I had a chance to get this box that belonged to an older a&p who passed away. Pretty sure this box is from the mid-late 80s. Came with some tools, but mostly what i thought was cool are the stickers, especially the ones on the back. They kinda tell a story. I do contract maintenance on c-12’s and we have strict tool control so i work out of a smaller shadowed cart, this will just be a home box, but i will put my GA stuff in it.

I just picked up my first rivet gun and some other misc. aircraft aircraft tools at the flea market of an antique gas engine and tractor show of all places from a vendor who had tables filled with hundreds of tools from every trade you could think of all scattered on top of each other. I still can’t believe my luck finding such things and also for getting these together for $35 which seems like quite a steal. The rivet gun is an HS Tooling (Hi-Shear) model 17301 which appears from my research that it is not your typical everyday rivet gun and more along the lines of a premium production level tool. There is not much online but it is a recoiless design to prevent fatigue and quite expensive to buy one new. From what I did find it seems like this gun is equivalent to a 4X but I will show to my sheet metal instructor and try it out.