Thank you for showing how to take one of those finger ratchets apart and clean and grease. I have a few I would say are much, much older. I have a couple of Walworth ones that are twice that size and from the 1920s or 30s. I never knew that Walworth even made them or that those ratchets even existed back then. My go to lubricate is my dad's Amalie bearing grease from the 1960s and in a metal can. I just used my dad's Amalie grease to re-grease a 1940s Proto WF-38 ratchet made at Wrights Field where Wright Patterson AFB is now. It works absolutely great. I also greased my dad's antique jacks one a model T jack and another a 1912 Hartford Suspention Co jack. He has 5 antique jacks I still have and still work great.
Look very close on the left side of the box for the name, model, year, serial #. My 1954 Snap-on KR-56 Tool Chest had that data. My 1993 was on the back.
I know a gal that will inherit a matching top and bottom similar if not exact. Its also a off color, more gray in color. Very cool vintage find. There is a site online that may help identifying the year. Supposed to be numbers on back of tool box to identify. Colors like yours, hers make me think of machinist rather than mechanics. Interesting.
@@HavocSun. Tens of thousands of the Snap On ( and many other manufacturers) boxes of the era were turned out in various shades of green, blue, and blue green. This color scheme was popular from the mid thirties through the late forties; reds became dominant from the early fifties… A true machinist chest would come with factory installed felt liners in all of the drawers. A cool setup you scored! Hopefully it’s serving you well!
@@HavocSun. I have a top box and lower of 1960 vintage, made by MBC. They made boxes for MAC/Snap On , etc. I have the same drawer slides and they are indeed a pleasure to use!
Nice find. Particularly with all those tools in it. I have something similar. Yes, there was a metal bar went into that slot and down the front to lock it all in place as well as the slot in the bottom. There may have been two bars and they came together for a padlock in the middle.
I believe that script logo came out around 1954 or 1955. If the box is that age or newer, there might be some stampings on it to give you more information (assuming you are still looking). Try looking behind on the back panel, sometimes there is something on the left side panel, and I've seen stampings on other rollers like this in front, on the cross member below the open shelf area. Look on the front around and above the left front wheel. Snap-on also made tool boxes like this and others for other industries like medical, etc. Some of those were different colors. Interesting to see the shadow of what was once there; the top shows distinct spaces of paint and rust. Do you know why? That pattern is caused by the original set. The top box at one time sat there for years and protected the back half of the top. One often sees the surface of these old rollers with half rust and scratches and half almost-new paint. I just picked up a set of a top box and this roller bottom. Mine is from the late 1940s- early 1950s. The logo badge is a rectangle. The script logo you have followed some years later. Another set I have from 1955 (a super chest top and roll-a-bench bottom - I am making videos on this set) have the same script logo you have here. Take care.
Definitely worth cleaning up and restoring. Those drawers don't have bearings, do they? A little axle grease helps them slide easier. Abom79 and a few other CZcams machinists who collect old tools might be interested in seeing it, even if you're not planning on reselling it.
@@HavocSun That's what I figured. I've only seen bearing sliders on the newer toolboxes. As I said, a little axle grease and they slide just nicely. "This Old Tony" may also be interested in seeing this.
Yes it slide up & into the top of the lower compartment. Its supposed to have a bar that goes down across all the drawers & fits into a small hole of the bottom of the tool box. It looks like I can reproduce it.
Removing the drawers is simple: you need a very thin piece of shim like stock; it slips in where the drawer slides are. SO tool boxes from the late seventies and eighty's were all this way. Call Snap-on! Information on this is no big deal.
I don't believe that is an original color. I worked for Snap-on for 26 years and I never saw an old box that color. If it is original it would have to be very rare.
Thank you for showing how to take one of those finger ratchets apart and clean and grease. I have a few I would say are much, much older. I have a couple of Walworth ones that are twice that size and from the 1920s or 30s. I never knew that Walworth even made them or that those ratchets even existed back then. My go to lubricate is my dad's Amalie bearing grease from the 1960s and in a metal can. I just used my dad's Amalie grease to re-grease a 1940s Proto WF-38 ratchet made at Wrights Field where Wright Patterson AFB is now. It works absolutely great. I also greased my dad's antique jacks one a model T jack and another a 1912 Hartford Suspention Co jack. He has 5 antique jacks I still have and still work great.
This is great I wish I could even find and get one of these tool boxes
Look very close on the left side of the box for the name, model, year, serial #. My 1954 Snap-on KR-56 Tool Chest had that data. My 1993 was on the back.
Crazy just picked one of these up for an excellent price. Faded Red in color, unrestored, it needs some love tho
it could be an army issued box from the 40s
there's probably alot of wax keeping the big drawer from closing I got a 1941 craftsman similar to yours
I know a gal that will inherit a matching top and bottom similar if not exact. Its also a off color, more gray in color.
Very cool vintage find.
There is a site online that may help identifying the year. Supposed to be numbers on back of tool box to identify.
Colors like yours, hers make me think of machinist rather than mechanics.
Interesting.
I was thinking medical of some kind. The color is original. But I agree, I don't think it's for mechanics.
@@HavocSun. Tens of thousands of the Snap On ( and many other manufacturers) boxes of the era were turned out in various shades of green, blue, and blue green.
This color scheme was popular from the mid thirties through the late forties; reds became dominant from the early fifties…
A true machinist chest would come with factory installed felt liners in all of the drawers.
A cool setup you scored! Hopefully it’s serving you well!
@shawnmann9491 I really love how the draws float when you open/close them, also how nice it rolls. So yes, it's serving me very well!
@@HavocSun. I have a top box and lower of 1960 vintage, made by MBC. They made boxes for MAC/Snap On , etc.
I have the same drawer slides and they are indeed a pleasure to use!
Nice find. Particularly with all those tools in it. I have something similar. Yes, there was a metal bar went into that slot and down the front to lock it all in place as well as the slot in the bottom. There may have been two bars and they came together for a padlock in the middle.
I believe that script logo came out around 1954 or 1955. If the box is that age or newer, there might be some stampings on it to give you more information (assuming you are still looking). Try looking behind on the back panel, sometimes there is something on the left side panel, and I've seen stampings on other rollers like this in front, on the cross member below the open shelf area. Look on the front around and above the left front wheel. Snap-on also made tool boxes like this and others for other industries like medical, etc. Some of those were different colors. Interesting to see the shadow of what was once there; the top shows distinct spaces of paint and rust. Do you know why? That pattern is caused by the original set. The top box at one time sat there for years and protected the back half of the top. One often sees the surface of these old rollers with half rust and scratches and half almost-new paint.
I just picked up a set of a top box and this roller bottom. Mine is from the late 1940s- early 1950s. The logo badge is a rectangle. The script logo you have followed some years later. Another set I have from 1955 (a super chest top and roll-a-bench bottom - I am making videos on this set) have the same script logo you have here.
Take care.
Thanks for the information, I think this box may have been made for the medical industry. Since the original paint color.
Snap-on model KR 377
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I have one that color with wood drawers too. I’m interested in knowing more about it. Have you found any info yet?
Definitely worth cleaning up and restoring. Those drawers don't have bearings, do they? A little axle grease helps them slide easier.
Abom79 and a few other CZcams machinists who collect old tools might be interested in seeing it, even if you're not planning on reselling it.
Thank you, I will try to reach out to them.
Oh & your correct they are friction type drawers.
@@HavocSun That's what I figured. I've only seen bearing sliders on the newer toolboxes. As I said, a little axle grease and they slide just nicely.
"This Old Tony" may also be interested in seeing this.
The old man who taught me how to work on cars had a green one just like it but this was back in the 80s
Did you ever figure out how the bottom works
Yes it slide up & into the top of the lower compartment. Its supposed to have a bar that goes down across all the drawers & fits into a small hole of the bottom of the tool box. It looks like I can reproduce it.
Removing the drawers is simple: you need a very thin piece of shim like stock; it slips in where the drawer slides are. SO tool boxes from the late seventies and eighty's were all this way.
Call Snap-on! Information on this is no big deal.
Yes I made one. It works! Thanks
I agree looks like military
there's a tool snapon makes to release the drawer slides it looks like a saw blade
Thanks I ordered one!
I don't believe that is an original color. I worked for Snap-on for 26 years and I never saw an old box that color. If it is original it would have to be very rare.
It definitely is the original color. No signs of any other color. I have never come across this color before either.