Re: [MBZ] Pretty 1989 Jaguar XJS on BAT
> Seller claims he would take it on a "long drive" without hesitation. He's a Jag owner. So that's what, across town? -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] A GL
There's nothing wrong with paying top dollar for something that proves out to be what you were hoping it to be. Or you can pay plenty for something that is not, like our X5. Worst. Car. Value. Ever. But how do you know, going in? -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Undercover - A car cover
> But by far the main thing with an older car is avoiding salt. Just don't > drive them in the winter if you live where salt is used. Coastal areas are also problematic. Our beach cabin is a poorly-insulated but otherwise sealed house, and not all that close to the water. maybe half a mile away. It has a shed, which has open rafters for ventilation. Everything metal in the shed gets rusty, rusty, rusty. In the cabin, not. The humidity will be the same, but salt spray in the air can migrate in past the rafter ends and settle out on things, provoking truly cancerous surface rust. The ventilation that is good for shingle life is bad for everything else, because there is no ceiling in the shed. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Not sure what this is but interesting grapics
> Is it a cow or a dalmation? Moof! -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] huh. OOOOO KKKKK -- I'm sick and tired of window shoppers playing around in my inbox.
Jeans are not dungarees because they're not dun. They're indigo. My grandmother used Davenport. Chesterfields are cigarettes, and it's "Chaise Longue". Always was. Family Guy usually uses "couch". As in: totally taking this. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] (Blue unimog is an example of what it could look like other than the turd that it is) 1962 Mercedes Unimog, $9, 000
A 404 will never look like a 406, any more than a ML will look like a GL. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Geez
> The ... Bakelite steering wheel ... was a thing of beauty. I don't believe it's Bakelite. That is fairly brittle stuff, and not very strong. Honestly it looks more like some sort of epoxy to me. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Nice looking e350 wagon - $7,000
> No one has mentioned the short-lived W124 300TD (1987) turbodiesel wagons. I did, indirectly. If only they had been 4wd we'd have had several, and I think so would the neighbors. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Nice looking e350 wagon - $7,000
> but I do like the ML and GL for hauling and towing I like the Dodge 2500 for hauling and towing. We have two. Monsters, both of 'em. The V10 is getting ready to tow our parade float again this year. I need to get out the Rustoleum again to dab over the freshly-peeled spots. That's its worst feature. (That, and the fuel economy!) I was in the middle of rigging out the X5 as a tow vehicle when I got the V10. I had all the wiring harness goodies, connected, but never packaged it up properly. It's all loosely wadded up in the spare tire well. I'm not even sure it works as it's still got the Euro trailer connector on it. Why continue to screw with it when the V10 is all ready to go, no muss no fuss? And you can put people in the bed, too. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] "ESTATE FIND" 1979 450SLC - $11,000
> I rode in a Z3 once and was quite surprised at the legroom for this tall guy. > It was quite peppy too, it was a manny 5 or 6spd. Next to zero storage, though. Maybe a duffle bag in the trunk. That's it. If you went grocery shopping they'd have to be in the passenger footwell. Not very practical as your only car. (Former GF.) The behind-seat bucket in a 107 makes all the difference on a road trip. The Z3 is a sports car, the 107 is not. More of a GT. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] "ESTATE FIND" 1979 450SLC - $11,000
> That she preferred BMW over MB, obviously. Well, the Z3 is absolutely a gorgeous car. (I'm not fond of the lumpy looking Z4.) I'd consider one, if I didn't think the 107 was even prettier. I've bought five of them over the years, we still have two. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Nice looking e350 wagon - $7,000
> I sometimes wonder why wagons/estates are not more popular here. It's all > SUVs and crossovers. Fads and fashion. I have no use for SUV's, I never have. (A suburban, the original, is a UV, no S about it. Your basic enclosed pickup truck. If you need it, you need it bad. I don't, but it should exist.) I'd take a wagon any day. Smaller, lighter, better handling, faster, cheaper. Probably holds more than the usual SUV, too. If the 300TD had been available in 4WD we'd have several, since the late 90's. And we'd still be driving them, no need for anything newer. Yes, I'm driving an X5. That's because we still have it, and we only bought it because a wagon really was no longer available by then. It was to be a mommy-van to drive kids to school in the carpool. (The other snob-moms wouldn't let their darlings ride in our 'too old' 560SEL, which was in all other ways entirely suitable.) The need for it is long gone by now. I drive so little though that I have to have the X5 on a battery tender. Full-time work from home. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] "ESTATE FIND" 1979 450SLC - $11,000
> Given her questionable taste, I hope she is a former gf... Is, but what questionable taste? That she dated me? That she liked 107's? That she liked the looks of Z3s? That she didn't like getting wind-whipped? Not seeing the problem, yet! -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] "ESTATE FIND" 1979 450SLC - $11,000
Many years ago my then-girlfriend told me her dream car was a 107 SL, but they were pretty expensive. She also told me that she had no intention of ever taking the top off. I suggested that maybe she look at the SLC instead, which models simply did not get the love of the convertibles at the time. Half the price? Less? Nope. Didn't like the look of the ever-so-slightly larger car. Oh well. She eventually owned a BMW Z4 instead. Even then 107's were getting a little too long in the tooth for someone with zero tolerance for car problems. (I remember going with her to look at a Z3 while we were still together, but she didn't pull the trigger on that.) -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Diesel Cadillacs
> In 1983, my dad's Cutlass Ciera 4.3 was rated at 85hp, but it was a pushrod > ohv engine, not OHC. Nothing wrong with pushrods, it only limits RPM. For a diesel, which isn't really high-revving anyway, it's probably preferable. Simpler, easier to service, longer-lasting. My two favorite trucks, the Dodge diesel and the V10, are both pushrod engines. Both are powerful, reliable, and long-lasting. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Diesel Cadillacs
> If a 3l OM617 can make 120hp the 5.7l v8 diesel ought to have made in the > 150-160hp range, instead it was more like 100... That's 120 with a turbo. Without it's more like 80. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] MB heads, advise please
Remember when Delo was $6/gallon? 2010. I put it in everything. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 Turbo ABS light rough idle
They are easy to bench-test using a standard current-limited lab power supply. Set the current limit to less than the fuse value, and start raising the voltage. At the trip point it'll short out and the voltage will drop to zero. Passed. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 Turbo ABS light rough idle
These are a classic crowbar overvoltage protector. The voltage, if over a threshold, triggers a big-ass SCR that shorts out the power, thus blowing the fuse and protecting all the presumably-sensitive downstream circuitry. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 300D 2.5 Turbo ABS light rough idle
Besides cleaning contacts, replacing the cartridge fuse, and generally handling it, these things are prone to bad solder joints inside. They are VERY simple inside. Just open it and resolder, if you know how to do such things. You'll need a heavier soldering iron, not one suited for IC's and the like. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] This is Sort of Cool
> [auction] people get caught up in the competition and drive the price up to > stupid amounts. I noticed this at an equipment auction. Some cheap-ass drill press went for MORE than a new one from Harbor Freight, and which would have had a warrantee. Just one example, of many. > If I do use an auction, I set my high limit and then walk away if it is > exceeded. Exactly. Always always always when bidding use your slow analytical brain to determine what you're willing to pay, up front, and stick to your limit rigorously. Same when gambling. (Which I guess this is.) -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] MB parts cyber attack
> They don't trust a plan that's only been documented; they force themselves to > prove that it works. Standard code development paradigm: If you didn't test it, it doesn't work. For something as important as this? They're right! -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] MB parts cyber attack
> And even if they pay the demand, there is no guarantee their data will be > recovered ... The usual ransomware flow is that they break into your systems, and then encrypt every file they can find. Pay them and they'll give you the key... That model works, sort of, for businesses about as sophisticated as a sports card shop, where the trickiest thing there might be a large spreadsheet. How well do you think an _active_ database tolerates finding its files (slowly) being encrypted underneath it? Know any larger businesses that don't need a real database? Take a carton of eggs, put it in a locking box, drag it behind your car a few miles. The key... it's not really going to do you much good. Put it another way, you're going to TRUST these people? In their integrity and their ability? We don't. No part of our policy for handling these scenarios involves paying ransom. We have defenses, in depth. I hope we never need 'em. An attacked system will never be trusted until it has been erased and redeployed from scratch. Offline, offsite backups are involved. There WILL be data loss, but at a manageable level. Were I in charge of one of these companies, I might be tempted to offer the ransom amount to the bounty hunter world instead. "Will no one find me this turbulent priest?" Perhaps that might slow their roll. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Success!!!
Was there any way to use the cable to put static tension on the dingus, and then whack the dingus with a hammer? -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Success!!!
I'm sure the difficulty was the wire cable. It's got just enough 'give' to it to dampen the effectiveness of the shock from the hammer. Glad it eventually worked, though. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Optometry and glasses
> got hung up at "upload my Rx", wouldn't let me select material and coatings > to get the price until I upload. Not all prescriptions are suitable for all materials. Makes sense that it won't let you go further until it knows more. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] needs transmission Cody tor plate. 2007 Mercedes S550, $2, 500
> what is the failure mechanism of all these conductor plates? It seems to be > so common. The Duh answer is: bad connections. I say Duh, because those plates are essentially nothing _but_ connections. The two speed sensors are just coils of wire, so if one opens up... bad connection! The solenoids are separately replaceable, the plate part is just: connections. Connections that live in a hot vibrating oil bath, how is THAT a good idea? :-) With electronics, once they figured out how to make durable silicon and the like, which they didn't always know how to do wrt electro-migration and poisoning, if it didn't smoke (silicon, mostly) or dry out (capacitors), if it stopped working it's due to a bad connection. Somewhere. Similar to a mechanical adding machine. 99% of the failures are lubrication failures. Not that knowing this really helps you very much. There are a LOT of lubrication points in something like a rotary calculator, and there are a LOT of connections in electronics. It does not help that modern construction uses smaller traces than necessary for low-performance parts, which are more fragile than the older, larger geometries. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Ball joint separation frustration
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099WQJYM9?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details I use a cheap Harbor Freight 2-jaw puller for that. I back off the joint's retaining nut, but leaving it there, slip on the puller, and screw it down pushing against the center of the nut, and putting a fair amount of tension on it. Sometimes it pops loose, but usually does not. Then I get out two BFH's and using one as an anvil on one side of the joint's socket whang the other side of the socket with the second BFH. It usually pops loose fairly easily, using both tension and squeezy impact on the tapered socket. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] In case you wanted to drive across Teton Pass ...
That adds a pretty substantial detour for those going between Jackson Hole and Victor/Driggs. (Our friend has a cabin in the Driggs/Alta area, and trips to/through Jackson are a feature of our visits.) Either go North and around through Yellowstone, or South through Swan Valley and Alpine. Either way, lng. Doesn't look like they'll be able to put in a local cut-around, any easier than to just fix the damned thing. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] In case you wanted to drive across Teton Pass ...
>> I've been there. This time fix it right? Notice the remains of an >> asphalt patch job right at the divot. That little trouble spot was >> torn up and rebuilt already, fairly recently too. > I had not noticed that. Thanks. Yes, there was a substantial dip there that they were fighting. Clearly the dip won! "I see your patch and raise you... THIS!" -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] In case you wanted to drive across Teton Pass ...
I've been there. This time fix it right? Notice the remains of an asphalt patch job right at the divot. That little trouble spot was torn up and rebuilt already, fairly recently too. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Stupid nickle and dime stuff
> but wouldn't i have to drive some miles for an hour? Of course not, no more than the speedometer itself needs to. It's just math. Divide miles traveled (fractional is OK) by hours taken to do so (ditto). There's your answer. The longer the timebase or distance the more precise the result. _Accuracy_ will depend on the quality of your input data. It will be difficult for you to process other than some integral number of miles. (The painted arrows used by aircraft speed traps would be shorter, and good, if you knew the distance and where to find one.) My dad had an analog pilot's watch that had a stopwatch function and a direct-reading MPH scale (nomograph) on it. Just time yourself over a measured mile and read speed off the scale. IIRC his scale went up to 600MPH or so. You can do the same using a calculator. Make sure the units are correct. Miles over Hours. If timing in minutes and seconds, convert to fractional hours first. You do need to hold a steady speed during the sample if you're wanting to compare to the speedometer rather than just get an average rate. Cruise control, etc. My personal record for this sort of thing was 82 miles in 44 minutes, IIRC. Did it maybe a half-dozen times over the years, could never beat it. Exhilarating. Stupid. You can do the math. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 722.6 wtf?
Clogged filter? Barney does this. Makes kind of a whining noise once it starts having to suck too hard against it, and won't go. Full power cycle will let it try again, usually doesn't last long. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Samstag
> > More, or less, expensive than the Klann KL-025? > Same one. Same price. Now manufactured by Gedore. I got mine in the mailing list group purchase almost 30 years ago. I don't remember exactly what it cost, then, and it predates my keeping a log. $400? I believe the group purchase was a dozen or more of the things. Some serious outlay by the purchaser/wrangler, for sure. Mine, to my shame, remains unused. The only front springs I replaced were on the 190D, a strut suspension, for which it doesn't work. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Samstag
> A spring compressor...Very, very pricey. More, or less, expensive than the Klann KL-025? -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT I'm pretty sure I should if I knew where Saskatoon was
Just down the road from Corner Gas... -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Airport
> Showing the audience, when we took the display apart late that the night, > we found someone had computed the mean and standard deviation and written > them on the sign. Reminds me of when I was fresh out of school. A buddy of mine and I had apartments at a place that had a fair number of young singles, and we were in the sauna talking. Not about work, just general conversation. A cute girl and her friend came in and sat down during our conversation. One turns to the other rolls her eyes, and says "Engineers" in a rather dismissive tone. I don't think that these Rhodes scholars had yet figured out that Engineers are actually decent catches. Probably just as well! But, our tender wittle feewings were hurt, nonetheless. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Airport
> IIRC, it actually said "Fireball!" out loud when you entered 3 ball mode, and > I don't think 1972 machines talked. They did not. In 1972 voice output could ONLY have come from a tape loop or the like. Fireball was apparently popular enough that they re-issued it, at least once. These re-issues would have been built with then-current tech. Just like Dragon's Lair was built with a random-access videodisc player inside. Computers of the day could not generate animation-quality video in real time. If it were to be re-issued now it'd just generate the video directly through a PC with video card. Probably not even a very high-end one. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT: Airport
That is _not_ new! Two players, only four score reels. Fairly simple playfield, and is that shorter than usual? Hard to tell from that perspective. A machine like that, non-electronic, can be kept going indefinitely. The 240D of pinball? -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Interesting 220Sb on BAT
The steering wheel is your primary user interface, it's usually worth a bit of effort to make it nice. We've used Wheelskins covers on a few of ours. Nice, but the installation is a bit tedious. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] O.T. Small Air Compressors
> 6 gallon ... blowing schmutz off of stuff You will be sadly disappointed at the use/recharge duty cycle, I suspect. Small tank and slow refill rate suck when using the blow gun, which eats air at a prodigious rate. It's like using a Super Soaker toy to wash down your driveway. Yeah, it works, but it's no garden hose. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Interesting 220Sb on BAT
Nearly everything expands and contracts with heat. A major source of trouble would be differential coefficients of expansion between the plastic(s) and the steel spine. Ideally they minimized that by choice of plastic, but did they? (Consider the lowly vacuum tube or incandescent light bulb. The metal that goes through the glass envelope was carefully chosen so that its expansion coefficient matched the glass, so that the seal would never break from the extreme thermal cycling present in that environment.) Expansion and contraction could cause cracking if the material is not resilient enough, but the fact that there are fissures and no lost material indicates that it is the original plastic _shrinking_, slowly, that is the root cause here. (Unless you think that the steel core is slowly _expanding_?) Even repaired, it probably will eventually do the same again/more, but it'll take some time. And you can always repeat the repair in another decade or three if it bothers you. Or put a leather wrap on it. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] This looks very nice -- 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300 sd 300SDL, $9, 500
The 350 has more torque (and thus drivability) than the 300, but the latter is no slouch and should not disappoint. The 30MPG on lower-speed highway trips is also nice. Less if you go faster, but a solid 27MPG is pretty much assured on a road trip. Just watch out for the head. And all the usual middle-aged electronic and HVAC BS. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Interesting 220Sb on BAT
My experience (W115) is that the epoxy-like plastic shrinks with age, and once the accumulated stress exceeds the remaining material strength a fissure opens up, and only gets wider with increasing age. Nothing is loose, mobile, or crumbly. It seems like it would be a pretty good base for the described repair. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] This looks very nice -- 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300 sd 300SDL, $9, 500
> My tech says these are very robust. They are. Only significant weakness is cracking heads. Many have been replaced already. Casting number is the key, the improved one is OK indefinitely. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Serios Buyer
> Night vision? Odd way to say "headlights work". -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Summer Project....
Kit car? Ad says automatic transmission. On a 1939 model? -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] The Miracle of AI
"Jeeves, did Student X use you or any other AI to generate Work Y?" Don't know why it couldn't be a tool for both sides to use. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] needs breaks I have a title but lost the title 1995 Mercedes-Benz e-class E 300D Sedan 4D, $700
> Seller's name is Schrödinger, E320 Open the (glove) box and resolve the ambiguity? -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT. 1982 Apple IIe - everything included! $200
> Why? Got some old 5-1/4” floppies to run on it? Don’t forget your SCSI > terminator!! SCSI (SASI, actually) drives weren't really a thing until after the Apple II. The ProFile was more their speed. The II was enormously popular, and influential. And an extremely elegant bit of electrical engineering. As a living museum piece it'd be a good acquisition. It's what made Apple, so there's that. I badly wanted one back in the day, but my budget could not accommodate. Oddly, I never did own one, and have no real desire to now. My first 'real' (non-kit) computer was an original Macintosh. Two floppies and a dot-matrix printer, bought through the university program with my brother's help. (I still have it, expanded to 1.5MB and with a SCSI bus. Somewhere in storage.) In 1982 (?), graduated and newly employed, I had walked into a local computer store, primed to walk out with the then-new IBM PC. I left with my money still in my pocket, disgusted by the offering. It was a lame-ass copy of an Apple II, but with an 8088 CPU. Still an 8-bit machine, crappy graphics. Definitely on the sluggish side. And with 16kB of RAM and a _ cassette_ interface? Same as the 1977 Apple II? I never did own one of those PC's, either. The ONLY thing going for that machine was the name on it. Everything else had been better done, earlier and elsewhere. Engineering was moving fast in those days. Three years more brought out the Macintosh. Now _that_ was clearly different, and better, than what was already out there. I find it interesting that even so, the IIe remained in production until 1993. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Ex-E320
W210, 2001. -- Jim > On May 22, 2024, at 10:04 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > What model year? > > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> My son's relocating to Baltimore and sold his car. He got $2000 >> for it in a quick sale to a coworker. He was into it about $6300, >> what with one thing and another. Owned it 10 months. Sucky >> ROI, unless you think that he could just as easily have bought >> a new car and lost even more. Had it been 4wd I'd probably >> have bought it from him, but it wasn't. >> >> We kept the snow tires we'd gifted him. He was losing enough >> money already. >> >> -- Jim >> >> >> ___ >> 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > ___ > 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Ex-E320
My son's relocating to Baltimore and sold his car. He got $2000 for it in a quick sale to a coworker. He was into it about $6300, what with one thing and another. Owned it 10 months. Sucky ROI, unless you think that he could just as easily have bought a new car and lost even more. Had it been 4wd I'd probably have bought it from him, but it wasn't. We kept the snow tires we'd gifted him. He was losing enough money already. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] ROAD TRIP TIME!!! Mecedes-Benz Diesel Engines,$100
> Perhaps you didn’t know. Fakebook was just trying to protect you from your > own stupidity. You are expected to succumb only to ITS stupidity. Remember: with Fakebook (and most social media) YOU are the product for sale. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Live dangerously
Any SUV is probably more likely to roll over than that. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] RIP W115.114
That is really sad, but if it's truly rust-free, and you could get replacement sheet metal, it might actually be possible to pull the 'frame' out to its correct place and actually get it back on the road. What was its true market value before the accident? You don't need it in undamaged condition after the repair, you just need it to be straight. Mounting points all in the right place, no weakening creases left. Etc. Doesn't matter if you can tell it was repaired after opening the hood. Only that you can't tell if you don't. The secret is to talk to the right place. 99% of body shops would call that a write-off upon just seeing that picture. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
> So owned one year and has lost nearly 1/3 of its value. People continue to think of vehicles as capital equipment, but all modern designs, and _especially_ EV's, are designed and built as commodity consumables. Once this fact really sinks in to the public, expect used non-classic vehicle prices to plummet, and stay there. In other words, there will be a 'tipping point' when reality finally registers. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT - How to Get a Network Connection in the Detached Garage
> they'd hook up for $100 if you signed up in advance and it would have been > $1500-2000 to hook up if she did it later. Sounds about right. Random access vs sequential Ditch-Witchery. If fiber came here I'd be on it in a flash. But it's about 2 miles away. (They put it in to get to what is now the closest cell tower.) -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT - How to Get a Network Connection in the Detached Garage
> I'm guessing that the county sold them an easement on the right of way, but I > don't see how that's legal. Why wouldn't that be legal? They have the right to do pretty much whatever they want on a road right-of-way easement. More fiber is always a Good Thing, is it not? :-) -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
> WTF? So right off the bat you’re losing 20% of your stated range. And a damned good thing that's your option. If I can double the service life of my battery with a little planning ahead, than that's to the good. Batteries suck. You WILL work with them, or you will Pay. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT - How to Get a Network Connection in the Detached Garage
> Aerial fiber with a messenger. When they closed our office, the one that had all the testing labs in it, I scored a few of the longer fiber runs from the aerial trays this stuff was laid in. I thought that if I ever needed some longer high-speed runs that it might be useful, otherwise I think the stuff was all destined for the dumpster. (They did salvage the 10km fiber spools used for longer-distance signal testing.) At the time, the SFP's (and the homes to put them in) were more significant. I also scored some of those, from the gear we made. 12-port gigabit switches, two of them SFP's. (One of these is in every AT&T cell tower in the USA. Or was.) Never used the stuff. And the 10(12) port managed switch has some issues, I'm now using a 24-port unmanaged switch, which is a lot less trouble. It is NOT code/legal to run copper signaling between buildings. Anything with its own ground. > I can buy pre-terminated multi-mode fiber for under $200. A 50m length of terminated fiber is $18 from Amazon. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] RIP W115.114
> They offered $5300 out of the gate. I paid $3k for the car in 2017 with 175k > in the clock as I recall. The $100 W115 parts car that I drove for years, in the winter, netted nearly $2000 when rear-ended. This due to rising prices on the few that were left on the market. "Make me whole", that's your mantra. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] RIP W115.114
> I suspect the car will be written off but will keep you all posted. Almost a dead certainty, unless yours was a concourse winner. Sorry, dude. > I fear it is more than just a damaged front subframe. Of course. The subframe isn't actually positioned where it will take any of the hit, itself. The unibody is bent. The right shop could straighten it. If your car is special enough, to you, you might pursue that. These are getting old and rare enough that it might pencil out, for a good-enough example. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
> All of us have multiple cars, it'd be just a matter of choosing the other one > on a day when the electric car doesn't meet your needs. Exactly. I have nothing against electric cars. I am hugely opposed to the fad, and the ill-considered legislative me-too that's going on. Something like a used Tesla would work very well as a member of our household, except that they're outrageously priced. I hate video games with wheels, and my wife hates parking outdoors, but somehow I suspect we'd both manage to adapt. Reality will not be denied. Ideal one would be older, with the 'lifetime' free charging. And we'd have to arrange to mostly _not_ charge at home in order to take advantage of it, cheapskate that I am. Not that we're looking. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
The electric cars themselves are quite efficient, especially with regenerative braking. That is not the problem, other than the self-discharge rate. But, like the fact that they're ALL _remote_ emissions vehicles, and not _zero_ emissions vehicles, the inefficiencies in the _charging_ side of the equation are never talked about. And they're... substantial. The Tesla has to run the AC while charging to keep the battery pack cool enough to charge safely. You think that energy, both what is being pumped out of the pack and the energy necessary to do the pumping, is free? "If gasoline-powered vehicles were as inefficient filling up as EV's, this is what it might look like." <> "But that's not how it is. Modern gasoline-powered vehicles are clean and efficient." Etc. Oh, that PSA ad could be _so_ much fun! -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
> Don't forget to factor in all the energy loss caused by heavy mining to > first collect the rare earth metals to make the EV batteries, and then > factor the loss due to disposal of those same batteries. Nope, they're already aware of this and yet ignoring it. But they are NOT aware of just how inefficient CHARGING cars is. We are conditioned not to ignore 'fueling', to the point that most would waste serious coin buying a more efficient ICE car over keeping one not quite so efficient, in spite of the math (if you did it) proving beyond any doubt that this is stupid no matter how you measured it, so I'd focus just on that. Perfect is the enemy of good enough. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
I would like to see a PSA where the systemic efficiency of EV's was modeled, using plumbing. Specifically a water analog starting with a large tank representing the generating station, with dripping pipes and joints that represent the efficiency of the transmission and distribution losses, and a leaky filler hose that represented the charging efficiency of the EV battery. And a car that drips representing the battery self-discharge rate. I think the visual image of 'filling' the pseudo-EV using sweating, dripping, and spraying pipes and nozzles would dismay many of the would-be-smug proponents, and ought to go a long way towards tempering the unjustified exuberance that faction currently has. A nice avuncular voice-over starting out: "Imagine if we could SEE the electrons we are using to fuel our nationwide EV fleet..." I believe our grid is something like 50% efficient, leaving out all the ills of batteries. This will NOT be a dry demonstration! -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Electric Vehicles
> Tesla owners have a blind spot. They think that because the car meets their > needs (or they have adapted to its limitations without admitting as much), it > would meet anybody's needs. 100% the same situation regarding, for example T-Mobile as a phone provider. Yes, they work well, and in a lot of places. But 'a lot' is very very much NOT the same as ALL places. T-Mobile was in fact utterly useless to me. We live something like 5 miles out of town, and so at home we were in 'roaming' territory, where rate and cumulative limitations applied. As soon as you were on any highway out of town the same applied, and at our vacation property there was ZERO service, as the touted AT&T roaming fallback is in fact optional, at the discretion of AT&T. A fact that is not made clear. Nor even mentioned, so far as I know. So, I don't care how colorful and 'hip' the ads are, it was all a complete lie. T-Mobile is for urbanites that never leave town. Sounds like a Tesla to me. All that said, a 50%-range Tesla acquired at a beater price could well serve a lot of our daily driving needs. But they don't exist. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT - Looking for a Chainsaw?
I now use the alcohol-free gas (from Maverik) for all my gas can fills. That and a bit of SeaFoam or Stabil and you should be set. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] This is What Started it All
Those are great cars, and IMHO really helped cement MB's reputation. Too bad they're not exactly rust-proof. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: 4-way switch troubleshooting
Our garage was built with 2 3-way switches: one by the outside door to the back, and one by the main opening. Nothing by the door into the house, and with the garage door opener you basically were _never_ conveniently near a switch. When I added on to the garage there was another door added, also nowhere near a switch. With considerable difficulty I added two more switches for the two interior doors we use, and both had to be 4-ways. (Adding wall boxes and getting them wired in was quite a chore.) Those are the only two that get used, and of course they are not cheap should they wear out. So far, though, there have been no failures. Pushing 20 years now. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: 4-way switch troubleshooting
> I am thinking switch 3 is the bad one, does that sound right? The one that behaves abby-normally is the first suspect. Murphy's law suggests that the most expensive one could be it. (That's the 4-way switch.) We had ants get into one switch. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] I can't be bothered with punctuation
James Joyce sells a car for e e cummings... -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT bamboo
> Anyone ever planted bamboo before? UN-planting it is the tricky bit. You can corral it by burying a barrier strip, but I don't know how deep it has to go. Lawn edging on steroids. Check with Dr. Google. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] BAUER 5.7 Amp, 6 in. Short-Throw Random Orbit DA Polisher/Sander for $39.99
> Now that you mention it, I remember the Feins from my woodworking days. But > as I recall, they just had the triangular pad thing, not the current day > “fingers” with the teeth on the ends, right? I don’t ever recall seeing those > for the Feins. In 1966 he was using a toothy saw blade looking thing. I think they've always been available, the Fein is/was not only a sander. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] BAUER 5.7 Amp, 6 in. Short-Throw Random Orbit DA Polisher/Sander for $39.99
> Why didn’t someone think these [vibratory tools] up years ago? They did. I remember the doc using a Fein to cut the cast off me in 1966, IIRC. Twenty-five years ago I bought a Fein when it was on clearance, from someplace or another. (Electric rather than pneumatic, which was also available at that time.) Rarely needed, but there's no substitute for one when you do need it. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] lil dents ass seen in pictures dont text me on sum bs i dont care to sale this car
>> "Muffler delete trade." Meaning? Translation: I stole the cat off it. My gain is your loss! -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] The eclipse
> It’s a neat little midwestern college town. Made famous by the Ball family, > the folks that bring you Ball canning jars, Ball also made CRT's. We bought them, back when we used to make our own computer monitors. (Pre-China.) -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] National Propaganda Radio reporting we will have to live with inflation for a while longer
Dr. Google says Stellantis: • Abarth • Alfa Romeo • Chrysler • Citroën • Dodge • DS Automobiles • Fiat • Jeep® • Lancia • Maserati • Opel • Peugeot • Ram • Vauxhall -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 99 210 with 1234 shfiter stuck in park
> I think the 2000+ 210s have the +/- sideways shifter not the 1234 shifter. Ours do. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Brand new beaks - 2007 C280 4matic - 174k miles - $6,300
> Yeahbut…..new beaks. Thats gotta count for something. Gotta keep them birds pointy. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT y’all seeing this bridge collapse?
> Wonder why the far right span fell as well? Because the left side fell and broke off. That was the counterweight to the right side. Cut a teeter-totter in half at the middle, see what happens to BOTH sides. What happened to this bridge is just about the worst-case scenario, except for the extremely fortunate time of day that it fell. > Should have had bollard like things in the water to deflect so that the > support pier would have avoided the direct hit. Take a hell of a bollard to stop a 100,000 tonne hammer moving at 8 knots. Let's call it 850 MJ, or over 200 lbs of TNT in bomb form. Yeah, that'll hurt. You can't imagine the relief that I felt since I picked my son up at the airport last night. He was in Baltimore last week, and his girlfriend was home and in bed at the critical time. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Fiat vs Tesla
I spent a weekend chauffeuring an ailing Tesla owner around, and it was a decent enough car. I think it could satisfy 90+% of my driving needs. (Around town, charge at home overnight.) But I'd never let it park inside, and they're far too expensive. Indeed, _any_ new-ish vehicle is far too expensive, and a well-used Tesla, like any EV, is probably no bargain at all, regardless of price. But a Tesla and a beater pickup truck could well satisfy ALL of my driving needs. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Dorman v OEM
Flush with water, several times. Drain, add the gallon of antifreeze, and top off with water. Assumes roughly 2gal total capacity. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] A Little Optimistic, But...
> > Do those wind deflectors really work? Are they noisy? > Marvelous. Worth every penny. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Blue Benz antifreeze at El Mercado de Wal
> > 3,000 feet in any direction. There are about a dozen homes in our general > neighborhood they don't service, including us. > No 802.1 providers? No elevation? My boss uses Starlink on his boat, he's quite happy with it. Our 802.1 provider can service a neighborhood via an on-house repeater if they can service just one house through their regular antennae. Maybe if you climb a tree? Provide your own antenna that way? -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Blue Benz antifreeze at El Mercado de Wal
> > They need dedicated connections for POS terminals... All of our critical operations at the Park are wired. (Critical === take in money, or deliver guest services.) Not an accident, consider the 'fun' some asshat could have doing DoS with a jammer... we only operate 100 days a year, the loss or degradation of even one day would be a noticeable percentage! -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Oil store world
Or maybe the price is getting better again. Remember when Delo was about $6/gallon at Costco? Not all that many years ago. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Printers
I've driven an original Tesla S. It's not a luxury car, it's a car. I think I could be happy driving one, so long as its range was never worrisome in my use pattern. In other words, around town and not for road trips. Use that big battery for something nice, like leaving the AC on while you shop in summer. But the price would have to be right. And I don't think I would ever let it be parked inside my (attached) garage. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] W124 delivery valve leak
> it seems like the job can be done with the manifold in place, but obviously > with more difficulty. It can. My son did this (under my supervision) on the 190D's OM602. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Surely somebody here needs this
> That all has to be worth quite a bit To the right party, probably. The trouble with old tubes is that 99% of them are truly for things no longer needed, like TV's. The few still used, in audiophile and guitar amps, are the gold dust in the bottom of the pan. And that tube tester is quite bulky for what it does. My little Hickok 600A is quite a bit more capable, and a whole lot smaller. That kind usually offered quite a bit of interior storage, for the for-sale tubes. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] quit running and don’t have time to figure out what is wrong 2011 Mercedes-Benz m-class ML 350 BLUETEC Sport Utility 4D,$2,500
> Who decided to put the seat position controls on the door panel when they > are more convenient on the side of the bucket seat itself. The person who finds them easier to reach there from _outside_ the car. The height of the controls off the ground is the issue. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Back to 124 Daily Driver
> Struts can be pricey if they’re leaking, but again, that’s uncommon. Or, re-seal them. I did one. Cost me $8.87 in parts, over the counter, in 2010. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: TVnality
I notice that the retro-gamers have some interest in CRT televisions, but so far as I know a plasma TV is just as good as a CRT, so far as that goes. A lack of latency and motion artifacts is the goal. In direct view video there is CRT, plasma, LCD, and OLED. ALL flat-panel TV's are either plasma, LCD, or OLED. Plasma is now gone, so they're either LCD or OLED. No exceptions. The usual 'LED' TV is just an LED-backlit LCD TV. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT: TVnality
The cabin's CRT TV crapped out last month, and I had my son bring it home. Zenith model B25A11Z. He said the vertical deflection shrank down, and then there was a loud noise, black screen, and bad smell. I don't want anything newer down there, as this one's nearly theft proof, so I'd like to fix it (myself) if possible. I found a schematic of the TV, enough to look at, anyway. There is a big power transistor in the horizontal drive, and in-circuit probing with the Fluke DMM shows a B-E short, which cannot be good. 2SD2499, which is a Horizontal Output Transistor. (Which means a certain class of specs, along with an internal flyback diode and a biasing resistor.) I can get 10 of them from China for about $5, so I ordered them. Shipping to be slow... I replaced the HOT, but that did not fix things. I got the Variac hooked up, and brought in an oscilloscope and a DMM. Running relatively low (25V) line voltage, for safety, showed that the 140V output of the SMPS was working, and the +5V logic supply was good. So, things are sort of working. I could hear the speakers gently pop on and then off when the power button was pressed. I could see the base drive of the HOT go on briefly when started, but after less than a second it shuts off again. Probing around showed no voltage at all on the output windings of the flyback transformer, and only then did I notice the giant crack in its housing! Burned, and split. So, that's where the magic smoke had come from! I had been looking for physical damage, I don't know how I missed that one. The TV's CPU is looking for flyback output voltages at startup, and seeing none it shuts the horizontal drive down for safety, and to prevent further damage. So, I need a new flyback, if I want to fix this thing. 95-4601-01. I found one for sale online, at $50 plus shipping. I think... not. An alternate shown on the schematic is 95-4372-01; I found one of those and made a $5 (plus shipping) offer on it. It might not even work, and I might not get it. This is starting to look pretty unattractive. Or... there was a $20 Panasonic TC-P50G15 (8/2009) plasma TV on Craigslist, with remote. (But no stand.) An infinitely better TV, and certainly cheap enough, but big, heavy, and much more attractive to thieves---who would probably not recognize its lack of commercial value from afar. I bought it anyway. Those Panny plasmas are _very_ nice TV's, we have three of them already. (The first one was $1100 new, almost the same model as the $20 one.) -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 2004 Mercedes-Benz G500
That's exactly what I'd want, if it were diesel and 3-pedal. A GD300. Maybe in a nice bright red. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] 240D engines
> Are the pencil plugs the same size as the old style? IE - are the threads the > same? Do they just screw in or is some form of adapter required? No. There are special pencil-style plugs that fit in the old loop-style holes. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] TIG welding exhaust pieces.
That's no exhaust pipe, the color's all wrong! :-) -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Passenger's Seat Worse Off Than the Driver's Seat
Dog toenails? Open window weathering? The A pillar cover is also wrinkled on that side. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] And It Is Listed Again...
> and if you have your own woodlot, you will have to put out a lot of effort. But think of all the money and time you'll save on gym memberships! -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Changing Oil on My W163
> Is a vacuum pump (marketed for AC use) substantial enough? I have one of > those already and it might sway me to do a DIY one to start with. I had always thought it should, but I don't know. Be the first to find out! Make sure your chosen reservoir can survive a substantial vacuum. My first one did not. -- Jim ___ 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/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
