Re: [MBZ] Keep those 123 chassis' rolling

2015-07-23 Thread Jaime Kopchinski via Mercedes
Yeah yeah, i'm here. Don't get your tin foil hats out just yet. Its not quite as simple as they make it sound. I won't get into here on a public forum, but you really don't have to worry. I hate to break it to you, but none of us are special enough to warrant the huge amount of effort it takes

Re: [MBZ] 300CD

2015-07-23 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Thanks Mao, Please let me know how I get in touch with him. ABQ is in my "backyard" sort of. I welcome any and all connections. Grant... On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Dwight wrote: > > I might have some leads on parts for your CD r

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Rick wrote: > Sorry for the lengthy off topic diatribe. Nope - totally ontopic, and you know it. Now, go see Gonzo and speak some more. Anyone else also - see the movie Gonzo. A documentary about HST - Hunter S Thompson. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To sea

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
fmiser wrote: > I would amend that just a bit because the "integrity" does > not strictly include anything about what is "right". And > since each of us will have a slightly (or not so slight?) > difference of opinion about what is "right". Yes!! Uniformity sucks. Diversity rules. mao __

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
RB wrote: ...you cannot get a job anywhere unless you are reasonably > proficient in Autocad (or the newer version, - Ribbit or something like > that). Revit. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscr

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curt wrote: > ...Broke a rule but got away with it? Awesome, good for you. And we wonder where innovation and invention have gone? Education should sponsor innovation and invention. If all we do is repeat the past, where is future? Your idea is the statement entirely of why I love hackers. NO,

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
WILTON wrote: > ...put simply, integrity is the ability to do what is right when nobody else > is watching. Maybe it is missing universally. Construction zone is 45mph - I can do that instead of risk $375 fine. Many pass at higher speed, just to stop 3 miles ahead at light - what's the sense? Is

Re: [MBZ] Why does this keep happening

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Kaleb wrote: > Well the thing is this is the side that was not blown. The first side that > was blown torqued down fine. I will just order 3 more and replace them. > Very strange. Maybe the guide pins are bent or too long, not allowing even seating at torque value? Don't torque to value. Try ass

Re: [MBZ] Way OT: Blendtec recipes, anyone?

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Andrew wrote: > I must say I am disappointed at the lack of MATURITY of this group. C'mon... With the well known cheapskate tenor of this group, you expect value in request for high end BlendTec recipes? Actually, my son sent us a BlendTec and we use it a couple times each week. We buy outdated re

Re: [MBZ] 300CD

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Dwight wrote: > I might have some leads on parts for your CD restoration... There is a guy in ABQ on the Ritter list that likes W123 also and might be souce to find parts. He seems quite resouceful and in your neck of the woods. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.co

Re: [MBZ] Keep those 123 chassis' rolling

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curly wrote: > I hope Jaime is reading this. I thought of Jaime when I heard this story: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/561/nummi-2015 The behemoth corporations have an edge, but only for a short time. Behemoth corp loves behemoth federal, for bailouts and protections. Tes

Re: [MBZ] Why does this keep happening

2015-07-23 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Well the thing is this is the side that was not blown. The first side that was blown torqued down fine. I will just order 3 more and replace them. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 23, 2015, at 7:22 PM, G Mann via Mercedes > wrote: > > Kaeleb, > > Since the original issue was a blown head gasket,

Re: [MBZ] Why does this keep happening

2015-07-23 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Kaeleb, Since the original issue was a blown head gasket, it seem most likely that all the studs were way over torqued to failure on last assembly. I make the suggestion that you replace the full set and start with "first stretch". On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercede

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Ok Don wonders...: > None were ever told what to think, nor would they have put up with it > had it happened. I don't know where these stories about universities come > from. Two cases in point. One, Hillary Rodham. Her parents were ultra conservative, from a well to do Chicago suburb. http://

[MBZ] Why does this keep happening

2015-07-23 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
So if you recall I broke a head stud on the head gasket job in this Koehler lawn mower engine. Got the new stud in and the 2 guide pins that sit around the stud in the block. I think last time the head was on cockeyed on the pins because they were both bent. Anyway I double and tripled checked t

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Same here, despite having gone to a very liberal University of Wisconsin in Madison WI. There was a very very small portion of the student body and the faculty who were rabidly liberal and they managed to monopolize the attention from the national press, local press, and one of the two student pap

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
I went to a regional State college, then transferred to The University of Oklahoma. I was encouraged to take risks and allowed to fail (and learn from it) without repercussions. My kids have attended OU, Yale, NYU, and MTU. None were ever told what to think, nor would they have put up with it had i

Re: [MBZ] Where not to drive Limos

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Looks like a Chrysler product to me. "Didn't you see me?" Yeah right. I think its impressive how quickly he got stopped... -Curt From: archer75--- via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: "arche...@embarqmail.com" Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 5:29 PM Subject: [MBZ] Where not to

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
You've maybe heard the one where a little boy is sent home from school with a detention because he was caught stealing a pencil. His father says "Don't steal pencils from school boy, I'll bring you home one from work." -Curt From: fmiser via Mercedes To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: fmiser

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
> WILTON wrote: > > I'm volunteering my definition of it learned on Momma and > Daddy's laps and at their knees nearly 80 years ago - put > simply, integrity is the ability to do what is right when > nobody else is watching. I would amend that just a bit because the "integrity" does not strictly

[MBZ] Where not to drive Limos

2015-07-23 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11758225/1-tonne-freight-train-ploughs-into-limousine-at-level-crossing.html Limo driver must have been going pretty fast to hop up crossways of the railroad track. What make was it before the conversion? ___

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
And put the money to reducing student loan debt. On Jul 23, 2015 4:03 PM, "WILTON via Mercedes" wrote: > 'Nother ATTABOY! > > Wilton > > - Original Message - From: "Randy Bennell via Mercedes" < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: "Curt Raymond" ; "Mercedes Discussion List" < > mercedes@okiebe

[MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Nother ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: "Randy Bennell via Mercedes" To: "Curt Raymond" ; "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "Randy Bennell" Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics On 23/07/2015 1:58 PM, Curt Raymond via Mer

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Having worked at a big 10 school and an SEC school I totally agree and i would abolish the NCAA. On Jul 23, 2015 2:23 PM, "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" wrote: > As far as I'm concerned athletics has no place in college beyond the > intramural level. The idea of college sports as quasi professional

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 23/07/2015 1:58 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: I am so so glad I went to a small state college . . . . I had one design class where for a month we worked with crayons. Yeah crayons. You go out and try to make a crayon drawing that doesn't look like a crayon drawing and tell me how eas

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "Curt Raymond" Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics I am so so glad I went to a small state college. I read about schools i

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I am so so glad I went to a small state college. I read about schools indoctrinating students and refusing to listen to other points of view and I'm horrified, that was not my experience at all. We were encouraged to disagree with our teachers, if you could back up your point they'd listen.Part

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I would have an interesting story to tell about the wages of sin at UNC-CH, outside the whole football program, but it would violate my integrity to do so, so I won't. But in universities, independent simple solutions are not acceptable, the school has to form committees to beat the issue to d

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes
+1 Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:07:16 -0400 > Subject: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > CC: wilt...@nc.rr.com > > Re. the unsavory crap (sham, "paper," classes) going on for nearly 20 years > at U

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Been my thoughts on the subject, too, for more than 60 years. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curt Raymond via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "Curt Raymond" Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics As far as I'm conc

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
As far as I'm concerned athletics has no place in college beyond the intramural level. The idea of college sports as quasi professional is completely at odds with the real job of college which is education. As long as there is money to be made in college sports there will be abuse of the system.

[MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity & ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Re. the unsavory crap (sham, "paper," classes) going on for nearly 20 years at UNC-CH to accommodate athletes, an article in today's Raleigh "News and Observer," discusses two "working groups" (committee's) "looking at UNC integrity and policies." Co-chair said that they "first want to define

Re: [MBZ] OT When WDC freezes over (was Trump card)

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Hey, I watched a documentary called "Sharknado 3" last night. Learned that DC is now a wasteland from the shark attacks. I'm not venturing inside the beltway any more. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Boy people are excited about that

Re: [MBZ] OT When WDC freezes over (was Trump card)

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Boy people are excited about that. Its fun to watch both sides make big predictions based on very little actual data. It'll be fun to watch both sides "prove" the other wrong. -Curt From: Max Dillon via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Max Dillon Sent: Thursday, July 23, 20

[MBZ] OT When WDC freezes over (was Trump card)

2015-07-23 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Andrew, you've got about 20 years until "Hell" freezes over, should be able to get a fifteen year mortgage term so you have a warm place to live by then Charleston should be tolerable then, but I wouldn't be thinking about Maine. http://joannenova.com.au/2014/06/big-news-viii-new-solar-mode

Re: [MBZ] Newfangled electronic key fob thingie

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
ATTABOY! On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > When I was in high school dad gave me his old '84 Ford Tempo. The trunk > lock busted off its mount (inside so it would just spin, big fun) so we > pulled it out and opened the trunk with a big s

Re: [MBZ] Trump card

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
When hell freezes over? On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Getting in the race is easy now. And, with name recognition you can win >> mby losing - land a lucrative broadcast TV gig, like Herman Cain, >> Huckerly, and Sarah Painin. >> >>

Re: [MBZ] Newfangled electronic key fob thingie

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
When I was in high school dad gave me his old '84 Ford Tempo. The trunk lock busted off its mount (inside so it would just spin, big fun) so we pulled it out and opened the trunk with a big screwdriver. There was a technique to finding the latch from outside and once I figured it out I got prett

Re: [MBZ] Newfangled electronic key fob thingie

2015-07-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
She sent me a piccie of the instructions, I had it open in 5sec. Then I reiterated the instructions and she also got it open. -R On 7/22/15 11:46 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Wifey wants to change the battery but can't figure out how to get it open. I have one, no instructions bug no

Re: [MBZ] Way OT: Blendtec recipes, anyone?

2015-07-23 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Rick Knoble wrote: > ‎Gerry writes: > >As for "living forever", I've been on a mega nutrients diet for 31 >years; > >55 to 86; and still have negative lab and xray reports.  > Please expound.  > Rick   I'll send you the info in a few days, Rick. Anyone else interested in this vitamin/mineral di