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Hello Everyone,
This is my first time posting though I have read many threads and posts here in the last few days in search of the identity of an old box. Sorry for the quality of the photograph, but it is all I have of Pappy’s tool boxes.
The one in particular that I am needing help on was ruined in a fire back in the nineties. It is the dark grey and red one on the top right of the picture. Pappy died several years ago and I am hoping to duplicate his boxes. The drawer arrangement is the same as a Huot Model 100 yet there are some differences.
The drawer pulls look like the ones on the Kennedy chest on the top left. The picture also shows the pulls on this box are all the same size, but on the Huot the lower drawer pulls are wider. I do not remember it having a drop front and I do not remember the Huot logo. This one was either dark grey or black with red drawers and it had chrome pulls. A Huot rep e-mailed me and said, “Yes, it looks like a model 100. Most of them were painted red and or a combination of hammertone blue with gray drawers, but there was some experimentation here and there so it very well could’ve been [grey and red or black and red] as you suspected. There were also periods when we manufactured these tool boxes under different brand names (at the request of some very large customers)…” I do remember that is was a very sturdy chest and that it saw and stood up to many years of daily use.
While searching this site earlier today I found a picture of a Power Kraft possibly made by Remline (was Remline made by Huot?). The original post was made by ‘rlitman’ on 11-17-2011 who was looking for the identity of a Huot box he had bought on Craigslist. On down the page was a picture of a Power Kraft box that looks a lot like the one in my picture, but I don’t remember the latch in the top middle of the box. Also the badge on the one in my picture was rectangular. Then tonight I found a thread started by ‘mailmixer’ on 8-21-2012 showing the same Power Kraft box as in rlitman’s post. Plus on down the page there is a picture of a Remline posted by ‘Flatintoone’ showing a rectangular badge with no latch on the top. Is my search over? If it is then what is the model number of the chest? By the way I am sure it predates the seventies.
The only boxes pictured here that were destroyed in the fire were the one with the red drawers and the five drawer intermediate chest under the Kennedy chest that I believe was also a Kennedy even though the drawer pulls are a little different. I remember the brown Kennedy color. If someone knows the model of the Kennedy chest I would appreciate it since the tag was painted over years ago. I have the Kennedy now as well as the Huot Model 201 and the Snap-On KR 377. The 201 and the KR 377 each are missing a drawer. I had the 201 in my shop so it escaped the fire (all but the bottom drawer, which Pappy had removed and was using for small parts storage). I have the drawer, but the fire really distorted it. I found the KR 377 stored in an outbuilding covered up with junk. The drawer with the Snap-On logo is the one missing so if someone is parting out an old 377… with slides… The lower panel is also gone on the KR 377. I use it in my blacksmith shop. Who says you have to be a mechanic to have a great old box?
I have more questions than I have answers for so I hope you all here can help with the Huot lookalike. The next thing will be trying to find one close here in WV since shipping is a killer. Thanks everyone.
Ronnie
This is my first time posting though I have read many threads and posts here in the last few days in search of the identity of an old box. Sorry for the quality of the photograph, but it is all I have of Pappy’s tool boxes.
The one in particular that I am needing help on was ruined in a fire back in the nineties. It is the dark grey and red one on the top right of the picture. Pappy died several years ago and I am hoping to duplicate his boxes. The drawer arrangement is the same as a Huot Model 100 yet there are some differences.
The drawer pulls look like the ones on the Kennedy chest on the top left. The picture also shows the pulls on this box are all the same size, but on the Huot the lower drawer pulls are wider. I do not remember it having a drop front and I do not remember the Huot logo. This one was either dark grey or black with red drawers and it had chrome pulls. A Huot rep e-mailed me and said, “Yes, it looks like a model 100. Most of them were painted red and or a combination of hammertone blue with gray drawers, but there was some experimentation here and there so it very well could’ve been [grey and red or black and red] as you suspected. There were also periods when we manufactured these tool boxes under different brand names (at the request of some very large customers)…” I do remember that is was a very sturdy chest and that it saw and stood up to many years of daily use.
While searching this site earlier today I found a picture of a Power Kraft possibly made by Remline (was Remline made by Huot?). The original post was made by ‘rlitman’ on 11-17-2011 who was looking for the identity of a Huot box he had bought on Craigslist. On down the page was a picture of a Power Kraft box that looks a lot like the one in my picture, but I don’t remember the latch in the top middle of the box. Also the badge on the one in my picture was rectangular. Then tonight I found a thread started by ‘mailmixer’ on 8-21-2012 showing the same Power Kraft box as in rlitman’s post. Plus on down the page there is a picture of a Remline posted by ‘Flatintoone’ showing a rectangular badge with no latch on the top. Is my search over? If it is then what is the model number of the chest? By the way I am sure it predates the seventies.
The only boxes pictured here that were destroyed in the fire were the one with the red drawers and the five drawer intermediate chest under the Kennedy chest that I believe was also a Kennedy even though the drawer pulls are a little different. I remember the brown Kennedy color. If someone knows the model of the Kennedy chest I would appreciate it since the tag was painted over years ago. I have the Kennedy now as well as the Huot Model 201 and the Snap-On KR 377. The 201 and the KR 377 each are missing a drawer. I had the 201 in my shop so it escaped the fire (all but the bottom drawer, which Pappy had removed and was using for small parts storage). I have the drawer, but the fire really distorted it. I found the KR 377 stored in an outbuilding covered up with junk. The drawer with the Snap-On logo is the one missing so if someone is parting out an old 377… with slides… The lower panel is also gone on the KR 377. I use it in my blacksmith shop. Who says you have to be a mechanic to have a great old box?
I have more questions than I have answers for so I hope you all here can help with the Huot lookalike. The next thing will be trying to find one close here in WV since shipping is a killer. Thanks everyone.
Ronnie
