Info needed: TOOL BOX Chevrolet c15a no. 12

[rob love]

I have to wonder if that small compartment that Bob has a POW can in, might be for the funnel as opposed to the POW. There are already brackets on the 15cwt for 4 POW cans, and as I recall you would be hard pressed to fill the truck without the funnel and spout.

[Bob Carriere]

..... now back from the cottage...... I am looking for measurements in my file.

Or will take new ones.......... from my previous experience repairing mine it seems that the whole box was welded from individual flat pieces except the lip for the top.

If I can be of further help just ask.....

Rob....yes the original short filler neck on the cab 11 was a bad joke..... it can be filled easily using the square funnel or screwing the flex horse cock onto the 2 gal gan.......

I have two such boxes and have seen a few more and they all, at least in the cab 11 configuration..... have the same two pocket slots for the 12 gal POW which assume also serves as a corner brace..... which implies a max of 8 gallons of extra fuel if no water or oil was carried. My rough estimate is about 10 miles per gallon no matter what speed of actual rolling....2x4 or 4x4.

My main tanks have been modified to do away with the reserve sections...... the fuel valves were funky and when doing the POR lining I drilled extra hole in the baffle's bottom......easy to do with the large access cover removed. One quart did both tanks.

Cheers

[Bob Carriere]

Try this one for size......

Now making corrections and checking measurements

[Paul Edwards]

Thank you Bob you are a star!

Cheers,

Paul

[Paul Edwards]

Hi Bob,

Just been studying your drawings, is there an anomaly between drwg 1 and 2? In the first drwg the height is 10 1/2 total height but in drwg nos 2 the height is 12 1/2 plus.

Cheers,


Paul

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Paul Edwards

Hi Bob,

Just been studying your drawings, is there an anomaly between drwg 1 and 2? In the first drwg the height is 10 1/2 total height but in drwg nos 2 the height is 12 1/2 plus.

Cheers,


Paul

11 gauge / .125 has me wondering. I would have though it was constructed with 18 gauge or maybe up to 1/16" thick steel. Even if 11 gauge (or 0.09") it wouldn't be .125 which is 1/8" thick. Or is it that solidly built?

[Grant Bowker]

Bob's tool box is "solidly" constructed. An accidental brush against a sapling is more likely to hurt the sapling than the toolbox. Even then, there were spots of rust-through in the bottom.

WRT the gauge, I wish folks could actually make a standard be standard. I.E. not changing over time, not being a different thickness for the same gauge depending on the type of metal https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/sh...l-gauge-chart/, not referring to decimal thicknesses by the nearest (but inaccurate) gauge number...

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Paul

Using "gauge" measurements in 2021 is very misleading.....like buying a wooden 2x4 8 feet long..... it is actually 1 9/16 x 3 1/2 in...... you may wind up buying according to metric measurements of 50 or 60 or 70 thou.......

So I have reverted to asking the fabricator/steel shop to tell me what is the standard size he can get that is the closest to the gauge required .... sometimes a little thicker when doing floor items.....

I also have to adjust my building design to my skill levels and sometimes correct obvious (British) weakness in the original factory design.

You may need additional information for building your tool box.... my sketches are not always clear..... so ask away....... the tricky part will be doing the raised lip on the top for the cover.... I can take more closeup photos and measurements.

I can tell you that once finished it is a two man job to lift it on the frame.....and if your cargo box is already in place an overhead device......
That is when the farm tractor with the bucket comes in handy. For inside the barn, I have an overhead trolleys that will lift the vehicle and move it forward or sideways....... a realback saver!!!!

Cheers

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Try this one for size......

Now making corrections and checking measurements

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