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i just picked one of those - i'm halfway through cleaning the box. Do you know the vintage of those boxes? Chilly

I just bought a 1972 10 drawer top box, in Denver area (Aurora) about a month ago for $75. Stack with correct vintage bottom box but less vintage mid and top chests for $80 three weeks ago. The top box was in great shape. Chilly

I think that is a thread chaser, rather than a thread cutting die. In the '80's I toured a factory (Tolco) and saw the machine that rolled the threads. The dies were more like a pipe cutter wheel. If I'm remembering correctly, of course! A chaser would reform beat up threads, rather than...

+1, well a plastic bin full anyway. Chilly

Yes, I misspoke. I know better, too. Chilly

Because it is my subjective opinion, mostly of brands in my collections. Some products marketed to professionals are not as fine a finish or I don't feel they work as well. Some brands used earlier technology, so they might be more bulky. Even then, if I like that type more than others of its...

More thread chaser than tap? Chilly

My personal experience. Any brands with the same rank are organized alphabetically. So, IMHO, Snap-On, Hazet and Stahlwile are equal quality. Chilly

New Britain? Made early Husky, mid century Blackhawk...... Chilly

The "drag link adapter" is also the ratchet plug. Chilly

You saved it. Chilly

Same logo on the front cover. Yours came with a lot more tools. Only Snap-On in mine was a 9/16" socket (brazed to a weird fabbed up "X" and a set of vacuum grip pliers. There were a couple of bonney thin DOEs and a 7/16" drive nuggie. I figure this was 37 or 38 vintage. The '36 catalog...

That's for underground piping. The through hole is for the all-through rod to go through. When a fireline enters a building underground just inside the foundation / wall an elbow turns the pipe up and through the floor to a flange just above the floor. There has to be some kind of restraint or...

We use a similar ratchet with a fixed socket today on bolts for installing underground piping. I think I remember those being the heavy pattern. Here is an ASME bolt chart, but some (including 3/4") have a heavy size: Bolt Dia. Wrench Size 1/4 -------7/16 or 3/8 5/16 ----------1/2 3/8...

Todd, Does your box have the front drawer cover? Chilly

If they do, they know that those wrench sizes changed around the middle of the last century. Whitworth and American (SAE) wrenches, although marked with the same bolt size, would have different size openings. I have both in my collections, and you can easily see the difference. Although...

Originally posted on Papaws Wrench today: 1937/38 Snap-On K-500 Combination Tool Cabinet I had a good day today, bumbling around. I found this tool box with a few odds and ends in it at an estate sale. At the same place I found a vintage 1955-1959 Craftsman metal lathe, the small hobby size...

Probably refers to the bolt size. Early wrenches did that. Chilly

Here's the funny thing about those 16 piece 1/2" ratchet sets: Up to the 1957 catalog they were 16 piece sets, then in 1960 they became 17 piece sets. Through some kind of Roebuck magic, there were exactly the same parts, only the Craftsman logo had changed! I have both sets on the wall...