't it. I dug it out...

That's great, thanks for all the info. I'll have a search and see what I can turn up. Expiration date is interesting, I'd have never thought it would have one. Answers my other thought about why a crate of unused lube would leave military ownership in the first place.

This is the only other mark that doesn't look like a general knock.