To import car modifier guys and street-racers it stands for Nitrous Oxide System.
Traditional Hotrodders use it too. I used to be a Hot-Rodder, Steet-Rodder.....hung around Dragstrips, that kind of thing. I drove this to work every day......
But now I play around with Loaches.
Hot Rodders use NOS as a term that means new car parts for old cars that have never previously been fitted, often in original packaging. All over the world events called Auto-Jumbles are held and every so often some "New Old Stock" comes up for sale. Pretty cool if your a Hot-Rodder trying to find a part for a car built in the 30's to 60's.
One reason the other connotation of the word is "Neat Old Stuff", AKA "Neat Ole Sh*t"......because this stuff just is.
Why am I talking about car parts? I guess to put this post into some sort of context. Maybe you don't quite get why some guy who is into cars would get so hyped over some small doohickey just because it's never been fitted and has been sitting on a shelf for aeons?
He probably wouldn't get why you get so turned on by an unusual fish find at your LFS. I understand the thrill in both hobbies.
Today I happened on a piece of NOS. Popped into the Menagerie to see if I could get a syphon tube U-bend for an Aquaclear 150 HOB and resurrect it for use. A customer was giving up the hobby and traded Harold an absolute mass of "previously enjoyed" equipment.
I delved into the box and found an Aquaclear 200 HOB that is almost as good as new for a way cool price. Harold found me a used U-bend for my 150 in his basement for gratis, and directed me to the bottom of the box where I would find something "COOL".
I dug.....I found some seriously cool NOS.
This is a complete, unopened Aquaclear Powerhead from the 1980's.
Being a Canadian issue item, the packaging comes in Franglaise.
His Hagen rep was blown away by it because he reckons they haven't used styrofoam for packaging since the 80's. This would seem to confirm that.............
I violated its virginity by cutting the seals, sliding it out of the card surround and gingerly opening the styrofoam lid to reveal........
Ooooooh! Neat Ole Sh*t!
Here's all the parts.........
The "filter" for the venturi air intake is really cool. It has this hinged plastic lid that has minute perforations in it all moulded as one piece which some nimble fingered Italian in the factory pressed shut back in a time before some people who may be reading this were even born.
So what am I doing with it? Well....like car-part NOS it's going to get used. I needed another powerhead to go in the Sewellia tank (token loach mention), and that's where it's going to be utilized.
I take the Jay Lenno stance on old cars. Use 'em, don't store them.
Martin.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
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