Looking for a 1997 Craftsman tool catalog

[VolvoGuy88]

Does anybody have a 1997 craftsman tool catalog laying around? Looking for a top box to match my existing 1997 box. I can’t find any catalogs online and looking for the biggest option they had for this set up.

 

[1982fxr]

From that year I would guess 12 drawer.

 

[R_C]

How much did the boxes change from year to year? Found a 1994-1995 Craftsman Power and Hand Tools catalog on Vintage Machinery. Maybe that will help.

 

[Lesserstore]

I have a '98-'99 catalog. The 16" deep 12 drawer was the largest 26" wide chests.

 

[subroc]

http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/222/16306.pdf

 

[RTM]

They have a 40" wide ball bearing chest series "professional plus", then 26" wide x 16D. Then 22" wide

Wanna gimme a clue as to the width of yours? Makes my life a lot easier.

 

[four.cycle]

I ignored this thread up to this point.
There's a huge hole in Craftsman catalogs: We have nothing between 1994-1995 and 2004-2005.
I just ran into this on the last box I acquired, for which I was unable to determine a model number.
So obviously they were doing at least one thing differently during those years. Maybe more.

Craftsman at International Tool Catalog Library

I just downloaded that 1994-1995 catalog. I guess I did not have it before. That one I linked to looks like it might be a 65330, but the height dimension in the catalog says 12", and the box is only 9" high.

 

[cowades206]

Turns out the only old craftsman catalog I have is the 96-97. They offered ball bearing slide chests, but only up to 6 drawers. They offered a 12 drawer chest, but not with the ball bearing slides. These are photos because my latest computer updates require good peace of mind to work with my old scanner. It's too late tonight for that. I'll try scanning all the tool box pages tomorrow, but after a few rounds of one syllable words, I may give up. Always "improve" operating systems until they don't work with old stuff!

 

[four.cycle]

@cowades206 - you can get in contact with GJ member @Mark Stansbury - who also happens to be the site administrator at International Tool Catalog Library. Mark can take your catalog, do all the scanning, collating, get it converted to *.pdf format, and uploaded to ITCL, and then return the intact catalog back to you. email mark

 

[cowades206]

Thanks four.cycle. I'll get in touch with Mark.

 

[mm08822]

I have an 81/82 and a 13/14 sears tool catalogs.

 

[four.cycle]

Thanks four.cycle. I'll get in touch with Mark.

He's da man. He's done dozens of them for me.
He's got a big fancy scanner and knows what he's doing.
You get the catalogs back exactly as you sent them.

(Although there have been several we agreed to "sacrifice" the original in order to get it all scanned - some of them have to be removed from the bindings, or the pages might be so fragile they simply fall apart - like the 1931 Wards catalog.)

 

[cowades206]

Ok, there were a lot of tool box options in the 96-97 catalog. the first two pages are a folding overleaf and I managed to get the first page upside down and chopped off. This should let you figure out which chest you want though.