What do you expect to see when buying a boat

[Jim@sea]

In the 1960's there was a famous legal case in the Motor Trade where a Motor Trader I believe called Scott Moncrieff had bought a Hearse from a firm of undertakers and believe it or not there was a coffin with a body inside. He quoted an ancient trading law which said that anything left in a vehicle at the time of sale belonged to the buyer. He offered to sell it back to the Undertakers but they would not pay, it went to court, and he won.

I suggest that anything left in a car, truck, boat in a boat at the time of inspection then belongs to the buyer. Years ago I was buying HGV's from transport firms which they no longer used, the road tax left on the vehicle which I cashed in was more than I paid for the truck.
(I once bought a Bedford TK truck from Robinsons Jam, it had the Robinsons Golly painted on the doors, if you drove that truck down the road today you would probably be arrested)

 

[ducked]

In the 1960's there was a famous legal case in the Motor Trade where a Motor Trader I believe called Scott Moncrieff had bought a Hearse from a firm of undertakers and believe it or not there was a coffin with a body inside. He quoted an ancient trading law which said that anything left in a vehicle at the time of sale belonged to the buyer. He offered to sell it back to the Undertakers but they would not pay, it went to court, and he won.

One careful owner/ Non runner. NOT Spares or repair but may be used as a conversation piece or for fertiliser?

 

[Daydream believer]

You can have oily and rusty
You can have oily and not rusty
But ye cannae have not oily and not rusty
Because ye cannae Defy the Laws O'Physical Chemistry,
Captain

Perhaps you might go & re think this one again
I have more than one tool box so one could, in theory have the rusty stuff & the good stuff in separate tool boxes
I am sure many do that.
Then of course your third statement is incorrect. Something does not have to be oily . It could be clean & free of any significant traces of oil. Neither does chrome vanadium tools have to show signs of rust.
So not oily & not rusty would apply.

 

[Daydream believer]

C'mon. It even has an authentic-looking spelling error. Don't be picky.

No, seriously, I was impressed & looking for a way round the copyright

 

[Daydream believer]

In the 1960's there was a famous legal case in the Motor Trade where a Motor Trader I believe called Scott Moncrieff had bought a Hearse from a firm of undertakers and believe it or not there was a coffin with a body inside. He quoted an ancient trading law which said that anything left in a vehicle at the time of sale belonged to the buyer. He offered to sell it back to the Undertakers but they would not pay, it went to court, and he won.

I suggest that anything left in a car, truck, boat in a boat at the time of inspection then belongs to the buyer. Years ago I was buying HGV's from transport firms which they no longer used, the road tax left on the vehicle which I cashed in was more than I paid for the truck.
(I once bought a Bedford TK truck from Robinsons Jam, it had the Robinsons Golly painted on the doors, if you drove that truck down the road today you would probably be arrested)

That is an interesting story for discussion. Having won the case presumably Scott now had a duty of care to the deceased relatives to dispose of the body in a proper manner. There must also have been some laws on keeping dead bodies for long periods. Would Scott be allowed to sell for , say, medical research? Or for serial killers to practice disposal techniques perhaps .Must be money in it somewhere or he would not have gone to the bother. It costs money to bury a body & he could not keep it forever

 

[ducked]

Perhaps you might go & re think this one again

No need.

Observation beats thought. My tools, especially edge tools, but spanners as well, rust if not protected by clean oil. I went through my Taiwan tools recently preparing them for shipping or storage, so the observation is recently reinforced/confirmed.

IF YMV, could be your operating environment is more benign, or your tools better quality.

Slightly surprising for a marine environment, but I suppose mine has included exposure to old sump oil, which can be corrosive in combination with water, Taiwan rain is often quite acid due to the chronic air pollution here, and the humidity is high year-round when it isn't raining.

Applies to tool boxes as well, of course, assuming these are steel, though they can be protected by paint. I recently learned that its worth ensuring they have a drain hole, and perhaps something galvanized, actual zinc, or aluminium (beer can top?) to serve as an emergency anode, when one is leaving them in a typhoon flood area.

https://advrider.com/f/attachments/wetools1-jpeg.6547275

These tools cleaned up OK, but the box and a couple of ratchets suffered. Galvanized pipe in the box probably helped.