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Who's socket drawer is this?

Ponchoguy

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My girlfriend's dad has a huge portable Craftsman tool box that is full to the top with sockets like that and he just pulls that out when he works on something and fishes around grabbing ones that look around the right size and sticking them on until it fits the fastener. He's been a mechanic for 25 years though so I guess it works.

When I bought my 1960 Craftsman box at the estate sale in 2002, the lower drawers (a deep one) was packed with combination wrenches of every kind. Actually, when I came upon them in the garage for the first time, they (the seller and his son) were in the process of organizing the wrenches into Castrol oil boxes to make sense of them (which they did very well).

The box belonged to the man's FIL (the kids's grandfather). I made sure after I cleaned it up and won a contest with Sears that I go back and show them what I'd done to it. The man said, "Look at Poppy's toolbox all cleaned up!"
 
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wttwoa

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Looks like the top of my dad's boxes, let alone his entire tool organization. His buying of any USA tool would be the envy of all but the most elite buy any tool you see buyers here. What a god awful box to work out. Say I need a 11/16, I care what drive as long as I find one. After 20 9/16", 17 5/8" and 25 3/4", I maybe find one 11/16. Same goes for the wrench drawer.

same for me, i know he has atleast 3 or 4 7mm and 10mm sockets somewhere and i spent over 30 minutes looking for 1 of each between the toolbox and 3 tool bags, he comes out and picks them both up literally 20 seconds after looking in the first bag
 
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