This Is not about my main tool box but one i acquired about a year ago.
Back in the late 80's I worked as a technician in a small town Ford dealership. The lead tech, actually the only other tech, had been there since November 1957. So approximately 30 years at the time, and continued to work there till the dealership closed in the late 90's and passed away around 2005 after his 2 pack a day habit caught up with him. He never married till he was in his forties, never had any children of his own, was a grumpy kind of a person and never really wanted to share his knowledge with many people, which he had a vast knowledge on a lot of things mechanical. But if you had patience enough you could learn from him and he would eventually would open up slightly. I worked with him for 4 years and was able to learn lots of things from him, that i still use today. After his widow passed they sold off the estate and some of his tools, seemed to have been picked over only a few remnants left. One that was left was his toolbox, a 1962 Snap On KRA 300 B rollcab with the slide down front cover and the three lower drawer addition. This box spent it's first 35 years in the same building and since they did not have assigned stalls it traveled probably 100,000 miles in that shop. He never added a top box, and all the tools he used were in it or on top. the only metrics he had were a set of combo wrenches, and deep and shallow 3/8 drive sockets set, a few assorted 1/2 drive sockets and a 10 mm 1/4 drive deep socket that he bought a ratchet for and left it on there always, used mainly for interior work, I ended up with the ratchet and socket in a box of misc. I also was able to purchase the toolbox, it was a little rough cosmetically, scratches, paint discolored in one spot from a chemical spill of some sort. still had 3 of the original wheels with one of them having one of his repairs on the hard rubber tire, cut a small groove clear around the center and tied tight with some wire. Some may say I paid too much for the condition, $190, but it is sound structurally, drawers still all slide nice, front cover still slides up and down with no issues wheels still all roll well. So i say I didn't do too bad, plus there is some sentimental value to me. Not going to restore it, just going to clean as is, and use it to house my collection of vintage tools. Also got another reminder that day his old all steel creeper which is rathe comfortable to use and has the steel wheels modified by him to hadle the rough concrete that was in that shop. Took wheel bearing outer races and welded them to the little thin wheels.
