> this is why use N.O.S. parts are so valuable to us...
... except for the fact that NOS rubber is about just as stupid to install
as new inferior rubber products from Moss. NOS parts are treated like any
other parts by the supplier, they sit in open boxes, in a warehouse...
humidity is usually not maintained, and certainly the NOS rubber products
are not coated with anything. Too costly...
Even the cosmoline (sp?) applied to metal parts (gears, crankshafts, etc) in
the 60s/70s goes bad, allowing moisture to get under the skin and begin to
surface rust the NOS part. The cosmoline wrapping paper is usually not much
better at all either.
Even large chrome items are difficult to maintain their NOS status. Because
sometimes the factory would apply a type of very tape with a residue to the
chrome items (mostly bumpers). Well of course the residue has now dried
over 20+ years, and as you pull the tape off the rest of the dried material
won't come off! It actually does attack the surface some what, but can be
polished out.
Thank goodness I do not work for a supplier with vast amounts of
uninventoried NOS parts any longer :-)
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Kai M. Radicke -- kmr@pil.net
1966 MGB -- 1974 Triumph TR-6
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