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Free PRoTO tool set by getting subscriptions to Hot Rod magazine, 1967

That tool box might look familiar, I just found one and posted a photo of it: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/professional-tools-which-were-plvmb.html

Dear Santa, I know where you can find my xmas presents

Here are close ups, the full image is last, and even bigger after the link

Via http://www.shorpy.com/node/4068?size=_original

Isn't this the coolest rolling toolbox / racetrack seating you'll ever want?

Just check out those screens! The top of the counter is for laptops etc... the seat has a flip up back rest

And best of all... it raises up on a scissor lift!

For other cool rolling toolboxes at the track: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/tool-boxes-among-trailers-in-paddock-at.html

but the most amazing tool box you'll ever see: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiEaUGAn_OeQSaGwH3Zcv_52gSafxR8bACAjgyQ6ePQsuRjpN6R1Jl0Ve6nJoEVOChWcKmJnGQOBXLcbT0Kj7KTFjajTlrcJGVTxbmDsu_U0_3m2sCQ7vYat4l0yvLG2AiLo-XpB4KtaoZ/s1600-h/Studley_1280x1024.jpg from 100 years ago when a piano master crafter decided to put all his tools in a custom toolbox that he made from spare bits of piano materials like ivory, ebony, rosewood, mahogany and mother of pearl - refining it over the course of a 30-year career. It was in the Smithsonian for a while

"The Case of the Mystery Socket Set" solved! what is a WSW-100, WSW-101 etc mean on a set of Snap on sockets? I found out

WSW-105 USA 4 Snap on 9/16 W

WSW-104 USA 3 Snap on 1/2 W

WSW-103 USA 2 Snap on 7/16W

WSW-102 USA 9 Snap on 7/16BS

WSW-102 USA 7 Snap on 3/8W

WSW-101 USA 0 Snap on 3/8BS

WSW-101 USA 2 Snap on 5/16W

WSW-100 USA 3 Snap on 1/4W

WSW-100 USA 6 Snap on 1/4W

So, what do these have to do with what? Well, I listed them all because there isn't much info on the internet when I searched up each one of these.

They are used on old Jags, these tools with the strange and incomprehensible markings were once common enough that even Sears Roebuck and Snap-On carried them.

Before the mid-nineteenth century, nuts and bolts were individually hand-made, specifically matched and were generally not interchangeable. Serious efforts to standardize screw threads began in 1841, when Sir Joseph Whitworth proposed a standard screw thread form based on a constant thread angle of 55 degrees. This became known as the Whitworth thread, and gained acceptance in British industry. Outside diameters of bolts began at 1/8" and increased by fractional inch increments, with a whole number of threads per inch specified for each diameter.

In 1965 the British Standards Institution approved a policy statement urging British industry to regard BSW, BSF, and BA as obsolescent, to be gradually replaced by International Standards Organization (ISO) metric thread

I learned a lot from http://www.jag-lovers.org/xk-lovers/library/whitworth_system.html

Tool boxes among the trailers in the paddock at Speedfest

When shopping for or making your next tool box, here are a variety that the pros use. Seeing that touring race car teams use them, I bet they are set up for the most efficient way to get things done.