Snap On KA-260 Wall Cabinet

[Boyd]

I picked this cabinet up for $20 at a flea market last weekend. I noticed when I bought it that the lock wasn't working so I pulled the cabinet up on the bench tonight to take a closer look, and that's when I realized it was a Snap On cabinet. I searched the web for info but I haven't found anything. The manufacture date looks to be '62, and I was able to locate a scanned copy of a 1962 Snap On catalog, but this wall cabinet wasn't pictured.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Ya done good, son!

 

[jabberwoki]

Yes indeed very nice score

 

[zkling]

Super cool, great deal at $20. I'm not sure what exactly it is. I could not find it either in the old catalogs. It looks like a cabinet for some type of set. For what, I have no idea. Lets see what the experts say.

 

[RV77]

Are you sure you want to keep that piece of junk ?.................I will buy it !

Good job.... thats pure suckage right there Boyd !

 

[Boyd]

Bump for day crowd.

 

[TAMPAGT07]

Looks like $20 of suckage......

 

[dandan111]

Very nice. To bad about the emblem -but for $20! /you ****

 

[bluebolt]

Take a closer look at that stamp is the K stamped over a R making it a KRA-260? Kinda looks like it to me.

 

[Boyd]

That's what it looked like to me, too, but I still couldn't find anything on the web.

 

[Provincial]

I agree that it should be a KRA-260.

I believe that it was built to hold at least part of a puller set. The hooks are very similar to others in puller cabinets. Look at the set (CJ-1000C-S-B) on the top of this page and note that in addition to the wall board there was a cabinet (KRA-270A).

http://www.collectingsnapon.com/catalogs/catalogs.php?loggedin=0&catalogPage=2346

P.S. It looks like a 1962 date code. Try to find a price list from that era.

 

[crewchief888]

you should probably send that worthless piece-o-junk to me...





nice score for $20

 

[zkling]

Bump an older thread. Any more info on these? I picked a nice one up over the weekend, same specs 1962 KA-260. Still can't seem to find anything on what they were designed for. :

 

[[email protected]]

Hi

interesting, I don't think it is 1962, it looks more like 2000 or maybe 1990s

Just a guess

It may be KRA-260?
It may be a special box for a puller set?
It may be industrial and not listed in the auto catalogs?

 

[TC16731]

Ok my first post on this sight. I know this is an old post but does not seem to be an answer. I also have purchased a box like this one. I bought it at an auction of a private club that had bowling lanes. I had very little time to examine the box and I saw a few Snap-on wrenches hanging in it and it did hit me that , boy that looks like Snap-on red to me. But its a Brunswick bowling alley with a red motif. So I was the high on line bidder and I went to pick up my purchase had to take it off the red carpeted wall and took it home. As I was cleaning out the contents ,Snap-on wrenches and other odds and ends, I find a Brunswick "badge with studs " low and behold it fits perfectly in the holes in the front of the cabinet. So back to my original hunch its a Brunswick cabinet for a bowling alley tool kit. So as I cleaning 50 years of cigarette tar what do I find but stamped on the lower left side is "KA-260, SNAP-ON-TOOLS-CORP, KENOSHA-WISC. USA-62. So did Snap-on make tool kits for Brunswick ? Did Brunswick buy Snap-on boxes to make up tool kits? Is the -62 a manufacturer date code? Alleys looked older but I guess they could have had a 60's vibe. Sorry for the run-on. Anyone have any info on the KA-260 box ?

 

[TC16731]

anyone have any answers ?

 

[ChevyEFI]

Thank you for posting your research. That's an interesting possibility. I wonder if some of Brunswick was based near Kenosha.

I have enjoyed the look of a nicely laid out puller wall-cab since I saw the Snap-On set at the Comm. Coll where I lived. It would be very cool to see an original Brunswick set. Would there be many '62-era pin-setters and ball returns in operation now? Maybe a shut-down alley still has them (and their kit(s)) sitting around.

 

[TC16731]

Sorry the pics are not the best. List of Snap-on tools that were in the cabinet all that have date codes are 1962 or 1964. Allen keys are Snap-on the 2 nut drivers are Craftsman. If anyone has any info it would be great to hear.


92-ph (Blue-point 62 date code)
SSDP 22
VS3436 (1964 date code)
VS3032 (1964 date code)
LTA1820 (1962 date code)
LTA2224 (1962 date code)
OEX-240 (1964)
OEX-220 (1964)
R-2024 (1964)
PRS-21 (?)
PRS-22 (?)
PRS-23 (?)
PRS-24 (?)
N6943 (1963)
PC 110 (1964)
PC 106 (1964)
PC 104 (1964)
Snap-on 6 inch scale.

 

[TC16731]

I guess you need to have 5 or more posts to be able to post pics. ?

 

[TC16731]

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[Crabman]

TC

That box and the contents are way cool.

Thanks for posting.

Bruce