weekend auction finds... some USAF tools and others

[3dkustoms]

had a good weekend at the auction, I got some good deals and did not realize that the large box was a US Gov box untill I got it home. Inside the box I found a tool bag that was marked USAF along with the original tool list that dated 1955. Alot of the plumb tools I found in the box match up with the list.

The tool Bag with checklist...

Some plumb stuff...

 

[RM209]

Very cool; that's a nice haul. Check those sockets and wrenches over very carefully; you might have some aircraft specific tools hiding in that box.

RM209

 

[3dkustoms]

I will probably be listing some of these in the classified section soon so if anybody has any interest in them

some proto..

all these are good working order

This one I liked the best, almost complete New Britain set

Only Snap on I found

 

[nine4gmc]

Daaaaaang!

 

[3dkustoms]

Re: weekend auction finds... Plumb USAF tools and others

Very cool; that's a nice haul. Check those sockets and wrenches over very carefully; you might have some aircraft specific tools hiding in that box.

RM209

I did not think about that, I am going to clean these and see if I can read any of these any better. I was really happy to find the USAF tools. I never received anything like this in 2005.. I am having a blast going threw the box and cleaning, nothing like finding treasures..

 

[5lima30]

Nice find! I remember seeing those Kennedy cantilever boxes on the flightline until the early 80's. We called them CTK's. (Composite tool kits w/ foam cut outs.) Sometime after that they started using the 2 wheeled roll around style. Those boxes took a beating on a daily basis!

 

[3dkustoms]

I forgot about these, on the way to the auction I stoped at a yard/garage sale and picked these up
Williams S-52
Proto 5245
2--1/2 craftsman V series 4 inch ext.
2-- 3/8 williams ext
a set of duro chrome sockets
firestone socket
proto ratchet wrench
snap on 3/4 wrench

 

[davesnothere]

Nice haul!

 

[Provincial]

When I look at that kit I think of mechanics keeping a fleet of B-50 (hotrod B-29's) bombers running. R-4360 28-cylinder radial engines with 4 rows of 7 cylinders each. 56 spark plugs to change!

 

[jeffmoss26]

Wow, that is very cool! Great find.

 

[Alchymist]

When I look at that kit I think of mechanics keeping a fleet of B-50 (hotrod B-29's) bombers running. R-4360 28-cylinder radial engines with 4 rows of 7 cylinders each. 56 spark plugs to change!

Had a similar kit when working on the BUFF - engine was held on with THREE bolts - and two were 1/4 inch!

 

[lowbucktruck]

Very cool! If that tool kit could talk...
Will have to ask my dad if he carted around something similar; Dad worked on B-52's in the USAF in the 50's.

 

[4x4gearhead]

Mmm mmm, good ole military equipment. How can you go wrong? Love that superatchet too, just like the 1/2" I have.

 

[bluebolt]

Cool stuff! Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana, 68th Bombardment Wing, Medium, was activated in 1952 and got the new jet powered B-47's and recip KC-97 tankers in 1953. In 1955 that tool kit was probably being used on the KC-97's since it says reciprocating on that tool inventory list. It became Chennault AFB in 1958, named after Lt Gen Claire Chennault of Flying Tigers fame. When the B-47's were replaced in the 1960's with B-52's the 68th BW moved to Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina in 1963 with new B-52's and KC-135A tankers and Chennault AFB close, becoming Chennault International Airport