TerryH
Well-known member
...to get off my but and do something with my 24 year old Snap On boxes and my mechanic tools in gereral. I've done woodworking as a hobby since 2000 and my shop and bench are geared toward that and I kept those pretty clean and organized. In the last couple of years we have gotten the bug to get back into drag racing and I've been meaning to do something with my Snap On boxes and my mechanic tools in general and you guys pushed me over the edge when I found this place a couple of weeks ago.
I bought these boxes in 1988. I have a KR657A cabinet with a KR637 top box and a KR274F side locker. I made a living out of these boxes for 10 years in the body shop business but over that past years they have been neglected and had turned into a completely disorganized mess of missing tools and drawers that barely worked. I hadn't been on the Snap On truck since 1998 when I sold my shop until a couple of weeks ago. My old dealer is still around. I bought some new stuff and filled in the blanks where things were missing and I started organizing and cleaning. The most important thing was to get all new slides for the bottom box which came in this morning. Gotta love Snap On warranty!!
I spent the afternoon getting the new slides installed and getting everything arranged. These boxes pale in comparison to most of the boxes that I've seen here but I'm pretty pleased with how these old boxes cleaned up and it's certainly a joy to actually have drawers that work!!!
Here's the boxes with the shiny new slides installed...
And here it is all back together...
It's really cool to see the old boxes looking good and working well and I've had a blast blowing my kids inheritance on new tools and cleaning and organizing the old ones.
Overall I'm super happy with the end result.
I bought these boxes in 1988. I have a KR657A cabinet with a KR637 top box and a KR274F side locker. I made a living out of these boxes for 10 years in the body shop business but over that past years they have been neglected and had turned into a completely disorganized mess of missing tools and drawers that barely worked. I hadn't been on the Snap On truck since 1998 when I sold my shop until a couple of weeks ago. My old dealer is still around. I bought some new stuff and filled in the blanks where things were missing and I started organizing and cleaning. The most important thing was to get all new slides for the bottom box which came in this morning. Gotta love Snap On warranty!!
I spent the afternoon getting the new slides installed and getting everything arranged. These boxes pale in comparison to most of the boxes that I've seen here but I'm pretty pleased with how these old boxes cleaned up and it's certainly a joy to actually have drawers that work!!!
Here's the boxes with the shiny new slides installed...
And here it is all back together...
It's really cool to see the old boxes looking good and working well and I've had a blast blowing my kids inheritance on new tools and cleaning and organizing the old ones.
Overall I'm super happy with the end result.
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It's actually not a pretty as it looks in the photos. 10 years in the body shop wasn't kind to the finish. There's a ton of overspray on it that ain't coming off. I'd actually like to paint the boxes some day so maybe these really are the before pics. 