UNION TOOL CHEST CO -- Machinist Tool Chest

well i got another find i got to show you we went to the beach this weekend and sometimes we like to go to antique stores and just see what they have there and i came across this tool box back in the back and uh kind of caught my eye and i thought well that kind of looks like a machinist toolbox but it looks really old and scrappy so i took a look at it in fact this this cover here i forget what they call it but that wasn't even there i found that in another shelf somewhere but anyway i thought man i hope it's a gerstner but it's not it's made by union tool chess company rochester new york and uh they're they're built very similar to the uh gerstners uh the quality is not that of a gushner but they're it's really old it's uh i did some research on this box and with this logo um they say it was built between 1918 and 1928 so it's had some years on it um anyway uh they came with all the tools inside and some of these tools have been here forever this is a lufkin steel folding rule ruler that goes to 72 inches that's gonna that's going to take a bath of some rust has this old this is a actually this is a yankee it's a a push style drill and i you push this little lever here if you can see that or not and the the top kind of raises or lowers and then it has the drill bits and then these drill bits are fed in through the bottom but you can find these a lot of times they don't have the drill bits so that's kind of a that's kind of a unique find a lot of combo wrenches in there really old ones had a cheapo tubing cutter uh some kind of a weird looking file i'm not sure what that's for just tools i'm not really familiar with this is a really old socket set there's a little ball bearing on the end of the allen wrench that you use that's pretty ancient add a couple of wrenches in here and they're stamped this one is stamped forward so i came off of an old ford vehicle on this one here is maxwell one and um back in the early 1900's up to the 1920 i believe there was one called the maxwell briscoe and actually my grandmother was a briscoe so i don't know if that's any relation to them or not uh and then there's that corresponding number two so this these are really really old these over 100 years old came with a monkey wrench um so this is a a really old uh die just some really oddball stuff and then this is the seven drawer so it's got two large drawers on the bottom and these came with calipers two fairly large ones some small ones um another die turning tool and this is a this tool is called the hermaphrodite there's a couple of those in there these are machinist tools here this is quite interesting this is a homemade shank and fairly sharp actually it's got just like a friction tape on there for the handle a couple of combo square items uh with the spirit level these are really old i can tell but the and the spirit levels are still good i mean still a bubble not sure what this item is uh but it's made by the steric company oh so there's probably a ruler that goes in there it's probably maybe it's a depth guide or something i'm not sure but the rule can go both ways so interesting this drawer this drawer has some more this is made by stair i believe i saw that so ruler goes in there kind of in a old-fashioned box cutter put a razor blade in there and some steel rolls this is a six inch this one here is a two inch and it's made by b and s manufacturing and it was uh designed to be a two inch because there's graduations on the ends of it and this one too this is a one inch so kind of interesting as a smaller calipers and inside calipers as well some small files and yeah just some hacksaw blades i was reading on the hacksaw blade it says uh 1950 on the bottom which i believe it it's really old um okay so then this next drawer sometimes needs a little help has a bunch of cotter pins some uh gauge blocks i think they call those they're uh it to an exact size length there's another i don't know that's probably a spacer or miscellaneous stuff in there what's that no clue i'm not a machinist and then let's see what else we got oh this one has a lot of drill bits and bits looks like some sort of a scribe it's got a wooden handle on it and that's an interesting set screw it's tapered quite a bit of taper on that and the top drawer we've got allen wrenches of course you can never have enough of those and they're all getting a little rust so i'll probably give all these tools a bath in evapo rest and all the drawers have this lining it's almost like a cheap well it's like a fabric i don't know if you can see that but they put that on top of the the felt there was a layer of felt and then at some point in time someone wanted to recover it and on this side we've got a whole bunch of taps all the way uh from uh looks like about quarter inch up to uh three quarter inch and i don't know if you can did i show you those very well that's what the tap is right there three quarter inch so i'm gathering some rust and then these uh almost look like an easy outer of some sort i'm not sure but it still has the cardboard sleeve this is the number four high speed and i can't really read the labels so it's got so much dirt on there but uh it says taper something okay and has some easy outs a lot of different sizes on those and what's this a 30 seconds not sure what that is i thought it might be a gauge but not sure and this drawer is a little bit larger just has some miscellaneous stuff this is a looks like one of the original styles of toggle bolts i don't use those anymore a little solder no corrode which is and just some dremel tools and a socket probably for a lawnmower and yeah so anyway um my plan is to um is to take off this i think they call this this leatherette material and rebuild this thing um i'm gonna take this hasp off but it's it's missing the original log which probably be next to impossible to find but um i'm gonna kind of give it a bath take all the felt out uh replace it with green felt kind of try to clean up the cabinet itself and i know you can get this leatherette material so i may end up repairing any cracks any broken wood and then um let's see if i can't put either new leather red or see what kind of see what the wood looks like underneath i might just end up finishing it anyway that's the second machinist toolbox that i've bought within a month and i'll show you the other toolbox that i just recently purchased it's a dayton toolbox same same style same size it's a steel cabinet and it also has a little bit it slides right underneath like like so and it's uh quite a bit better shape but it's also probably 50 60 years newer so i do anyway that's comparison i'll probably end up using this one quite a bit here in my shop and uh not sure what i'm going to do with this one after i get it fixed but it's kind of a project anyway hey thanks for watching

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Keywords: Union Tool Chest Company, Union, Gerstner, Kennedy Tool Chest, Machinist, Machinist Tool Chest, Tool Box, Tool Chest

Id: BsNZix-7-2M

Length: 12min 6sec (726 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2020