[Boatanchors] NOS

[J. Forster]

A possibility is that some tube boxes cannot be opened w/o damaging them. NOS
does NOT mean they are any good...  just not used.

-John


telegrapher at att.net wrote:

> I'd like for someone to tell me how all the sellers on that auction
> place that can't turn on a radio or remove screws in a cabinet or
> chassis to look inside the radio, "because i don't want to damage it",
> can sell tubes graded NOS.  What makes them NOS versus plain old used?
> How can they tell Which way is which way?  I must be getting to old to
> understand these experts line of thought.
>
> Larry
> W0OGH