Well.. I have to say.. that is a real Collectors item...
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
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Like this:
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/mercedes-benz/w12/1963/311989?plugin=trueplugin_id=181529
Dan
One last shot to hedge your bet for the hereafter... Regardless of your
life of sin.. if you look good on the way to the great dirt nap you will
be well remembered maybe..
That is one Finny you would just die to ride in... after all.
Wonder what it cost to restore to that condition.
On Sun,
That's nice but the jaloponist in me wants to go like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/qqmy3b3cpl0k4p5/AABybINWvDY9J417aF71tMkka
I guess I should ask Curt if he's encountered any Filipino funeral
processions/parades yet...
Tom
On Jun 14, 2015 7:25 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I love the big chrome cross on top. Epic.
Dan
On Jun 14, 2015, at 8:46 AM, G Mann via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Well.. I have to say.. that is a real Collectors item...
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
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Like this:
So the issues finally come to an end, and Im a little put off by my
stupidity...
Took the car to my trusted indie shop. After two hours of troubleshooting, they
came back and said the MAF was sketchy and all of the hoses on the top of the
engine were questionable. Fine. I drive it home and
Like this:
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/mercedes-benz/w12/1963/311989?plugin=trueplugin_id=181529
Dan
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Actually, it is normal in this climate. I found on several occasions where the
car was parked for 3-4 days (or more) that condensation would sometimes collect
in the distributor caps, but a good hard drive would burn it out. This was
especially common when my son had the car at school, as the
ATTABOY!
Wilton
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So the issues finally come to an end, and Im a
Not solved. Where did all this moisture come from? That's
not normal. Is the crankcase ventilation plugged up such that
a little bit of the blowby was coming 'round the shaft? Did
you hose down the engine a little too vigorously? Ford any
streams? Buy the car in Florida, 'cheap'?
-- Jim
On Jun 13, 2015 8:30 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Tommy,
You need to go to the tent sale. It’s well worth the trip and you can
snag some unbelievable deals on A-E shoes. Definitely an item on any A-E
wearer’s bucket list.
And you can meet up with the Doobie
The tent sale is the week of July 4th, or the first week in July, if I recall
correctly. They probably have something about it on their web site.
When I lived in Port there were no deals at the factory, other than they almost
always had just about any shoe you wanted out of their selection.
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/06/08/finnjet-the-only-car-with-a-chrome-bill-bigger-than-its-gas-bill-comes-up-for-sale/?refer=news
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I was thinking the same thing but PA isn't so far away and from what I know of
the simple folk they'll do what they can to bring in money...
-Curt
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An old geezer, a whippersnapper, and a 25 year old. What a team!
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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I was thinking the same thing but PA isn't so far away and from what I
know of the simple folk they'll do what they can to bring in
Andrew is his middle name. First name is Yoder
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On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
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Andrew is not a weird enough name, nor do you have 13 chirruns as far as I
know. And you let the debbil into your home through the
They have infiltrated everywhere -- a quite prolific group. They'll
send some scouts out to an area, buy a farm or two (cash) then the clan
starts coming and buying up farms all around. Probably not far from DC now.
--R
On 6/13/15 11:15 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
I was thinking
How do you know I'm not one of them??
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
They have infiltrated everywhere -- a quite prolific group. They'll send
some scouts out to an area, buy a farm or two (cash) then the clan starts
coming and buying
There are some days, however, when I really wish I could see a picture of
what Mao ate for breakfast.
Bob R
On Jun 12, 2015 8:10 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Mao won't do Fookbace or whatever he calls it.
The Veteran's group is a very nice place with a lot of
I would consider it.. but only because I have not angered the Homeowners
Association recently, and they are overdue...
;) ... Unusual car to say the least..
I wonder if there is a video anywhere that details the construction of this
work of art.. Would be engaging to watch it evolve.
On Sun,
Yonder -- some indeterminate location over yonder Where it at? Over
yonder sometimes with a nod of the head in a general direction
Plum wo out -- completely worn out
wawmehn -- a watermelon
all y'all -- evvabody
--R
On 6/13/15 11:04 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote:
More GLOSSARY
By Wilton
No Amish would be caught dead working for the goobermnt, robbing
people at gunpoint to do things the wealthy donors want.
How do you know I'm not one of them??
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
They have infiltrated everywhere -- a
When the U.S. was flying nuclear bombs to the borders of the USSR and then
turning back at the last minute during the late '40s, General Curt LeMay said
we should keep right on going to Russian targets and nuke the communists back
to the stone age.
I wonder what the world would be like nowadays
You're not unless your fathers or mothers last name is one of the following.
Strasfogel isn't on the list.
Miller,
Stoltzfus,
Hershberger
Yoder
Hochstetler
Troyer
Schrock
Bontrager
Burkholder
Lehman
Lambright
King
Fisher
Lapp
Zook
Beiler
Hostetler
Hochstedler
Borkholder
Stoltzfoos
Byler
OK, Florida, so that explains a lot.
I wonder how that Mercedes diesel holds up 3 alternators and batteries
and hauls that... thing... around? I do like the bundts though.
Interesting it has been in the Houston art car parade.
--R
On 6/14/15 10:56 AM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
I would
Yoder is the family name of the Amish family that has a bakery near my camp in
Maine...
-Curt
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Other than Jeepneys i haven't seen many cars older than 3-4 years. Most
everything I've seen is late model asian cars although I did see a w140
yesterday.
-Curt
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Liberal Amish ... ???
I had no idea they had gone Progressive ..
Do tell
Snark off.. ;))
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
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How do you know I'm not one of them??
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
The thing that made the Cold War work for both sides, what the element of
mutually assured distruction .. Simply put.. if either side started, both
sides had enough nukes and the means to deliver them that all life would
have been deleted from the face of the earth.
So.. bravado aside.. Gen LeMay
I say we take off an nuke the whole site from orbit. It's the only way
to be sure.
--R
On 6/13/15 7:28 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote:
America won the Cold War in large part because the Russians knew that
American avionics would give NATO control of the air in any prospective war;
Andrew is not a weird enough name, nor do you have 13 chirruns as far
as I know. And you let the debbil into your home through the wires.
--R
On 6/14/15 12:09 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
How do you know I'm not one of them??
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Dan at least doesn't have to worry about it ever freezing...
-Curt
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Concrete
When the U.S. was flying nuclear bombs to the borders of the USSR
and then turning back at the last minute during the late '40s,
General Curt LeMay said we should keep right on going to Russian
targets and nuke the communists back to the stone age.
I wonder what the world would be like nowadays
Is that one of the reasons why Poos normally recommends the 1996-1999 cars with
coils on plugs?
Mitch.
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You're not unless your fathers or mothers last name is one of the following.
Strasfogel isn't on the list.
Neither is Yutzy (big time Amish auctioneers near me) or Coblentz (contractors
who built my dad's garage/workshop).
Mitch.
As an early boomer, I heard this discussed often by the grownups during
the early 50s. I didn't understand it at the time but I do remember it.
The men (all either WWI or WWII vets) concurred with Patton, et al.
When the U.S. was flying nuclear bombs to the borders of the USSR and
then
O'Reilly's book lays out several elements of incredible coincidence for an
accident.
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Absolutely. Stupid simple to work on, maintain or repair.
Dan
On Jun 14, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Is that one of the reasons why Poos normally recommends the 1996-1999 cars
with coils on plugs?
Mitch.
Cleaning the slag from a previous weld should be pretty easy using a welding
hammer and a wire brush. My experience welding was working as a
steamfitter/rigger for about a year on a powerhouse job along the Hudson
River (Roseton, NY)in the early 70s. Also took a course at a tech school.
I do ok
When I was rebuilding Miller “buzz boxes” during tech school we used 1/2 steel
plate scraps to test them out. That stuff is fun to weld with a stick welder
that puts out 400 amps.
Our fabrication guy used to win bar bets welding two pieces of aluminum foil
together with a Miller wire feed
Wilton, Thanks for that first-hand account of D-day from ground level.
All: Maybe folks have already seen this (and I should have posted it a week
ago) but here is (IMO) a very interesting slide-show of D-day (and beyond)
events: http://pt709.synology.me/NormandyLanding1.pps. Left click on
Make sure he has the rebar off the ground before pouring, and check that he
has the cement to sand ratio correct...
-MMM-
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I”ve got a well known and respected concrete contractor coming to the
house on
Wire feed welders are nicknamed glue guns. Clearly, HF
does not make one such. Using the Miller on clean, reasonably
thick sheet metal, and I understand the nickname.
-- Jim
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I fully expect them to remove the grass, level the area, place a compacted
gravel base and pour in two sections using rebar or reinforcing wire of some
sort. It’s got a slight, maybe 5-10 degree slope towards the property line, so
they’ll need to take that into consideration when they order
I have always understood that what ended the Cold War had nothing at
all to do with Reagan, but instead Chernobyl convinced Gorbachov that
nuclear war was an invitation to the end of civilization -- no one
would survive with a functioning economy or decent standard of living,
even
True.
On Jun 14, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
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Dan at least doesn't have to worry about it ever freezing...
-Curt
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Beats me, that’s why it’s best to check. I recall it being around the end of
June, first week of July, but the dates could change on a yearly basis.
What’s cool is that A-E uses this time to have a national sales meeting for all
of their sales people, so the guy that’s waiting on you in the
There was a pic the other day of the children coming home from the plane
crash in France, a while line of white (E-class?) hearses, the adults
later rode in black ones. It was sad but made me wonder what happens to
all those hearses after a time. They would make great wagons.
--R
On
I think theres some missing, you don't have Erb on there for one.
-Curt
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Please elaborate…
On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
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There is evidence Patton was assassinated by our goobermnt to prevent him
from starting a war with the rooskies
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Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
The tent sale is the week of July 4th, or the first week in July, if I recall
correctly. They probably have something about it on their web site.
I thought it was going to start this Thursday.
I was planning on calling in a phone order to the Port Huron
My thoughts are not to let anybody pour anything bigger than about 10x10 without
grooving it for stress relief. The Amish dude who poured my dad's 40x24' garage
did it in one piece and refused to notch it. Also didn't order air entrainment
or fiber reinforcement or use reinforcing mesh. Also
Wasn't it Will Rodgers that said some people have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves? Sounds like Clay has started peeing.
When he runs out of the rotten HF wire that EVERYBODY says sucks and gets some
better stuff maybe he'll believe the rest of the world on that too.
-Curt
From:
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If something's worth doin, it's worth doin right
Technic Lego g wagon
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On Jun 14, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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A lot later than the 40's; I flew 'em on airborne alert in '64 - '66; last
ones were on airborne alert in '68; 'stopped after B-52 crash and loss of
nukes at Thule, Greenland, in '68..
Wilton
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if we were to start putting $$s into defense again (and the liberals
would squeal) and keep ISIS etc., busy fighting each other if we just
stirred them up against each other, we could improve our economy all
around. But instead we try to be nice so the bad guys will like us. LOL
- that'll
It always makes me LOL when the anti-gunners say they don't want
everyone to be able to get guns so all the people around her/him might
have one. Then someone asks them What makes you think they don't have
one already? It seems the snti-gun crowd believe a law will stop a
criminal. Even
People in general are stupid, especially liberals
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On Jun 14, 2015, at 7:33 PM, LarryT via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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It always makes me LOL when the anti-gunners say they don't want everyone to
be able to get guns so all the people around her/him might
These flights happened before the Russians had a significant means of
retaliation IIRC; which would have left the U.S. the worlds only nuclear power
considering that China would have been given the choice of eliminating their
nuclear weapons or suffering the same fate as the USSR. MAD came
I actually read the destructions that came with the zapper. I followed the set
up to the letter and even made sure the wheels were in the proper orientation
for the wire I was using. There are no teeth to the wheels that would provide
decent bite. Just some knurling like you would find on a
Wow, that's quite a few metaphors mixed up in there, Curly. Yet - I feel
strangely empowered...
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
No Amish would be caught dead working for the goobermnt, robbing people at
gunpoint to do things the wealthy
Bob R wrote:
There are some days, however, when I really wish I could see a picture of
what Mao ate for breakfast.
NOT Gene Judes.
A egg, some Fage strained greek yogurt full fat, toast, grapefruit.
...yah, that didn't answer the question, except for reality...
mao
Rick wrote:
No computer? No internet service?
No mobile phone, which is what most fookbace users have, i think?
mao
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You're not unless your fathers or mothers last name is one of the following.
Strasfogel isn't on the list.
Neither is Yutzy (big time Amish auctioneers near me) or Coblentz
(contractors
who built my dad's garage/workshop).
Mitch.
Just had a flash on something our new welder said in an earlier post about
the wire not feeding consistantly..
I've never been into the bowels of a Harbor Fright unit.. but there should
be a tension adjustment on the wire feed motor. [everyone I've used to
date did have one.] If that tension is
We had a contractor build a 14x28' steel patio cover last year. For some
reason they needed a new welder, and the contractor brought a new HF unit.
The welder spend about an hour trying to get it to work correctly, then
called the contractor and read him the riot act. A new Lincoln unit from
Lowes
There probably are. Erb is a Mennonite name:
Erb, a Mennonite family name, was first represented in North America by
Nicholas Erb (1679-1740), who came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from the
Emmental, Switzerland via the Palatinate, Germany before 1722.
Please elaborate
On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:59 PM, Curly McLain via
Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
There is evidence Patton was assassinated by
our goobermnt to prevent him from starting a war
with the rooskies
Question I failed to ask:
What diameter wire are you using? .020, .030 or .035 ?
To use the .020 wire, you will need to change the wheel gap adjustment to
fit the smaller wire AND change the wire guide in the business end of the
torch to fit the smaller wire.
Smaller wire will give you a
I make the motion that all Congress should have to pass drug and alcohol
tests BEFORE voting.
All in favor so signify by saying AYE
Apparently, having an IQ greater than your shoe size is not a requirement
for being elected to Congress.. as wittnessed by the link shown.. Classic..
On Sun,
It has been a week of dragging my butt outside in the heat and playing with the
flux core welding gun. In that time I have gained some perspective on just how
much work making a decent weld is.
At first I was just banging about with the gun and burning through wire and
sheet metal. It was
I”ve got a well known and respected concrete contractor coming to the house on
Tuesday afternoon to give me an estimate on adding an additional pad or
extension to the side of my existing concrete driveway.
While it should be fairly simple, and I know there’s not a lot of majik to
pouring
Good report on your progress.
Welding 1/8th stock [.125 thousands thick] to 18 gage [55. thousands
thick] is a serious challenge for beginner..
The first problem you will have is to get enough weld heat on the .125
stock to penetrate without destroying the 55. material with that much
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