Well Tom you can bring one of your BMW baurs & compete for best German
marque non MB.
On Mar 28, 2014 9:45 PM, "toms cat1" wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dwight, Yes, I did have a 1975 W115 300D, the one that won the "Jalopy
> Award" two consecutive years at ChowdahQ. :) Alas, I do not have it any
> longer
I'm old enough that I was born at home and the Dr. came on a house call to
make delivery. There was no medical insurance at all in those days, the
Doctors were a respected member of the community and charged what he was
worth.
This continued until I was about 25 yrs. old, then we started having
l
My goal this summer during car season is accomplishing something that
merits a Wiltonian "Attaboy!"
An Honorable goal, Indeed!Go for Broke! Andrew!
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'Already have - making some mighty fine pepper jelly, for example.
Wilton
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From: "Andrew Strasfogel"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Installed used relay in '84 300D
My goal this summer during car seaso
For any of you who may be interested, I was able to obtain a used
glow plug relay control box via Ebay and, unlike other MB electronic
gizmos, this was rather easy to install (~20 min.) and it solved the
non-starting problem. Now to take the original one apart to see if
I can repair it and kee
And for us old guys.. from back in the day of Wooden Ships and Iron Men,
this bit of machinery porn.
This of course, happened in the day when we fought to win wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2D3k0sJ8HM
WAY COOL!
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That's actually a good thing isn't it? Where is it written that every
physician has to be wealthy.
Where is it written that every goobermnt employee has to make more
than the guy doing the equivalent job in the real world?
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From The New York Times:
An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a G.M. Flaw
A $30 replacement part helped set in motion General Motors' recall of 2.6
million Chevrolet Cobalts and other cars, and one of the gravest safety
crises in company history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/business/a-florida
Me too
On Mar 29, 2014 10:26 PM, "Andrew Strasfogel" wrote:
> My goal this summer during car season is accomplishing something that
> merits a Wiltonian "Attaboy!"
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:09 PM, WILTON wrote:
>
> > Yep, ATTABOY!
> >
> > Wilt
> >
> > - Original Message - From: "C
Grant wrote:
> I'm old enough that I was born at home...
That makes you maybe 33 years old or so?
We had 3 sons born at home in Colorado.
Read The Law by Frederic Bastiat in 1840 available as pdf online or as
html - it comes up easily. The Law explains why costs go up - simple
case of large cache
My goal this summer during car season is accomplishing something that
merits a Wiltonian "Attaboy!"
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:09 PM, WILTON wrote:
> Yep, ATTABOY!
>
> Wilt
>
> - Original Message - From: "Craig"
> To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:18 PM
Yep, ATTABOY!
Wilt
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From: "Craig"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Installed used relay in '84 300D
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:53:45 -0400 "G. M. Brown"
wrote:
For any of you who may be interested, I was ab
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:58:22 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin"
wrote:
> http://www.chonday.com/Videos/cruishalcut2
Indeed! They had the 99 foot section to be inserted pre-fabbed and just
slipped it in. That speaks to both the original ship's assembly being
accurately to plan and the new section being li
Very true. Anyone going into medicine today for the money is a fool. There are
other far easier and faster ways to earn a buck.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Rich Thomas
> wrote:
>
> They do good work, but there is no way any graduating doc these days could
> join that g
The obscenely expensive healthcare system is not due to doctors wages but due
to expensive hospital stays, incredibly expensive medications, hospitals having
to foot the bill for uninsured patients visiting the ER and then admitted for
months on end at times, etc,etc.
Your average internist ear
I'm old enough that I was born at home and the Dr. came on a house call to
make delivery. There was no medical insurance at all in those days, the
Doctors were a respected member of the community and charged what he was
worth.
This continued until I was about 25 yrs. old, then we started having
la
Notice the headlight in the middle of the grill. That would be cool on
any of our Mercedes IMO.
Gerry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDI_Els-myo
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They do good work, but there is no way any graduating doc these days
could join that group if they had the debt most have (~$200k is the
average at Gtown). That also mitigates against family practice and such
since they don
t make that much.
-R
On 3/29/14 6:18 PM, astrasfo...@gmail.com wrot
And be aware that on most multimeters you have to switch the red wire to
read amps, I have been caught out a few times.
A few years back I had a Mitsingbitzi that got a flat battery, turned
out the boot light was staying on because the switch was out of
alignment, of course this would not happen
Some drs. are not in it for the money. Doctors Without Borders, for example. I
always support them if modestly.
Y
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Saturday, 29 March 2014, 00:34PM -0400 from dsereta...@yahoo.com:
If you look at the exorbitant cost of medical school, the insane number of
y
Looks like what mao is talking about is karmapharma or pharmakarma.
Where's the car ma? In your previous life son!
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On 3/29/14 6:07 PM, Mountain Man wrote:
Craig wrote:
In my case, I needed the cut-up physicians and bigpharma, or I'd be
paralyzed.
Yes, but perhaps we might consider that
Craig wrote:
> In my case, I needed the cut-up physicians and bigpharma, or I'd be
> paralyzed.
Yes, but perhaps we might consider that sometimes pharma/physician
action not unlike yours might be repair of previous life. Please do
not take this observation as conclusive in everyone or you in
part
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:37:50 -0500 Mountain Man
wrote:
> Gary wrote:
> > ...hence the obscenely expensive "healthcare" system we have today
> >
>
> healthcare is a function of food and activity, not systems of cut-up
> physicians and bigpharma.
In my case, I needed the cut-up physicians and big
Gary wrote:
> ...hence the obscenely expensive "healthcare" system we have today
>
healthcare is a function of food and activity, not systems of cut-up
physicians and bigpharma.
mao
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:53:45 -0400 "G. M. Brown"
wrote:
> For any of you who may be interested, I was able to obtain a used glow
> plug relay control box via Ebay and, unlike other MB electronic gizmos,
> this was rather easy to install (~20 min.) and it solved the
> non-starting problem. Now to
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:07:34 -0400 Gary Hurst
wrote:
> the problem is that every physician now demands to live in opulence
> beyond elvis and this can only be done honestly in a relatively small
> number of instances, hence the obscenely expensive "healthcare" system
> we have today
I think, rat
the problem is that every physician now demands to live in opulence beyond
elvis and this can only be done honestly in a relatively small number of
instances, hence the obscenely expensive "healthcare" system we have today
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Strasfogel
wrote:
> That's actua
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/cruishalcut2
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All posts are the
For any of you who may be interested, I was able to obtain a used glow plug
relay control box via Ebay and, unlike other MB electronic gizmos, this was
rather easy to install (~20 min.) and it solved the non-starting problem. Now
to take the original one apart to see if I can repair it and keep
Heres one where we can all remember why we like diesel MBs. VW uses a molded
plastic harness that pushes on to the glowplugs. Its a bit like sparkplug leads
but all one unit. They fail pretty regularly (kinda like sparkplug wires) and
need replacing. Mine has been wonky all winter throwing the c
I didn't really want to prompt a "political" thing but
dsereta...@yahoo.com has it about right. In the boy's case, $300k+ to
get through med school with a foregone income of say $150k (probably
more or not likely less), then 3-7 years after that at a foregone salary
of say $30-40k/year or more
If you look at the exorbitant cost of medical school, the insane number of
years of training( 7-12 years after college) and the number of hours per week
working during that training (80-120) for miserable pay, then every doctor
should be entitled to at least a new Mercedes!
Sent from my iPhone
And for us old guys.. from back in the day of Wooden Ships and Iron Men,
this bit of machinery porn.
This of course, happened in the day when we fought to win wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2D3k0sJ8HM
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Rich Thomas <
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wr
I want my physician to be wealthy and happy. He will do a better job. The
hospital owners and shareholders and such that think they deserve to be
rich for providing the doctor a place to work are just as bad as the big
box store scoundrels we all complain about.
Mike
On Mar 29, 2014 11:43 AM, "A
nothing ever changes in these matters, huh?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Dwight Giles wrote:
> From The New York Times:
>
> An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a G.M. Flaw
>
> A $30 replacement part helped set in motion General Motors' recall of 2.6
> million Chevrolet Cobalts and other cars, a
That's actually a good thing isn't it? Where is it written that every
physician has to be wealthy.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Rich Thomas <
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote:
> Q: "What´s the difference between an Obamacare HMO physician and a
> seagull?"
>
> A: "A seagull can
Q: "What´s the difference between an Obamacare HMO physician and a seagull?"
A: "A seagull can still make a significant deposit on a Mercedes."
ba-da-boom, I'll be here all week...
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I had one on the SD get worn through, or rusted through or something, at
the clamp that holds it somewhere to the frame. NLA so I just spliced a
bit of fuel line over it which seems to be holding.
--R
On 3/28/14 10:55 PM, OK Don wrote:
I've never seen the MB hard lines leak - are you sure t
And so is the farmer.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
>
> From: Rich Thomas
>To: Mercedes Discussion List
>Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 10:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [MBZ] I like this 107
>
>
>That car is outstanding in its field.
>
>--R
>
>
That car is outstanding in its field.
--R
On 3/28/14 9:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: "craigslist 4394756531" <84hjv-4394756...@sale.craigslist.org>
Date: March 28, 2014 at 8:28:33 PM CDT
To: 30b77dd2f7133616b473ad1a141c2...@reply.craigsl
Jim's method is cool. No power loss to radios that remember, too (c: ...
If one does not have a multimeter.. same trick can be done ( I like the 'post
slide idea' ) using a parking lamp. It will glow a deep dull red at around 50
mA, or .05 Amp. Testing in a shaded area is suggested. A good b
>From The New York Times:
An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a G.M. Flaw
A $30 replacement part helped set in motion General Motors' recall of 2.6
million Chevrolet Cobalts and other cars, and one of the gravest safety
crises in company history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/business/a-florida
Might be time to do the write up on how to check drain with a
multimeter, crook diodes in alternators are a source of drain.
Here's how I do it: Loosen the negative battery clamp,
then hold one multimeter probe (meter set on Amps) vertically
on the top post of the battery, and pinch the other p
Might be time to do the write up on how to check drain with a
multimeter, crook diodes in alternators are a source of drain.
Hendrik
who just disconnects the battery
On 29/03/14 20:49, John Reames wrote:
Is the dome light staying on? (Aren't the timers known to go bad?)
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I think the radio may have been turned on without my realizing. It doesn't
require ignition...
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:19 AM, John Reames wrote:
> Is the dome light staying on? (Aren't the timers known to go bad?)
>
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Lots of reasons, but these are the main ones:
129 was cheaper
Easier to find better examples
Parts less expensive, readily available
More modern
Already have one M119
I would have to think about it some more, but those are probably the big ones.
107s are more of a classic, and as so demand some
poos feels he cannot ban you. you are in greater need of moderation than
most anyone here though. it's a problem
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
> So if I were to start attacking people like Gary, or anybody for that
> matter, you think poos would ban me?
>
> Sent fro
Is the dome light staying on? (Aren't the timers known to go bad?)
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On Mar 28, 2014, at 23:06, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
> I may have a drain - will check into it.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Craig wrote:
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