Can anyone ID a small blue slide box?

[JeffreyG]

Maybe slide box isn’t the right word. Do assume it is for a ratchet set, hammered blue finish. Empty since I’ve had it.

 

[Mintgrun]

That style box with a tapered slip-fit lid was popular. I found one in a scrap bin and then spent too much money on a lid on ePay. I bought an embossed Hinsdale lid for mine, but several other companies also used them to house socket sets.

Here's mine.


Here's another one posted in the Hinsdale thread, showing the original contents. It's a slightly shorter version.



I don't remember who else used them, but possibly S-K and Indestro.

Tom

 

[d42jeep]

There were several manufacturers that used those boxes. I have a couple of S-K marked ones and a couple others.
A Fulton set sold by Sears made by S-K.
-Don

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Everyone used those for a time

 

[Beerhippie]

This:



is what I thought of from the title. A little blue slide box.

 

[four.cycle]

Duro-Chrome, Indestro, Hinsdale, and S-K used those "slider top" boxes.
Who else?
Fulton? Duro-Bilt?
and?

 

[JeffreyG]

And what colors of hammered/plain enamel paint did they use? Looks like SK used blue hammered sometimes at least?

 

[four.cycle]

^ I had a Duro-Chrome set that FlatheadFred now owns - it was a deep red.
I think I might have an Indestro set here in a dark green box. Not sure.

 

[Provincial]

This:



is what I thought of from the title. A little blue slide box.

I find these at estate and garage sales for dirt cheap. I make up dividers that slip into the slots so I can make various sized compartments. I put small parts and fasteners in the compartments when working on a project, and label small pieces of paper with the location/use. This really helps if the project gets delayed and you have to remember where the parts go!

 

[JeffreyG]

I find these at estate and garage sales for dirt cheap. I make up dividers that slip into the slots so I can make various sized compartments. I put small parts and fasteners in the compartments when working on a project, and label small pieces of paper with the location/use. This really helps if the project gets delayed and you have to remember where the parts go!

I thought that’s what cellphone cameras and your wifes discarded Tupperware containers were for?

 

[Steven 33]

Duro-Chrome, Indestro, Hinsdale, and S-K used those "slider top" boxes.
Who else?
Fulton? Duro-Bilt?
and?

Carb-o-mang. Haven't seen many in the wild though.

 

[Steven 33]

Carb-o-mang. Haven't seen many in the wild though.

Made by sk so technically still sk I suppose, but i imagine a lot were made by the same company. I picked up 18 cases all appear unused and some unfinished. And other colors. Only 6 had the carb-o-mang sticker

 

[RTM]

I make up dividers that slip into the slots so I can make various sized compartments.

When I get something like this, I go to TAP plastics, and buy long pieces of clear plexiglass, of the appropriate thickness, cut to the height I need. Then when I need one, hack it off. Works so much better than whatever I could find around the house, file folders, cardboard, tape.

Great for Akro Mills drawer sets, divided boxes, next up a Kennedy box (I think)

 

[1whocares]

Maybe slide box isn’t the right word. Do assume it is for a ratchet set, hammered blue finish. Empty since I’ve had it.

I just got a similar slide top box, stamped with the round Duro logo, mine is a couple inches shorter and marked with a LX 312 on the lid, it has 8 sockets in it with hex drive, I have not done any research yet, but it has the same type of Raise/Relief on the lid.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is an unmarked green slider box I keep some of my Dunlap hex drive spares in. It was empty when I found it.
-Don

 

[geneg]

Duro-Chrome, Indestro, Hinsdale, and S-K used those "slider top" boxes.
Who else?
Fulton? Duro-Bilt?
and?

Brazil- black wrinkle- converted to fly storage

 

[geneg]

Brazil- black wrinkle- converted to fly storage

Took it back down to the basement to clean out the glued in cork & dirt.
The end of the bottom has a stencil 212 matches the color of the Brazil decal

 

[geneg]

Took it back down to the basement to clean out the glued in cork & dirt.
The end of the bottom has a stencil 212 matches the color of the Brazil decal

It looks like the Fulton set in the Brazil section on Alloy Artifacts. I haven't started to look thru catalogs yet, Good thing is that it's not on the bottom shelf under my workbench in the basement. Probably been there for 5 years.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is my Duro 1/2” drive set in a sliding embossed top box.
-Don