Re: [MBZ] Using LEDs

2016-01-11 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Go buy one of those HF solar charger/LED panel things. Not sure how long it would last but they look pretty bright. I was a Lowes a coupla years ago and they were selling a whole bunch of discontinued solar LED sidewalk lights for $1 apiece, I bought a bunch of them. They have a AA battery

Re: [MBZ] Fuel gelling and diesel prices

2016-01-11 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
buck41 for dizzel? That is a Wow. I saw it upstate a coupla weeks ago for $1.79 at some truck stop, Loves or something, cheapest I have seen it in a long long time. --R On 1/11/16 10:55 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: Left the house this morning and down the road the e300 did not

Re: [MBZ] Solar FWIW

2016-01-11 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I saw something a coupla months ago, maybe in the paper, that the current moderne laundry detergents work just as well in cold water as in warm/hot water (this from a laundry detergent specialist). (And you don't need a lot of it.) So now I use cold to wash and rinse. I can't tell any

[MBZ] Could be an R-class?

2016-01-11 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I saw this thing and it looked to me like what an R-class should actually be, tarted up of course to wear the star, and with fragrance dispensers to cover up the smell of puking chirruns in the back. Now that Fiat owns Chrysler, I guess that won't happen. Coupla years ago we rented a diesel

Re: [MBZ] Using LEDs

2016-01-11 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Get one of the HF things, 40 bucks yer good ta go http://www.harborfreight.com/60-led-solar-security-light-69643.html Get the 20% coupon and it's $32. Hard to go wrong. --R On 1/11/16 12:54 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: What I really need is a solar powered lighting fixture with

[MBZ] OK Which cars?

2016-01-10 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
When I win the Powerball Wed evening I am thinking the following Benzes (with a recognition that I could buy every one, in every color, every year): S65 S65 Coupe S65 Cabriolet SL65 G63 AMG GTS GLS dizzel Then work my way onto some others: SLR SLS Mogs SLs Old classics While getting my current

[MBZ] Fwd: New messages from URO Parts

2016-01-09 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
So for some reason I get a post on FB from URO parts proclaiming how great they were, and I commented that the stuff was crap. I get this response to which I would like to respond seriously, something like "Thank you for engaging on this topic. I belong to a large group of old Benz

Re: [MBZ] WTH is "Black Diesel?"

2016-01-08 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I think it was called "Solyndra" --R On 1/8/16 1:23 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: There was a company that turned used motor oil into diesel fuel. I think they went out of business on account of fraud. On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <

Re: [MBZ] Beginning of the Trump presidency?

2016-01-08 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Hey Max, how would running your own email in your job work out for you? Maybe YOU could delete any classifications and share some stuff with the list? we'll visit you in Hanahan in the brig. --R On 1/8/16 6:21 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Smoking Gun: Email Suggests Hillary Broke

Re: [MBZ] WTH is "Black Diesel?"

2016-01-08 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
das raysisss --R On 1/8/16 7:17 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/5393230338.html Probably better that there are no pictures. Dan Sent from my iPad ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT Kickstarter Project - Fleye drone

2016-01-08 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Good luck with getting a GPS signal in that alley --R On 1/8/16 10:10 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: I want one of these too when they become commercially available. Very cool! I love their tactility.

Re: [MBZ] Starter motor

2016-01-08 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
They Rock! --R On 1/8/16 2:43 AM, fmiser via Mercedes wrote: I've got this 240D that has had an oft-patch together starter motor. It quit again. I figured it was time to buy o fresh one. Yeah, I kinda dense - probably should have spent the money a year or two ago. But where to buy... I

Re: [MBZ] OT: Politics are making us angrier than usual, poll confirms

2016-01-07 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I understand they have been sighted in Brazil too http://i0.wp.com/hughmacleod.com/wp-content/uploads/brazilian_beaver.jpg -_R On 1/7/16 3:49 PM, Fred Moir via Mercedes wrote: Beavers were extinct in UK from 16th century on, but have been reintroduced, sometime last century. I like beavers

Re: [MBZ] the trousers in chief

2016-01-07 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Trousers v. pants! --R On 1/7/16 12:07 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Go tell your wife she's no longer allowed to wear pants. After you pick yourself back up off the floor tell me how that worked out for you... -Curt From: Randy Bennell To: Curt

[MBZ] OT and now for something completely different

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
from thugs, shop heat, and shop lights... I got to thinking about this puzzlement this morning -- could a muslim use a ham radio? Would it not be a haram radio? Do we need to implement a gummint program, perhaps by an executive order, to make these radios more accessible to people who are

Re: [MBZ] the unintended influence of Chuck Norris

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
There was a documentary on PBS a few months back about how the civil order in NORK is not entirely under the control of the Brirriant Reader. There seems to be a lot of smuggled movies and TV shows that people watch on those little players from DVDs and flash drives. I seem to recall old

[MBZ] OT: The H-bomb of justice

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W44hhR0huHE#t=99 There took place a world startling event to be specially recorded in the national history spanning 5,000 years in the exciting period when all service personnel and people of the DPRK are making a giant stride, performing

Re: [MBZ] OT and now for something completely different

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
16 at 9:19 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Yes. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: from thugs, shop heat, and shop lights... I got to thinking about this puzzlemen

Re: [MBZ] OT and now for something completely different

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
at haram (or whatever they call it) stuff on the webertubes. --R On 1/6/16 12:24 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Certainly, but the Amish could not. Dan Sent from my iPad On Jan 6, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: from thugs, sho

Re: [MBZ] the unintended influence of Chuck Norris

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
t 11:15 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: There was a documentary on PBS a few months back about how the civil order in NORK is not entirely under the control of the Brirriant Reader. There seems to be a lot of smuggled movies and TV shows that people watch on thos

Re: [MBZ] OT and now for something completely different

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
ked with in northern Indiana around Nappanee and Shipshewana allowed the use of stationary gas and diesel engines to run machinery. No electricity, however. Dan Sent from my iPad On Jan 6, 2016, at 2:02 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: On January 6, 2016

Re: [MBZ] Crack

2016-01-06 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That is some crack on top of a day of doing meth with an oxy chaser, snorted. --R (has a trailer but won't be bringing it) On 1/6/16 8:46 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: WTS Mercedes Turbo Diesel http://tulsa.craigslist.org/cto/5389843804.html via cPro for Craigslist iOS:

Re: [MBZ] Poll: How much power is too much?

2016-01-05 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
ooh ooh pick on me teacher! --R On 1/5/16 3:30 AM, fmiser via Mercedes wrote: Rich wrote: I think y'all have some confusion with horsepower and torque Basically, power is speed, torque is acceleration. Err, not really. I've mentioned this before, I think. I tried to keep quite, but I

Re: [MBZ] the thug in chief

2016-01-05 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Which will do not much of anything to lower the shootings and deaths (there are plenty of laws about shooting and killing). I read the papers around here about the daily/weekly shootings, and a lot of the perps and vics have multiple prior arrests, many related to guns and robberies and

Re: [MBZ] It fell off

2016-01-05 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Its not the break peddle its the gas petal --R On 1/5/16 4:53 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: You mean pettle? Or petal? On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:21 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: '58 - '66 ??? That looks exactly like the pedal assembly in my two '51 VWs.

Re: [MBZ] Poll: How much power is too much?

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I think y'all have some confusion with horsepower and torque Basically, power is speed, torque is acceleration. --R On 1/4/16 5:36 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: On January 4, 2016 at 3:05 PM Craig via Mercedes wrote: And I should clarify that it's the

Re: [MBZ] Brake Lines For Sale

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Give us a brake on that price! --R On 1/4/16 11:30 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: I'm cleaning out the garage today, and found a couple of NOS brake lines for W123/4/6 cars. They're still in the packaging and are "Pex" brand with Autohaus stickers on the packages. 129 428 00 35 $10

Re: [MBZ] Diesel pR0n

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Yes, I admire it whenever I go over there --R On 1/4/16 7:54 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Have you seen "The Power House" on the old Navy base? We should buy it from North Charleston and turn it into a dance club. I'll send a picture later. ___

Re: [MBZ] Shop heaters

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Drop a coupla sticks of dynamite into the wells and see if you can frack yourself. You might get enough out of them to heat the place! --R On 1/4/16 9:41 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I actually have 3 abandoned wells on my property. I thought that one was gas but it could be

[MBZ] YOU NEED THIS!!!

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Wood is so passe... http://jalopnik.com/a-decade-after-mercedes-bentley-discovers-stone-interi-1750879566 --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Shop heaters

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Hank is in Texas --R On 1/4/16 11:45 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: Ask for Hank Hill, local sales leader for propane and propane accessories. On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:33 AM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote: Yes, by all means, drop dynamite into an underground

Re: [MBZ] Poll: How much power is too much?

2016-01-04 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Wifey's ML dizzle has 450 lbft torque, it is lots of fun to excercise vigorously, goes like a rocket. --R On 1/4/16 1:20 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: For a daily driver, and occasional wife use, what would be your sensible upper limit? 400 crank/350 wheels with 400 ftlb torque?

Re: [MBZ] Do you know what really torques my nuts?

2016-01-03 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Well the base of the unit is metal but all the "sender" part is plastic, and the hole that allows the oil to press hits the plastic bits (a diaphragm) that have the sender guts, which were copper bits. It is a rather elegant little device but I have this idea that it should not allow leakage

Re: [MBZ] Someone was looking for a W124 Cabriolet?

2016-01-03 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
He's selling it for a friend. Neither he nor the friend might actually own it or be in possession of it, but in any case you could still buy it. Or send him money to "buy" it. -_R On 1/2/16 9:16 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: The seller is in Redondo Beach, CA. The car is

Re: [MBZ] Do you know what really torques my nuts?

2016-01-03 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Part of the issue with this sender is that it is sorta recessed in the manifold (or head or whatever it is) a bit, with some other stuff around it (a bolt head I think) so the design seems to be to accommodate that crowding in there. I watched a video some guy had on youtube of it, and he

Re: [MBZ] If you like W126 Coupes...

2016-01-03 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
For a $4k car one might expect it to be in pretty good shape. I would worry a bit about the respray, no telling what that is hiding underneath, and it is a Masshole car so it might have seen a lot of road salt. --R (former masshole) On 1/3/16 12:45 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:

Re: [MBZ] W124 Diesel with Vented Fender

2016-01-02 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
It's a SUPER RARE package imported from Germany! --R On 1/2/16 10:42 AM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes wrote: My 90 OM 602 has the vented fender. They are hard to find. Don't know if it is the same as the 87 OM 603. Dwight Giles Jr. 1982 300CD 1990 300D Wickford RI On Jan 2, 2016 10:25 AM, "Dan

[MBZ] Do you know what really torques my nuts?

2016-01-02 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
So today is nice, not raining and cool enough to keep the skeeters down, so I go to change the oil pressure sensor/sender on the Sub. Try to find some sort of socket to fit it, it has about 20 flats on it not like a hex nut, so nothing I have will fit. I had some cheep plumbing sockets that

Re: [MBZ] Do you know what really torques my nuts?

2016-01-02 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
no not really, just the way it is made. Plus I wouldn't want to bugger a $50 part. --R On 1/2/16 3:29 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: Was there enough metal to grind or file a hex or 12 point on the sender? Gerry Rich Thomas via Mercedes <merce

Re: [MBZ] Hmmm

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Swap for a used tranny? You could have a pretty nice car for not much. --R (sent from my miniPad) On Jan 1, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: It means it's worn out and will need to be rebuilt soon. On the really old cars there was a bolt on the

[MBZ] visitation

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Curly came by to visit on his way back from dropping the boss off at CHS, we had a great morning watching Hillary! videos on the 70" flat screen in the kitchen. So energizing and uplifting for the new year, we are both looking forward to paying more taxes! He showed me pics of his fleet,

Re: [MBZ] Shop heaters

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
appen. Dan On Dec 31, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: There is a restrictor nozzle for propane, check the manufacturer for one if there is not one in there, or to find out what it looks like/dimensions etc. --R On 12/31/15 5:45 PM, Kaleb C.

Re: [MBZ] OT - ShoeGoo, again

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
your going to loose your tow --R On 1/1/16 1:34 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: I found it in Walmart in the paint section where they have all the cement and silicone stuff. I just bought a tube of it. You just reminded me that I need to fix my patent leather shoes for my tux. I was

Re: [MBZ] Somebody in the area should just on this

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Diesel gas is also very fuel efficient. Recently the starter needed replacing and I decided not to replace it because I do not need a car anymore. This is a good starter car fine tuned turbocharger Diesel gas, check. Needs a starter but good starter car, check. fine tuned turbocharger,

[MBZ] Diesel pR0n

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I want this place, the building and the equipment and the grounds and the whole thing and I want it NOW! http://gizmodo.com/this-dieselpunk-shrine-hides-a-century-old-fully-opera-1748663235 --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] Diesel pR0n

2016-01-01 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: I want this place, the building and the equipment and the grounds and the whole thing and I want it NOW! http://gizmodo.com/this-dieselpunk-shrine-hides-a-century-old-fully-opera-174866323

Re: [MBZ] FedEx Ape-like Package Handling

2015-12-31 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Dan wins, Fedex looses --R On 12/31/15 6:51 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Back to the original topic Back on the 17th, I checked in to see what the status of my damage claim was. Denied. What? I got an explanation and a follow-up letter. It was basically a dodge, telling me that

Re: [MBZ] Gutes neues Jahr!

2015-12-31 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Once while in Berlin I said "I am a little jelly donut" in German --R On 12/31/15 2:38 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: ROFL. I had a similar encounter in Norway when doing geological field work. I knew enough Norwegian to tell the locals "I only speak English", but that got them

Re: [MBZ] Kleb Car

2015-12-31 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
It looks pretty nice. Wonder if the death is something easily fixable. You ought to offer the Kleb price and pick it up. --R On 12/31/15 2:39 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: This guy has had this on the local CL for a couple of months. I swear it was down to $600 last week:

Re: [MBZ] Shop heaters

2015-12-31 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
There is a restrictor nozzle for propane, check the manufacturer for one if there is not one in there, or to find out what it looks like/dimensions etc. --R On 12/31/15 5:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: In my shop I have 2 large ceiling mounted gas heaters. There are lines ran

Re: [MBZ] This beauty is the same price as that poos car

2015-12-30 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That is the specific criteria to designate a looser --R (sent from my miniPad) On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: I got into a heated argument with a co-worker who used "criteria" in the singular sense. I said he should have used

Re: [MBZ] Car(b)s suck

2015-12-30 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I had to fill up my ice water mug this morning and spray with OFF! to help me deal with the 80F temps and vicious skeeters. Took the pups for a walk up the driveway, no clearing necessary. On a cars suck topic, I drove the Suburban upstate for Christmas, came back Sunday. It has been

Re: [MBZ] This beauty is the same price as that poos car

2015-12-30 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
g is screwed up. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: I bet it smells really nice. yu, the smell of burnt MBTex! --R On 12/29/15 7:59 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: You don't like the bbq? Sent from my iPhone

[MBZ] ML Madness!

2015-12-30 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
http://jalopnik.com/mercedes-suv-driver-rampages-at-qatar-hotel-crashes-in-1750295793 --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] ML Madness!

2015-12-30 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] ML Madness! Qatar is one of our allies. Nice to know they arrest people for recording criminal activity. On Wed, Dec 30, 2015

Re: [MBZ] Cars suck

2015-12-29 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Because it is saving the planet, and good agricultural jobs in Iowa. On the door handle issue, a coupla years ago some jit tried to break into the Suburban. Turns out this is extremely easy to do, takes maybe 10 seconds. The whole internal set of bits are plastic, so pushing on the lock

Re: [MBZ] This beauty is the same price as that poos car

2015-12-29 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I bet it smells really nice. yu, the smell of burnt MBTex! --R On 12/29/15 7:59 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: You don't like the bbq? Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Hardly. The car in my area is

Re: [MBZ] Let's Try This Again

2015-12-28 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Wonder why it had a new engine (and how "new" that engine was)? --R On 12/28/15 9:48 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Maybe Curly saw the original post? I think it was well under $5k. Dan It was in the $1800 -1900 range. Not quite kaleb prices, but reasonable.

Re: [MBZ] Let's Try This Again

2015-12-28 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I like those cars but not crazy about that color combo. There was a guy in the place we used to live in Houston who had a silver/black 560SEC, lowered, rumbly exhausts, black wheels and fat tires. It looked and sounded very nice. --R On 12/27/15 10:23 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:

Re: [MBZ] Snow comes to New Mexico

2015-12-28 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Applied internally --R On 12/28/15 9:47 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: > M. wrote: Helpful hint of the day: A couple quarts of Windex in your washer fluid does a great job of cutting the oily spray one gets from a wet Interstate. Good idea. But it's prone to freeze. I usually

Re: [MBZ] Snow comes to New Mexico

2015-12-28 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
It is probably 80F and very tropical humid here today. I refuse to put on on the AC units, I just got my mini-splits organized to make heat last week. --R On 12/28/15 2:22 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: We're blaming the Mexican Riviera for our abnormally warm and wet Xmas

Re: [MBZ] Cheep 230

2015-12-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Are those the things that were sorta designed to cost, a young female real estate agent special? --R On 12/27/15 6:20 PM, Jaime Kopchinski via Mercedes wrote: Back in 2002 I drove one of those on the Autobahn... it was a german spec car and there was an obvious difference in feel in the

Re: [MBZ] Snow comes to New Mexico

2015-12-27 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
High 70s here in the Lowcountry, I am not complaining except that the skeeters have not looked at the calendar to see that it is winter. We got hammered some years ago driving from Houston to Keystone, CO, roads were closed up in NE NM, we found some other route that was back roads, fairly

Re: [MBZ] Have a Happy

2015-12-26 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Kwanzaa! A salaam aleikum, black power, hotep, and all other appropriate greetings! --R On 12/26/15 9:44 AM, Fred Moir via Mercedes wrote: Ho! Ho! Ho! (Where's the aspirin). Fred Moir. Lynn MA. Diesel preferred. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search

Re: [MBZ] swap or part?

2015-12-26 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
buy it and hoon it, just have fun with it. For $300 you can't go wrong. --R On 12/26/15 5:56 PM, clay via Mercedes wrote: http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/cto/5366224480.html K'leb should get this. I was interested in how to hook up the manual trans into a R107. A few other parts are

Re: [MBZ] This 300D might be easy to sort out?

2015-12-25 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I'm figuring no one is going to buy that with a bad tranny, wonder if it would be worth offering a few $hundred and see if he would take it. Might be a relatively easy fix, or maybe a new tranny? Could get a junker tranny and see if that would work? Or I have a pretty good one in the old TD

Re: [MBZ] Merry Holiday, just divested myself of used MB parts

2015-12-24 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Do you drink? Do they drink? I find that to take the edge off the more stressful family gatherings, esp as my parents' family members are mostly Baptists and don't drink for fear the preacher might show up at any time. I, on the other hand, do not fear the preacher. JOKE: Q: If Jews

[MBZ] yo you needs dese

2015-12-24 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5373435213.html --R ___ 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] This 300D might be easy to sort out?

2015-12-24 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5373261528.html Doesn't look half bad but hard to tell from the bad pics. Transmission needs work, possibly replaced or rebuilt. I haven't had it looked at by a technician, stopped driving it when it started driving funny. What do you mean by "funny"?

Re: [MBZ] Now THIS is a W126!

2015-12-24 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
The Quarter-Pounder of Mercedeses! --R On 12/24/15 7:20 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/5373424699.html Dan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or

Re: [MBZ] OT: Golf heater fan

2015-12-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
So now your fan is a looser --R On 12/23/15 10:10 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Since you guys (other than Loren) seem to have taken off from working on cars I guess I'll relate the latest on the '05 VW Golf. My wife rarely complains so it'd been a couple months before I realized that

Re: [MBZ] Is Mao still looking for a job?

2015-12-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Damn you sidnifyin now! --R On 12/23/15 6:25 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: As is you could modify it for pokechop on a stick. Says $3k in the header but then $5999 POR LOS DOS down in the ad At $3k that would be a pretty good deal POR LOS DOS. Put a lid on the thing and turn it

Re: [MBZ] Craigslist photographer of the day

2015-12-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
You could drop a 617 in there and be good to go. Slow, but go... --R On 12/23/15 6:31 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: http://burlington.craigslist.org/pts/5367242961.html Which I happened to find after watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c68L_tieVs -Curt

Re: [MBZ] OT another car

2015-12-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Was that the highly-desirable "Nubira"? --R On 12/23/15 7:57 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: I think i was more an issue of there being absolutely no name recognition for the brand, therefore scaring the potential recipients due to their lack of knowledge of said vehicle. I may have

Re: [MBZ] Is Mao still looking for a job?

2015-12-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Says $3k in the header but then $5999 POR LOS DOS down in the ad At $3k that would be a pretty good deal POR LOS DOS. Put a lid on the thing and turn it into a Q cooker and you'd be set. --R On 12/23/15 5:57 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: Maybe he can start a business

Re: [MBZ] Do I have enough of these already?

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Who is Frank? --R On 12/22/15 4:50 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: Was 1996 the electronic 5sp? Blue I don't mind, but that's a lot of peeling clearcoat. http://lansing.craigslist.org/cto/5357918738.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list

Re: [MBZ] Merry Holiday, just divested myself of used MB parts

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Canadian, Kenyan, what difference, at this point, does it make? --R On 12/22/15 10:30 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: Cruz wants to be our first Canadian president. On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Curt wrote: Paul at

Re: [MBZ] Interesting Burial Site

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
The mark is right in the middle of the runway --R (who had to drive 2 hours to Savannah one night when the wife had the choice of going to the Myrt or Savannah when USAir decided they couldn't go to CHS for some reason not entirely clear) On 12/22/15 7:57 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:

Re: [MBZ] Do I have enough of these already?

2015-12-22 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That is the question --R On 12/22/15 10:38 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: Frank who? On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Who is Frank? --R On 12/22/15 4:50 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: Was 1996 the electron

Re: [MBZ] Home Audio Supplies

2015-12-21 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
They have a lot of interesting stuff. They also just updated the portable app so you can download stuff and take it with you to watch, I have not done that yet but it would be great for traveling. I have not checked out the music yet either but I downloaded the app to my ipad/fon. I was

Re: [MBZ] OT laptop HD

2015-12-21 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: 20 December 2015 23:56 To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Rich Thomas Subject: [MBZ] OT laptop HD I bought this $40 winXP laptop to put with my little laser engrave

[MBZ] OT laptop HD

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I bought this $40 winXP laptop to put with my little laser engraver and the HD on the thing seems to have crapped out. Anybody have a disused drive, doesn't have to be very big? I think the one in there is maybe 40GB. --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Merry Holiday, just divested myself of used MB parts

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: She had to negotiate more time with her parole officer? On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Where did Hillary! disappear to last night? You do know the reason why the "debate" was scheduled

Re: [MBZ] HID Bulb replacement

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That was the blood from the prisoner slave laborer burning off --R On 12/19/15 7:59 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: Seems like there should be no oil or other smoke producing residue on a brand new bulb. Exactly. Because you _ensured_ that by cleaning the bulb first with a paper towel

Re: [MBZ] 2 post lifts

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Get a transmission jack, they are tall, made for that job --R On 12/20/15 1:25 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I have probably 18-20' ceilings in mine, I have not measured it. So when doing things just as trans r, or maybe changing motor mounts where I would previously put a jack

Re: [MBZ] Merry Holiday, just divested myself of used MB parts

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Where did Hillary! disappear to last night? You do know the reason why the "debate" was scheduled for a Saturday evening before Christmas, right? --R On 12/20/15 1:46 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: Curly strikes again. When Hillary (or Bernie, or Marty) takes over you better

Re: [MBZ] Watch and Live!

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
reminds us that most cars of the 50s and 60s are just plain ugly, deserve to rust away in junkyards. On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: It's the bitchy wife's fault, clearly. http://jalo

Re: [MBZ] 2 post lifts

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
Just be sure you construct the proper base for the posts, which will likely mean digging out a part of your (existing) floor and digging and rebarring a proper footing with the bolts embedded. And bigger is always better. I have seen a couple on CL recently for about $2k but no details on

Re: [MBZ] 2 post lifts

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
thing has popped up, chain drive or direct drive. On 12/20/2015 11:00 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote: Just be sure you construct the proper base for the posts, which will likely mean digging out a part of your (existing) floor and digging and rebarring a proper footing with the bolts

[MBZ] Watch and Live!

2015-12-20 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
It's the bitchy wife's fault, clearly. http://jalopnik.com/let-s-all-watch-this-unintentionally-hilarious-defensiv-1748404779 Notice at the beginning it happens on 400E --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

[MBZ] cheap 140 with no reverse

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
easily fixed? https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5357370692.html --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] Can't afford to make her sexy again

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5347802944.html --R ___ 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] pea green junker and a TD junker

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
In boxes... https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5327527103.html --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] crack?

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5324277090.html --R ___ 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] 89 Mercedes Benz runs good

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That has the rare option for front tire heat! --R On 12/19/15 12:05 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes wrote: https://flagstaff.craigslist.org/cto/5363371896.html And there is this flat black rascal. In case you haven't picked up on it, boy child has $800 to spend for a sweet whip, yo. How much you

[MBZ] Cheap CD

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/5318087059.html --R ___ 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] 1988 Mercedes 300e Sale/Trade $800

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
That and a rattle can respray would probably make a pretty good ride for $800 and maybe, what, $100 for some parts? --R On 12/19/15 12:10 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote: Possible he is listening to the tow shop that quoted him a huge repair bill to "fix the damages" and he is not mechanical

Re: [MBZ] 1975 300D

2015-12-19 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
A kilobuck for a 40 yo car that doesn't run? Offer $300 then see if you can get it running... --R On 12/19/15 4:06 PM, Fred Moir via Mercedes wrote: Valve adjustment? http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cto/5367313715.html Fred Moir. Lynn MA. Diesel preferred.

Re: [MBZ] Tools - HF Boroscope

2015-12-18 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I think they only sell them to Sagittarii --R On 12/18/15 10:02 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Anyone bought or used one of the sub-$100 horoscopes from Harbor Freight? I'm thinking about buying one to allow me to get this damned throttle return spring back in place. They look pretty

Re: [MBZ] The sky is falling!

2015-12-18 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
His company owns the railroads that are transporting the oil, last thing he wants is more pipelines unless he buys/owns a (Keystone) pipeline company. --R On 12/18/15 1:16 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: As to the export of crude, my thought is Warren Buffet is buying into an oil

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