Found a strange SO box, can't find any info about it

[The Frisco Kid]

I found a cool Snap-On box recently that is for sale... but I can't find anything on it. I've never seen one like this before.

GIS only brings up two pictures of similar boxes (but no details), but it looks like a KR series box meets Tallboy with an integrated locker on the left hand side and a cabinet on the top? 14 drawers, and a five or six button locking mechanism on the front. I'd like to buy it if the price is right... you guys got any idea what I'm looking at?

Thanks for the help.

 

[The Frisco Kid]

Oh, it was about 6' tall, maybe a bit more. Red in color.

 

[Gone]

It doesn't look like this does it?

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=168216

 

[Packard V8]

you guys got any idea what I'm looking at?

Not a clue. Maybe if you showed us what you're looking at, that might help?

Second, wouldn't most any S-O box of that age will have the model number and build date stamped on the back corner or have a sticker label on it?

jack vines

 

[The Frisco Kid]

Unfortunately, I saw it from across a shop that I call on. It caught my eye but wasn't offered for sale until later. I'm going to grab a better look at it next week.

It looks like this:

Thanks!

 

[timbitca]

That's the same box in the thread Gone linked to. Never heard of a box like that until yesterday and now twice. Interesting...

 

[Mike306]

Same as this one?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNAP-ON-T...xes_Storage&hash=item1c2b9732f6#ht_500wt_1204

KR7100B apparently :S

 

[Outlawmws]

That's the same box in the thread Gone linked to. Never heard of a box like that until yesterday and now twice. Interesting...

They come in threes.., waiting 10 - 9 - 8...

And they don't come up often, but I have see a couple in pics If I found one cheap I'd get it.

 

[The Frisco Kid]

I think he wants $600 for it, might just have to jump on it.

 

[itsvegas]

id snag that for $600 in a heartbeat.

 

[DandDMachine]

I would jump at that for $600.

 

[PT Doc]

Pounce on it for 600.

 

[Bullet_101]

Man I wish I could find cheap snap on boxes. Around here everyone wants 3k+ for a used SO box. Even a small 26 inch box, its insane.

 

[timbitca]

They come in threes.., waiting 10 - 9 - 8...

And they don't come up often, but I have see a couple in pics If I found one cheap I'd get it.

Yeah.. I have the same disease you do, the more boxes I have the better I like it, and even more the unusual ones. This SO definitely has me looking.

 

[jethro29]

i'd be all over that for 600 coco's.

 

[woody 73]

Man I wish I could find cheap snap on boxes. Around here everyone wants 3k+ for a used SO box. Even a small 26 inch box, its insane.

In my area of central Ohio they would want your first born,your wife,the family Dog,three goats,two pigs,10,000 in cash and if you are lucky maybe you can keep your underwear Jump on that box ASAP

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

I think he wants $600 for it, might just have to jump on it.

That's a great deal for a box like that.

 

[Link-Belt]

WTF I have never saw a Snap-On box like that till today when I was checking the local CL adds and saw one 1000 bucks. I thought man that is an awesome box and if I had the money I would be all over it. Then I come here and find two threads on them.

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[fordbroncodave]

$600 is a no brainer deal. get it! would work good for storing misc shop tools and a supplies cabinet / nut and bolt cabinet.

 

[Bart Simpson]

Here are a couple of threads that discuss this box with some info you may want.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62419

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107440

Pic of a poster of the box.





If it is in decent shape it would be a good buy.

 

[jeffmoss26]

I want the poster haha

 

[shocksandstrutz]

Outlaw, here comes the third......for sale in the ST.Louis area. Getting truck brand tools around here for cheap isnt really a problem, trying to buy a box under retail that is used.....never going to happen. people around here are asking over retail for their 10yr old box.

your getting a good deal for 600, id buy it for that, this guy wants 3k....never going to get it

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/tls/3274206689.html

 

[The Frisco Kid]

Big thanks to Gone and Bart and all you guys for the links and info.

Well I went and picked it up. It is in great cosmetic shape, but the drawers are pretty damn rough. Dirty slides, a few bent slides, and a few detent/latch issues. All in all a great deal for me to work on as a project, good deal for him to have cash in hand.

I'm going to strip it down and clean it... any ideas for a cheap solvent for soaking the drawers that is NOT kerosene? A rebuild thread will of course be soon to follow!


Also found a scale model of the KR7100 and I will have to somehow acquire that poster!!

 

[Outlawmws]

Big thanks to Gone and Bart and all you guys for the links and info.

Well I went and picked it up. It is in great cosmetic shape, but the drawers are pretty damn rough. Dirty slides, a few bent slides, and a few detent/latch issues. All in all a great deal for me to work on as a project, good deal for him to have cash in hand.

I'm going to strip it down and clean it... any ideas for a cheap solvent for soaking the drawers that is NOT kerosene? A rebuild thread will of course be soon to follow!


Also found a scale model of the KR7100 and I will have to somehow acquire that poster!!

I don't know about cheap, but Kennedy recommends cleaning their boxes with WD-40 which works reasonably well in most cases. (Light solvent, oil, doesn't dull the paints, it's not bad)

Simple green works well, BUT it WILL dull the paint. I just finally cleaned 40+ years of grime off a big MBC Century top box this week, and that was ground in so bad I had to use Comet cleanser to cut it. NOTHING else worked...

For the slides the Simple Green and a stiff tooth brush or tool brush sized nylon cleaning brush works well in the crevasses. Last year a guy posted about making a slide "solvent tank" out of a section of PVC pipe and that worked well as it was a let it set overnight and then go at it operation.

 

[Packard V8]

Let me be the first to give you a "You ****!" for that box for $600. It's unusual, a bargain and utilitarian.

jack vines

 

[timbitca]

Nice score! Don't forget to give us some pics!

 

[elguappo]

Nice score.
I used WD-40 to clean my Mac/Matco slides, interesting combo of wax, grease and oil.

 

[Mugen AP1]

Wow. The more I see that box, the more I want it.

Very unique.