It's also cheaper than me buying a dryer and spray setup for my compressor and doing it. I'm kinda leaning towards getting it powder coated now since it's only $100 more, and in the long run I think that it will be a much more durable finish than me rattle canning the whole thing with rustoleum. One guy wanted $150 to blast the lower rolling cabinet and all drawers, and the powder coating place said $250 to blast it and powder coat it. I've talked to a couple of places about sandblasting, one of which does powder coating. The rust is a little bit more pervasive than I thought, and I'm really strongly considering getting it sandblasted and repainting them so they'll last another 30+ years. The WD40 worked well on the sockets, but not as well on the toolbox. No pics of that yet, but when I get some more progress I'll post an update.Īnyone ever tackled anything like this and know what a good thing to clean some of the rust and grime it would be? I've heard foaming degreaser might work well. So far I've soaked all the sockets in WD40 and gotten the grime off of them. I figure there are a bunch of tacoma build threads on here, so I'll throw up a restoration thread of a different type. It's neat that all the dents and scrapes were put there by my uncle over the course of his career up until he bought the place, at which point they stopped seeing daily use. I think I'm going to leave it kinda beat up unless the rust starts to get worse. I'm in the process of cleaning and degreasing everything and getting them looking nicer. The top box is a Mac Tool that he bought in 1971, and the bottom rolling box is a Craftsman Commercial that he bought in or around 1973. The rest he gave to me, with the toolboxes! The boxes are ones that he bought shortly after he became a professional mechanic.

When he got out of the business, he split up some of his tools with the mechanics that worked for him, and took some home with him.

My uncle recently sold the garage that he used to own.

Mac tool box drawer slides vintage