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have made a taxi version of the Vito, I think it is.
I'm starting to see more and more of them on the streets around my
work in Piccadilly.
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The neighbors have an extra, I'll look into that.
Blower or gear?
Blower. He has a tractor now. (I would have, but I bought
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> Turns out that I can actually get another Gilson gear,
> which is a sacrificial bronze part. But they want $70,
> probably plus shipping. Hardly seems worth it for a
> $75 blower.
Low demand => high price.
> The neighbors have an extra,
> Wonko wrote:
>
> Plain old Class C (standard) good enough to drive someone in
> your personal vehicle for a psychotropic med check.
A base level operators license in most states is a "Class F".
Is Iowa different?
Mine is Class A with PTN endorsements. (Passenger, Triple, taNk)
-- Phil
anna know what we are supposed to get.
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> Question relates to the HDMI cable that one needs to connect
> the player to the TV. Store wanted $150 for this silly 3 foot
> long cable. Sounds like robbery to me. Anyone have ideas or
> opinions on the matter?
MCM Electronics sells a 25ft one with a 90 deg connector at one
end
A buddy of mine had a friend with a boat that had a pair of new 6-71s.
This buddy of the buddy happened to work in the maintenance garage for
the MBTA (in Bahstan), which had buses that used 6-71s
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As Allen Greenspan admitted, the markets are NOT rational, and don't
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the philosophy that "chaos is the ultimate nature of the universe".
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> So its a gear driven limited slip? Thus limiting the wearing
> out of clutches and whatnot?
Right. No clutches. Uses torque sensing.
> Why better than a locker?
A locker provides even motion to the wheels. So if the traction
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yuk That is a real bummer about the snowblower. I fianlly broke
down and bought a new one a few years ago. Airens, and it is
great. Expensive, but great. It started the Frizzle/sleet here
about an hour ago. We are supposed to get 6" or so on top of what is
already here. I sure do wish al
also find it affordable to drive
all over the country looking for work?
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Naa, they just left off the "u" in between
At 07:29 PM 12/18/2008, you wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:21:32 -0600 "Wonko the Sane"
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> My license is DM
Is that because you live near Des Moines?
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Tell me again where you live?
Southeast of Spokane, WA. Gets plenty of snow, but not
usually so much so fast. Beat the 1-day record handily,
which they've been tracking since 1881.
Does your neighborhood look something like this?
http://tinyurl.com/4qfjzd
Yep, just about like that. Maybe
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I rode many years (R69S and R100), but never bothered to get an endorsement.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Wonko the Sane wrote:
> It would be interesting to find out how many of us have a motorcycle
> endorsement on our license. I don't mean "I rode one once back in high
> school" but current
They still do. Many taxi are on the A series, with the A170 Diesel
being the most popular last time I was there.
MB made a Diesel engined car for use in the taxi industry but the
dynamics where different.
Hendrik
Wilton Strickland wrote:
Yes, all of that in spite of GM having built some th
As Allen Greenspan admitted, the markets are NOT rational, and don't
act in their own best interest. This is just another proof point in
the philosophy that "chaos is the ultimate nature of the universe".
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Rich Thomas
wrote:
> You/we have all been and are being ma
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:40:11 -0800 Jim Cathey
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> It's just about done now. 2' in a day, which is record-setting
> around here. Most roads are kind of impassible.
Does your neighborhood look something like this?
http://tinyurl.com/4qfjzd
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Bought some on bestbuy.com for 6 bucks. HDMI cables either work or
they don't. No difference in "quality" per my local cable company.
I like them as it reduces the spaghetti effect with cabling.
John
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM, R A Bennell wrote:
> OK, I just bought a Blue-ray disc player
http://www.murphyauctions.net/snocounty.html
http://www.murphyauctions.net/bbcdodge.html
http://www.murphyauctions.net/cstreet.html
Does not do you any good today, but might be able to meet your needs
in the morrow
clay
On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
It's just about do
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:58:01 -0500 "E M" wrote:
> Look how well a W126 can hold it's value. Nudging up on 2 million
> clicks, and they still command a good buck. See, people in Canada do
> drugs too. hee hee.
>
> http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/yrk/ctd/961436008.html
But how can it be at 1.7
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:54:31 -0600 "Wonko the Sane"
wrote:
> Tell me again where you live?
Near Spokane, Washington.
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Jim Cathey
> wrote:
>
> > It's just about done now. 2' in a day, which is record-setting
> > around here.
I remember the winter of '68 in
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Wonko the Sane wrote:
My license is DM (D=chauffeur, M=motorcycle).
I dropped the "chauffeur" part about 15-20 years ago, so mine says "OCY"
O= Operator (car), CY = cycle.
Don't remember when I last had a road plate on a bike, but it was in the 1980's.
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Is that because you live near Des Moines?
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we have not got any yet, only ice.
Jim Cathey wrote:
It's just about done now. 2' in a day, which is record-setting
around here. Most roads are kind of impassible. I sure wish
I had that Unimog/snoblower combo now! Would have been tres
cool to roll up to work in that thing.
We're locked in.
150?? That is crazy. Go to walmart, its about 30 there.
R A Bennell wrote:
OK, I just bought a Blue-ray disc player for my wife for Christmas. She said,
if she did not get it for Christmas,
she would buy one on boxing day. I'm not stupid. I might as well get it now.
Question relates to the HD
Can't advise you on cable substitutes, Randy, but the question is familiar.
Many major retail chains in NZ try this on rookie HD purchasers. Compete
for price on the TV, then win back a comfortable margin by spooking
punters into outrageously expensive purchases of what should be in the
box as
"Rich Thomas" said:
> Fundamentals of oil and the economy did not change that rapidly to
> justify all the changes in those situations. You gotta ask, what has
> happened in the last few months? What important event? Who stands to
> lose, and who stands to gain?
I think that oil futures sp
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It's just about done now. 2' in a day, which is record-setting
around here. Most roads are kind of impassible. I sure wish
I had that Unimog/snoblower combo now! Would have been tres
cool to roll up to work in that thing.
We're locked in. My snowblower gave up. Poor old Gilson
stripped its
It would be interesting to find out how many of us have a motorcycle
endorsement on our license. I don't mean "I rode one once back in high
school" but currently ride (legally).
I have the endorsement, but don't ride. It's much harder to
get now, so I keep it even though they charge. You never
> > I'd make everybody learn to ride a motorcycle.
> Learning to ride a
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I use ordinary RCA cables and "looks fine to me"
I'm sure HDMI is somewhat better but she'd probably need to see the two
side by side to notice. Depends on how fussy she is about that sort of
thing. No women I've known are fussy about TVs and stereos, that's more
a college/young guy thing.
All
That is true, the cables are pretty much able to provide the same
output. I would stay away from chinese dollar stores though. I have
been quite lucky in sourcing cables from the Goodwill. $0.99 and they
work just great.
clay
On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:19 PM, LWB250 wrote:
While I am sure t
R A Bennell wrote:
Question relates to the HDMI cable that one needs to connect the player to the
TV.
I've had stores try to sell me patch cords with DVD players and then found out
that the patch cords were already in the box with the player. It's worth
checking, anyway.
At any rate, I wou
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> I'd make everybody learn to ride a motorcycle. Learning to ride a
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While I am sure there are crappy cables out there, this is just another
marketing gimmick that they use to rip you off. Buy a cheap cable.
If you want to blow $150 on one, spend it on a name brand cable like "Monster".
FWIW, I buy cables off of eBay whenever possible. Even the really good ones
Randy, you can go with most any old HDMI cable as long as it is not a
real hunk of junk. Even the nasty chinese stuff works fine. I paid
$30 for a 15 foot to hook an up converting DVD to the LCD. Other one
is for cable box. One can also use component for good HD.
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OK, I just bought a Blue-ray disc player for my wife for Christmas. She said,
if she did not get it for Christmas,
she would buy one on boxing day. I'm not stupid. I might as well get it now.
Question relates to the HDMI cable that one needs to connect the player to the
TV. Store wanted $150 for
I don't think it even has to be a crash box, any manual will do.
I am with Curt on the motorcycle thing, makes you aware that the road is
a dangerous place in which you need to have your wits about you.
Hendrik
who knows how to shift a crash box, with or without clutch
Loren Faeth wrote:
If I
For the average consumer a petrol engine is better, specially back then
when the price of fuel was not that high. You have to remember that
there is a huge difference between building a big Diesel and a little
Diesel engine.
Especially a two stroke with a blower.
Then there is the narrow power
XP is not really unstable unless there are conflicting
programs/processes. I should think once virtualbox is running on top of
XP it will be fine.
However if you have a few programs running in XP and then run VB as well
you may experience problems.
XP is like a man, it can do one thing at a time
Loren Faeth wrote:
At $36 a bbl, we should be paying what? 89 cents for gas and 75 for
Diesel? Under a buck fer sure.
In August 1989, I could buy premium at the pump for $0.999, regular was probably
in the low 90 cent range. Oil was $18-19 a barrel that summer.
I'm fine with paying $1.50 fo
Technically a classic is a car that has been out of production for 20
years, thus the 123 is now a classic.
However in order to choose a car that 'represents' an era we have to
decide what the era was all about. For instance the roaring 20's was
flashy, the 30's and 40's where pretty sombre, the
But do you still need a copy of XP to make this work? I don't have a
copy of XP cause my el cheapo computer came with it pre-installed and in
one of my fiddle sessions it was lost into cyber space.
Looking at ebay they still want over a 100 bucks for XP SP2.
Hendrik
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You
think an old Cummins is loud and shakes a lot at idle? ;)
Yeah. Someone once described a 6-71 as sounding like "an all-night
fight between dogs and geese." They don't call 'em "screaming JImmies"
for nothing!
Dan
Wh
er 17, 2008 4:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] W123 blower cutting in and out
> >
> >
> > I also had this problem on my '83 240D. The last time it quit it
was -10F
> > out, rode 45 miles to work and 45 miles home with no heat. The next day
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> > rott
ation/depression does that mean you can also find it affordable to drive
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> >> 30's 1934 Ford or the 1931 Cadillac
> >> 40's 1948 Buick Or ?
> >> 50's 1957 Chevy
> >> 60's 1965 Mustang
> >> 70's VW Bus, VW Beetle (if we are talking early 70's flower
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andrew strasfogel wrote:
Thanks again. I am a little clueless as to what part of the instrument
cluster is the potentiometer. I replaced the temperature switch already -
is that what you mean?
Potentiometer = variable resistor = dimmer knob for instrument lamps
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gt;> 40's 1948 Buick Or ?
>> 50's 1957 Chevy
>> 60's 1965 Mustang
>> 70's VW Bus, VW Beetle (if we are talking early 70's flower power)
>> 80's Chevy Caprice ? or Mercedes 123
>>
>>
>> Donald H. Snook
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'Bet Jim C. would like to "unstick" it with his electrolysis process.
Wouldn't that be fun, Jim?
Ha! Once was enough.
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W123 blower cutting in and out
>
>
> I also had this problem on my '83 240D. The last time it quit it was -10F
> out, rode 45 miles to work and 45 miles home with no heat. The next day the
> rotten bugger worked fine.
>
> 3 screws to replace IIRC.
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face. I told him he was an
f-ing coward then I left."
Good for you, Brian!
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You are not paying attention.
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At 02:58 PM 12/18/2008, you wrote:
Fred Wrote: "These political discussions make me tired.
I'm with Plato:- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
I didn't realize General Motors was a political discussion. I
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What I do in cases like that is drive even slower, then when its time to
turn, I almost come to a complete stop while turning. The half way
smart ones figure it out and normal speed resumes. Sometimes people are
so dumb they never get it.
Zoltan Finks wrote:
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thats what spencer does. He has not used it much yet, still a little
small for it, but he does like it
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Those "jump up" things are wonderful. My youngest spent the better part of his
second year in one - if you took him out he would throw a fit! Little booger
would fall asleep in it - it would be unusually quiet and you would look over
to see him slumped over to one side, fast asleep.
Dan
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I was in Seattle one time when it snowed. My customer was on Marginal Way and
I was staying at the dumpy (at the time) Holiday Inn at Boeing Field. The
distance between the two places wasn't much, maybe a few miles on surface
streets if I recall.
Took me several hours to get back to the hotel
read - I hit the delete button.
Donald H. Snook
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'Bet Jim C. would like to "unstick" it with his electrolysis process.
Wouldn't that be fun, Jim?
Wilton
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From: "Loren Faeth"
To: "Mercedes Discussion List"
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] GM killed the Diesel WAS: The 65-mpg car Ford won'
In 1978, I removed from service 12 large Jimmy Diesels in the power
generation plant at Sondrestrom AB, Greenland, that had been running for 38
years. Parts had gotten hard to get. When we needed parts, we had to have
somebody in Denmark or USA make 'em. 'Sold 'em to a Finnish salvage outfit.
'B
great point
In 1970 or so I went to the tractor junkyard for parts and they had a
435 JD for sale with a stuck engine. I have always wished I could
have bought it. Anyone on the list know what a JD 435 is and why it
relates to this discussion of GM?
At the time GM was denouncing Diesels, i
Alex.
I stand corrected.
My classical education was a long time ago.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
At 01:37 PM 12/18/2008, you wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Frederick W Moir
wrote:
> Friends, et al.
>These political discussions make me tired.
> I'm with Plato:- Quis custodiet ipsos
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Wilton Strickland wrote:
> Yes, all of that in spite of GM having built some the worlds best Diesel
> engines since ~1933, but couldn't/wouldn't put one in a car.
>
Yeah, they should have just scaled down the 2-71 to car size! You
think an old Cummins is loud an
upposed to be 12 (a couple of days ago, they
> > were saying 9).
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> > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com
> > To search list archives http://www.o
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>> Allan
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