drhemi83

Maybe try MP 1 or MP2?
I would definitely use some APC and a fender brush on the top to deep clean it before trying MP1 or 2.
If I recall, they are a brushed finish. If you want a mirror like finish on it, you may need to wet sand the brushed finish first.

I hate to thread jack or send it of course but I have a question. I have the stainless top on mine. Can that be polished out? cleaned off? I had a stainless steel cleaner spray or I'd use glass cleaner.

Yeah, my dad has 2 krl7022s hooked together with top chests and side cabinets.  Pretty much the envy of my life.

That midnight blue is a great color, two guys at work have it. I wasn't sure about the extreme green at first, coming from a flat black box, but now I love it. The deep drawers in masters and epic series are amazing.

Thanks I appreciate that. The only reason I have a box like that is because I'm a full time tech. I have a small Snap-On box at home that I bought used, but whenever I quit being a tech that big box is coming home with me.

That box is beautiful. Makes me wish I had the coin for a snapon box for the garage. Someday.

Looks good, I'm a big snap-on fan.  I have 3 boxes but they're all the shallow ones.  I need to step my game up haha.  I've really been eyeing up that Midnight Blue color.

Few quick pics of my setup after wipe down. 

 

 

Yes! that's what I wanted from the get go but the rep was like no that is not available. This was like 3-4 years ago. I just wanted the trim black. I have the carbon fiber guards on the top. Would there be any problem? But I might order this now.... thanks alot... Jk .haha.
Oh, I don't really like the orange screw driver. I have like 3 of those. I like the thin ones with the magnet. I can't get any of those out of my rep...

I don't have any pictures of my current set up but I wipe my masters series 1022 in Extreme green down a couple times a week using detail spray. I use it on my tool cart that matches as well. I'd like to see some pictures of these boxes as well, bit of a tool junkie.

I'd love to get mine detailed one day! I got it way before I knew about Adams. So I would go buy the "microfiber" towels at Walmart and use them to clean it. there's tons of scratches now...

Would love to see some before and afters of these boxes!

Thats an awesome story... and we do love our Snap on box!

Thanks for the kind words!

Ok So I didn't think to take any before pictures on the boxes, well, just one, but I did take a few after pics of the box I worked on today so I will post them tonight, and the owner gave me the ok cause, well, he was just amazed.
 
To SSilver07. This may seem like OCD but, your KRA2411PC is an awesome tool box, and if it were my box I would detail it the same way that I've been cleaning these boxes. Pull all the drawers out, pull the slides out of the cabinet using the little orange screwdriver every mechanic has from their Snapon dealer, SDD204o, the little pocket screwdrivers dealers give away and use it to pry the tab, about 4 inches in on the slide, and then lift the slide up, it should just come out. I suggest pulling the slides because they trap a lot of dirt, don't forget to pull the mating slide off the drawer as well.  Then pull the slide lock out of the drawer cause the lips of the drawers are also dirt traps. Then use APC then Detail spray. If you want to polish it be careful as it is only a base coat of paint, no clearcoat but it is tough paint
 
Then, talk to your Snapon dealer and Order KA2411BSET. (Gloss black trim kit) that will make your box all black lol. Just my two cents .
 
Anyways, I Present tool porn. I'll have more pics next week.
 

So. Some background first. My father is a Snap-On Tools dealer since before I was born so I've grown up with him always telling me "Buy the proper tool once." Which means don't keep buying cheap tools that break and make you rebuy them, which I have always tried to follow...when I can afford to. Naturally I've always had a love for these tools as they have always put a roof over my head my entire life. However, my love for their tool boxes is even greater so imagine my giddiness when I see the Epic series toolbox in the adams videos.
 
Now, background and neurosis aside, this brings me to why I'm posting. A few days ago one of my father's customers had a fire in their shop. The fire damage wasn't bad, but the smoke damage was. I happened to be riding with my father that day and we stopped in to see the damage. My heart went out to these guys. Some of their tool boxes cost them more than $8000 and they were all covered in smoke, which when mixed with water from firehoses can become caustic and eat away at the paint. I was watching some of the fire cleanup crews using bags of tshirt rags and buckets of whatever to clean these boxes and scratch the paint and had to do something. I talked with the owner, told him I wanna try something on one of the boxes. I went home, grabbed all my microfiber clothes I had and a gallon of APC and Detail Spray and showed them how they can be cleaned better. Well, that was 3 tool boxes ago, and I have many more to do. The All Purpose Cleaner is kicking the carp out of the smoke damage and grease and anything else that's on these tool boxes and it's bringing them back to brand new. Then the detail spray is taking it to another level, one guy told me the box looks better than when they got it. And not one box smells of smoke anymore. I will talk to the mechanics and ask permission to take pictures of their boxes to post. I don't want to invade their privacy but there are a lot of happy mechanics now in the shop.
 
Adam's Polishes is the best, I had my doubts but every product that I've tried of competition still cannot beat the performance of Adam's.
 
 
Play hard, Clean hard.
Customer for life.

So. Some background first. My father is a Snap-On Tools dealer since before I was born so I've grown up with him always telling me "Buy the proper tool once." Which means don't keep buying cheap tools that break and make you rebuy them, which I have always tried to follow...when I can afford to. Naturally I've always had a love for these tools as they have always put a roof over my head my entire life. However, my love for their tool boxes is even greater so imagine my giddiness when I see the Epic series toolbox in the adams videos.
 
Now, background and neurosis aside, this brings me to why I'm posting. A few days ago one of my father's customers had a fire in their shop. The fire damage wasn't bad, but the smoke damage was. I happened to be riding with my father that day and we stopped in to see the damage. My heart went out to these guys. Some of their tool boxes cost them more than $8000 and they were all covered in smoke, which when mixed with water from firehoses can become caustic and eat away at the paint. I was watching some of the fire cleanup crews using bags of tshirt rags and buckets of whatever to clean these boxes and scratch the paint and had to do something. I talked with the owner, told him I wanna try something on one of the boxes. I went home, grabbed all my microfiber clothes I had and a gallon of APC and Detail Spray and showed them how they can be cleaned better. Well, that was 3 tool boxes ago, and I have many more to do. The All Purpose Cleaner is kicking the carp out of the smoke damage and grease and anything else that's on these tool boxes and it's bringing them back to brand new. Then the detail spray is taking it to another level, one guy told me the box looks better than when they got it. And not one box smells of smoke anymore. I will talk to the mechanics and ask permission to take pictures of their boxes to post. I don't want to invade their privacy but there are a lot of happy mechanics now in the shop.
 
Adam's Polishes is the best, I had my doubts but every product that I've tried of competition still cannot beat the performance of Adam's.
 
 
Play hard, Clean hard.
Customer for life.

SSilver07 I'm not 100 percent sure but from the descriptions I see the black guards should replace the current chrome trim that is on your box, I'll double check with my dad tomorrow but I'm sure that's what it is, so your carbon fibre or fiber (what ever I'm Canuckian) should still fit just fine.
Also I took a picture of the tab I've been prying back to remove the sliders, makes it so easy to remove them.
 
Sorry for the delay I was stuck in a hotel conference all weekend and my phone wouldn't let me press the post button.
 
So I am working on a new toolbox today and tomorrow and a little background on it first. This box was the closest to the fire, actually it was right beside the fire. The back of the box actually has burnt paint on it and I am open to suggestions and guidance to how I can minimize the burnt paint, gonna try polishing a small bit to see if its just a surface burn as the paint isn't bubbling.  However, this box was BURNT and not a single tool on the inside of the box was damaged. This is why these toolboxes are worth paying so much for. I still can't believe that even the structure of the box is fine.  Now, the box was previously cleaned off by the fire restoration company so It looks a bit better than what it did before, but, looking at some of the pics, you can see why they have me doing this.
 
After coming home I realized I never took an after picture of the inside of the box, you can sorta see it a bit in the one pic but you hopefully can use your imagination lol.
 
Also got more permission from some of the other tool boxes to take and post photos, only issue is theyre covered in paw prints again so I'll stay late tomorrow to reclean them again to take photos.
 
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Great write up, but now because of this thread I am going to have to share my Adams stash I just ordered. Once my boyfriend saw this he decided he was going to use some for his snap on box....????

So. Some background first. My father is a Snap-On Tools dealer since before I was born so I've grown up with him always telling me "Buy the proper tool once." Which means don't keep buying cheap tools that break and make you rebuy them, which I have always tried to follow...when I can afford to. Naturally I've always had a love for these tools as they have always put a roof over my head my entire life. However, my love for their tool boxes is even greater so imagine my giddiness when I see the Epic series toolbox in the adams videos.
 
Now, background and neurosis aside, this brings me to why I'm posting. A few days ago one of my father's customers had a fire in their shop. The fire damage wasn't bad, but the smoke damage was. I happened to be riding with my father that day and we stopped in to see the damage. My heart went out to these guys. Some of their tool boxes cost them more than $8000 and they were all covered in smoke, which when mixed with water from firehoses can become caustic and eat away at the paint. I was watching some of the fire cleanup crews using bags of tshirt rags and buckets of whatever to clean these boxes and scratch the paint and had to do something. I talked with the owner, told him I wanna try something on one of the boxes. I went home, grabbed all my microfiber clothes I had and a gallon of APC and Detail Spray and showed them how they can be cleaned better. Well, that was 3 tool boxes ago, and I have many more to do. The All Purpose Cleaner is kicking the carp out of the smoke damage and grease and anything else that's on these tool boxes and it's bringing them back to brand new. Then the detail spray is taking it to another level, one guy told me the box looks better than when they got it. And not one box smells of smoke anymore. I will talk to the mechanics and ask permission to take pictures of their boxes to post. I don't want to invade their privacy but there are a lot of happy mechanics now in the shop.
 
Adam's Polishes is the best, I had my doubts but every product that I've tried of competition still cannot beat the performance of Adam's.
 
 
Play hard, Clean hard.
Customer for life.

So. Some background first. My father is a Snap-On Tools dealer since before I was born so I've grown up with him always telling me "Buy the proper tool once." Which means don't keep buying cheap tools that break and make you rebuy them, which I have always tried to follow...when I can afford to. Naturally I've always had a love for these tools as they have always put a roof over my head my entire life. However, my love for their tool boxes is even greater so imagine my giddiness when I see the Epic series toolbox in the adams videos.
 
Now, background and neurosis aside, this brings me to why I'm posting. A few days ago one of my father's customers had a fire in their shop. The fire damage wasn't bad, but the smoke damage was. I happened to be riding with my father that day and we stopped in to see the damage. My heart went out to these guys. Some of their tool boxes cost them more than $8000 and they were all covered in smoke, which when mixed with water from firehoses can become caustic and eat away at the paint. I was watching some of the fire cleanup crews using bags of tshirt rags and buckets of whatever to clean these boxes and scratch the paint and had to do something. I talked with the owner, told him I wanna try something on one of the boxes. I went home, grabbed all my microfiber clothes I had and a gallon of APC and Detail Spray and showed them how they can be cleaned better. Well, that was 3 tool boxes ago, and I have many more to do. The All Purpose Cleaner is kicking the carp out of the smoke damage and grease and anything else that's on these tool boxes and it's bringing them back to brand new. Then the detail spray is taking it to another level, one guy told me the box looks better than when they got it. And not one box smells of smoke anymore. I will talk to the mechanics and ask permission to take pictures of their boxes to post. I don't want to invade their privacy but there are a lot of happy mechanics now in the shop.
 
Adam's Polishes is the best, I had my doubts but every product that I've tried of competition still cannot beat the performance of Adam's.
 
 
Play hard, Clean hard.
Customer for life.

So. Some background first. My father is a Snap-On Tools dealer since before I was born so I've grown up with him always telling me "Buy the proper tool once." Which means don't keep buying cheap tools that break and make you rebuy them, which I have always tried to follow...when I can afford to. Naturally I've always had a love for these tools as they have always put a roof over my head my entire life. However, my love for their tool boxes is even greater so imagine my giddiness when I see the Epic series toolbox in the adams videos.
 
Now, background and neurosis aside, this brings me to why I'm posting. A few days ago one of my father's customers had a fire in their shop. The fire damage wasn't bad, but the smoke damage was. I happened to be riding with my father that day and we stopped in to see the damage. My heart went out to these guys. Some of their tool boxes cost them more than $8000 and they were all covered in smoke, which when mixed with water from firehoses can become caustic and eat away at the paint. I was watching some of the fire cleanup crews using bags of tshirt rags and buckets of whatever to clean these boxes and scratch the paint and had to do something. I talked with the owner, told him I wanna try something on one of the boxes. I went home, grabbed all my microfiber clothes I had and a gallon of APC and Detail Spray and showed them how they can be cleaned better. Well, that was 3 tool boxes ago, and I have many more to do. The All Purpose Cleaner is kicking the carp out of the smoke damage and grease and anything else that's on these tool boxes and it's bringing them back to brand new. Then the detail spray is taking it to another level, one guy told me the box looks better than when they got it. And not one box smells of smoke anymore. I will talk to the mechanics and ask permission to take pictures of their boxes to post. I don't want to invade their privacy but there are a lot of happy mechanics now in the shop.
 
Adam's Polishes is the best, I had my doubts but every product that I've tried of competition still cannot beat the performance of Adam's.
 
 
Play hard, Clean hard.
Customer for life.

So. Some background first. My father is a Snap-On Tools dealer since before I was born so I've grown up with him always telling me "Buy the proper tool once." Which means don't keep buying cheap tools that break and make you rebuy them, which I have always tried to follow...when I can afford to. Naturally I've always had a love for these tools as they have always put a roof over my head my entire life. However, my love for their tool boxes is even greater so imagine my giddiness when I see the Epic series toolbox in the adams videos.
 
Now, background and neurosis aside, this brings me to why I'm posting. A few days ago one of my father's customers had a fire in their shop. The fire damage wasn't bad, but the smoke damage was. I happened to be riding with my father that day and we stopped in to see the damage. My heart went out to these guys. Some of their tool boxes cost them more than $8000 and they were all covered in smoke, which when mixed with water from firehoses can become caustic and eat away at the paint. I was watching some of the fire cleanup crews using bags of tshirt rags and buckets of whatever to clean these boxes and scratch the paint and had to do something. I talked with the owner, told him I wanna try something on one of the boxes. I went home, grabbed all my microfiber clothes I had and a gallon of APC and Detail Spray and showed them how they can be cleaned better. Well, that was 3 tool boxes ago, and I have many more to do. The All Purpose Cleaner is kicking the carp out of the smoke damage and grease and anything else that's on these tool boxes and it's bringing them back to brand new. Then the detail spray is taking it to another level, one guy told me the box looks better than when they got it. And not one box smells of smoke anymore. I will talk to the mechanics and ask permission to take pictures of their boxes to post. I don't want to invade their privacy but there are a lot of happy mechanics now in the shop.
 
Adam's Polishes is the best, I had my doubts but every product that I've tried of competition still cannot beat the performance of Adam's.
 
 
Play hard, Clean hard.
Customer for life.

Hey everyone, I'm new here and to online forums in general so I'm not sure if someone has posted this before but I was just freezing my butt off in the cold looking at the window trim of my truck thinking how I'm going to tackle applying VRT to the trim without smearing it all over the paint and the window. I do believe this idea may be Nobel prize winning.
 
Use foam paint brushes. They come in many sizes and allow you to apply the VRT cleanly.
 
They also help with applying it to the running boards on my truck as the surface curls back up under the rockers. 
 
The only drawback to using these brushes is after a while of being saturated with whatever your using them for they will come off the handle and will be useless.
 
As I write this I can think of more and more area's these brushes can be used for and I plan on stocking up on foam brushes and add them to my kit.
 
Hope everyone finds this useful.
 

 

Hey everyone, I'm new here and to online forums in general so I'm not sure if someone has posted this before but I was just freezing my butt off in the cold looking at the window trim of my truck thinking how I'm going to tackle applying VRT to the trim without smearing it all over the paint and the window. I do believe this idea may be Nobel prize winning.
 
Use foam paint brushes. They come in many sizes and allow you to apply the VRT cleanly.
 
They also help with applying it to the running boards on my truck as the surface curls back up under the rockers. 
 
The only drawback to using these brushes is after a while of being saturated with whatever your using them for they will come off the handle and will be useless.
 
As I write this I can think of more and more area's these brushes can be used for and I plan on stocking up on foam brushes and add them to my kit.
 
Hope everyone finds this useful.