ME's build weapons; CE's build targets...
Then there is the one about the various disciplines discussing what discipline
God is (but that belongs on banned)...
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So where do the ME/EE crosses like myself fit in? :)
Walt
On Feb 7, 2011 7:10 AM, John Reames jwrea...@comcast.net wrote:
ME's build weapons; CE's build targets...
Then there is the one about the various disciplines discussing what
discipline God is (but that belongs on banned)...
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I'd think that using that one on the front walk would be like how they paint
the Golden Gate Bridge; by the time they go from one end to the other it's time
to go back and redo it...
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On Feb 6, 2011, at 23:48, Mitch
While not new, its been several decades. IIRC Reagan passed an executive
threat that limited the % that speeding tickets could account for from
local police revenue, on pain of losing school lunches. Obama rescinded
the order.
-Rolf
On 02/06/2011 07:30 PM, LarryT wrote:
I think this has
See the 240D in WVA the was on the BAT email today? Nice.
Bob R
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:19:46 -0500
From: Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Off the List?
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Fantastic! I love innovation and ingenuity! I've been threatening for
several years to put a chainsaw or trimmer engine on each wheel of my
walker. Whenever I mention it to somebody, they're too quick to ask, But
how would you steer it? I respond, Easy - differential braking and
I think some say He's a civil engineer. ;)))
Wilton
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Wilton taking over NCDOT,was Re: OT Rant (was F-16
You cold likely do that easier with 2 harbor-freight drills.
Remove the motor+gearbox+chuck combo section, leaving the trigger
grips, extend motor wires, chuck each onto a bearing supported stub
shaft that's got a wheel on it, jurry-rig that onto the existing frame
with some u-bolts and wood, and
WILTON wrote:
Fantastic! I love innovation and ingenuity! I've been threatening
for several years to put a chainsaw or trimmer engine on each wheel of
my walker. Whenever I mention it to somebody, they're too quick to ask,
But how would you steer it? I respond, Easy - differential braking
Wilton could cobble up the controller too, I think a 2-wheeler would be
better anyway, and it could address any tippiness.
--R
On 2/7/2011 10:42 AM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
You cold likely do that easier with 2 harbor-freight drills.
Remove the motor+gearbox+chuck combo section, leaving the
No need to cobble a controller, the drills have em already built in! ;)
Walt
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Rich Thomas
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Wilton could cobble up the controller too, I think a 2-wheeler would be
better anyway, and it could address any tippiness.
--R
I have a 2005 AWD FEH. We've driven it ~40K (total 107K? ish)
Routine maintenance, one almost-recall [battery wiring harness, not
through NTSB], plus a new rear door from the trucking company that
used us for extra braking. Has retained its value more than any other
used car I've owned, except
This becomes one of those vicious cycles, at some point you're going to need
some suspension to keep up with all that added power...
I've actually got a chainsaw with a good engine but bad drive gear for which
I've never been able to get a correct drive gear replacement, it'd be a good
When I first read Wilton's reply I thought he was talking about the Stig.
Some say he got his Civil Engineering certification from the almighty himself...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:35:26 -0500
From: WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re:
Dieselvolk,
I've been driving my '95 E300 quite a bit now that I've got most of the big
issues sorted out, but it really seems to take a long time to warm up (compared
to my '87 300TD for instance). I'd like to know if anyone else with an E300
(or
a normally aspirated OM606) also had noticed
What's dead on the drive gear? Can ya snap a pic?
Walt
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
This becomes one of those vicious cycles, at some point you're going to need
some suspension to keep up with all that added power...
I've actually got a chainsaw
We have a new (to us) car and I still have the Mercedes. I took the list's
collective advice and traded off the Expedition for a Dodge Charger. Mrs.
Snook is VERY happy. We thought we were going to buy a 2008 Charger SE, but we
ended up making a better deal on a 2010 Charger SXT with only
A friend made a tracked gokart contraption for his son powered by two cordless
drills. I don't know what the tracks were from but they were plastic, he
makes/repairs assembly line equipment so they may have come from something he'd
been working on.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:42:55 -0500
Mine's red, is that what makes it a false sense of being green?
The FEH has a trailer hitch [in the garage and on the to do list], the
MBs do not. I can also put a washing machine in the FEH, but not in
the SDL. It is also worth more than all the MBs I've ever owned,
combined, though I think
FEH and FE are fundamentally different; they share interior, sheet
metal and the top half of the frame. FEH is much heavier in the tail
end, for one, and set up very differently; drivetrain is
computer-controlled CVT + oddball gas + electric motor. Not sure how
the newer version differs in
I know the OM603 is slower to warm up than the iron head Diesels. It
is because the engine is more thermally efficient. It might make
sense that the 606 takes a little longer. But those with 606s are in
a better position to answer. I've never driven one.
x
Dieselvolk,
I've been
Allen's experience is what I would expect from a brake line failure.
I've seen this on an '87 Dodge Lancer (line to the rear system rusted and
failed), '03 Ford Ranger (line to one rear brake rusted and failed) and an '83
MB 240D (one front caliper seal failed) and in all cases the pedal went
Couldn't wait until morning to take the photos?
http://bloomington.craigslist.org/cto/2187708381.html
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That's how I've seen it presented, bearing in mind that it was fed to the
NO by the HOA.
However, the things I see from NCDOT say Lacy fielded the HOA's complaint,
suggested the HOA hire a consultant, the HOA comes back with a
professional-looking report that uses the lingo, and not only does the
Congratulations! Good choice, for you keeping the MB in particular.
:) Glad your wife is happy too, of course.
Didn't you have a baby on the way or something? Did I miss that?
-Tim
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote:
We have a new (to us) car and I still
Snook wrote:
My wife loves it.
I think Snook loves it too.
Fat chance you gonna get any seat time in that baby...
Good luck...
mao
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It seems like not much has changed as I can remember speed traps in the
Rappahannock, VA area in the '60s prior to the completion of I95 which were
after military folks traveling north/south on weekends and, since I moved to
western NC and have made numerous trips to/from Pbgh., I've found
I don't have a lot of experience with turbo diesels but I don't think that my
NA diesels (2x 240D, 2x 190D) take particularly long to warm up. In fact
compared to my gas vehicles ( Dodge Dakota V8, Ford Ranger v6, GMC S15 v6) I
think the NA diesels warm up faster...
I figure on having heat by
I got that saw out of a friend's shed when they moved into a new place and
found it. I think the PO had run it without bar oil and the chain cut a deep
groove in the gear.
Its a MacCulloch but a recent one made by who knows. I can't remember the model
offhand, its at my folks house. The gear is
What does it have? My main complaint about all Chrysler cars from the last few
years is the sloppy trans...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:44:15 -0600
From: Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com
To: 'Mercedes@okiebenz.com' Mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] New Snook Car!
Message-ID:
I think my cousin's was also an '05 but I wouldn't quote me on that. In theirs
we had descended a wet but not particularly muddy two track in the woods which
the Escape was then completely unable to climb. I'd swear that my 240D would
have puttered right up.
When I got out and observed what
You would want to paint it white and orange and black... And apply some Bobcat
stickers. (the worlds first skid-steer walker!)
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On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:33, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Fantastic! I love innovation
Yeah, 'could make that work, too.
Wilton
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Snowplow
You cold likely do that easier with 2 harbor-freight drills.
Are these the ones that I often see locally painted black and silver?
Wilton
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To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 11:44 AM
Subject: [MBZ] New Snook Car!
We have a new (to us) car and I still have the
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
What does it have? My main complaint about all Chrysler cars from the last
few years is the sloppy trans...
I thought all the Chargers/300s/Magnums had Mercedes transmissions.
Chrysler not having had a RWD car on the
Oh, I read it, but that's OK. ;)
BTW, local Goldsboro paper is even worse, or maybe it's because I have more
personal knowledge of some of the stuff local rag prints - 'just can't seem
to get stuff right. It seems reporters/newspapers like to sensationalize
stuff, maybe, to sell more
I didn't think any other disciplines had anything tondo with sewers and
playgrounds...
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On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:35, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
I think some say He's a civil engineer. ;)))
Wilton
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Have you compared insurance costs (MB wagon vs. VW Eurovan) and insurance
safety
ratings?
On the other hand, it's no fun changing diapers roadside in a vehicle that
doesn't allow one to walk from front seat area to the child seating area.
SWMBO
and I strongly considered a mini-van type
I think I posted this once here already but I had a student 2 summers ago that
had a Charger v6 for a rental and we both agreed it was absolute crap.
Everything about it felt cheap, the engine was tuned for very high rpm and was
quite buzzy, the steering was soft and unresponsive.
But really
Right.
Wilton
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Wilton taking over NCDOT,was Re: OT Rant (was F-16
I've found the diesel fuel in this part of the country (South Carolina) will
fluoresce under a black light, for example the type of light you use to find
refrigerant leaks after filling with leak detection fluid. This makes it easy
to see where diesel fuel is leaking.
-Max
Tim wrote: Congratulations! Good choice, for you keeping the MB in particular.
:) Glad your wife is happy too, of course. Didn't you have a baby on the way or
something? Did I miss that?
Thanks. Actually, the adoption fell through. The birthmother was deceiving
everyone involved about the
Mao wrote: I think Snook loves it too. Fat chance you gonna get any seat time
in that baby...
Good luck...
I do love it and you are right. It will definitely be her car. I have only
driven it for a few miles on test drive!
Donald H. Snook
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Curt wrote: What does it have? My main complaint about all Chrysler cars from
the last few years is the sloppy trans...
It is a 4 speed auto - code name 42RLE. Apparently, it is the same tranny in
the 300, Dodge Ram pickup, Dakota (2004-present) and a few others. It
definitely doesn't feel
Alex wrote: I thought all the Chargers/300s/Magnums had Mercedes
transmissions. Chrysler not having had a RWD car on the market for some time
before the 300 was introduced, I can't imagine they had a suitable trans of
their own (unless they used the one from the 2WD Grand Cherokee?).
You may
I just found out that I DO have the 4 speed Mercedes transmission! Hooray! I
did the vin decoder thing and it said 5 speed auto which is the MB transmission!
Donald H. Snook
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote:
I just found out that I DO have the 4 speed Mercedes transmission! Hooray!
I did the vin decoder thing and it said 5 speed auto which is the MB
transmission!
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I thinkg you and Curt
It is amazing how possessive a woman can get of a car. My wife has a
Honda Accord. I have rarely ever driven it and she gives me a hard time
if I ever ask to drive it.
Randy
On 07/02/2011 2:11 PM, Donald Snook wrote:
Mao wrote: I think Snook loves it too. Fat chance you gonna get any seat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA
RLE
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Rick Knoble wrote:
I was driving the car when the brakes failed (rears) and it
was still quite drivable, with no unpleasant feelings of not
being able to stop. I have Akebonos with new rotors on the
front, maybe that helps.
Allen wrote:
Wow
that's quite a different
R A Bennell wrote:
It is amazing how possessive a woman can get of a car. My wife
has a Honda Accord. I have rarely ever driven it and she gives
me a hard time if I ever ask to drive it.
I don't have that problem. But I do all the work on all the
cars, so she has to behave a little bit.
Alex wrote: Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I thinkg you and Curt
are both right and I'm wrong. I think the base rental-fleet-special pre-2011
Charger came with the sloppy Chrysler trans and a wheezy pre-DB-takeover V6
(left over from the unlamented cab forward FWD large-car lineup).
Randy wrote: It is amazing how possessive a woman can get of a car. My wife
has a
Honda Accord. I have rarely ever driven it and she gives me a hard time
if I ever ask to drive it.
My wife was that way when she got the Expedition. But, recently I think she
preferred driving my E320 - although
When I picked up a W108 (280S) in Norfolk, I had to drive cross country to get
to I95.
While passing through a small town, I was pulled over by a cadre of local law
enforcement folks.
Seems that my Florida license plate piqued their interest, as apparently this
was a route frequented by drug
relng...@aol.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA
I would imagine getting it to run smoothly without bouncing up and down would be
a non-trivial exercise.
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You traded in the Exploder? If so, you could have got way more
selling it on your own.
On 2/7/2011 10:44 AM, Donald Snook wrote:
We have a new (to us) car and I still have the Mercedes. I took the list's
collective advice and traded off the Expedition for a Dodge Charger. Mrs.
Snook is
There has been much discussion lately over there about posting
photos to their list. Its such a big deal according to the list
admins there. If somebody is not that list you should point out
that the okiebenz.com list allows photos, its a regular thing.
--
Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK
95
Direct posting of megabytes of photos would be a serious issue to anybody with
limited mailbox size or dial-up connection.
If the list is using software that allows for stripping/archiving attachments
like this list does, I don't see where it would be an issue at all.
Mitch.
exactly, that is why attachments are converted to links that the
user can choose to download or not. I would not think it would be
very hard for hank or whoever to think of that like I did, well,
maybe so.
On 2/7/2011 6:02 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Direct posting of megabytes of photos would be
Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com writes:
Pump the pedal. That is, take your foot off and step on it
again. The two circuits are separate, but do have a pressure
balancing function. So if one fails with a very low
resistance (big hole) the other side will require more fluid
volume than typical.
Thanks to Curt and Loren for their inputs.
Tonight I timed the warm-up, and it was about 4 minutes once I left work at
ambient temperature of about 50 degrees. When it was below freezing earlier
this winter, it took longer but I think 10 minutes is an exaggeration.
-Max
-Original
Allan Streib wrote:
The '87 Toyota, though it had a dual circuit system, had only one
reservoir (not a split reservoir). So a few pumps of the brake and the
fluid is goine and you're sucking air into the master cylinder...
Are you sure?
That would put it about 20 years behind the 1975 Honda
I was active on that list years ago for about a week, and found it too
boring. Kaleb are you trying to steal subscribers over this list?
-Max
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On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin
Sent: Monday,
On paper the old v6 is still a good engine, in the Dakota its rated for well
over 200hp but in person and combined with that rotten trans, what junk...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:38:55 -0800
From: Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
He has passed the exam, now needs someone to give him real work experience
for the practical portion of the certification.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:54 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Most states (well, NC, anyway) would then require that your son pass the
appropriate Professional
Guided weapons?
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Walt Zarnoch zarnoch...@gmail.com wrote:
So where do the ME/EE crosses like myself fit in? :)
Walt
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That's great! Congratulations. I wish him well.
Wilton
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Wilton taking over NCDOT, was Re: OT Rant (was F-16
Dead-Stick
That is my recollection yes. I had to move the reservoir over to a new MC when
I later had to replace the MC. And it was just one chamber.
Of course that was at least 20 years ago, so I suppose i could be mistaken.
Allan
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:59 -0500, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Kaleb,
I'm on that list also. And I would comment to them, but they seem to take
everything the wrong way...personal attacks on their immense intelligence, etc.
So, I'd rather watch them come of with inane excuses as to why they can't or
don't want to do something. Poor overworked admins and
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:47:27 -0600 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets.
Now that you mention it, I do remember that one.
Craig
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So, I won't bring it up...it's too entertaining reading the excuses :-))
Well, I can understand their excuses.
They don't want the jazz that sometimes we discuss here - stupid virus
that make it through on windoze machines. It happens, but seldom,
hence zero attachments. That
Max,
I'm on my second '95 E300D and I believe these things seem to take a while
to warm up.
My old 300 TD, a naturally aspirated 123, always automatically started the
heater blower at the same spot less than 1.5 miles from my house, at any OAT
(outdoor air temp).
On the other hand, these NA 606's
What V6 are they using in the 2010 Charger?
Kevin in Hillsboro, Oregon
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I think that was the first thing my son learned in ME school ---
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:47:27 -0600 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets.
Now that you mention it,
From: dsn...@mtsqh.com
So, no kid. But, we are still trying to adopt. Maybe now that we have a
muscle car, it will work out! :)
You are probably correct on that one. The rear doors and rear seat of a Charger
don't look
particularly rear facing child seat friendly. :)
Rick
From: curtlud...@yahoo.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Brake Lines
Allen's experience is what I would expect from a brake line failure.
I've seen this on an '87 Dodge Lancer (line to the rear system rusted and
failed), '03 Ford Ranger (line to one rear brake rusted and
That's the plan - as soon as they get kid, they'll have to trade cars, and
Mr. Snook will get the Charger.
Congratulations on the car, sorry to hear about the adoption-gone-bad.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote:
From: dsn...@mtsqh.com
So, no kid.
I have my dad's old Homelite XL12 which I remember him getting about
40-45 yr ago or so. I was using it last year and it quit running for
more than a coupla minutes. I determined that the plastic fuel pickup
line in the tank must have finally gotten too soft to pick up once it
starts sucking
Donnie Darko might think otherwise
--R
On 2/7/2011 1:49 PM, WILTON wrote:
Oh, I read it, but that's OK. ;)
BTW, local Goldsboro paper is even worse, or maybe it's because I have
more personal knowledge of some of the stuff local rag prints - 'just
can't seem to get stuff right. It
You should find a lawyer and sue them
--R
On 2/7/2011 3:10 PM, Donald Snook wrote:
Tim wrote: Congratulations! Good choice, for you keeping the MB in particular.
:) Glad your wife is happy too, of course. Didn't you have a baby on the way or
something? Did I miss that?
Thanks. Actually,
She probably has no money. Might be able to go after the agency, although they
were likely as fooled as everyone else. Sadly, it's probably just one of those
things you have to chalk up to bad luck.
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:04 -0500, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
My BILs are lawyers and handle some private adoptions sometimes, the
kind that the parties wish to keep low-key. They have said these seem
to work out quite well as everyone is sorta with the program. But I
guess too there is a lot of scamming out there, Wish you the best with
your quest.
Any good chainsaw/stringtrimmer shop will have various sizes of the
plastic hose. The trick is to get the new hose in place. I can
recommend a good shop but it is about 1000 miles from you.
My favorite is still a SuperEZ Homely. I think it is similar to the
XL12 I cut huge logs with the
That is my experience as well. Heater blower kicks on loud enough to
hear about a mile and a half from the house.
Peter
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Does it have an auxiliary pump like a 123?
Gerry
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I know the OM603 is slower to warm up than the iron head Diesels. It is
because the engine is more thermally efficient. It might make sense that
the 606 takes a
I can also put a washing machine in the FEH, but not in the SDL.
Dunno why not. I brought home a dishwasher in the trunk of
the 380SL. All you need is a rope!
where you breathe on the throttle and the engine takes right off.
I loathe and despise this trait.
-- Jim
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