Yes
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On Sep 17, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you check vacuum pressure at idle at the modulator?
I have the mod adjusted to what would equate to full soft. I will check the
restrictors in the lines
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On Sep 17,
Is that [gluing] a likely sure-fire mess, or...
This is the screw-down collar that's broken? If you
glue it as you describe I don't think you'll ever get
it back apart if/when you need to change the mast.
Gluing/pinning can work, if you get enough surface
area, but I'd use Shoe Goo as I think
I had a flake CL seller the other day, he's got an old (real old) Coleman stove
so I email my interest but he's busy that weekend. He never gets back to me
with what day he isn't busy so I email again to see if he's busy when I'm
vacation, he's not so I say When can I come over and where do you
Maybe, SWMBO told 'im to sell it, and he's trying to drag it out so that he
can claim, Can't sell it; nobody else wants it. ;)))
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com
To: Diesel List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 10:08 AM
Well it's not shifting again this morning. Seems not to shift till it's warmed
up for 30 or more minutes. This is not going to work, can't have 16 year old
driving it never knowing if it's going to work or not. Going to pull the trans
yet again
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Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net writes:
Well it's not shifting again this morning. Seems not to shift till
it's warmed up for 30 or more minutes. This is not going to work,
can't have 16 year old driving it never knowing if it's going to work
or not. Going to pull the trans yet again
As I know there are some folks here using PowerPC-based Macs, thought
I'd pass this along...
I just loaded the latest TenFourFox 7.0 beta on my 12 PowerBook G4. It's
noticeably faster than the prior version I was using, which was based on
Firefox 5.
Version 7 is still a beta but I've
I just ordered this from HF:
http://www.harborfreight.com/7-piece-38-drive-metric-long-reach-hex-bit-socket-set-67890.html
My last customer service experience at Sears was so bad that I'm going
to try something different. I've almost always bought Craftsman tools,
even though I think their
You will get what you pay for.
I bought a $40 ball joint tool set, bent the C-clamp on the first
real job we tried (replacing W126 ball joints, a royal pain).
I just spent $180 on a Specialty Products ball joint tool set that
looked identical, but this time the clamp stayed true even
Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.net writes:
A friend of mine bought an AC vacuum pump from them, then spent the
rest of the day looking for the oil for it. Nice pump, but no vacuum
pump oil in the store, no sign that it was necessary, the whole thing
was a pain.
I also bought an AC vacuum
I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and
1/2 drive sockets in the 70s. I have never complained about the
sockets. In fact I still recommend buying a crapsman 1 1/16 deep
socket for injector holder RR. The combination wrenches, however,
were another story. The
Reconnecting just the two pieces is what I am hoping to do. As an
alternative, Manfred [who took a look at it] said that the broken piece
will screw out, so if after some time attempting to find that piece
[thus far the low price for one that might work is $50] I am
considering coming up with a
Marvel Mystery Oil time!
Max
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Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Well it's not shifting again this morning. Seems not to shift till it's warmed
up for 30 or more minutes. This is not going to work, can't have 16
I already tried sea foam
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On Sep 18, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Marvel Mystery Oil time!
Max
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Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Well it's not
Some of the HF stuff seems OK, I bought a set of long combo wrenches to
get up in some spaces on my house addition where I was setting some lag
bolts and nuts, they seem nicely balanced, well-polished, and did the
job. I have some other kinda specialty stuff I got from them (some
star
Allan Streib wrote:
As I know there are some folks here using PowerPC-based Macs,
thought I'd pass this along...
Yup. But running Linux. Debian has ports for a _lot_ of
hardware.
-- Philip
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Dieselhead wrote:
I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and 1/2
drive sockets in the 70s. I have never complained about the sockets.
Yah, well...
I broke my '70's 10mm socket while trying to recover your set of
seatbelts from the carcass.
I fear to go to Sears for a
I see this Teac RtR and a guy to go with it?
http://charleston.craigslist.org/ele/2604176025.html
And this http://charleston.craigslist.org/ele/2604177420.html
And this http://charleston.craigslist.org/ele/2604175278.html
What is the deal with sticking a picture in there?
--R
Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com writes:
I broke my '70's 10mm socket while trying to recover your set of
seatbelts from the carcass.
I fear to go to Sears for a replacement. I guess I should go to the
pawn shop and hope to find a WF socket.
I've never had an argument from Sears about
You will have no questions. Take it in, find a salesperson, tell them it
broke, they'll pick out a replacement for you. No questions asked.
When I was in tech school years ago, a lot of the guys I know who were strapped
for cash would go to swap meets and buy old beat up Craftsman tools just
That's the same 2 track Teac deck I have. Wonderful piece of machinery. I
will have more in metal reels and black tape in mine than I paid for it.
That's a good deal on the Sansui and DCM speakers, too.
Dan
From: Rich Thomas
That's blank tape
Dan
From: LWB250 lwb...@yahoo.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT Stereo stuff
That's the same 2 track Teac deck I have. Wonderful piece of machinery. I
Dan wrote:
You will have no questions. Take it in, find a salesperson, tell them it
broke, they'll pick out a replacement for you. No questions asked.
Yabbut...
This is a 6-point 10mm, i.e. special set of which one socket is gone
bad, I dunno.
Plus, anything sold today is probably not
Every tool is different but I've had some EXCELLENT luck there. For regular
combination wrenches there is no better deal on the market than HF's 9 piece
set.
So far I haven't broken a wrench or in fact damaged one in any way.
To get the caliper bolts off my MBs I put the wrench on the caliper
10mm 6 point is hardly a special socket. Pro mechanics use 6-point unless
the bolt or nut is a 12-point.
I don't like the Craftsman combination wrenches either. Craftsman sockets
are okay until you have some slip off the nut or bolt and their ratchets are
junk.
Snap On tools cost more, but fit
I finally bought an SK ratchet on Amazon as I was so tired of my Crapsman 1/2
locking up and not ratcheting or slipping into the wrong direction.
Though it was 2x the price the SK is 4x the tool of the Crapsman and a real joy
to use.
I finally used my ring pliers (forget the real name) to pull
Sansui made some good stuff back in the 1970s.
How does the 1970s era stuff sound in today's digital world? Most of my
music is 16-bit lossless streamed over iTunes to an Apple Airport Express...
currently to a Denon DN-A7100 JBL 4328s.
Brian
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:43 PM, LWB250
Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com writes:
This is a 6-point 10mm, i.e. special set of which one socket is gone
bad, I dunno.
They won't replace the whole set, but should replace the individual
broken socket. Whether they actually have 6 point sockets for sale
individually is another
Proto wrenches are the best. Blackhawk and armsrtrong are also good.
Walt
On Sep 18, 2011 4:40 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
I bought a crapsman metric set with combination wrenches and 3/8 and
1/2 drive sockets in the 70s. I have never complained about the
sockets. In fact I still
HF is my choice for shit I don't need and the stuff I only use once.
I bought a @ 25 cordless drill, 18V.
after four #12 x 1..5 screws
??
Before that I bought a 16 orbital Polisher.
Myself and several 'freinds' couldn't wear it out.
If you spell HF backwards it comes ot as Pot Luck.
You get what
I have no experience with Sansui, but I understand it is good stuff.
Right now I am busy replacing all of my low bit rate compressed music with
FLACs, bringing the uncompressed bitrates up around 2000 kbps or more. I have a
Drobo FS with about 4TB on it, along with an Apple Xserve RAID with two
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I finally bought an SK ratchet on Amazon as I was so tired of my Crapsman
1/2 locking up and not ratcheting or slipping into the wrong direction.
SK is a decent brand of hand tools. The stuff I've had from them has been
OK. Usually purchased online from someplace like toolwarehouse.net.
Brian
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Hans Neureiter diese...@gmail.com wrote:
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
SK tools. Pretty well known brand.
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On Sep 18, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Hans Neureiter diese...@gmail.com wrote:
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I finally bought an SK ratchet
Hans Neureiter wrote:
What is a SK ratchet?
'm an old mechanic.
Missed this one.
You're kidding. Best tools to never ride a tool truck.
Between MAC/MATCO and old Craftsman level.
http://www.skhandtool.com/
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16 years?
Whow.!
Don't ruin the kid
Start him in something you would drive
I am talking Diesel.
Last good one was the 123/126 variety.
124 on it's down hill.
Right now, if I had all the money in the world, MB would be my last choice.
I'd buy an other Diahatsu.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:16 AM,
You should have plenty of snears around Chicagoland. Give them a try
first. It might work.
Yabbut...
This is a 6-point 10mm, i.e. special set of which one socket is gone
bad, I dunno.
Plus, anything sold today is probably not Western Forge - probably china, no?
mao
I'd give 'im the Mercedes, but he'd have to be working on it.
#1 son worked with me side by side to transform his 200D into a 200D
2.4. I was (and still am) proud of him.
16 years?
Whow.!
Don't ruin the kid
Start him in something you would drive
I am talking Diesel.
Last good one was the
S-K used to be found in good hardware stores in independent FLAPS.
Since the walmartization of autoparts, they are close to unobtanium
locally. IF they are as good as they used to be, they as good as
anything Snappy ever ripped someone off for. If you can find a S-K
rachet from the 60s, it
LWB250 wrote:
Right now I am busy replacing all of my low bit rate
compressed music with FLACs, bringing the uncompressed
bitrates up around 2000 kbps or more.
With ncompressed, bitrate is a meaningless number. Unless
you are looking at disk space.
Flac also supports Replay Gain,
I don't know who to reply to, but there is no such thing as a Weirdo
Diesel.
Rudolph D.designed it to run on coal dust.
Can't get that any where.
Diesels are better than Gassers!
MB - Don't sell them Diesels any longer (ecxept the SUV's/wants to be
trucks).
Why?
I am going to the junk yard and
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
S-K used to be found in good hardware stores in independent FLAPS. Since the
walmartization of autoparts, they are close to unobtanium locally.
In the PNW the full S-K line of hand tools is available at a chain
called
I have a 1985 w123 sedan that SWMBO has been driving lately. She has been
complaining
about the trunk not opening right, so tonight I went out to take a look. The
central locking
system has not worked since I purchased the car (door locks, anyway).
The trunk would not open, and the key slot
I simply asked : what does SK stand for ?
Brands I have in my box are Armstrong, Craftsmen, Korean chumnk and , no I
don't naver bought one - Snap-On.
(loose a few...)
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Dieselhead
Never had that privilege.
Asked #1 to help me.
Called for a Phillips from underneath the car and got What's that?
I didn't get arrested.
I am proud of him.
http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/253
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd give 'im the
Now, now - MB still sells the E350 CDI in the US -- but they want around
$60,000 for one.
What's this about your Diahatsu in a junk yard?
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Hans Neureiter diese...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know who to reply to, but there is no such thing as a Weirdo
Diesel.
A week or so ago, there was talk about using wireless computer
connections at distances. Today in my email I got a notice of a special
for a 2.4 GHz antenna:
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SKUSearch.asp?px=MPscriteria=AA97959
Premiertek ANT-GRID-24dBi Outdoor 2.4GHz 24dBi Directional High-Gain
Rick Knoble wrote:
Anyway my question is, how do I get in the trunk? I have
the service manual CD's, but I haven't found the central
locking system vacuum diagram.
Autorun doesn't work too well in Linux :( Any tips for
viewing the CD-ROM's in Linux?
Yeah - stop by
Hans Neureiter wrote:
I simply asked : what does SK stand for ?
That is the brand. S-K. It probably does stand for something, but on the
tools that's all it has.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_Hand_Tools
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hans Neureiter wrote:
I simply asked : what does SK stand for ?
That is the brand. S-K. It probably does stand for something, but on the
tools that's all it has.
--Philip
Order a new VIN-coded key?
Did you break an original steel key or a copy?
Max
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Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote:
I have a 1985 w123 sedan that SWMBO has been driving lately. She has been
complaining
about the
I think that when the trunk key slot has been turned horizontal, it is locked
such that the vacuum lock is over-ridden, so that the valet key will open doors
and operate the ignition but won't open the trunk.
Max
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Rick
Max wrote:
Did you break an original steel key or a copy?
A copy. The ignition cylinder has been changed, so one key is needed for the
doors and another key is needed for the ignition. I will be calling Rusty in
the morning for locks. Hopefully, I can get the vacuum system sorted and the
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