[MBZ] Several cars plus Parts in Balt

2012-07-17 Thread Larry T
http://richmond.craigslist.org/cto/3096313396.html I thought this looked interesting - for $5000 asking - you too can become Kaleb! (don't know the condition) early 80s turbo diesels - 3 cars - 1) coupe (300cd), 2) wagon (300td) 3) 300d (4dr) have parts - too many projects

Re: [MBZ] Second Go-Around

2012-07-17 Thread Rolf
Rich one! That would be MSSQL. -Rolf On 6/4/2012 7:37 PM, Allan Streib wrote: Rolfr...@winmutt.com writes: Im always looking for mysql dbas Is there such a thing?? I thought mysql was for people who didn't want to deal with that dba stuff ___

Re: [MBZ] Rim sizes

2012-07-17 Thread Mitch Haley
Don't they have the offset and width on them, maybe on the back of the wheels? I'd pull them all off and write down the numbers. Mitch. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] Uh oh - algae woes

2012-07-17 Thread Curt Raymond
If you'd seen the snot goblin in the sender you wouldn't think so. Think of the pad on a band-aid but 1/4 thick and 1 in diameter (or whatever the sender tube is) and strong enough I had to really pull on it to get it apart. I sprayed it with carb cleaner and it just shrugged. Algecide will

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Craig
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:19:37 -0500 Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote: On Jul 16, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: No shortage of sunlight this summer. I think we're now tied for all-time consecutive days without rain, going back to the 19th century

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Allan Streib
Craig diese...@pisquared.net writes: Allen, if I recall correctly, is in Indiana. Where are you Rick? I am in south-central Indiana (Bloomington area, Indiana University). About an hour's drive south of Indianapolis. Rick is northwestern Indiana near Chicago I believe. Allan -- 1983 300D

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Rick Knoble
That is correct. Rick Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Rick is northwestern Indiana near Chicago I believe. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list

Re: [MBZ] Several cars plus Parts in Balt

2012-07-17 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Unless they all run and drive and are in good shape and there are lots of parts with them I dont see that as being a good deal. But who knows. On 7/17/2012 6:51 AM, Larry T wrote: http://richmond.craigslist.org/cto/3096313396.html I thought this looked interesting - for $5000 asking - you

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Dan Penoff
Both very different areas, too. I always chuckled when people commented about how flat Indiana is. From slightly north of Indianapolis it is relatively flat - south of that it is very hilly. Dan On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Craig

[MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb?

2012-07-17 Thread Rich Thomas
Yesterday I put some new return lines on the boy's SD, which has been sitting here and would not run. Started it up after cranking a bit and it ran fine. I guess air was getting in the fuel lines somehow and buggering it up. Anyway it runs fine now. Simple fix, interesting it had that

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb?

2012-07-17 Thread Jim Cathey
I also tried to put it back on the ball on the arm, and ended up popping the arm out of the socket up at the top of the windshield, it has a bigass spring in there too, with some kind of little rods on each end, that looks hard to push back in, but I guess it will with some force? Yes, but

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Randy Bennell
On 16/07/2012 6:40 PM, Scott Ritchey wrote: We had winter snowbirds in FL (Ft Walton Beach/Destin area). One of then explained to me that it was cheaper to vacation in FL than to heat their home during the Canadian winter. But unless you get rid of your home, you need to heat it anyway. At a

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb?

2012-07-17 Thread Dave Walton
I can't get my head around the idea that new return lines would fix it. If they were plugged they would be blown off by the pressure. If they leaked the pressure would cause fuel to escape. Air on the return side would be pushed through. Did you do anything else? -Dave Walton On Jul 17, 2012,

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines

2012-07-17 Thread Rich Thomas
Well here is what happened. Some weeks back I was moving the car from one spot to another, started it up and it ran for maybe 30sec then quit. Could not get it to start again. At one point I tried again, cranked it forever and it ended up firing and belching black smoke, and ran for a few

Re: [MBZ] Rim sizes

2012-07-17 Thread Fmiser
Mitch Haley wrote: Don't they have the offset and width on them, maybe on the back of the wheels? I'd pull them all off and write down the numbers. Hah! I was looking, but not hard enough. In sunlight I was able to see an irregularity in the casting that looked like a spot for a label. 5

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines

2012-07-17 Thread WILTON
'Don't mean to sound like I'm buying, which I'm not, but is this the car for sale? How much, how many kmi, what year and what color? BTW, just drove black 91 350SDL (201 kmi) to pole (voting, that is); reminded, again: don't want another blackun. 'Was BLOWING ICE COLD, but we weren't in it

Re: [MBZ] Rim sizes

2012-07-17 Thread John Freer
The most important number will be the ET or offset.keep scraping. John On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote: Mitch Haley wrote: Don't they have the offset and width on them, maybe on the back of the wheels? I'd pull them all off and write down the numbers.

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines

2012-07-17 Thread WILTON
Yeah, I meant POLL, of course, not POLE. ;) Wilton - Original Message - From: WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines 'Don't mean to sound

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Curt Raymond
We've been shutting down my grandmother's house every winter since 2001. No big whoop, blow the water out of the lines, pour some washer fluid in the toilet and clothes washer and in the traps under the sink. 2000 was the first year she didn't stay the winter. We kept the house at 55F but

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines

2012-07-17 Thread Rich Thomas
I put it on CL some months ago, I think for $3k or maybe a bit more so I could have some beat-down room. No good bites. 84 300SD, gold, not sure the miles exactly as the odo quit working, maybe 300ksome. Body in pretty good shape, paint a bit rough in spots as the original owner apparently

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Randy Bennell
We do not heat the cottage over winter. It does seem to heave a bit here and there and does not settle down until the weather warms up enough for all of the frost to be out of the ground. We get some cracking of the drywall in certain spots. I have thought some about how I might stabilize it

Re: [MBZ] Rim sizes

2012-07-17 Thread Fmiser
Mitch Haley wrote: Don't they have the offset and width on them, maybe on the back of the wheels? I'd pull them all off and write down the numbers. Fmiser wrote: Hah! I was looking, but not hard enough. In sunlight I was able to see an irregularity in the casting that

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines

2012-07-17 Thread WILTON
Grndson almost had a apt near the school, but got one also in a nice area on New Hampshire NW 'bout eight blocks east from his internship at Afghan Embassy. He's anxious to get back to UNC-CH in only 4 weeks. Wilton - Original Message - From: Rich Thomas

[MBZ] 126 trunk lid

2012-07-17 Thread WILTON
I've stuffed/concealed 4 small packages (in ziplock sandwich bags) of lead tire weights, total of about 5 pounds, into the structural cavity at rear of aluminum replacement trunk lid to counteract violent, and dangerous, lifting force of the springs meant to lift/balance original, heavier,

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread Mountain Man
Allan wrote: All that said, I don't hate them, but I would probably never buy another one. I much prefer gas. Now you guys have morphed this thread over to gas. Thanks for the encouragement that a modern GE is not bad - new 3 years ago, cheapest dirty shirt locally from craigslist. I think I

Re: [MBZ] Rim sizes

2012-07-17 Thread Mitch Haley
Fmiser wrote: Oh. That number was there too. ET30. It's the same on all the rims. I did some searching for what all those numbers mean and came up empty. But then I didn't search all that hard... Means the center of the tire is 30mm outboard of the mounting face where the rim meets the

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Jim Cathey
We kept the house at 55F ... and it cost $1600 in oil. 55 is too high. Try 35, maybe. Or perhaps 10 degrees over ambient. You're just trying to keep it 'dry'. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Dimitri Seretakis
I hear that pex doesn't burst like copper does during freezing temps. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote: We do not heat the cottage over winter. It does seem to heave a bit here and there and does not settle down until the weather warms up

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Curt Raymond
Theres the difference, while grandmother's house doesn't have a poured foundation it does have a footing all the way around which doesn't heave noticably. Our camp doesn't heave anymore, its got good big piers down deep. One fell over (that one is shallow for some reason) and the camp heaved

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Mitch Haley
Jim Cathey wrote: We kept the house at 55F ... and it cost $1600 in oil. 55 is too high. Try 35, maybe. Or perhaps 10 degrees over ambient. You're just trying to keep it 'dry'. You're trying to keep relative humidity reasonable, and probably trying to keep pipes not in living spaces

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread Curt Raymond
Holy crow man how much gas you gonna use? A stove doesn't run on high pressure gas, you gotta feed it regulated gas, small copper pipe... -Curt Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:06:35 -0500 From: Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ]

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Curt Raymond
Much of the winter ambient is -20F. We were mostly trying to keep the water meter from freezing. We'd shut off water in the house that year, now we have the water company come and shut off water TO the house, and take the meter. -Curt Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:16:51 -0700 From: Jim Cathey

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Curt Raymond
I haven't heard either way but I figure everything has its breaking point and copper is real easy to replace/repair... -Curt Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:37:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Dimitri Seretakis dsereta...@yahoo.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] I'm

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb?

2012-07-17 Thread Dieselhead
A lil history: I am not sure when MB first installed the breakaway mirror in production cars, but for a decade or two (maybe more) while Deeriot and other carmakers were screwing a potmetal headslicer mirror to the windshield, MB was quietly saving lives, heads and faces by using the

Re: [MBZ] Need a rear-view mirror -- Kleb? -- return lines

2012-07-17 Thread Dieselhead
...So yesterday I finally decided to go do the return lines, as they were weeping a bit anyway, and I had ordered some hose a few weeks back as part of another order. Cranked it for maybe 20sec and it fired off, ran a bit rough for a few seconds, then smoothed out with a hiccup after about

Re: [MBZ] Rim sizes

2012-07-17 Thread Craig
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:46:11 -0400 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Fmiser wrote: Oh. That number was there too. ET30. It's the same on all the rims. I did some searching for what all those numbers mean and came up empty. But then I didn't search all that hard... Means the

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread Dieselhead
I haven't heard either way but I figure everything has its breaking point and copper is real easy to replace/repair... -Curt Ja, pex is supposed to be tolerant of freeze/thaw, but the stuff attached to it is not. Where is shines is after you drain the water, if some collects at a low

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread Mountain Man
Curt wrote: Holy crow man how much gas you gonna use? A stove doesn't run on high pressure gas, you gotta feed it regulated gas, small copper pipe... I believe everything needs to be black iron, but I could be wrong. Black iron from meter to inside of house and then to boiler. Not high

Re: [MBZ] I'm interviewing at Taylor

2012-07-17 Thread OK Don
I heard that also, asked about it, and was told that it's true, but the fittings still burst when they freeze! On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Dimitri Seretakis dsereta...@yahoo.comwrote: I hear that pex doesn't burst like copper does during freezing temps. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17,

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread OK Don
Same here --- On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote: I believe everything needs to be black iron, but I could be wrong. Black iron from meter to inside of house and then to boiler. Not high pressure gas, but that is the way all natural gas utility

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread Craig
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:29:12 -0500 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: Same here --- On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote: I believe everything needs to be black iron, but I could be wrong. Black iron from meter to inside of house and then to boiler.

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread Dan Penoff
Has been for some time. All of the gas lines in my former house in Indiana that was built in 2005 had this stuff. There was black iron pipe from the meter to a manifold in the basement, and from the manifold out to all the appliances it was the corrugated stainless stuff. One thing I heard

Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop

2012-07-17 Thread Frederick Moir
City gas is one half psi.   Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred. From: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com To: Diesel List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Ceramic stovetop Holy crow man how much gas you gonna