Cleaning and sprucing up this 40 year old Sears Craftsman toolbox
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025
- This Sears Craftsman toolbox was handed down to me from my father along with all the tools that came with it. However all of my tools don't all fit inside so I needed to transfer them to a new box, but what to do with the old one? I cleaned it up and get it ready to repurpose the boxes around where I can use them best while giving them all a good once over and some cleaning that they haven't had in years, if ever.
They generally say that when a person buys a Patek Phillipe watch, that person is the custodian of a legacy that is passed down from generation to generation ... and so it is with watches from several tens of thousands upwards. We, the ordinary ones, have people like you, who are the custodian of this family legacy ... let's hope that your son makes a video to celebrate 80 years of the box ... and that all of us who have seen this video, let's be there to see it. Congratulations and thank you
Don’t know your dad, but the fact he bought and maintained that toolbox in such great condition for 40 years speaks volumes about him. A good, honest, hardworking man 👍
Great toolbox! Now it can be preserved another 40 years
Right on
I use my dad's boxes he bought in 1973 every day doing auto body. They look NOS. I could get better, but all they hold are my hand tools and odds and ends but the retro look is killer.
You can tell the type of work a man does by the way he takes care of his tools
Looks great! Cleaned up well
Thanks!
Love the craftsman boxes from that era. I have done the same with a few compound and wax makes a world of difference. Came out amazing. Don’t forget the draw liners.
Way ahead of you
That thing was in exceptional shape before you detailed it. Now it looks better than new.
Thanks!
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Was recently given my grandpa’s old box after he passed away. Trying to carry on the legacy. Going to get it back to its prime
Me as well, completely filled with tools a long with tons of other smaller boxes that are over flowing as well lol
Looks great your quite a craftsman.
4:45 shows products used
9:30 starts wipe down with Kleen Flo
11:33 starts detailing
12:50 clay bar
15:50 polish
19:10 wax
Those boxes were in remarkably good shape-- they looked brand new after just a good cleaning.
Thanks!
Nice job looks good
You could clean up the Snap-On socket for use as a paperweight, a doorstop or a small fishing boat anchor.
1" drive tool sets are used extensively on large machinery such as semi trucks, locomotives, ocean-going ship's engines, etc. Your boxes came out very nice! Good job!
Yeah, it just seemed strange there was only the one, I wonder if he only ever needed the one size the one time or if the others were lost or sold or who knows what.
Very cool clean up 😎👌
Thanks 👍
Plan to do this on my grandfather tools box
Took me several hours to get mine done, but it looks so nice in the end!
Mine sby Waterloo ndustries in USA,, shipped to UK in the90s
Are great boxes 👍
Beautiful
Thanks, I was pretty happy with how it turned out.
The box doesn't have clear coat over the paint. That's why you are pulling color put. That's just par for the course. For clay bars rip a piece off(1/3 of the block) you could've done the entire thing 2irh one bar.
I will be inheriting my dad's red craftsman toolbox and like you said it's older than I am. I don't know what I will find or what I'm looking at tool wise but google is a good place to start. I will be tackling that toolbox adventure this weekend. I'm excited because helping my dad as a kid was fun. It's full of tools that are dirty. What can I clean the tools with, so I don't put them back dirty in my clean toolbox? Thanks, and I enjoyed your video.
I used a lot of brake cleaner for things. Worked for me! GOOD LUCK!
We have about 6 of these at my high school
Nice
Thin indoor carpet is a good liner.
They didn't powder coat boxes 40 years ago. It's a one stage paint job. No clearcoat.
Looks brand new!! Did you use anything to lubricate the drawer slides?
I am not sure that would have been powder coated 40 years ago. Was PC technology even available then?
At the time these boxes were sold, the average Joe's garage contained only hand boxes. These were . . . The Professional's Boxes. You mostly only saw rolltops in auto repair shops and in a bay at gas stations. Times move on. They still hold massive numbers of tools. I own 2 sets of Craftsman rolltops, with 3 dwr midboxes, and they serve me just fine.
Yeah, the box will hold a load of tools for sure. I remember as a kid seeing a bunch of mechanics with their boxes, everything was like these all upright and tall instead of wide and fat nowadays.
These are machinist boxes. The drawer sizes should be the give away. Awesome boxes I have 3 full stacks of them
Good god man ! What are you putting in that thing ? Tools ?.......or the Queens jewels ??.....😂
Currently its just in a corner looking pretty
Manufactured by Beech.
I will buy all 3 ??
Sorry, They look to sharp to get rid of!
I want to say that clean up is to often used for tool box, BUT,LESS IS MORE WIPE OUT THE DUST WIPE WITH SOLVENT, but repainting is not good. Keep the original patina. Stickers if they have meanings to the history of the box leave them alone my roll-always one spent 30 plus years working on aircraft at Northrop in Los Angeles years of cigarette smoke, coffee, being
Hauled to Edwards AFB, Palmdale, and other locations my other one was not well traveled as hauling tools great distances ended about the time I started working. But I also collected stickers and hell I made 12’ squadrons stickers for test stands. So a sticker to cover the back of the roll-away was easy. So go gentle on clean-ups you may erase your legacy and history.
Nice, can you share with us you arranging your sock and underwears drawers next?
Sure
you missed a spot
I knew I forgot something.
@@mattmakenfix9411 LOL all kidding aside that's a nice piece take care of it
Helpful, but it could be a lot shorter.