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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steersman, post: 266729, member: 239&quot;]<font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; Recently bought &#039;contents of shed&#039; from a widow.&nbsp; I gave a fair price and will have to hustle to make it work.&nbsp; I&#039;ve found a fair amount of machinist tools, mainly bits and such.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m sure these are for shaping metal, probably aluminum, judging from the rest of the stuff.&nbsp; I can&#039;t seem to put a name on them beyond &#039;rotary cutter&#039; or something like that.&nbsp; Do these have a proper name?&nbsp; Some have bearings at the base and some do not.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]83943[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]83944[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; Now for the question of ethics.&nbsp; It is my solid rule not to buy anything I know to be stolen.&nbsp; The guy with a lot of construction tools that he says he &#039;found in a storage unit,&#039; things like that,&nbsp; I politely decline.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; The previous owner of these cutters didn&#039;t own any machining tools.&nbsp; He worked at a large, now-defunct aerospace company.&nbsp;&nbsp; I believe he generally left work with a heavier lunchbox than he walked in with.&nbsp; Why someone with an extremely well-paid job would do this, I have never been able to fathom.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; I didn&#039;t steal them, nor did I know them to be stolen when I bought the shed contents.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t even know they were there.&nbsp; Still, I feel pretty unpleasant about them.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; How do others handle this situation?</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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