how did I forget about this

[rsanter]

so I was going through the shop the other day and found my old toolbox from when I was a teen. it was my first toolbox. I only used it for a couple of years and then upgraded using this box as a portable box if I had to go wrenching at a friends or in the shop at college.
ok so I didn't really forget I had the box but I did forget it was full of tools
mostly early 80s craftsman that I got as gifts and some that I bought second hand. there were couple snap on sockets and some proto in there too

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bob

 

[Haveblue]

Re-discovered treasure, awesome! Its interesting to see a common trend with toolboxes, my first one is plastered with stickers, but I dont put them my newer boxes.

 

[zkling]

Awesome. Like that feeling when you pull your pants out of the dryer, reach into the pocket and you find a few $

Are those other two boxes (KR647, 657?) your current "main" tool boxes? What other tool boxes do you have?

 

[jakemac]

That's a really nice first box.

It's still a really nice box.

 

[William Payne]

What brand is that toolbox?

 

[FF_Chevy]

Finding treasure that you already own is always fun... I have about 20 boxes from my childhood/teenage years in storage that I need to go through. Most of mine is prolly old video game and such.

 

[ZRX61]

Re-discovered treasure, awesome! Its interesting to see a common trend with toolboxes, my first one is plastered with stickers, but I dont put them my newer boxes.

I recently removed a bunch of **** stickers from a small SnapOn 3 drawer chest I've had for about 30 years. I left the (very few) good ones on it though.

 

[rsanter]

Don't know what brand it is. I bought it at a auto parts store for something like $59.99 on sale ant it came with a bottom box that had 2 drawers and the open space.
The bottom box is gone as I gave it to a friend way back when

The snap on boxes are my home toolboxes so I have something in the the garage to do home repairs and other misc stuff. I have been filling them slowly with misc tools from the shop but this will give me a very nice set of sockets and ratchets for here at the house

I used to like the whole sticker thing but can't stand it now. I won't take the stickers off this box because it is part of the boxes history with me. Not even sure what I will do with the box but for now it can just sit there. The tools are going back onto service because I always need tools around the house so now I don't have to buy as much more or steal more from my shop box

Bob

 

[Kev442]

Finding "lost" tools is always a trip. I just picked up my first tool chest in the garage and was surprised to feel weight in it. I had totally forgot that I had used it as a road chest last summer, so over a year later I'm taking my "missing" tools out of it and putting them away. Felt great!

 

[Farmall450]

Re-discovered treasure, awesome! Its interesting to see a common trend with toolboxes, my first one is plastered with stickers, but I dont put them my newer boxes.

Exactly the same here.

 

[philktra]

so I was going through the shop the other day and found my old toolbox from when I was a teen. it was my first toolbox. I only used it for a couple of years and then upgraded using this box as a portable box if I had to go wrenching at a friends or in the shop at college.
ok so I didn't really forget I had the box but I did forget it was full of tools
mostly early 80s craftsman that I got as gifts and some that I bought second hand. there were couple snap on sockets and some proto in there too

bob

Bob, do you have any interest in selling the snap on middle kr647 box? I tried to pm you but I don't have permission yet.

Thanks in advance for any consideration

 

[philktra]

First toolboxes are special things. I still have mine from 40 years ago. I use it for small parts organization.

Since my father passed I have also had the privilege and been in the process of completing my father snap on tool box set for some time.

I have managed to get a KR557 lower same year and an impossible to find kr547 middle box.

I have been looking for a kr647 middle (photo in Bob's first post on this thread) and possibly some side cabinets.

Great posts!!!

 

[RTM]

My first serious box was my grandfather’s, just a GMTK type. I got it back from my dad a few years back, and it sits in a corner now, full of pipe wrenches, since I don’t carry a toolbox everywhere I go, since my cars, and my friends cars, are much more reliable. But it’s there.

 

[kctyphoon]

I had an ammo can filled with paint thinner that had a bunch of my old USA craftsman stuff soaking in to get the grease off.. the first real tool set i bought was one of the BIG craftsman’s sets my father took me to sears to buy when i was probably 15. Came with a 3 piece tool chest (that i still have). every socket, in every drive, in both 6 and 12 point. There were doubles, triples, of everything basically between the overlap, so some pieces not being available were no big deal. I moved twice before i opened that ammo can again. I always knew there were tools inside. It had to have sat unopened for over 10 years at least, probably closer to 15.

Needless to say, everything was clean when i finally bought a bigger HF tool chest, and finally rebuilt my big tool set. What sucked is even with opening that can, I didn’t find all my missing pieces and wound up buying a few dozen sockets. Many as individuals to put it all back together. (Gets expensive when you need a bunch of 1/2” drive sizes) Some just couldn’t be found in sears anymore, or were way too expensive, so some husky had to fill in. The money i spent on that was about 1/2 what it would cost to buy a new craftsman “every socket available” set on sale - but ultimately decided i wanted to keep my originals and use them, and not wind up with over 200 ‘extra’ sockets.

Even though the craftsman chest is nothing considered desirable - its still in EXCELLENT condition for something that was probably bought in the early 90’s. I’m glad I didn’t sell it, even though i tried to.

 

[Dumber than lumber]

My first tool box is a Craftsman 15" ( my guess) hip roof with lift out tray. Bought at Sears in 1974 (my best guess). Has a few dents and many original to me tools from the last century.
I don't throw out much stuff unless it breaks or falls apart three times.
Old habits die hard.

 

[MushCreek]

My very first toolbox was a cheap little tackle box. Then, I built a three drawer wooden box, which I still have. It just occurred to me that that wooden box is 45 years old!

 

[fatfillup]

Looks like a great go box for that out of shop repair.

I have sold or traded my first real boxes long ago. Don't miss them particularly but should of kept a Vulcan triple stack I had. It would be nicer then my current home boxes

 

[sberry]

I got a couple 3 in the storage basement, just plain don't have a real use for them.. I carried a hip roof and another old cman in the trunk, a common fray one I see here on occasion and really could get all the stuff to do real work in them. There wasn't the metric we have now which would add a bit more.