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Looking for a storage box suitable for a Blue-Point Serpentine set

markdtn

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I thought this would be easy, but I am finding that it is not. I bought a Blue Point serpentine belt tool kit. It is complete and in the plastic pouch. But the pouch is torn and coming apart so I would like to find a storage case for it. Ideal internal dimensions 18" long x 4" wide x 1" tall. Any thoughts/sources for a plastic (or metal) box around this size? I have searched and am not really finding anything close. There is a Mac socket box on Ebay now but it doesn't have dimensions listed and I don't think it is long enough. Thanks!
 
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ChevyEFI

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I like the swap meet and Cripe Distributing for stuff like this. I have an SK box close to that size.
 

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Do you have a link or picture of the set? Was it made by another brand like Lisle?
 
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I have a mess of 19 and 20-inch 1/2" drive socket set boxes, but shipping on them - even empty - is crazy.
Figure about $25 bucks just to ship the empty box.
I can probably get this one to you for $30 bucks (without tools):
 

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Tom "Python" Aycock

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I have a mess of 19 and 20-inch 1/2" drive socket set boxes, but shipping on them - even empty - is crazy.
Figure about $25 bucks just to ship the empty box.
I can probably get this one to you for $30 bucks (without tools):
I've got soooo many vintage knurled 1/2" sockets and ratchets of J.H. Williams, Husky, Thorsen, Bonney, Speed Master...all they need is their own home (socket box). I find 1/4 drive boxes constantly but 1/2 drive boxes are just unicorns across my quad-state travel area and you are correct on shipping fees.
 

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Giller box: 19" x 4" x 1.25" (lower right second photo)
Giller box: 19.5" x 4" x 1.5" (lower right second photo)
Challenger box: 17.5" x 5" x 1.8" (photo below - unit is at top of first image)
Thorsen box: 20" x 6" x 2.5" (fuzzy third photo third unit from top)
Atlantic box: 20" x 6" x 2.25" (very similar to Thorsen but stamped "Atlantic")(fuzzy third photo bottom)

I'd really like to get rid of all of these, but as noted above, shipping costs on these larger boxes are just nuts.

I have others as well.... next post....
 

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four.cycle

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boxes.
I no longer own ALL of these, but I still have too damn many boxes here.
Fred Knox got the little Williams box from Secret Santa.
d42jeep has the little beige box (right hand column- third unit down from top)
The Snap-on box was sold to some fool on ebay for way too much money, for which I make no apologies.
Couple others I used to make up sets. Most of these are still here collecting dust.
That green "1/2 deepwell socket" box is 13" x 4" x 1.75" (first photo, hopefully..)

(Third, fourth, and fifth photo I think is a big ugly Walden box. it's dark out there so I'd have to wait until morning to dig it out.)
(That red one with "TOP" painted on it: I'm not sure if that's out there or not. Dark. Can't see anything out there now.)
(most ALL of the 1/4" drive boxes now have sets in them, as well as the red Thorsen/Bell boxes over on the left in the first image.)
(not sure about the little "Forge Master" box... it might still be out there. Shipping: $13.00 minimum on the little ones.)
(Riverside box (first image, right hand column, second from top) is reserved for a set.)
 

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and... I THINK these are all still out there? :unsure:
(except as marked)

the two at top left are NOS. figure $40 bucks a pop.
the hip-roof number - no idea what I was thinking. $10 bucks + shipping (but that might be $30-$35)
 

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