1983 Craftsman (Waterloo) tool carts I've never seen
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Here's what I was really after. I wanted to see what grinder they offered right after the black composite flat top block grinders.
Maybe these photos aren't accurate because they still show the gray flat tops. I thought for sure they'd have been on to the all blacks by 1983...
Maybe these photos aren't accurate because they still show the gray flat tops. I thought for sure they'd have been on to the all blacks by 1983...
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bobcatdan
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The top one is a super early Waterloo magunum series box. Made to compete with simlar style boxes from Snap on at the time.
Cool thanks for the info.
To conclude, I can't find any other online catalogs from the 80's after the 85/86, so I still don't know when they stopped making the all black USA bench grinders.
And now I'm wondering what the hell that 3 Phase is they had listed.
I have seen one like this. It was used as a tire change kit for F16s. Was in the back of a storage building, not used anymore and in really rough shape.
TigerFan
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I’ve seen at least two of the first one on eBay over the years. One was a roll around cart for a former airline mechanic, that I ended up buying. It was rough, but it’s a great box.
Someone on here had bought one of the 3 phase grinders, apparently new in box, from an estate sale or something. There was a post about in the last year or so.
Kscardsfan
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My brother has that chest I started a thread for it not long ago because it had no markings and was driving me nuts not being able to find out more about it.
TigerFan
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This is from a 1980s Waterloo catalogue.
Firebrick43
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I used the kennedy you have shown for several years as a mechanic at the plant I worked at. Everyone had one (30 ish mechs) when I hired in 2004. Ours had the box like Item 11 and then on the other side of that box number 18 was hung on it. Some,including I had 15 inbetween 11 and 18. I saved the 18 cabinet and hung it on my new box when I finally was inline to get one.
We added and extra caster and a hitch and pulled with a taylor dunn 3 wheel cart around the plant. They,and snapon unitized version, were popular with aircraft mechanics. We referred to them as taco wagons or taco carts for what ever reason.
The friction slides actually held up better than the new kennedy boxes with ball bearing slides. Dragging a tool box around a 40 acre plant is pretty hard on the slides. Some hated the friction slides but if you kept them clean and lubed with synthetic grease they were not to bad.
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Kscardsfan
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I’ll be damned. Thank you sir. That’s perfect.
This is from a 1980s Waterloo catalogue.
I bought that 1hp grinder at a flea market for $60.00. No water trough though. Past up a Rockwell grinder at the flea, sold for $20.00. All beat up but i later saw it run. Smooth as silk. Dents in my *** from kicking myself.