{"id":25720,"date":"2021-07-17T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kwbugclub.org\/armaturenbrett\/?p=25720"},"modified":"2021-07-17T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T14:54:23","slug":"the-toolbox-hazet-toolboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kwbugclub.org\/armaturenbrett\/the-toolbox-hazet-toolboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toolbox \u2013 Hazet Toolboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

By contributing author: Adam Powers<\/span><\/p>\n

This month, we are going to take a small jump into the world of the Hazet spare tire toolkit. There are many different variations made for several different European cars over the years. We are going to focus on VW (of course) and mainly on Type 1 boxes. I will include some information on other models at the end of the article.<\/p>\n

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A Brief History<\/h1>\n

The Hazet company was founded in 1868 by Hermann Zerver. The name Hazet itself, is a combination of the founder\u2019s initials. The company still exists today and is in Remscheid, Germany. They are a major manufacturer of automotive and aircraft tools.<\/p>\n

Hazet started making the toolkits around the late 1940\u2019s, early 50\u2019s to fit in the Spare tire of the Volkswagen Beetle. The tire size on these cars were 16\u201d and the early toolkits were designed to match. There are easily recognizable from their later cousins, as they have the full circle mount on the back, as compared to the half circle mount on the later 15\u201d kits.<\/p>\n

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An early advertisement for the German market.<\/p>\n

The kit pictured below is an early 16\u201d kit. For those who are familiar with the kits, it looks like it is missing the small Phillips screwdriver. This version never came with it! This is known as the \u201cA\u201d version of the early kit.<\/p>\n

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This is the \u201cTourist Model\u201d which would fit in other makes, such as a Porsche 356. I will talk about all the tools on the next example. This particular kit does have a couple of inconsistencies. The large spanner wrench is a 25 and 36 mm one. It should only be a 36 mm in these early kits. The screwdrivers should have a yellow band around the end. The screwdrivers in this one are NOS. Slightly later versions as with the wrench. I have left them as they are quite nice.<\/p>\n

In late 1952, the \u201cB\u201d version of the 16\u201d kit started using the small Phillips screwdriver.<\/p>\n

When VW downsized to a 15\u201d wheel, Hazet obliged and produced a model to fit the bill. The second model is from 1958 but would work from Oct 1952 \u2013 Aug 1960 (and later if wanted) if need be. This one has the \u201chalf ring\u201d on the back and is made for Volkswagen specifically.<\/p>\n

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The tools in the \u201958 based kit are as follows:<\/p>\n