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Post by Wingnutt » Fri Feb 11, 2022 3:42 pm

Agreed. Some moisture got inside on the tray, but was confined to that one end.
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Post by Hartofoak » Sat Feb 12, 2022 4:22 am

What a great find to add to your collection Greg! If you put all those GMTK tools in it, there're bound to damaged the "virgin" paintwork. I've lined my examples with butyl rubber sheet on both surfaces so as to reduce this happening (it was left over from building my garden fish pond!).
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Post by Wingnutt » Sun Feb 13, 2022 3:58 pm

Hi Cliff,

Good to "see" you! Hope all is well. That's good advice. But this box will be for sale eventually.

My GMTK is in a box with weight and dimensions (export spec), mid- to late war GMTK FSN, and unit markings. I've made some minor tweaks and upgrades since then, but an older thread is linked here.

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Post by pjones » Sun Dec 11, 2022 1:31 pm

Though not nearly as nice as Greg's box I was still very glad to find this box. My box is a Union made box stenciled on one end with "1 EA, TOOL SET, GEN MECH" and "41-T-3534-75" indicating it contained a General Mechanics Tool Set at some point after March 1944. It is rough with lots of rust but it still has all its feet and has the FSN, weight and cubic volume stenciled on it. There are some differences. The weight on mine is 52lbs while it is 50lbs on Greg's and mine has "R-71" stenciled on it rather than "R-82".
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Re: GMTK Toolboxes

Post by Len Jones » Sun Dec 11, 2022 2:51 pm

I spotted that one Phil & then it vanished - The Shipping to UK was - - - :shock:

Nice to see you have revealed the markings with some better photos - Congratulations on a great buy.

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Post by gpw_42 » Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:36 am

Phil,

VERY nice box! Love the ones with period-applied markings.

Will that prompt starting a new kit, or be a home for one you already have going?

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Post by pjones » Mon Dec 12, 2022 4:12 am

Len,
With you east of me and Don west but who never sleeps it’s hard to find anything on the auction site :lol: . When I do find something it’s usually buy it now.

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Another kit?? Hellz no :lol: .
But moving one of my other sets in to it sounds like a good idea.

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Post by d42jeep » Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:26 am

Great find. I’m looking forward to seeing that box filled with a GMTK set. Congratulations.
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Post by Wingnutt » Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:28 pm

I don't know about better or worse, Phil, I'm just excited there's another one! Cousins for sure! Seriously. Same exact export scheme. The weight figure being a little different makes perfect sense as these were actual measurements for shipping/stowage calculation purposes. Looks like yours had a few more tools in it than mine when they were loaded up. (Just figures! Lol) It would be neat if we could find out what the R numbers designated.
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Post by Wingnutt » Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:19 am

Speaking of Union, their 1943 catalog was just scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive's International Tool Catalog Library. (If you haven't made a donation in a while, they have a large donor matching all donations 2 to 1 right now!) I don't remember seeing this before. The specs are of course well-known to us, but the construction details in Union's description on the last page are interesting and the graphics are eye candy. I also appreciated their simple explanation of the effects of WPB Limitation Order L-215, maybe the best and least misleading that I have seen anywhere other than the foreword of Cornwell No. 22.

Link: https://archive.org/details/union-steel ... catalog-20

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Re: GMTK Toolboxes

Post by 17thAirborne » Thu Dec 22, 2022 6:16 am

pjones wrote:
Sun Dec 11, 2022 1:31 pm
Though not nearly as nice as Greg's box I was still very glad to find this box. My box is a Union made box stenciled on one end with "1 EA, TOOL SET, GEN MECH" and "41-T-3534-75" indicating it contained a General Mechanics Tool Set at some point after March 1944. It is rough with lots of rust but it still has all its feet and has the FSN, weight and cubic volume stenciled on it. There are some differences. The weight on mine is 52lbs while it is 50lbs on Greg's and mine has "R-71" stenciled on it rather than "R-82".

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Post by d42jeep » Thu Dec 22, 2022 6:54 am

Wingnutt wrote:
Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:19 am
Speaking of Union, their 1943 catalog was just scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive's International Tool Catalog Library. (If you haven't made a donation in a while, they have a large donor matching all donations 2 to 1 right now!) I don't remember seeing this before. The specs are of course well-known to us, but the construction details in Union's description on the last page are interesting and the graphics are eye candy. I also appreciated their simple explanation of the effects of WPB Limitation Order L-215, maybe the best and least misleading that I have seen anywhere other than the foreword of Cornwell No. 22.

Link: https://archive.org/details/union-steel ... catalog-20

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Post by pjones » Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:58 pm

Eye candy I’d say! Greg, thanks for the link and Don for posting it here. Seems appropriate that it be shown here as well.

Thanks Oz. Steve had asked if I was going to put another set together. My knee jerk response was no....but that box has to be filled with tools. Here we go again.

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Post by d42jeep » Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:44 pm

Here is a tray that a Garage Journal member posted that I hadn’t seen before. It came in a box that looked like an unmarked McAleer. It had a sticker with some Signal Corps markings.
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Re: GMTK Toolboxes

Post by Hartofoak » Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:13 am

Had some time to waste today and thought I'd set out the contents of my keeper toolbox. Certainly a box of memories!
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