Lets make an all vintage Snap-on tool picture thread!

[3baygarage]

Thank you, that’s an odd one!

 

[HOF]

I want to thank Snapmom for helping get this rat back together!

 

[oscarsnapkin]

Can we assume anything with a script logo is considered vintage? In that case I have tons. Here’s a few I like that I snapped some photos of.

 

[Steven 33]

F17 short version

 

[Stubby1743]

I have this SW-240 3/4" 12pt 1/2" drive socket with a 1941 date code. Nothing unusual about that. However the socket is also marked with "-2250-" where the diameter increases. The numbers are 1/8" high and have been machine applied rather than hand stamped or engraved. What is the significance of those numbers?

 

[d42jeep]

I don’t know but I suppose it could be that most of the 1941 3/4” 12 point sockets are basIcally straight like mine.
-Don

 

[snapmom]

I have this SW-240 3/4" 12pt 1/2" drive socket with a 1941 date code. Nothing unusual about that. However the socket is also marked with "-2250-" where the diameter increases. The numbers are 1/8" high and have been machine applied rather than hand stamped or engraved. What is the significance of those numbers?

Part of a Allison Aircraft Toolkit from the war.

 

[Stubby1743]

That's great to know, thanks.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

At 8009 whitworth wrench

 

[snapmom]

At 8009 whitworth wrench

part of the

At 8009 whitworth wrench

part of the Packard Merlin Rolls Royce toolkit.

 

[neharr41]

I got this today at a swap meet in Pahrump, NV. Definitely the oldest metric Snap-on socket I've ever seen. Appears to have a 1943 date code.

 

[d42jeep]

I found a 3/8” drive speeder at a Tahoe estate sale this morning. Here it is after a cursory cleaning.
Turns out I already had a newer one in my user toolbox. One will be traveling to the Bay Area at the end of the season.
-Don

 

[oscarsnapkin]

I got this today at a swap meet in Pahrump, NV. Definitely the oldest metric Snap-on socket I've ever seen. Appears to have a 1943 date code.

I have the same bookshelf for my records as well. I’m curious, what are the ones with the black and red spines that you have several of?

 

[MR.X]

I got this today at a swap meet in Pahrump, NV. Definitely the oldest metric Snap-on socket I've ever seen. Appears to have a 1943 date code.

Cool socket. I'm not seeing the 1943 "3" thou?

 

[MR.X]

quick stop at a shady flea produced these. Not normally a Snap-On guy but at the right price.....Anyway pretty nice tappets, another Air Corps marked 9/32 tool, and this socket was a freebie throw in...kinda looks like an overstrike without the "O" and was it pinned to something at one point?

 

[neharr41]

Cool socket. I'm not seeing the 1943 "3" thou?

Oops, I misread the chart. I think it’s actually 1944. It has a faint “E”.

I have the same bookshelf for my records as well. I’m curious, what are the ones with the black and red spines that you have several of?

That shelf was actually custom-made by my dad who is a cabinetmaker. The black and red spines are original jazz LPs from the Impulse! label.

 

[oscarsnapkin]

Oops, I misread the chart. I think it’s actually 1944. It has a faint
That shelf was actually custom-made by my dad who is a cabinetmaker. The black and red spines are original jazz LPs from t

Oops, I misread the chart. I think it’s actually 1944. It has a faint “E”.

That shelf was actually custom-made by my dad who is a cabinetmaker. The black and red spines are original jazz LPs from the Impulse! label.

Ah. So it’s not the IKEA one that I have.

 

[neharr41]

Just picked up this 1951 TM-4 Octo-Grip at a Maine pawn shop, just over the border from NH. The owner was kind enough to give it to me.

 

[HOF]

Finally Completed My Snap-on 3/8" F71's Collection. I Added the Top One today (GF 71N)

Not a 71 (FN720), but seems to be in the same family. Now, I have to find a FN720A.

 

[pfbz]

Short video on my Snap On 1956 F4L speeder that I recently did a very light restoration on...

 

[oscarsnapkin]

I just got this. It was an eBay auction with three other ratchets. I was the only bidder. $10 plus $10 shipping. Anyone have any idea of the year for this? I don’t see any date stamp. The SO logo is worn down quite a bit, too. It works, though. I’m going to open it up and grease it. Maybe try and clean it up. I posted pics of the other three ratchets just to show. The Craftsman is locked up and has a broken reverse lever. I’ll post it in a Craftsman thread. For $20 I’m happy with the purchase.

 

[d42jeep]

1945. Here is mine with a 1944 date code.
-Don

 

[oscarsnapkin]

1945. Here is mine with a 1944 date code.
-Don

Did you see a date code on mine? If so, where? I can’t seem to find it.

 

[Mintgrun]

It's the G inside the selector depression, between ON and OFF.

 

[930dreamer]

Is this a Snap On box?

 

[neharr41]

Is this a Snap On box?

That looks like a Blackhawk box to me.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That color brown it's bonney

 

[genog]

One of my favorites

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

One of my favorites

Mine too.

 

[Steven 33]

Three different 1929 Twelve Point 7/16 Ferret sockets. Enough to drive the variation collectors mad.

Yep big problem for me ha technically the same as the left one but the snap-on marking being slightly thinner drives me nuts

 

[Steven 33]

Some older stuff

 

[misterbill]

Anybody recognize this box? As I postulated in the 2025 Garage Sale Thread (14th Annual), I wonder if it's an FB-50 box. I can't imagine that the handle and hasp are original but they're well executed if they are user modified. If it is indeed from the 1930s, would it have been black? I don't see any other color underneath the top layer(s).





Bill

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Just missing the tray and has user modified handle

 

[MisterEd]

Looks like Boxocket S-9592, Chevrolet Starter and Water Pump Wrench, 1939.

"(F)or servicing the starter on late models. Makes it easy to clear obstructions and handle the job quickly."

Snap-on Tools : Catalog I : Snap-on Tools, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

84 p., illus., 20.6 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

 

[snapmom]

Looks like Boxocket S-9592, Chevrolet Starter and Water Pump Wrench, 1939.

"(F)or servicing the starter on late models. Makes it easy to clear obstructions and handle the job quickly."

Snap-on Tools : Catalog I : Snap-on Tools, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

84 p., illus., 20.6 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

What size are the openings, it has a 32 date code. The model number that starts with a X , what are the two numbers after the X

 

[MisterEd]

What size are the openings, it has a 32 date code. The model number that starts with a X , what are the two numbers after the X

The only number I can see is the 3/4 preceding "Box . . . " and that rules out being the Chevy tool. There's the patent number on the other side (1424069) and a symbol I saw as the Date Code. My old eyes refuse to see more.

 

[Steven 33]

The only number I can see is the 3/4 preceding "Box . . . " and that rules out being the Chevy tool. There's the patent number on the other side (1424069) and a symbol I saw as the Date Code. My old eyes refuse to see more.

Weird mine has no patent.
3/4 should be x24

 

[snapmom]

Weird mine has no patent.
3/4 should be x24

the pat number is usually on early 30s models, The X-** models were often used to make different Sxxxx models at the factory, most times have both model numbers on them.

 

[Steven 33]

the pat number is usually on early 30s models, The X-** models were often used to make different Sxxxx models at the factory, most times have both model numbers on them.

So this one must be 20s ? Ill have to clean it up a bit more and see if i can find a date code. Got a few other oddballs recently that i still need to get figured out. Like a c16 i think it is super thing single open end. Pretty unique

 

[Steven 33]

Ferret set looking pretty sweet