Can anyone identify this Craftsman box/set?

[twisted99]

Picked this up from Offer up for $30, with a bunch of sockets (maybe 20% of what its supposed to have) and id like to know what part number it is, so i decide if im going to try to complete the set, or sell the empty box. I have 2 other pics, but cant seem to add them

 

[woody 73]

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Sears Craftsman Power and Hand Tools 2004-2005 Catalog : Sears, Roebuck and Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

184 p., illus., 26.6 cm, trade catalog

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[woody 73]

Oh, and by the way number #1 son I am still pissed that you gave your ex-mother-in-law this set, that took me a long time to complete, sigh

 

[1Bad55Chevy]

Oh, and by the way number #1 son I am still pissed that you gave your ex-mother-in-law this set, that took me a long time to complete, sigh

We need the story on this!

Is the OP your actual son?

 

[twisted99]

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Sears Craftsman Power and Hand Tools 2004-2005 Catalog : Sears, Roebuck and Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

184 p., illus., 26.6 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

I dont think thats it. I'll try to post the 3/8" drawer, it looks different. I cant post it. It doesnt load another pic, is there a limit to how many pics per thread?
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edited pic and it loaded

 

[twisted99]

We need the story on this!

Is the OP your actual son?

not unless Woody is a ghost


I'm guessing Woody is talking to his older Brother

 

[woody 73]

This next part is going to confuse the op, so let's see if I can explain it better.

Around the 2000's I walked into my local sears store, and they had one of these empty black boxes for sale, so I bought it. About a year later give or take they had another of the same box for sale so i bought it. In the meantime, I picked up a third box also empty, and I thought my two boys were very young why not have some fun and fill up those empty toolboxes to give them as a present when they get to high school.

Now something funny happened but I noticed all three of those boxes were made differently, but they all looked similar, just that the manufacturer must have changed the molds/or tweaked the molds just enough to make all three differently. In other words, one had a smooth rounded lip at the handle, another had a more curved drawer shape, and the last one was a squarer shape to it. So, op I could understand your confusion if the boxes looked a little different but yet they all had the same model #'s.

I do that helps you out a little bit, maybe even sears went with a different company to make them? I don't know the answer but that is my best guess.

 

[alinc100]

Ok this is gonna be long. Looking through my digital catalogs these sets first appeared around 1998 Part number 33607:
1999,2000 same as above .In 2001 it became set 33238:same in 2002,nothing in 2003
2004 brought us the 34183 set:
2005 it was the 34209 set:2006 made it the 42135 set:
2007 it was the 34209 set again:
2008 made it the 36214 set with some gold tools leftover from 80 anniversary
2009 the box design changed and had red latches so I stopped looking.

 

[twisted99]

This next part is going to confuse the op, so let's see if I can explain it better.

Around the 2000's I walked into my local sears store, and they had one of these empty black boxes for sale, so I bought it. About a year later give or take they had another of the same box for sale so i bought it. In the meantime, I picked up a third box also empty, and I thought my two boys were very young why not have some fun and fill up those empty toolboxes to give them as a present when they get to high school.

Now something funny happened but I noticed all three of those boxes were made differently, but they all looked similar, just that the manufacturer must have changed the molds/or tweaked the molds just enough to make all three differently. In other words, one had a smooth rounded lip at the handle, another had a more curved drawer shape, and the last one was a squarer shape to it. So, op I could understand your confusion if the boxes looked a little different but yet they all had the same model #'s.

I do that helps you out a little bit, maybe even sears went with a different company to make them? I don't know the answer but that is my best guess.

Not confusing at all. The reason I'm saying its not the same is the socket layout in the 3/8 drawer. It, at a glance, seems the one I have has a lot more sockets. And as I stated, I cant even find a model number. I have 3 of the black "suitcase" style cases and theres a 5 digit part number molded into them. I look at the other pics you posted and see if I can find the mine in there. Thanks for all your help.

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none of those seem to be it. What I did notice is the hyping of the "laser etched" sockets. The 50 sockets, that appear to be original to the box, in this are all inverted G. Which, I'm guessing are older than the laser etched, correct?