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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steersman, post: 266778, member: 239&quot;]<font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; I confess that I hadn&#039;t considered that they might have been legitimately deaccessioned.</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 worked for a defense-contracting manufacturer.&nbsp; I guess it wouldn&#039;t be surprising if things were simply discarded when a production line was changed.&nbsp; OTOH, many items are NIB.&nbsp; Sometimes a package of drill bits with just a few removed, that sort of thing.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="5">&nbsp; &nbsp; I worked one summer in a large factory over 40 years ago, and resolved to never do it again.&nbsp; It was an outfit that didn&#039;t seem to much care about workers or conditions.&nbsp; It was dirty, dangerous and deafening.&nbsp; They did ask me to come back though.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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