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[Unserviceable but Repairable]

Packing materials.  I never thought I'd enter this fray.

Sure agree w. u Dave that box 'stuffing' should be 1st defense against 
impact & Newton's 2nd law.  But a damaged Tropic Master that'd
been 'protected' w. foam wallboard????  I don't get it.  I'd guess
that Minerva* wud be about as impervious to such as a Sunbeam iron.

Enough of that.  Tube shipping has never entered this long thread.
And the thing that comes right to mind is the way 450Ts, 6C21s, 250THs, 
& the like were treated in WW2.  Boxen with spring suspensions.  

Note the 100THs & 304TLs with shorter spiral filaments were just wrapped 
in those paper-celulose muffs.  Certainly uncoiled thoriated tungsten 
filaments in 813s, etc. just used the paper-celulose muffs.

And odd exeption were the VT127s that allegedly had 250T filaments.   Look
mom, no springs.

Guess this points up that longer variants of those coiled thoriated 
tungsten filaments were testy.  And someone(s) somewhere ran tests 
in the distant past & set standards.  So adherance to spring-thing 
containers continued making the boing-boing boxes survive right thru the 
last armistice

My 2 francs worth

    'rm

*I have of doughty Minerva tropicMaster behind me.  If you look in Sams
 you'll see Minerva of America only lasted thru 1947 or 48.  It's my
 suspicion that the Austrian radio maker got it's re-start here in NYC
 before returning to Vienna.  But I've never gotten confirmation.

 You might remember I quoted 'green book' that a Belgian radio company
 was thrown right back into gear upon allied arrival.  Same company
 reportedly built sizeable bunch of the R-100 morale sets.  & the 
 Tropic Master smacks of such a thing, eh?