Indestro 60pc socket set

[vintagetoolhoarder]

Anyone have one of these Indestro 60pc socket sets that are complete? Are they common? Are they worth anything? Tia

 

[Half-fast eddie]

If you’re broke down miles from civilization, they are worth their weight in gold.

 

[four.cycle]

There's a Duro-Chrome / Indestro thread here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/show-your-indestro-and-duro-chrome-tools.94937/

Your 60-piece set was a promotional item sold in the late 1970s/early 1980s and contained Indestro (Super or Select) sockets, ratchet, and "Select" wrenches, and an assortment of other oddball items, a few of which may have been outsourced from other suppliers (like the box cutter, if that kit contains one.)
The small 1/4" hex drive handle and sockets were formerly marketed as a model 360 "Slip-on" kit.

Those sets show up on Ebay now and then, and invariably are missing a few pieces.

 

[four.cycle]

Here's one of those kits which appears to be mostly complete:


The screwdrivers look like
Rosco / Rosenberg Bros. & Co., Smithtown, L.I., NY / acquired by Vermont American 1974 / (see also: http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/10/vanished-tool-makes-rosco.html )
The tape measure is
Walsco / Waterbury Lock and Specialty Co., Milford, CT / patent 2242906 / http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2014/09/vanished-makes-waterbury-lock-and.html / tape measures, box cutters /
The box cutter is
AJC / AJC Tools and Equipment Co. (formerly AJC Hatchet Co.) 5145 Hudson Drive, Hudson, OH 44236 / https://www.ajctools.com/

If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say the ignition wrench set was outsourced either from Kastar or Oxwall.

 

[vintagetoolhoarder]

If you’re broke down miles from civilization, they are worth their weight in gold.

For sure

 

[vintagetoolhoarder]

Here's one of those kits which appears to be mostly complete:


The screwdrivers look like
Rosco / Rosenberg Bros. & Co., Smithtown, L.I., NY / acquired by Vermont American 1974 / (see also: http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2012/10/vanished-tool-makes-rosco.html )
The tape measure is
Walsco / Waterbury Lock and Specialty Co., Milford, CT / patent 2242906 / http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2014/09/vanished-makes-waterbury-lock-and.html / tape measures, box cutters /
The box cutter is
AJC / AJC Tools and Equipment Co. (formerly AJC Hatchet Co.) 5145 Hudson Drive, Hudson, OH 44236 / https://www.ajctools.com/

If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say the ignition wrench set was outsourced either from Kastar or Oxwall.

Thanks a lot for all the info and pictures I will have to keep my eyes peeled for any of these items and appears like the original tray is made out of cardboard so I highly highly doubt I’ll ever find one of them intact

 

[four.cycle]

^ The photos above are from an Ebay ad, and show the contents being held in an injection-molded foam tray (looks like polystyrene to me - aka "styrofoam").
The very few that we ordered weren't the "double layer" versions, so I can't even guess what material they might have used in those larger sets, but I would guess that it was the least costly they could find.
Those never appeared in the regular catalogs, but were advertised (to wholesalers) with single-sheet flyers. They didn't sell worth a damn and we broke them up and put the open stock (sockets, ratchets, and wrenches) on the display boards and the oddball stuff we blew out on close-outs.

 

[bonneyman]

I really like that style of Indestro ratchet.

 

[garilla]

I inherited one of these 60 piece sets from my Father, seems he never used it other than to steal out of the set 2 screwdrivers, an open end wrench, and a little 7/32 socket was missing. I put in place holders for those. The tray is indeed made from Styrofoam, mine has just a wee piece missing from it other than that it is just new. The bottom tray sockets and ratchet are nice, the stuff in the styrofoam is mixed bag cheap.

 

[garagemahal76]

Inherited one from my father in law. Missing a couple screwdrivers, measuring tape and hex key. Box cutter is Walsco and a bonus not from this kit , a 4 pc wrench set that has a thumbscrew “klip tite set” from indestro as well. Will be posting more vintage tools soon.