[MBZ] Did startekinfo kill the free EPC accounts?

2010-12-05 Thread Walt Zarnoch
Hey all, Just tried to login to the EPC, and it's saying my username can't be found. Oddly enough, I can reset my password, and it has all the correct info for that. When I tried renewing the subscription, it said "Subscription Renewal is not allowed". My subscription is set to run out on "06/21/1

Re: [MBZ] eBay 300D 2.5T

2010-12-05 Thread Jim Cathey
Jim, did you ever think about re-silvering the reflectors? I looked into it, but could not bring myself to invest $500 each to the guy down in PDX. Looks like mine already had seen a recoat anyway. I keep having visions of using a TIG welding tungsten rod, aluminum wire, a pressure cooker, an

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another snapped-off wing in flight ...

2010-12-05 Thread Peter Frederick
Or the landing gear. Peter ___ 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: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_ok

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another snapped-off wing in flight ...

2010-12-05 Thread Craig
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 13:51:38 -0600 OK Don wrote: > I think that video is a skillful editing job with a model and a real > plane -- it's been around for a few years now. Oh. Incidentally, the fellow who sent it to me this morning just emailed it is a fake. I thought the bouncing on landing was r

Re: [MBZ] OT cheapest NAS

2010-12-05 Thread LWB250
The first generation Apple TV is easily hacked with any number of well-done third party software packages. Many of these allow the use of the USB port for external drives. You can easily hack the ATv and install a much larger drive, too. Dan --- On Sun, 12/5/10, redghost wrote: > From: red

Re: [MBZ] OT cheapest NAS

2010-12-05 Thread LWB250
Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, I was talking about 1Tb drives. Dan --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT cheapest NAS > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 4:38 PM > I saw s

Re: [MBZ] Uh uh

2010-12-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
yea, its pretty obvious its fake. On 12/5/2010 8:00 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote: But this time with a much more dramatic ending than the one that had the whole-aircraft parachute and landed and burned in a field. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2TTUt7iuxo.. This one fooled a lot of people

Re: [MBZ] Carfax please 83 SD: WDBCB20A2DB038379

2010-12-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
yea, its way too much. On 12/5/2010 7:51 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: For this? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/2092218651.html Let's see, it needs, what, $1500 in A/C work, plus probably climate control work, plus it's got a wrinkled wheel well and pushed in door? $

Re: [MBZ] Uh uh

2010-12-05 Thread RELNGSON
> But this time with a much more dramatic ending than the one that had > the > whole-aircraft parachute and landed and burned in a field. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2TTUt7iuxo.. > This one fooled a lot of people until it was caught out as completely fake. RLE _

[MBZ] this guy is on crack

2010-12-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Original Message Subject:1976 Mercedes 300D ***AWARD WINNER*** - $9000 (Edmond) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:58:33 -0800 (PST) From: okieb...@striplin.net To: okieb...@striplin.net {email} has forwarded you this craigslist.org posting. Please see below for more

Re: [MBZ] Carfax please 83 SD: WDBCB20A2DB038379

2010-12-05 Thread Mitch Haley
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: For this? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/2092218651.html Let's see, it needs, what, $1500 in A/C work, plus probably climate control work, plus it's got a wrinkled wheel well and pushed in door? $1800 sounds high on that one, or am I too cheap? ___

Re: [MBZ] Carfax please 83 SD: WDBCB20A2DB038379

2010-12-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
For this? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/2092218651.html On 12/4/2010 3:21 AM, David Bruckmann wrote: Thank you! ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsub

Re: [MBZ] OT Old Airliners

2010-12-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
The first time I met Todd Knutson, some of you may know him, he flew down to buy a car off me, this would have been about 1996 or 1997. I pick him up at the airport, at the gate no less. Remember when you could go to the gate even if you were not a passenger? He did not check any bags, inste

Re: [MBZ] Craigslist archive?

2010-12-05 Thread Allan Streib
David Bruckmann writes: > But surely somewhere out there is a CL archive...??? I'm not sure there would be. CL would probably attempt to thwart it if anybody tried. If I list something for sale on CL, and either sell it or pull the ad for some other reason, I'm not going to want people calling

Re: [MBZ] The W123 of vacuum cleaners

2010-12-05 Thread Kevin Kraly
It's much the same way with an old Mercedes. It's not just another appliance, it has soul. I hang on to the old 1984 Kirby vacuum still at the ready with a new bag and belt. My wife figured that she would throw out the 20 year old vacuum (at the time), but I gave it new life with a belt and a

Re: [MBZ] Craigslist archive?

2010-12-05 Thread David Bruckmann
Yes, the email bounces. Through search term trickery (creeping forwards through the posting so that it shows proximate words) I was able to coax Google into showing me the other cached pieces of the ad, which did not include a phone number. Alas. But surely somewhere out there is a CL archive..

Re: [MBZ] OT cheapest NAS

2010-12-05 Thread redghost
I am working on making an ubuntu box do NAS duty, sort of... in an apple environment. Not being a good unix dork, I am having little luck. The new aTV is not going to work but the older apple TV does have NAS ability with video and iTunes. No RAID though. If you could source a RAID exter

Re: [MBZ] eBay 300D 2.5T

2010-12-05 Thread redghost
Jim, did you ever think about re-silvering the reflectors? I looked into it, but could not bring myself to invest $500 each to the guy down in PDX. Looks like mine already had seen a recoat anyway. Solution I am looking at is to use silver ducting tape on the reflector and buffing it to a

Re: [MBZ] Minor success and irritating defeat

2010-12-05 Thread Curt Raymond
That's my hope. With these two issues delt with I'll be able to get on with rolling up some miles. I'll also be able to do some oil analysis and see is M1 lasts as long as it did in my 85. -Curt Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:35:43 -0600 From: Peter Frederick To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re

Re: [MBZ] OT cheapest NAS

2010-12-05 Thread Dieselhead
I saw some 1 Tb drives for $50, and that got me to thinking. I am sure you meant to say you bought 1 Tb drives and now have 2.75 Tb. I have 20 Gb drives that are new and nobody wants them. I struggled with this quandary of late, only with the intent that I did not want to have to be a slave

Re: [MBZ] OT cheapest NAS

2010-12-05 Thread LWB250
I struggled with this quandary of late, only with the intent that I did not want to have to be a slave to the NAS as far as configuring and such. I ended up buying a Drobo FS, which is a NAS that has tremendous redundancy and requires little or no management. If you use one of their discounts t

Re: [MBZ] The W123 of vacuum cleaners

2010-12-05 Thread Walt Zarnoch
I still like our old bagged Kirby, it has a personality that newer vacs lack. :) Walt On Dec 5, 2010 6:00 AM, "Peter T. Arnold" wrote: > Where does the Oreck's exhaust go > > On 12/5/2010 1:26 AM, Kevin Kraly wrote: >> > >> Oreck, and it doesn't exhaust the dust back into the room. Eve

Re: [MBZ] The W123 of vacuum cleaners

2010-12-05 Thread John Reames
The oreck uses the paper bag as the filter; the new ones are made so that the bag has a "guillotine" that closes when you pull the bag. The older ones can be retrofitted. Btw almost all of the Orecks use the same bag (all the non retrofitted old ones use the old style bag and all of the rest use

Re: [MBZ] OT: Another snapped-off wing in flight ...

2010-12-05 Thread OK Don
I think that video is a skillful editing job with a model and a real plane -- it's been around for a few years now. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Craig wrote: > But this time with a much more dramatic ending than the one that had the > whole-aircraft parachute and landed and burned in a field.

Re: [MBZ] Door Lock Woes

2010-12-05 Thread l02turner
Thx Wilton - great suggestion. If I can't find a decent sketch/etc. of the area I will open up the other side. Thx Agn, LarryT 91 300D -Original Message- From: WILTON Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 12:59 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Door Lock Woes 'Haven't do

Re: [MBZ] Door Lock Woes

2010-12-05 Thread WILTON
'Haven't done any work on a 124 door lock assembly, but I'd bet that that lock assemblies on both sides of the car are identical, as they are on a 123 and 126 such that they can be exchanged from one side to the other, or view the other to see how the first one goes together, works, etc. Wilt

[MBZ] Door Lock Woes

2010-12-05 Thread l02turner
Howdy - I recently asked Kaleb for the price of a used Door Lock actuator – turns out my diagnosis was wrong. When working on the door lock yesterday the tumbler assembly came out of the door with the key! So instead of an actuator problem I believe the Tumbler Assy came loose from the actua

[MBZ] OT cheapest NAS

2010-12-05 Thread Dieselhead
I am pondering building some NAS sometime in the next year, for entertainment NAS, entering where I have not trod much before. I am thinking it will be apple based since all have apple Macbook (or pro) laptops, one has iphone, one has ipod touch and others are considering iphone or ipod touch.

[MBZ] OT: Another snapped-off wing in flight ...

2010-12-05 Thread Craig
But this time with a much more dramatic ending than the one that had the whole-aircraft parachute and landed and burned in a field. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2TTUt7iuxo Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To s

Re: [MBZ] Fwd: CL ad - SLK 230

2010-12-05 Thread Mitch Haley
OK Don wrote: I always wanted to put an OM603 in a 107 - all the pieces never fell into place at the same time --- If that were local, and as nice as it appears, I'd wave 40 $100 bills in his face and see what happens. Then I'd upgrade my '92 2.5 to 190DT specs and sell it, send the balky '92

Re: [MBZ] The W123 of vacuum cleaners

2010-12-05 Thread Peter T. Arnold
Where does the Oreck's exhaust go On 12/5/2010 1:26 AM, Kevin Kraly wrote: Oreck, and it doesn't exhaust the dust back into the room. Even with it's filter which is NLA, the Sharp would still spew smelly, dusty exhaust while under way. Kevin in Hillsboro, Oregon SNIP