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

[Private Lugnutz]

Or to make things easier for you, just start a new thread including "Vintage Tool Boards Many Brands" in the title and post all your photos there. It will get A LOT of interest.

 

[Capt. Spaulding]

More pictures!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Some of the Snap On control boards as well as others. Many more board brands pics available if interested.

Wow

 

[UncleDave]

A link to the tool boards. Hope I did this right.
Thanks for the help and advice. I’ll get some SO pics up here. The unknown box I got turns out to be a KR 562 “Taco Cart”. I’m loving it.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=405588

 

[Private Lugnutz]

You done good! And I told you you would get a lot of interest!!

 

[elidas]

Picked these up at a swop meet today,$25.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That roll is in great shape

 

[Private Lugnutz]

That is a great snag, elidas. Congrats.

 

[snapmom]

Sometimes you just get lucky.

 

[elidas]

It was a good weekend overall. I also picked up a thirties K4 speeder for $.50 I've also added a lot of Herbrand stuff and will eventually add to the Show us thread.
Thanks!

 

[d42jeep]

I found a 5/8” drive short overstrike 1” socket at an estate sale on Friday. I put it with my other old Snap-on stuff.
-Don

 

[snapmom]

Stromberg T20139 Snap on socket. Someone posted a set of these a while back. 3/8 drive. 12pt, the little wrench has no factory marks, maybe some sort of ref wrench/

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I think so

 

[J.A.F.E.]

I think the little wrench is for oxy/acetylene bottles. The valve stem especially on older bottles often didn't have a wheel and you needed a wrench. Maybe the newer ones sometimes don't have wheels been a while since I've played with oxy/acetylene.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I could see that. Those wheels have a square broach like that, not far fetched they could have made a wrench for them.

 

[r_olson_06]

I could see that. Those wheels have a square broach like that, not far fetched they could have made a wrench for them.

I have seen some presto-lite versions of them. They look identical.

Looking for the following Plomb Pebbles Wrenches 3055, 3060, 3061, 3062, 3070

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here is one of mine for reference/comparison...

 

[Snaparxon]

I"ve got a set of those twelve point with 1953 date codes.

You have a set of Snap on box end wrenches that have the same size on both ends of each wrench? Can you post a pic?

 

[Catfishdan]

I picked up the remains of a 1944 1/4" set today. Tm5e sliding t, tm60e extension, and three sockets with the E code. I figured they'd be 9/32", but nope. Does this mean they were civilian rather than government?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Tm is 1/4". Military used it as well. M is 9/32

 

[d42jeep]

Tm is 1/4". Military used it as well. M is 9/32

The 9/32” drive was a favorite of the Air Corps but wartime GMTKs all called for 1/4” drive. Snap-on started 1/4” drive in ‘43/‘44 and they also continued to make 9/32” stuff through the end of the war. I think the ratchets were the same except for the internals.
-Don

 

[snapmom]

So 9/32 dr was made at least into the 60's in their industrial line

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Actually started earlier. Here is a 1938 snap on gm 70n. Early 1/4 snap on very rare. Note no screws in faceplate. I have yet to find any sockets for it.

 

[Catfishdan]

Thanks for the info folks!

 

[snapmom]

I think the GM70N rat was the only 1/4 dr tool made until 1944. There were some ref. rats with 1/4 dr female in the 30s, you had to use a 1/4 to 9/32 adapter to use them on sockets.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

That would make sense. I have never found any
1/4 drive sockets that age.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I think the GM70N rat was the only 1/4 dr tool made until 1944.

That's what my research shows. It was a 9/32 dr M70 rat with a drive plug assembly that had a 1/4-inch drive stud instead of a 9/32-inch drive stud. But Otg's (with no removable assembly) puts a wrinkle in that a little in that there is not removable drive plug.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

From the 1937 snap on catalog

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I remember you showing me that before, Otg, I just didn't notice that it didn't have a removable drive plug before. Even CS-o talks about the easy conversion of 9/32 units to 1/4 with the removeable drive plug, then going full bore 1/4 (except for some mil customers) with sockets and other handles etc in 1944. This 1937 rat was something else entirely.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

It's in the catalog up to 42, but I think the design without the faceplate screws only lasted through 38. Here is the removable plug fridge ratchet with a 1/4 and a 3/8 plug. There Was A 9/32 plug As well

 

[snapmom]

Well we are all wrong.
The GM70L 1/4 rat with a 42 code. shows in the 39-45 cats
Attached is a GM70M with a 43 code.
Attached is a GM4 driver with a 37 code (shows up in the 37 industrial cat)

Attached is a GM5 driver no code but only shows up in the 37 industrial

Also the 37 industrial shows 1/4 dr socks. with a GM code.

So: the GM70N would not have screws, was replaced by the GM70L in about 39. Not to say that there are no GM70N with screws. you never know what will show up.

http://collectingsnapon.com/catalogs/catalogs.php?loggedin=0&catalogPage=3830

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Those drivers are awesome. Great info! Thanks snapmom

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Thanks, snapmom. Love the blonde wood on those spinners.

 

[Catfishdan]

I found a couple of 3/8" speeders today. The dark one is a ferret f4d with an E date stamp. The other is a newer fv4.

 

[d42jeep]

I found this 1941 little Blue Point DBE wrench yesterday at an estate sale and a big punch at another. The big punch doesn’t have a date code that I could find.
-Don

 

[snapmom]

Forged Steel Products ? No model number, no date code.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Forged Steel Products ? No model number, no date code.

Maybe not - but it has an awesome classic script Ford logo!!! Those are sweet dykes!

 

[snapmom]

If all the snap on dykes were made by FSP, I think maybe these too, but the pattern is diff, but also these have the BP logo, not seen in this era

 

[3baygarage]

Nice.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Forged Steel Products ? No model number, no date code.

Does not match any I have seen