[MBZ] Yamaha HTR-5730

2009-04-09 Thread Luther
Is this worth taking a gamble on? I'm thinking less than $50 shipping and all. http://cgi.ebay.com/Yamaha-Natural-Sound-AV-Receiver-HTR-5730-5-1_W0QQitemZ350186064116QQcmdZViewItemQQptZHome_Theater_in_a_Box?hash=item350186064116_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A15|39%3A1|240%3A1318 or

Re: [MBZ] OT: the end of an era

2009-04-09 Thread Luther
Look at http://www.videolan.org/ for a Linux, Mac, and Windows player. Luther Ed Booher wrote: I can certainly sympathize with that statement. While I have several desktop computers, I have none that are capable of output to a T.V. Unless you count the X-Box 360 as a computer. It is currently

Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

2009-04-09 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
oh well!! andrew strasfogel wrote: Kaleb, I DID use the part number! I quoted it to Tom, who told me it couldn't POSSIBLY be for the bolt I needed because only the fuel filter housing was available any more. Turns out if i had spoken to anyone but Tom I would have saved myself a sawbuck.

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: I MEANT Win 98; my quicken was BASIC 99.   Loaded Quicken 09 this afternoon. Was using Outlook Express; now on Windows Mail; probably POS, too. ; Wilton Oh Lord, Vista. Remind me later to track down an article I

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com wrote: set up the loan Vista dev machine running around my house. It lets you and that should have been lone not loan, sorry. Not enough coffee yet. EdB -- I'm a Night Elf Mohawk! - Mr. T.

[MBZ] Let's see, $50/wk...

2009-04-09 Thread Rich Thomas
This guy reduces his price about $20 every couple of days, maybe by 2012 it should be down to something reasonable. http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/1112559825.html --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
Yes, I'm already thinking it may be a POS. Wilton - Original Message - From: Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM, WILTON

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
Yes, I caught that, anyway. Wilton - Original Message - From: Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com

Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

2009-04-09 Thread andrew strasfogel
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Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: $2k 84 300SD if anyone is interested

2009-04-09 Thread andrew strasfogel
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Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Loren Faeth
Wilton, you can make life a lot easier for yourself by doing a couple of things. The idea is to use the Win 2000 interface to stabilize Wiss-ta and improve the performance. the side benefit is that you don't have to learn the wista interface. At the my computer icon: Right click, then

Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

2009-04-09 Thread Rusty Cullens
To what zip code? Rusty Cullens BuyMBparts, Inc. Tel 1-800-741-5252 Fax 770-454-9745 - Original Message - From: Douglas jgi...@comcast.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: $2k 84 300SD if anyone is interested

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Cathey
Jim, have you USED the stuff? Does it brush or spray on? How close a match are their colors? Yes. Either, I sprayed. Exact. (But if you're trying to match pre-faded colors that is harder.) See: http://userweb.windwireless.net/~jimc/JSLlog.html Unfortunately I didn't keep a good log of

Re: [MBZ] My New Mercedes 1995 E300D

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Massmann
Thanks Ned, I had the same issue with my 190 when I got it although the pump was leaking oil when I change it. Bob Massmann 95 E300D 260K Oregonia, Ohio - Original Message - From: ned kleinhenz ned.kleinh...@gmail.com To: Mercedes List Mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8,

Re: [MBZ] My New Mercedes 1995 E300D

2009-04-09 Thread Robert Massmann
Wonko the Sane, Wildlife plate for Ohio - Original Message - From: don.b...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 7:38:04 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [MBZ] My New Mercedes 1995 E300D What-da-hell state is THAT

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
Won't mess up something; easy to back out if I don't like it? Wilton - Original Message - From: Loren Faeth lfa...@leadingchange.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer Wilton, you can make

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Loren Faeth
Yes, just observe the settings before you change them and write down the original settings. It is easy to go back and reverse the changes You can also set up other user accounts, so you could have one user account for the fake Mac and and other user for the windows 2000 interface. There

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Allan Streib
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:53 -0500, Loren Faeth lfa...@leadingchange.com wrote: Yes, just observe the settings before you change them and write down the original settings. It is easy to go back and reverse the changes You can also set up other user accounts, so you could have one user

Re: [MBZ] Yamaha HTR-5730

2009-04-09 Thread OK Don
thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy Baron Manfred von Richthofen OK Don W124 Diesels KD5NRO -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090409/2bd4d40e/attachment.html

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Loren Faeth
Agreed, but some pimple-face pushed Wilton into a machine with a fake mac interface, otherwise know as wissta. It won't run the Mac OS. I am only trying to help him make the best of it. For the money, I am sure he could have bought a mac, but then he would have to learn a new interface, as

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:53 -0500, Loren Faeth lfa...@leadingchange.com wrote: You can also set up other user accounts, so you could have one user account for the fake Mac and and other user for the windows 2000

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Loren Faeth lfa...@leadingchange.com wrote: Agreed, but some pimple-face pushed Wilton into a machine with a fake mac interface, otherwise know as wissta.  It won't run the Mac OS. We actually don't know this is the case either without getting more information

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Allan Streib
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:34 -0400, Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com wrote: We actually don't know this is the case either without getting more information from Wilton. The new machine be very capable of running the Mac OS, albeit grey-like in the legal stream. If his machine is using an Intel Core

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: Mac hardware is a little on the high side price wise, but not really unreasonable and it is well put together.  If I were going to get something new to run Mac OS X it would be the genuine article. It's not worth the

Re: [MBZ] OT: the end of an era

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Tim C bb...@crone.us wrote:  I actually mentioned the washing machine and even the most technically-literate folks thought I was nuts.   So now I pass it along... you're nuts.  Oh, and you drive a Mercedes too? ;) *Drive* is such a subjective term. I don't so

Re: [MBZ] no glow plug light/hard starts; glow plug time? - '85 300D FOLLOW-UP

2009-04-09 Thread ernest breakfield
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Re: [MBZ] driveline noise diagnosis? ('85 300D) FOLLOW-UP

2009-04-09 Thread ernest breakfield
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Re: [MBZ] Yamaha HTR-5730

2009-04-09 Thread Luther
Yes, $42.20 total with shipping. It's in St. Paul MN and my dad will be up there in 2 weeks, so I'm waiting on the seller to tell me if I can do a local pickup. Luther OK Don wrote: Did you win it? bidding is closed. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Luther benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote:

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Ed Booher
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Ed Booher edboo...@gmail.com wrote: fully activate the Administrator login so that you can remove administration roles from all other accounts. This allows you to run as a Limited Access account which means *everything* that needs things, like say access to

[MBZ] Area 51

2009-04-09 Thread RELNGSON
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[MBZ] Worlds fastest police cars

2009-04-09 Thread archer
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Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
Nobody pushed me. The Win 98 has been much more than I've really needed for years. If it would keep working when I wanta use it for fairly simple stuff, it would still be fine, but it would hang up often when I needed it to work well the most. 'Had to reboot a lot. 'Couldn't load modern

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Wonko the Sane
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Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
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Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread E M
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Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Wonko the Sane
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Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

2009-04-09 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
nope andrew strasfogel wrote: Kaleb, Got any w123 BLUE mirror visors in yet? The lighted kind? -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 95 E300, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 91 300E, 89 560SEL, 89 300E, 87 300SDL x2, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 85 190D, 84 190D x2, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80

[MBZ] this is just plain wrong

2009-04-09 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Original Message Subject:1969 Mercedes Benz 280se - $1 (Fort Worth) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: ka...@striplin.net To: ka...@striplin.net ka...@striplin.net has forwarded you this craigslist.org posting. Please see below for more

[MBZ] ummmm oookkkk

2009-04-09 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Original Message Subject:trailer made out of 84 mercedes title - $150 (dallas) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:46:12 -0700 (PDT) From: ka...@striplin.net To: ka...@striplin.net ka...@striplin.net has forwarded you this craigslist.org posting. Please see below

Re: [MBZ] ummmm oookkkk

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Cathey
this 190-e little mercedse was hit on front ''so i start to make a trailer I've got one of those half-201's, and have thought about it as a trailer. I figured that cutting off the greenhouse altogether, but keeping the lower halves of the doors would be more useful/fun. End it at the front of

Re: [MBZ] OT -new computer

2009-04-09 Thread Allan Streib
Wonko the Sane don.b...@gmail.com writes: I find that reading the BBC News on a laptop is a good companion to PBS or NPR. You need to mix in some Glen Beck or Hannity for contrast. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go

Re: [MBZ] ummmm oookkkk

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
and do with style?!!!?? I guess the star on it gives it STYLE. I also have a trailer with STYLE; I mounted a trunk star from a 123 on the tailgate of my all-metal and very sturdy 2-wheel utility. It also has 123 wheel covers; 'didn't realize, though, that I was giving it STYLE. 'Guess I

Re: [MBZ] this is just plain wrong

2009-04-09 Thread OK Don
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[MBZ] Technet Subscription

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Knoble
I just want to say thanks to whoever posted that link to the student priced subscription of Technet last year. I finally got around to legitimizing my copy of XP Pro. Thank You, Rick Knoble '85 300 CD '87 190 DT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used

Re: [MBZ] ummmm oookkkk

2009-04-09 Thread dave walton
Best effect would be to use the front half. If it's a bit smashed up already, all the better :-) -Dave Walton On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: Original Message Subject:        trailer made out of 84 mercedes title - $150

Re: [MBZ] this is just plain wrong

2009-04-09 Thread WILTON
Another somebody with more money than brain. 'Shoulda sent the money to me; I coulda put it to much better use. Any of you guys have money to spend on such as that, send it to me; I'll use it well for something much more worthwhile - finish paying for my house (only need another $23k), buy

Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

2009-04-09 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:41:49 -0500 Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: nope andrew strasfogel wrote: Kaleb, Got any w123 BLUE mirror visors in yet? The lighted kind? How about plain ordinary W123 blue visors? Craig ___

Re: [MBZ] this is just plain wrong

2009-04-09 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:57:09 -0500 Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: Its not a diesel it runs on unleaded it also has 19 inch rims with good tires that on this car make it stand pretty high so if intrested halla at me i do have more pics i will show it to serious people only. halla

[MBZ] R/C107 manuals not available?

2009-04-09 Thread David Bruckmann
Poking around on the MBUSA site, there does not appear to be a CD collection of service manuals for the R/C107 platform. The closest I seem to get is the W114/5 manuals. Is this just missing from the site, or were body/chassis manuals never published for the SL/SLC? D.

Re: [MBZ] What I got from BuyMBParts

2009-04-09 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
probably Craig McCluskey wrote: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:41:49 -0500 Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: nope andrew strasfogel wrote: Kaleb, Got any w123 BLUE mirror visors in yet? The lighted kind? How about plain ordinary W123 blue visors? Craig

Re: [MBZ] R/C107 manuals not available?

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Cathey
The 107 has a CD, too. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] R/C107 manuals not available?

2009-04-09 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:16:07 -0700 Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote: The 107 has a CD, too. Or maybe it's like the '94 E420 CD and no longer available. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list