[Boatanchors] NOS

[pmills7 at houston.rr.com]

In my opinion, turning on a piece of equipment that has sat unused for years
just to "see if it lights up" is about as bad and as stupid of a thing as is 
possible
to do.

73, Phil
W5BVB


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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:20 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] NOS


> 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
>
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