New (Old) Snappy Buy - Inventory
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Very nice!!
Very nice!!
r_olson_06
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Even has my name on it. I knew I put that somewhere.
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Even has my name on it. I knew I put that somewhere.
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3baygarage
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Great haul. You just don't find stuff together like that. I blame the sweet box for keeping it together like that!
Great haul. You just don't find stuff together like that. I blame the sweet box for keeping it together like that!thehorse13
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I'm going to rob that Snap-On emblem off the side of the box. lol
Great grab.
I'm going to rob that Snap-On emblem off the side of the box. lol
Great grab.
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Nice, that would have a great time going through everything.
Nice, that would have a great time going through everything.
Rileysan
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If Snapmom implies that you got a good deal, you definitely ****!
Please tell us more about that box. Is it from the same period as the tools?
Brian
If Snapmom implies that you got a good deal, you definitely ****!
Please tell us more about that box. Is it from the same period as the tools?
Brian
Private Lugnutz
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(Sorry. Couldn't resist, buddy. Best typo in a long time!)
Terrific acquisition!
I'm particularly jealous of the electrical set. I've found electrical wrenches in onesy-twosies in the wild, and I've found a leatherette roll-up with a later logo before (I actually had a set of orphan Duro-Chrome GMTK wrenches in it as a placeholder for awhile), but I've never seen/found an entire set.
It looks like a "lifetime" box to me, with the DOE wrenches especially showing markings spanning a few decades.
What's going on with the logos on the box? Unless I'm mistaken, the one that is embossed is much older than the one that is riveted on just above it. If Mr. Roy added that year's later, it only reinforces my impression of it being a Snap-On 'lifer's' box. I could be wrong. I've just never seen anything like that before.
A little known Snap-On innovation, conceived well before its time, where the wrenches knew which nuts to turn before you did!
(Sorry. Couldn't resist, buddy. Best typo in a long time!)
Terrific acquisition!
I'm particularly jealous of the electrical set. I've found electrical wrenches in onesy-twosies in the wild, and I've found a leatherette roll-up with a later logo before (I actually had a set of orphan Duro-Chrome GMTK wrenches in it as a placeholder for awhile), but I've never seen/found an entire set.
It looks like a "lifetime" box to me, with the DOE wrenches especially showing markings spanning a few decades.
What's going on with the logos on the box? Unless I'm mistaken, the one that is embossed is much older than the one that is riveted on just above it. If Mr. Roy added that year's later, it only reinforces my impression of it being a Snap-On 'lifer's' box. I could be wrong. I've just never seen anything like that before.
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Damn spellcheck!
As for the logos, I hadn't thought about that. Snapmom would be the resident expert to address that one.
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Hey now, I didn't say they were precognition wrenches, so they only know what to do when you're actually doing it[emoji1]
Damn spellcheck!
As for the logos, I hadn't thought about that. Snapmom would be the resident expert to address that one.
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woody 73
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very nice god job.
I picked up a collectible (not vintage) 1983 snap on tool box and I never got that kind of deal this week...
very nice god job.
I picked up a collectible (not vintage) 1983 snap on tool box and I never got that kind of deal this week...
Private Lugnutz
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We need to submit a proposal to DLA for an RDT&E project on this concept!
She might be able to identify the timeframe for the riveted emblem, but I'm pretty sure it's decades later than the embossed logo, which is no later than 1946.twertsy said:
Empty Pockets
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I'm gonna need to get the wife to see Twertsy's Tool Emporium. Once she sees his collection, maybe she'll back off when I adopt some more tools.
Nice pick up
I'm gonna need to get the wife to see Twertsy's Tool Emporium. Once she sees his collection, maybe she'll back off when I adopt some more tools.
Nice pick up
slip knot
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Mr. Roy had some nice tools.
Mr. Roy had some nice tools.
ganymede
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What a haul.
The frosty rust on that nice little socket set is caused by off gassing from that disintegrated driver handle.
I had the same thing happen to bare steel tools that were sitting next to an Upson Bros screwdriver. The handle turned milky, splintered and rusted the heck out of a mic and another driver that was sitting next to it.
What a haul.
The frosty rust on that nice little socket set is caused by off gassing from that disintegrated driver handle.
I had the same thing happen to bare steel tools that were sitting next to an Upson Bros screwdriver. The handle turned milky, splintered and rusted the heck out of a mic and another driver that was sitting next to it.
Private Lugnutz
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It's so common that some of us in the WWII community attribute the rarity of Duro-Chrome's little ignition set screwdrivers to the same problem.
You often see it with their screwdrivers of the same era as well. Pyroxylin (made with cellulose dinitrate and camphor) is the culprit. It's just a little chemistry math shy of a propellant. Pyralin was the brand name, trademarked by Arlington Manufacturing Company, derived from pyroxylin. It was one of the earliest plastics. Blue-Point was using it on their amber, translucent "Insuloid" handles as early as 1933. It was banned in 1951 expressly because of its volatility. The reason you see some survive and most don't is storage conditions. Heat and humidity hasten the disintegration.
It's so common that some of us in the WWII community attribute the rarity of Duro-Chrome's little ignition set screwdrivers to the same problem.
Private Lugnutz
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Dang this guy took care of his tools! It still has the stem, the blades, and the suction cups with it! Totally consistent with the 30's tools.
Near complete set, probably. Those S-1xx are the finishing (drift) series, I believe. The starter and drive pin punches had different S- numbers.
3baygarage
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Nice punch set.
One of the tool world mysteries. Thank you for the explanation guys. It's almost like the the tool rusts from inside the handle out, as if water got inside the handle, but it hasn't. I had this going on with the same Snappy driver / box set stored indoors in a plastic bag, but had not spread to other pieces.
Also found a completely destroyed poor old Craftsman 1/4 flexible shaft spinner (New Britain made IIRC), and countless other old screwdrivers and such.
Its a darn shame.
Nice punch set.
One of the tool world mysteries. Thank you for the explanation guys. It's almost like the the tool rusts from inside the handle out, as if water got inside the handle, but it hasn't. I had this going on with the same Snappy driver / box set stored indoors in a plastic bag, but had not spread to other pieces.
Also found a completely destroyed poor old Craftsman 1/4 flexible shaft spinner (New Britain made IIRC), and countless other old screwdrivers and such.
Its a darn shame.
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Private Lugnutz
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BTW, Todd, I got rained out today, so I did some light research, out of my own curiosity... I can't find that stylized logo (the one depicted on the riveted lopsided polygon shaped plate) in any of the catalogs between 1930 and 1990, but a few boxes with a similar logo and plate did turn up in a Google search. I don't collect and know NOTHING about Snap-On boxes, but I wonder (out of that sense of ignorance) if it's a factory thing or third party. Most of the boxes I looked at, vintage or contemporary, had an emblem that matches the logo of whatever era they were from as depicted in the catalogs and supplements etc from that same era. But that particular stylized logo doesn't seem to. Maybe someone more experienced with Snap-On boxes will chime in.
This one is hard to make out (on the drop down front), but it has a lot of promise as a period photo.
Unless I'm mistaken, this looks like your box. There doesn't seem to be any embossed logo on the drop front. Is the drop front removable? I wonder if the drop front is from a different (older) box?
This one is hard to make out (on the drop down front), but it has a lot of promise as a period photo.
Unless I'm mistaken, this looks like your box. There doesn't seem to be any embossed logo on the drop front. Is the drop front removable? I wonder if the drop front is from a different (older) box?
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Badge rivets sure look good?BTW, Todd, I got rained out today, so I did some light research, out of my own curiosity... I can't find that stylized logo (the one depicted on the riveted lopsided polygon shaped plate) in any of the catalogs between 1930 and 1990, but a few boxes with a similar logo and plate did turn up in a Google search. I don't collect and know NOTHING about Snap-On boxes, but I wonder (out of that sense of ignorance) if it's a factory thing or third party. Most of the boxes I looked at, vintage or contemporary, had an emblem that matches the logo of whatever era they were from as depicted in the catalogs and supplements etc from that same era. But that particular stylized logo doesn't seem to. Maybe someone more experienced with Snap-On boxes will chime in.
This one is hard to make out, but it has a lot of promise as a period photo.
Unless I'm mistaken, this looks like your box.
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thehorse13
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And I picked this up today.....nice box, NB era Husky tools, and some other stuff I grabbed.
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