Re: [MBZ] SOT (somewhat OT): TOyota share its patents.

2015-01-10 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:56:55 -0500 Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: > The larger problem is storage. Hydrogen is not dense so any usable > amount requires ridiculously huge tanks, ridiculously low temperatures, > ridiculously high pressures, or non-gaseous form (like a metal hydride) > that mus

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:30:36 -0500 Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > I also used to be acclimated to that climate, my first 23 years on > earth I lived in north-central Wisconsin, in the country about 8 miles > from the nearest town (Ogema, which I believe is a Chippewa Indian > name). > > Ten

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I saw deer heading from Silver Spring to the DC airport back in early December. -Curt From: Andrew Strasfogel To: Curt Raymond Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Its cld out there They roam the DC suburbs, I am told...  Though all I see around here

Re: [MBZ] Anyone interested in W123 Euro Headlights?

2015-01-10 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
If no one else speaks up, I will take them. Max Dillon, Charleston SC On Jan 10, 2015 8:56 PM, "Craig via Mercedes" wrote: > I have some W123 Euro headlights that need lenses. > > Is anyone interested in them before I throw them out? > > > Craig > > ___ > htt

Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - TOM NELMS FARM, PART II

2015-01-10 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Don't know - one of our rare, store-bought luxuries. ;<) Wilton - Original Message - From: "Mountain Man via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - TOM NELMS FARM, PART II WILTON wrote:

[MBZ] Anyone interested in W123 Euro Headlights?

2015-01-10 Thread Craig via Mercedes
I have some W123 Euro headlights that need lenses. Is anyone interested in them before I throw them out? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.

Re: [MBZ] Free Talk Live radio

2015-01-10 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Greg wrote: > Our culture seems to be devolving. You sound like radical islamist terrorist? You mean this great nation is not what it has been? btw, has anyone seen any of the Charly cartoons from Paris? Are these online someplace? Someone said the Charly satires are a cross between SouthPark, M

Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - TOM NELMS FARM, PART II

2015-01-10 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
WILTON wrote: > Joyce and I sometimes toasted marshmallows... Who made the marshmallows? mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman

Re: [MBZ] OT: Heat Pump Defrost Setting

2015-01-10 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Probably just a jumper on the control board, Google is your friend. More Google work should reveal what the recommended settings are for your area. There is always trial and error... Max Dillon, Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archive

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
I also used to be acclimated to that climate, my first 23 years on earth I lived in north-central Wisconsin, in the country about 8 miles from the nearest town (Ogema, which I believe is a Chippewa Indian name). Ten years ago, I took a job here in Charleston repairing commercial (flat) roofs, and

Re: [MBZ] OT For Mao

2015-01-10 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Rick wrote: > ‎Check out Illinois most iconic restaurant. > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thrillist/the-most-iconic-restauran_b_6443114.html‎ > Oh Yes!! - Gene & Jude's thanks mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/arc

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Not much where I live, a little I suppose. More out west and farther north. Coyote hunting is kinda specialized, they hunt mostly at night I think. We've shot a couple on the farm in Maine. There was one more I should have shot but I was worried it was somebodies dog. When it turned its head and

[MBZ] OT: Heat Pump Defrost Setting

2015-01-10 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
I have two (budget) heat pumps with simple defrost controls: a thermostat on the coil and a timer. The defrost setting on the 2 ton Payne unit is set to 90 minutes and on the 3 ton Maytag unit it's set to 30 minutes. These are both the factory settings. The Maytag unit does seem to defrost a lo

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Is there coyote hunting up there, Curt? On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > For me hunting season is super important. I spend a lot of time freezing > my butt off but it gets my body to jumpstart the transition from warm to > cold weather.

Re: [MBZ] Free Talk Live radio

2015-01-10 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
Our culture seems to be devolving. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 8:00 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Free Talk Live radio We are Devo! Sent from my iPa

Re: [MBZ] An article that is truthful about electric vehicles

2015-01-10 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The rea still pays for rural power. Urban areas subsidize rural ones as tge cost per user to provide this public good is higher in rural areas. It amounts to a lot of money for rural cooperatives each year. On Dec 30, 2014 9:23 AM, "G Mann via Mercedes" wrote: > Post WW2 there was the REA .. Rura

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
For me hunting season is super important. I spend a lot of time freezing my butt off but it gets my body to jumpstart the transition from warm to cold weather. This year had a couple of particularly brutal days where it wasn't really that cold but the wind would whip right through me. At this po

Re: [MBZ] SOT (somewhat OT): TOyota share its patents.

2015-01-10 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
The larger problem is storage. Hydrogen is not dense so any usable amount requires ridiculously huge tanks, ridiculously low temperatures, ridiculously high pressures, or non-gaseous form (like a metal hydride) that must be converted back into gas. You really need to run the numbers on these sche

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
I'm amazed at how fast we lose our acclimation such temps cited by Curt. 'Have been out in that and lower many times, but I just went for a short walk (hobble with 4-wheel walker) around the yard; 'was wearing appropriate L. L. Bean jacket, but I was glad to get back inside and away from the br

Re: [MBZ] Free Talk Live radio

2015-01-10 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Andrew wrote: > >Right on.  Physicists are notorious >idiots, whereas it's very hard to >find > >a Geologist who meet the criteria. But their heads are hard as rocks? > Rick > Tongue planted firmly in cheek  > ___ G: Once knew a geology Phd candidate whose

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Yep, not bad at all. ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" To: "Diesel List" Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 3:54 PM Subject: [MBZ] OT: Its cld out there Okay so its not that cold by real cold standards. We've gotten as low as -11F but last w

[MBZ] OT: Its coooold out there

2015-01-10 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Okay so its not that cold by real cold standards. We've gotten as low as -11F but last week it rained and I found that two of my snowmobiles had frozen to the ground.The skis usually stick to the ground after a ride, I think they warm up some from the friction and then freeze later. So anyway th

Re: [MBZ] SOT (somewhat OT): TOyota share its patents.

2015-01-10 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
And I forget what sorts of metal pipes get Hydrogen embrittlement. Steel. Copper. Probably others. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.o

Re: [MBZ] Oh Martha.....

2015-01-10 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Nope. Not that I know of. I hear people complain about black finishes and swirl marks, but in my opinion that’s more of an issue when they’re not applying or removing the wax properly, or using a powered buffer or polisher. If you’re doing it by hand I wouldn’t worry about it. Dan > On Jan

Re: [MBZ] Oh Martha.....

2015-01-10 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Any good quality stuff. Stay away from the Walmart garbage, as a lot of what you see there and at the FLAPS are lower quality versions of the actual product. My (current) personal favorite is Collinite Liquid Insulator Wax 845: http://www.amazon.com/Collinite-Liquid-Insulator-Wax-845/dp/B000JK2

[MBZ] Oh Martha.....

2015-01-10 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
My oldest girl child's Jetta finally and completely crapped out. She picked out a 2013 Ford Fiesta Sedan. Tuxedo Black Metallic. She's fixing to take it back to LA and what I want to know is, Martha, what wax, if any, should I apply to that finish before she takes it away? Thanks, Martha Dan Bob

Re: [MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - TOM NELMS FARM, PART II

2015-01-10 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:57 AM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote: > Then he and Daddy walked around the corner to the Ford dealership > immediately nearby and purchased a fuel pump for about $3.00. They soon > had the pump replaced, and we were on our way. > ATTABOY! -MMM- _

[MBZ] OT - A COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERS - TOM NELMS FARM, PART II

2015-01-10 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Yep, another one: TOM NELMS FARM, PART II By Wilton Strickland On the dirt road where we lived in 1941, '42 and '43 was a small, red clay hill. I think not only I, a boy of only 6 to 9 then, but the entire family dreaded having to travel this part of the dirt road from our house out the p

Re: [MBZ] Free Talk Live radio

2015-01-10 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: For that matter, I have met very highly educated people who are total idiots. So has everybody who ever enrolled in a College of Education. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/a

Re: [MBZ] M103? Idle Problem

2015-01-10 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Dwight Giles via Mercedes wrote: 124 wiring harness? Just a guess. Paid $1000 to 'recondition' the engine wiring??? Replace the whole harness with new! Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscr

Re: [MBZ] SOT (somewhat OT): TOyota share its patents.

2015-01-10 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
fmiser via Mercedes wrote: Pipe shouldn't be much harder than natual gas - execpt H2 is so small it leaks easily. Very easily. Especially in plastic pipes, IIRC. And I forget what sorts of metal pipes get Hydrogen embrittlement. Mitch. ___ http://www.okie

Re: [MBZ] Running Older vehicles

2015-01-10 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: The 4 is a185hp though which is staggering for the displacement. It's a 2.2, makes the same HP as a 1985 2.3-16 (euro) or a 1992 Olds Achieva SCX (2.3L Quad 4). I thought a 944 had staggering output in the 1990s, but IIRC it was a pretty big 4 cylinder. Mitc