I am in Atlanta, how much you think it weighs? I found a local one for
$75 but $40 is more my range these days.
Old Tek tube scopes (for example) are excellent, for what they are,
but nobody in their right mind would want to ship one!
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I would be wary of using aggressive cleaners on things like interior
trim and plastics. May well eat into them and damage them.
I use a citrus based carpet cleaner for interior trim, leaves a nice and
fruity smell. Then again it is a BMW, so you just tip acid on the whole
thing and be done with
Ah its a tube scope I see.
Jim Cathey wrote:
I am in Atlanta, how much you think it weighs? I found a local one
for $75 but $40 is more my range these days.
Old Tek tube scopes (for example) are excellent, for what they are,
but nobody in their right mind would want to ship one!
-- Jim
Ah its a tube scope I see.
I don't know that! Just pointing out a fact about scopes.
-- Jim
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Michael Esh wrote:
I say let them speed..better than pulling me over for going 75. And
when they do not speed, traffic piles up behind them and everyone takes
off again when the police exit the hightway.
You do have a point there. Nobody wants to pass a cop when the cop's doing the
limit. A
A bargain at twice the price. Why hasn't this listing been 'canceled by author'
already?
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Rolf, Jim.
This is, as described, an Olde Tek scope. It weighs probably 50#
and sits on an angled cart that has openings for two extra plug-ins.
That said, it works and has a calibrated sweep etc. Though the last
time it was calibrated Pontious was a pilot!
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Dinosaur juice in
Maybe I've been lucky - but I've never had any problems with rebuilds -
neither the ones I rebuilt or the ones bought rebuilt. I'm surprised so
many have had problems (maybe not so many?).
Anyway, a friend worked at a company that rebuilt starters, alternators and
such - he said they could
History of the Super Soaker. Interesting that a scientist from JPL invented
it
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/history_of_the_super_soaker.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
Dan
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you said every lane on the Interstate is a passing lane. If they were not,
the speed (or lack of same) of left lane traffic would block everyone
Actually, that's what I was trying to avoid - when people get in the left
lane (assume 2 lanes in each direction for this case) and drive at the same
I created a Free account last year and used it once in a while. Was trying
to access it yesterday and was not allowed to enter. It said my UserName as
not available for renewal.
https://www.startekinfo.com/StarTek/
They * do* offer daily, weekly and yearly rates for access (yearly is $3k)
LarryT wrote:
I created a Free account last year and used it once in a while. Was
trying to access it yesterday and was not allowed to enter. It said my
UserName as not available for renewal.
https://www.startekinfo.com/StarTek/
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I reading the situation
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
you are alive?
Every so often ;)
I **finally** got the wagon on the road last night!! It is much faster
than I remembered it. Not CDI fast, but still very fast indeed. Much
faster than my 2.5T.
John
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the consumer is now doing the exact same thing he did to destroy
downtown america to destroy the downtown small town component that really
made the internet so charming in earlier days.
IMHO, the
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We were at Goddard state park in Warwick RI.
Full menu was:
Coffee and dunkin donuts (required by law at any public event in NE)
Homemade clam chowdah made with freshly dug quahogs
Burgers and cheese burgers-beef, and turkey
Hot dogs
Italian Hot sausage
Curt's special burger topping-maple
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Don, Yes-if we know you are coming, we will make the chowdah without the
customary fried Iowa bacon in the base. also we will have fish cakes or
soy burgers. And we have had tons of fresh veggies each year.
Dwight
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1978 240D 4 speed. 218K miles.
1979 240D- auto -250K +
Right on-I too am off to local farmers. Destruction of mom and pos was
diabolical plot by evil W's and other big boxes.
Conspiracy rant off.
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
Bissell Cove
Wickford RI 02852
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Dwight wrote:
And we have had tons of fresh veggies each year.
Wonko - pick me up on the way east next year.
I can share driving with ya.
mao
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Boston.com always has the most fantastic photos from any current event.
Thanks for sharing.
Those are all probably getty images.
They are the fundamental image source for media, I believe.
mao
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Theres a limit.
15 years ago I needed a starter for my kids POS Ford Escort. $150
Rebuilt from local parts store, owed by a friend. Same friend had
wanted to retire and sell me the store. I read the writing on the wall,
had no interest.
I pulled starter, it was cooked.
Local MotorMart
Dwight wrote:
Right on-I too am off to local farmers. Destruction of mom and pos was
diabolical plot by evil W's and other big boxes.
Conspiracy rant off.
The term we tried to invent 8 years ago (on banned) is wallyrigged.
Maybe it can stick this time.
mao
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another
nickel. alas, most people don't.
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i'd share :)
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Thanks John - That's what I did wrong. Sorry to have bothered you - I
should have figured it out myself.
Enjoy your Sunday -
LarryT
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Looking for Weber Parts or Porsche Posters?
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Sadly it only takes on lunatic to ruin the peace and quiet.
We are very lucky, we have had good neighbors next door for many,
many years. I guess that house attracts reasonable, stable people
(plain colonial with lots of knotty pine panelling). Not a
pretentious house. The current folks
jabba wrote:
and you aren't even getting the nickel for the most part, but just
getting confused on the bait and switch
I like the text on the Florida's Natural co-op premium
not-from-concentrate OJ we purchase. Speaks to the same issue. Other
mega-national corporations put juice in the
jabba wrote:
but, as i've said, they don't
care as they think they got a free nickel, when they got nothing but reamed
and made the world a vastly inferior place.
annihilate the education system also, as they are the system that has
indoctrinated all of us of the value of a nickel. there is
jabba wrote:
i'd have to think about it for a while. what would you say was your
original definition of the term?
original definition? - exactly what you are speaking about. no nickel
saved, no nickel earned, mere rape by mega-national corporation
skrewing with every last one of their
Ether isn't good. Ether in a glow plug engine is very bad.
In order to start, you need fuel, compression, and heat.
Let's start with heat. The simplest thing to do is to glow for 30 seconds
instead of cranking as soon as the light goes out.
You can unplug the glow plug harness from the glow
I'd also like to see congress take a few years off - I'd even be willing to
pay for their vacation - they'd do far less damage like that than when they
are creating all kinds of new laws that are un-necessary at best and
socialist at worst.
We'd never miss them and the country would likely be
LarryT wrote:
For that matter, the federal laws passed in the last 40 years could be
declared null and void with little or no consequence.
We're off topic for this list, but I've always thought it should be 100 years.
(until the 100th birthday of the Federal Reserve Act, then it should be
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chowda and wicked burgers.
Sounds good right now.
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an oil cooler it'll be
easy to install with the lines already in place.
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Sorry to have bothered you
Nonsense! You did no such thing. :-)
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I have enjoyed seeing friends mimosa trees, so I'm thinking of
adding one or two to my yard.
And since this list is the best place on the web for quality
information on _any_ subject
Are there hidden pains, secret tricks, problems etc. regarding
having a mimosa tree?
-- Philip
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Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote:
Curt
What shock thing?
I think it comes with stick shift cars to prevent surging. Cathey had fun
cobbling one up on his 190D manny conversion.
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Where is it?
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1978 240D 4 speed. 218K + miles.
1990 300D 2.5t 170K miles.
Wickford, RI
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond
curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have a draft email in my Yahoo account for that purpose...
It used to be that if I just clicked out of Rusty's site my purchases
would remain, musta been a cookie or something. Was pretty handy
although a
Curt wrote:
#1. Congressional layoffs. The money saved is not just in having too many
legislators (which we do) but that each legislator has too much staff...
Don't forget all the money put to decent use in the ekonomy - no
lobbyists allowed, since they are all layed off.
mao
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:57:01 -0400 Dwight E. Giles, Jr
degco...@cox.net wrote:
Where is it?
On a W123, it connects between the bellcrank on the side of the valve
cover and the body of the injection pump.
Craig
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:32:09 -0500 Wonko the Sane don.b...@gmail.com
wrote:
My '86 300E is blowing the #3 fuse.
According to the fuse panel lid, #3 is in charge of parking / tail light
right, headlamp cleaning unit, illumination: license plate, instrument,
control elements [not sure that
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Dwight E. Giles, Jr degco...@cox.net wrote:
In spite of a few showers, we had great gathering today. Being hardy New
Englanders, the rain didn't bother us. We had homemade chowdah, Curt's butt
kicking burgers with bacon, onions, peppers and mushrooms, etc.
LarryT wrote:
If they
introduce things that undermine this country (like leaving our borders open)
bring them up on charges.
I have followed this rationale for years, but am beginning to not like
the borders element of borders, language, culture (Michael Savage).
Very few of us are indigenous
, but mustang officers had their
own ways.
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Craig wrote:
So the fuse blows when you turn on the headlights, but not otherwise? Is
there something that allows the headlight wipers to run only if the
headlights are on?
Yeah - eliminate systems, somehow.
Narrow the culprit down to a handful of potential flaws.
Disconnect the wiper see if
seemed to trust and
confide in his chiefs more than his wardroom, but mustang officers had their
own ways.
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Picked up another one today, this one is a 84 5 speed manny. Drove it
back home from the OKC area today, should have stopped by and saw OK Don
but didnt have time. Boy there is sure a difference between the manny
and auto 190D. For starters, going 75 on the highway results in I would
say
Wonko wrote:
I've done that already, with the exception of the headlight wipers.
Different chassis here (W123) - but we had similar issue that was at
the dimmer switch. Do not touch the dimmer switch, and we had tail
lights. Twiddle the dimmer switch?
mao
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Im going to
have to get rid of some of these things.
The manny-tranny?
Let me know if/when.
mao
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This ought to keep someone busy for a while. (Not me!) At least the
price is reasonable.
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Cold will be approaching soon.
I cannot imagine a battery tray warmer should be only made in china,
but I cannot fathom where I might find a USA made one. Also, this
cannot be a huge design problem - can it? Maybe someone here has the
intuition and design ideas to make one, here in USA? or give
Andrew maybe? This is just down the road from me---I'd be happy to go
take a look if someone on the list is interested (although shipping
might be more hassle than it's worth). Being that this is the
salt-free Pacific Northwest, you can probably believe the seller's
claim of no rust.
The headlight wipers will not come on unless you have the headlights on
at the same time you are doing the windshield washers. In any case, you
do not have to cut the wire to the headlight wiper motors, there are
connectors, just follow the wire from the headlight back a little bit
and you
How reliable are the AWD 2001 300E wagons? Especially the AWD system.
Never really wanted one but this one is $10K w/89K mi - seems reasonable
altho I;m not in the market right now. Do the AWD systems require a lot of
maintenence?http://richmond.craigslist.org/ctd/1365741780.html
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Most Canadians think of themselves living in a democracy like USians, which
is wrong (in both cases). In reality Canada, like the US is a democratic
republic. The difference being that Canada evolved gradually into a
democratic republic and US was designed to be a
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--R
Fmiser wrote:
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And since this list is the best place on the web for quality
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:22:26 -0400 LarryT l02tur...@comcast.net wrote:
How reliable are the AWD 2001 300E wagons? Especially the AWD system.
Never really wanted one but this one is $10K w/89K mi - seems
reasonable altho I;m not in the market right now. Do the AWD systems
require a lot of
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond
curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I know but cookies can be tracked. If you were in the tinfoil hat set
you'd be worried about that...
Or you delete all your cookies either at browser close or with a manual
effort.
And you clean out your
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:56:19 -0500 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't verify this, but it sounds legitimate.
From searching legitimate sites about the ferrying of the Shuttle back to
KSC, it's close. But I say no cigars:
I said is that a skunk I smell? and the veterans of shuttle
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:03:19 -0500 Wonko the Sane don.b...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Craig McCluskey
diese...@pisquared.netwrote:
Is there something that allows the headlight wipers to run only if the
headlights are on?
I doubt it -- which is why I don't think
Sounds like a plan.
However, my supply of new and used parts just got drastically smaller.
At 07:10 AM 9/11/2009, you wrote:
If you want a easy to access place to list used parts, Yahoo
Groups is pretty easy to set up - I can create a group for OkieBenz
if needed - the only downside is
I think it comes with stick shift cars to prevent surging.
They're all supposed to have them. (The mannys.)
They tend to buck without them.
-- Jim
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I will sell mine for $900 this week. Would not have sold it for $900
last week. In fleabay parlance: needs some buffing
At 09:48 PM 9/11/2009, you wrote:
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:32:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: fred.s...@yahoo.com
Subject: 1987 mercedes wagon - $900 (fremont, nh)
Uh, Wonko, what was that about no virus on linux. We all know it is
invincible because it is open source...
RIGHT! WHO IS THIS REALLY? (Noah)
At 03:23 PM 9/12/2009, you wrote:
Attack of the open source zombies
...
A security researcher has
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:14 PM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
Slap some Peltier chips to the sides of your battery ---
But they were probably made in China.
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They are great trees and I love them, however, we had a problem with them.
I think it was the mid eighties when a disease hit in the area and wiped
them out. I don't think I could find one even though its been about thirty
years.
Something I'll ask around about.
Harry
Mississippi
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