Vintage S-K Tools

[Sam'sAutoParts]

you ****

nice find for that price, those appear to be long pattern.

 

[raiderhillbilly]

Yes, you ****. Metric and with the roll too.

 

[d42jeep]

Nice wrench grab, Todd!
I didn't feel like my S-K collection would be complete without a Frankenstein Ratchet so I picked this one up off of eBay. It arrived today.
-Don

 

[earthmover1980]

Those Frankenstein ratchets were something else! We had em in high school auto shop, along with Easco, Napa, and new Britain.

 

[RagTopTA]

I found this S-K box at an estate sale this morning. It's in pretty good shape and included the top tray but unfortunately it's missing the front cover. If anybody happens to run across one please let me know.
-Don

Man thats a great find! I hope I run into a big SK box this year!

 

[d42jeep]

I spent some time with some Formula 409 this morning and removed some decades worth of grease. I also tried the front cover from my other S-K toolbox. Close but no cigar. The hasp position is slightly different among other things. The last picture is a selection of 3/8" drive ratchets.
-Don

 

[txlonghorn1989]

I spent some time with some Formula 409 this morning and removed some decades worth of grease. I also tried the front cover from my other S-K toolbox. Close but no cigar. The hasp position is slightly different among other things. The last picture is a selection of 3/8" drive ratchets.
-Don

Don,
Cleaned up nicely! Is that rust on the top of the toolbox in pic 3? If so why leave it on?

Mike

 

[d42jeep]

It's actually brown primer under the original paint. There is enough intact paint left that I am just going to let it show its age. I prefer not to repaint boxes unless there is no other choice. I also found a 3/8" Lectrolite combo to complete that set.
-Don

 

[Sunset_Z28]

Here’s a couple pics of my two SK boxes.




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[notlob]

The last picture is a selection of 3/8" drive ratchets.
-Don

You need some beavertails!

And I know someone who's got one...

 

[d42jeep]

I was just posting 3/8" drive ratchets. Here is a 1/4" drive one I got last year. You seem to have a very nice selection.
-Don

 

[StillTooManyHobbies]

Has anybody seen these markings on an SK ratchet? The rest of mine are plain. This is on a 40970 1/4". Thanks. STMH

 

[alton1911]

Has anybody seen these markings on an SK ratchet? The rest of mine are plain. This is on a 40970 1/4". Thanks. STMH

This looks like a retrofit to me. This particular piece can be replaced as a wear item.
I have repaired a few ratchets and sometimes they need replacement.
I like it. But I have not seen another one like it.
Thanks
alton1911

 

[bbrins]

I have at least one ratchet that is stamped like that. It is a 3/8" SK "Custom", which was part of SK's "Peg Pack" line that they sold in parts stores in the early eighties(?). Does yours have a black oxide selector?

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[StillTooManyHobbies]

The one in the pic is a regular chrome selector 40970. I also found an obviously SK made 3/8 drive ratchet only marked "U.S.A." that has the same service markings. Guessing perhaps it was from a certain era of manufacture?

 

[StillTooManyHobbies]

Twertsy, that's a really NICE set. Want to double your money?

STMH

 

[Catfishdan]

Anybody have a picture of what came in this kit? Looks like 3/8", deeps on the left and shallow on the right, but what size range? 3/8-3/4? Thanks!

 

[d42jeep]

Anybody have a picture of what came in this kit? Looks like 3/8", deeps on the left and shallow on the right, but what size range? 3/8-3/4? Thanks!

How about this set? I think that mine is a 1/4" drive version of your 3/8" drive set.
-Don

 

[rjasrq]

At yard sale this weekend, found a wheel nut 4-way spanner. $5, then saw 10 ratcheting rind spanners, 3 snap on, and others $20! Got the lot for $20. Never heard of S-K, apart from saw this thread.


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[rjasrq]

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[Private Lugnutz]

Never heard of S-K, apart from saw this thread.

Ironic, then, since that wheel wrench is not very common. Where do you live?

 

[Oldtuleguy]

First one I have seen

 

[SKI1019]

Anybody have a picture of what came in this kit? Looks like 3/8", deeps on the left and shallow on the right, but what size range? 3/8-3/4? Thanks!

Here's a photo of mine. It has 8 deepwell sockets, 3/8" thru 13/16", and 7 shallow sockets, 3/8" thru 3/4". Hope this helps! Steve
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=741196&stc=1&d=1519705310

 

[four.cycle]

rjasrq, the lug wrench is way cool.

 

[Username already in use]

rjasrq, the lug wrench is way cool.

 

[Catfishdan]

Here's a photo of mine. It has 8 deepwell sockets, 3/8" thru 13/16", and 7 shallow sockets, 3/8" thru 3/4". Hope this helps! Steve
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=741196&stc=1&d=1519705310

Perfect. Thanks. Now I have some searching to do.

 

[DadsTools]

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I actually have one of these. Had it for so long I forgot the brand of it until I saw this photo! It's a bruiser too. Best one I've ever seen.

 

[rjasrq]

I seem to be unable to state where I live now (Sarasota FL) and where I grew up (Hampshire-Somerset GB) in my profile. A few have asked, so now you know. To me imperial is and will always be imperial. What is SAE? I was taught in both metric and imperial. Worked for British Aerospace Filton, went to Rolls Royce Technical College, 79-83. Across the A38 from the Airfield, worked on Concorde, F-111, Bae 146, VC-10,Airbus A320 Wing.


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[rjasrq]

Thanks

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I seem to be unable to state where I live now (Sarasota FL) and where I grew up (Hampshire-Somerset GB) in my profile. A few have asked, so now you know.

I was actually curious about where the lug wrench was found, because it would've been even more unusual if it turned up in the UK or Australia or somewhere else where it's called a "spanner." Not that there aren't US tools in the UK or Australia, but they're usually WWII, and in less common instances 50's and later (NATO era) military contract. That 4-way lug wrench wasn't wartime or later military. Hence my query.

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You could cover your British backstory in another block or possibly cram it in creatively in location.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

To me imperial is and will always be imperial. What is SAE? I was taught in both metric and imperial.

When you see "S.A.E." and the topic is wrenches, it refers to imperial. I still say imperial, if only to educate or irritate, take your pick, but that's out of sheer stubbornness and my technical dismay at how "S.A.E." is used to signify an inch-based system of measurement vs. a metric system of measurement. As if the Society of Automotive Engineers, a professional association that set standards for threadforms (i.e, nuts and bolts) since about 1912, somehow invented the inch and fractions of an inch.

It's really not an issue at the imperial vs metric topic level or in any casual conversation about modern tools. But most people don't seem to realize there were several imperial-based standards in the US, including the United States Standard (U.S.S.), also called American Standard, not to mention the older British Whitworth, or that the U.S.S. was being used by nut and bolt makers, engineers, machinists, and mechanics, and cited in catalogs and manuals, etc, all the way up through the 1960’s. If you’re talking about vintage tools, it does matter. SAE is not the same as USS, or Whitworth, but needless to say, they're all imperial! For me, it’s akin to spotting a nice Cooper's hawk in a tree from your truck and exclaiming, "Oh, look at that feathered, winged, egg-laying, endothermic vertebrate." Then arriving home and seeing a cardinal in your birdfeeder, and saying, "Oh, look, there's another one." Actually, it's even worse than that. It's like spotting either one and saying, "Oh look, a Linnaeus Taxonomic System creature."

EDIT: But I'm just grumpy.

 

[Toothaker]

I guess I'm nearly a hawk, being an endothermic vertebrate myself, and my genus can be found in the Linnaeus Taxonomic System.

Smart alec remarks aside, thanks Lugz! You are a fount of knowledge and wisdom.

 

[DadsTools]

I was actually curious about where the lug wrench was found, because it would've been even more unusual if it turned up in the UK or Australia or somewhere else where it's called a "spanner." Not that there aren't US tools in the UK or Australia, but they're usually WWII, and in less common instances 50's and later (NATO era) military contract. That 4-way lug wrench wasn't wartime or later military. Hence my query.

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You could cover your British backstory in another block or possibly cram it in creatively in location.

I believe the one I have was purchased new in NJ, Camden County, circa 1970s. If my memory is failing me and it was among the tools my father gifted me when I came of age, it would be 1960s.

 

[rjasrq]

Thank you for the info regarding how to add present location et al. However:- where do I find user CP? I’m older than I think, not the most computer savvy person I’ve met!


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[four.cycle]

^ scroll up to the top of the screen. click the 'User CP' tab on the black bar.

 

[mcmlvif100]

Am thinking (hoping) that this is relevant. Not mine and no affiliation. Fort Wayne, Indiana CL ad. Has been posted for several weeks.

Vintage S&K tool box - $5 (Kendallville)

https://fortwayne.craigslist.org/tls/d/vintage-sk-tool-box/6495290865.html

call or text: (260) 302-6277

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I would be all over that but I am in arizona

 

[txlonghorn1989]

I would be all over that but I am in arizona

Same story here but from Texas.

 

[SKI1019]

I had my 1/2" drive knurled base sockets out today and decided to take of picture of them. Not bad for dragging them in here one and two at a time.
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=743837&stc=1&d=1520399128

 

[DadsTools]

I had my 1/2" drive knurled base sockets out today and decided to take of picture of them. Not bad for dragging them in here one and two at a time.
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=743837&stc=1&d=1520399128

Do you use them? If so, how do you like them?