It had never occurred to me, but seems obvious in retrospect:
http://xkcd.com/1571/
I'm not sure how far back his name database went, there would be a lot more
Ds pre-facelift I suppose.
Best,
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Wagons with roof racks are nice for hauling junk.
Of course you could build a rear bumper rack on a SLC to extend the
usefulness of a roofrack for same.
Or you could make a bumper to bumper roof rack... (ugly but useful
for hauling ladders, lumber, etc.)
I finally found the w115 racer a
It had never occurred to me, but seems obvious in retrospect:
http://xkcd.com/1571/
I'm not sure how far back his name database went, there would be a lot more
Ds pre-facelift I suppose.
Best,
Tim
I thought that was a name-lift.
Anyhow, I thought this one about self driving cars was great!
h
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Hmmm . . .
Self driving cars, aside from the hacking aspects, open up a whole new
> realm of deviant behaviour/thinking. (I put the "u" in there for Fred,
> Randy, Hendrick, and others who grew up with the queen's englisch.)
I thought you were thinking along the lines of Sperry and his use of
We live in the country. We park the seldom used cars under a carport.
My wife got in the car last week to go to the store and found she had no
power steering (electrical), the ESC and tire pressure lights were also on.
Turns out rodents have chewed up almost $600 worth of wiring.
Short of parking
I finally reached the point where the engine will not shut off when
removing the key last week. I must use the stop button under the hood
each time. The door locks also stopped working. A mechanic has found
one source in the drivers door and something else under the hood. He
says there is a sti
Cats?
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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:44 AM, OK Don via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> We live in the country. We park the seldom used cars under a carport.
>
> My wife got in the car last week to go to the store and found she had no
> power steering (electrical), the ESC and tire pressure l
This is all of maybe 10-15 minutes worth of diagnostics with a MityVac. It's
vacuum, not pressure, so I'm confused why they would reference a positive
pressure.
If you have access to a MityVac and some time, let me know and I can outline
the steps. It's stupidly simple once you know how.
Dan
RA writes:
> I am losing confidence in his >ability to properly
>troubleshoot and repair the >system.
>Any thoughts on where else to >look?
Buy a Mity Vac. Do it yourself.
It isn't too terribly difficult to T/S vacuum problems, but it is time
consuming, and much like electrical troublesho
OK Don inquires:
>Turns out rodents have chewed >up almost $600 worth of wiring.
>Short of parking in a hermetically >sealed garage, how does one >keep vermin
>from eating your car?
Fresh Cab.
http://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Rodent-Repellent-Pouch-Ounce/dp/B0021LWPPY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=144112
Yeah what they said. First is to put your mity-vac (HF sells a version
for cheap but a "real" one is not that much anyway) on a hose near the
brake booster where some branch off, and see if you are actually getting
vacuum from the vac pump. The diaphragms tear in them over time and
vacuum gra
Cat?
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On 9/1/15 11:44 AM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
We live in the country. We park the seldom used cars under a carport.
My wife got in the car last week to go to the store and found she had no
power steering (electrical), the ESC and tire pressure lights were also on.
Turns out rodents
Some idiot says on that web page that alloy wheels were incorrect on a W11
coupe. Hogwash! The factory data card for my 9/69 280SEC 3.5 listed
alloys as an option, and they look very correct.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <
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> http://oppo
Lock up one cat inside the car, one under the hood.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Cat?
>
> --R
>
>
>
> On 9/1/15 11:44 AM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
>
>> We live in the country. We park the seldom used cars under a carport.
>>
>> My w
Hi there, do you have a first name?
Your first bet that he's incompetent is he says 20psi. PSI is a pressure
measurement, vacuum is measured in inches of mercury.
The steps are dead simple, find the first T after the pump (on the front of the
engine) and cap it. Pull a vacuum on the engine side a
We live in the country. We park the seldom used cars under a carport.
My wife got in the car last week to go to the store and found she had no
power steering (electrical), the ESC and tire pressure lights were also on.
Turns out rodents have chewed up almost $600 worth of wiring.
Short of parkin
This is the time of year to start trappin the meeces. They'll be wanting to get
inside as the cold weather comes on, reducing the population pressure outside
reduces their need to get inside. I've been very successful trapping chipmunks
this year and have accidentally (incidentally?) caught a co
We have several feral cats around the house and the neighboring property -
still have mice.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Cats?
>
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NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens!
*“Travel is fatal
About 2.5 per acre - -
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> cats How many felines do you have per square yard?
>
>
>
>
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OK Don
NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens!
*“Travel is fatal to prejudice
I have set a trap for my mint- and pepper-leaves- eating bunny to no
avail. What is their favorite food?
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
> About 2.5 per acre - -
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >>
Bunnies eat mint leaves?
I've been using almond slivers for the chipmunks. Walnuts probably attract them
better but I have a bag of stale almond slivers and they glue onto the trap
really well.
-Curt
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I had a different problem this year. The rustbucket SDL has been
parked for the summer. Behind the driver's side headlight, around
the A/C pressure switch/drier there was a bunch of grass and mud. No
mouse nest, but it looked like something bigger had slept there. My
second though was packr
About 2.5 per acre - -
Not enough. see the previous email with the 4 step plan.
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We have several feral cats around the house and the neighboring property -
still have mice.
a. get more cats
b. the cats are not hungry enough or
c. the cats are too stupid to hunt.
d. Tell SWMBO and the neighbors to stop feeding the cats.
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Bunnies eat mint leaves?
I've been using almond slivers for the chipmunks. Walnuts probably
attract them better but I have a bag of stale almond slivers and
they glue onto the trap really well.
-Curt
If DDT was as bad as "they" want us to believe, I'd dust my hostas
with DDT. Unfortunately,
I have set a trap for my mint- and pepper-leaves- eating bunny to no
avail. What is their favorite food?
lead! I am sure your neighbors would not mind!
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Be careful - might be a hornet's nest.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
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> About 2.5 per acre - -
>>
>
> Not enough. see the previous email with the 4 step plan.
>
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> Curt wrote:
>
> Glad you found it, its hard to search from the tablet.
I use a program called "mairix" that is a powerful and fast
email searching tool. Command line, and I think it's Linux
only. I have many, many thousands of emails on my system and
it indexes them daily resulting in a searc
Lead, in .177 or .22 caliber
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On 9/1/15 4:29 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
I have set a trap for my mint- and pepper-leaves- eating bunny to no
avail. What is their favorite food?
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:15 PM, OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
About 2.5 per acre - -
On Tue, Se
Philip sez:
My iOS tablet sure doesn't have a command line interface.
Maybe Android does...
I'd guess the BSD underlies iOS as in OS10.x Surely there is a
terminal app of some sort that lets you under the skirts, so to speak.
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-Curt
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Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] email search - was: Viton tubing for injector return lines?
> Curt wrote:
>
I was going to point out that guns would be difficult in town, then I realized
you probably meant air gun.
From the specs for the low to mid range air guns it would appear that .177
delivers way more energy than .22.
-Curt
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Cc: Rich
> Andrew wrote:
>
> This is a chicken and egg kind of thing. Did the SLS pump
> fail, sending oil through the system that damaged the
> spheres? If so, did this the flex hose to rupture? On the
> other hand, if the spheres were already defective, could
> this somehow have led to contamination of t
I would never willfully shoot or kill any other living creature, other than
biting insects or maybe a rabid animal.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I was going to point out that guns would be difficult in town, then I
> realized you prob
I did change the SLS relatively recently and it has been clear. I'll
re-check the clarity of the remaining fluid in the SLS fill canister. If
it's still clear and not sooty then it's likely that the faulty flex hose
itself had deteriorated to the point of contaminating the SLS fluid locally.
On
Skeeters? Cucarachas? Flies? or just mammals?
My cheap pellet gun has cleared out the local squirrel population around
the house (like all guns, it does this all by itself with no human
control), I see some out in the woods but they have not migrated back to
the vicinity of the house and my
No one is feeding the cats - they are feral, and have been for the four
years we've been here. What I've read else where indicates that cats don't
keep mice out of engine compartments. Solid aluminum fences do apparently -
-
http://www.hastingsreserve.org/Mammals/MiceInCars.html
On Tue, Sep 1,
You're vegan?
Its more humane to kill outright than to cause suffering. Transplanting
critters kills them slow as they starve or are killed by other critters.
Curt
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I read on one site that they live trapped the mice, spray painted them,
then dumped then over a mile away. They caught them again in two weeks.
This got me thinking about strapping little parachutes on them and dropping
them a hundred or so miles away and seeing if they ever make it back. The
live
Now this sounds promising - "Mouse Trap Powered By Electric Fence Charger "
""You can catch mice with very little expense and no poison. All you need
is an electric fence charger," says inventor Keith Lamb of Gruver, Texas.
According to Lamb, a single 12-volt or 110-volt fence charger can be used
> Curt wrote:
>
> Yahoo mail is good for searching from the website, rotten
> from the tablet...
Access the website from the tablet?
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For mice, I have a five gallon metal kerosene can.
The dregs of a keg of beer get installed in the lower portion of the can, about
eight inches. Mice will try to get in to enjoy the beer. Rat size hole at the
top, slick side, deep enough that only the rats can touch bottom. Mice lose
hope
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:44:05 -0500 OK Don via Mercedes
wrote:
> We live in the country. We park the seldom used cars under a carport.
>
> My wife got in the car last week to go to the store and found she had no
> power steering (electrical), the ESC and tire pressure lights were also
> on. Turns
I expected to see they dropped a small block Chevy in it.
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At least they had the foresight to wrap the roof and not paint it.
That thing is an abomination. It needs to be put right.
Dan
> On Sep 1, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I expected to see they dropped a small block Chevy in it.
>
> 1971 mercedes 300SEL 6.3 RA
A few years back I heard a commentator remark that "the problem with Americans
today is that they are too far removed from the production of food." That rang
true for me.
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 6:24 PM
>
> I woul
How true!
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> A few years back I heard a commentator remark that "the problem with
> Americans today is that they are too far removed from the production of
> food." That rang true for me.
>
>
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As the days get shorter and the temperatures start to drop into the 80s, the
thought of getting back out on the sporting clays range starts to surface. The
youngest boy and I have been talking about it recently, which made me realize I
need to start seriously looking for a good over/under 12GA
I thought these were worth more.
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That should be a capital offense.
On Sep 1, 2015 7:45 PM, "Dan Penoff via Mercedes"
wrote:
> At least they had the foresight to wrap the roof and not paint it.
>
> That thing is an abomination. It needs to be put right.
>
> Dan
>
>
> > On Sep 1, 2015, at 7:41 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
You're vegan?
Its more humane to kill outright than to cause suffering.
Transplanting critters kills them slow as they starve or are killed
by other critters.
Curt
Shifting pain, shifting debt, shifting blame, shifting cost, shifting
kil ling are all non existent in the liberal mindset. N
Sure sounds like it
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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I thought these were worth more.
>
> Mercedes packaged G-500 Wagon 2002 Benz
> http://lawrence.craigslist.org/cto/5201049588.html
>
> via cPro Craigslist App
> iOS: http://tinyur
That's a very good idea, but you wouldn't have to make little parachutes. Just
tie helium balloons to their bellies and let them float away. They'll drift for
miles and you'll know how far when you start hearing reports of tiny alien
invaders.
Another solution would be baby pythons from the E
Do liberals drive Mercedes in your analysis? Just checking.
On Sep 1, 2015 9:46 PM, "Curly McLain via Mercedes"
wrote:
> You're vegan?
>>
>> Its more humane to kill outright than to cause suffering. Transplanting
>> critters kills them slow as they starve or are killed by other critters.
>>
>> Cu
I am naive- exactly how would this work as a scam?
On Sep 1, 2015 9:48 PM, "Dimitri via Mercedes"
wrote:
> Sure sounds like it
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> >
> > I thought these were worth more.
> >
>
A few years back I heard a commentator remark that "the problem with
Americans today is that they are too far removed from the production
of food." That rang true for me.
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From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 6:24 PM
I would ne
I thought these were worth more.
Mercedes packaged G-500 Wagon 2002 Benz
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Prob'ly call and find out Not a native, for sure.
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Bur what is the scam? Non delivery? Asking for more $$ later? Not that I
would bite on this.
On Sep 1, 2015 10:01 PM, "Curly McLain via Mercedes"
wrote:
> I thought these were worth more.
>>
>> Mercedes packaged G-500 Wagon 2002 Benz
>> http://lawrence.craigslist.org/cto/5201049588.html
>>
>
>
I have a new DeeZee DZ6170lock toolbox. Fits any Fochevdogde
fullsize pickup. I'll sell it for a good price. If anyone can use
if send me a message offlist. It is midline, not the cheaper red
label Deezee box. Shiny bright. I could possibly trade it and some
money at the factory for a bla
One of my uncles was a glider pilot in WWII in Europe. He barely survived
the crash landing, and it was over 40 years later before he would get in
another aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m0qJ2thQ7c
45 min about WWII gliders
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i've speculated about blackness in the sls oil
i have it but don't worry about it
the black could also come from the deteriorated hose
you can change the seal on the back of the sls pump
i have one that i've never gotten around to doing (out of the car) and have
been running a pump out
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