Re: [MBZ] Nerd alert

2013-02-08 Thread Gerry Archer
How did you get your beams to point up instead of N, E, S, or W? Gerry From: Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net BDTD with the space shuttle :) Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (161,xxx mi) On 2/7/2013 8:16 PM, OK Don wrote: If you were a ham you could point an antenna at it and

Re: [MBZ] Pardon me while I whip this out

2013-02-08 Thread Gerry Archer
From: OK Don okd...@gmail.com The Capitol Steps are good, though there are too few of them. Where is Will Rogers when you need him? On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.netwrote: I've always said the US needs MUCH more political comedy. Some of the things that

Re: [MBZ] Should all light planes have parachutes?

2013-02-08 Thread Gerry Archer
On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:13 PM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: A parachute that softened the landing of an airplane that encountered mechanical problems saved the lives of the three men on board, an airport official said Wednesday Just because it has a parachute, doesn't mean you

Re: [MBZ] Pardon me while I whip this out

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Penoff
And the one thing that I simply can't understand is how today's movie are filled with profanity and violence that people have become desensitized to, yet when this movie is played it's ripped apart because of society's obsession with political correctness. Dan Everyone is equal in my eye.

[MBZ] OT Guns again was Re: Nerd alert

2013-02-08 Thread Tim C
In fairness he did not say you could shoot down a commercial airliner, at least according to the article. Of course you could take out a plane with a gun, the North Vietnamese made an occupation of it. You can even take out a plane with a well-timed carrier pigeon. To destroy a train, however,

Re: [MBZ] Pardon me while I whip this out

2013-02-08 Thread Mitch Haley
Dan Penoff wrote: And the one thing that I simply can't understand is how today's movie are filled with profanity and violence that people have become desensitized to, yet when this movie is played it's ripped apart because of society's obsession with political correctness. And the whole

Re: [MBZ] saw a 300SDL Turbo for sale

2013-02-08 Thread Dwight Giles
Peter, It's ranch house in a wooded development just outside of Hendersonville. E-mail me off list if you want Realtor information. Dwight (has 2 car Benz garage. ) On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Peter Hertzing phertz...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of house do you have for sale there? Sent

Re: [MBZ] Nerd alert

2013-02-08 Thread OK Don
Two rotors (http://www.dd1us.de/images/oscar%20antennen.jpg) or handheld and point it at something you can see. http://jaunty-electronics.com/blog/2012/08/working-low-earth-orbit-satellites/ On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.comwrote: How did you get your beams to

Re: [MBZ] Should all light planes have parachutes?

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Knoble
From: arche...@embarqmail.com To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 03:51:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Should all light planes have parachutes? Did this one fire the parachute? Nothing said about it in the article. No parachute. Too low, I presume.

Re: [MBZ] ATE T50 and T50/12 brake boosters at a significantly reduced price!

2013-02-08 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Feb 7, 2013 12:49 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: 1. The manufacturer of my vehicle specifies the use of DOT 3 brake fluid. Can I also use DOT 4 brake fluid? No! The specifications of the vehicle manufacturer must be complied with. ATE recommends only using the DOT class which is

Re: [MBZ] ATE T50 and T50/12 brake boosters at a significantly reduced price!

2013-02-08 Thread Dieselhead
ATE has lawyered up, now that they are owned by ITT, originally a 'merkun company. DOT 4 is superior in any VEEhicle. they are claiming older MBs are DOT3 only, but I am here to testify that merkun DOT3 in any post 1959 MB will swell the brake hoses shut. I think the same it true for any

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Penoff
I just got off the phone with a software vendor in southern NH. They were waiting to get the word to go home. He was looking forward to the storm because he is a skier. From the description it sounds like MA and points both are really going to get hammered. My 1979 300TD was a great car in

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
Have you put in your advance request for $20billion in recovery funds? --R On 2/8/13 2:56 PM, Jaime Kopchinski wrote: We're all settled in here in NE New Jersey waiting for the heavy snow to start. Fire is burning, short ribs braising on the the stove, some beer in the fridge, and snow blower

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Jaime Kopchinski
You mean my insurance policy? Yep, I'm covered. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: Have you put in your advance request for $20billion in recovery funds? --R On 2/8/13 2:56 PM, Jaime Kopchinski wrote: We're all settled in here in

Re: [MBZ] Message size limits

2013-02-08 Thread ernest breakfield
set your mail program to sort for you. all e-mails from 'mercedes@okiebenz.com' go into one folder, which you sort by subject (or sender?), and delete anything you're not interested in. beats the heck out of wading through a long digest,... cheers! e On 06/Feb/13 19:59, Curt Raymond

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
no no -- gummint money to help you recover! --R On 2/8/13 3:34 PM, Jaime Kopchinski wrote: You mean my insurance policy? Yep, I'm covered. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: Have you put in your advance request for $20billion in

Re: [MBZ] Message size limits

2013-02-08 Thread OK Don
Or, dedicate a free email account just for this list. Have it open as one of the home tabs in a browser. Beats the digest for ease of use and access. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:06 PM, ernest breakfield erne...@backyardengineering.org wrote: set your mail program to sort for you. all e-mails

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! Memories...

2013-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
So 35 yr ago I was sitting in my 19th floor apartment in Cambridge, looking out over the Charles River toward downtown Boston, during the Great Blizzard of '78. I had left with a friend about 3PM from my apt to go out to Westwood, MA to get some stuff from a friend's place, it had just

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! Memories...

2013-02-08 Thread Randy Bennell
I think I can understand why a woman might not want to go back to your apartment for the next few days after watching that movie with you. Randy On 08/02/2013 3:58 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: So 35 yr ago I was sitting in my 19th floor apartment in Cambridge, looking out over the Charles River

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread dseretakis
Yes my 240D with Michelin Harmony all season tires does exceptionally well in the snow. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Jaime Kopchinski jaime...@gmail.com wrote: We're all settled in here in NE New Jersey waiting for the heavy snow to start. Fire is burning, short ribs

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! Memories...

2013-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
Ha! Yeah, that was a minor thought I had, but we were chaste (well, pure *actions* anyway...) in our relationship, and are still friends. I think it worked out much better that way, but at the time... --R On 2/8/13 5:40 PM, Randy Bennell wrote: I think I can understand why a woman might

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Michael Canfield
Just got in from a 3 hour drive in the snow with the 300d. Drifting around corners on the back roads of PA is so much fun. Got sideways a couple times when wasn't planned but in typical rwd euro car fashion, back off the throttle a touch and she's back straight again. Last leg was up over a

[MBZ] aremezyr great blizzard of 78

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Hawkins Java
Folks, (this email bounced back to me a few minutes ago) and bounced again mercedes@okiebenz.com: host okiebenz.com[68.71.135.146] said: 554 5.7.1 Mail (id-36037-25415) appears to be unsolicited - Totalscore(47) over MessageScoringUpperLimit - resend with the code aremezyr appended

Re: [MBZ] aremezyr great blizzard of 78

2013-02-08 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Reading the instructions you quoted below will get your email address added to the white list Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Rick Hawkins Java macj...@aol.com wrote: Folks, (this email bounced back to me a few minutes ago) and bounced again mercedes@okiebenz.com:

Re: [MBZ] great blizzard of 78

2013-02-08 Thread Dan Penoff
Senior year in high school. Dad was stuck in Denver, and I was stuck at home with Mom. I had some older friends who shared an apartment about two miles away as the crow flies, and they were having a hell of a multi-day party. After a day of Mom following me around the house yacking, I bolted.

Re: [MBZ] Nerd alert

2013-02-08 Thread Benz Hogs
Normal rotor with a 2nd rotor mounted above it at a right angle. Similar to http://www.rotorservice.com/images/AZEL.JPG Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (161,xxx mi) On 2/8/2013 2:20 AM, Gerry Archer wrote: How did you get your beams to point up instead of N, E, S, or W? Gerry

[MBZ] aremezyr

2013-02-08 Thread Scott Ritchey
Am I whitelisted now? ___ 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] aremezyr

2013-02-08 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
No you are black listed. Haha Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Scott Ritchey ritche...@nc.rr.com wrote: Am I whitelisted now? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] aremezyr great blizzard of 78

2013-02-08 Thread Craig
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:27:34 -0600 Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: Reading the instructions you quoted below will get your email address added to the white list (47) over MessageScoringUpperLimit - resend with the code aremezyr appended to subject and ask to have your email

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Dieselhead
Yes my 240D with Michelin Harmony all season tires does exceptionally well in the snow. Sent from my iPhone My 240D with two sandbags in the trunk and all season tars always did just fine. SDL with Blizzaks on the rear and weight in the trunk did fine. GranCarVan does fine with

Re: [MBZ] aremezyr great blizzard of 78

2013-02-08 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Heck if I know Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 19:27:34 -0600 Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: Reading the instructions you quoted below will get your email address added to the white list (47) over

Re: [MBZ] Message size limits

2013-02-08 Thread Curt Raymond
Thing is I can read fast, with many emails I spend more time shifting from one email to the next than I do actually reading them... -Curt Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:06:11 -0800 From: ernest breakfield erne...@backyardengineering.org To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Message size

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! Memories...

2013-02-08 Thread Curt Raymond
I was 2, strangely I don't remember any of it ;) Actually my parents were living in northern Maine where it didn't snow at all. They knew about it because my mother's family was still living in central MA. My in-laws came over last night and her dad was telling us how he worked in a bar back

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Mitch Haley
Jaime Kopchinski wrote: We're all settled in here in NE New Jersey waiting for the heavy snow to start. It only dumped 6 of wet heavy stuff on me in Michigan last night. Closed all the schools in the area. The S210 4Matic just zoomed down the driveway, with nary a hint of traction control.

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Allan Streib
Jaime Kopchinski jaime...@gmail.com writes: On the way home I was reminded again how good W123s can be in foul weather... You have got to be joking. Mine tries to kill me. Even with 150lbs of sand in the trunk. my ugly Cooper UltraNoise snow tires did a great job of navigating the slushy

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Dieselhead
Maybe the snow tires really make a difference. Allan -- 1983 300D 1979 300SD Good tires are cheap insurance. Good tires are the first insurance policy you should buy (and renew) Good tires are ones that stick to the road, not necessarily high performance tires or expensive.

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! Memories...

2013-02-08 Thread Benz Hogs
I'd be amazed if you could type a whole email in accent Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL '98 ML320 Max (161,xxx mi) On 2/8/2013 3:58 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: So 35 yr ago I was sitting in my 19th floor apartment in Cambridge, looking out over the Charles River toward downtown Boston,

[MBZ] 4Matic tire purchase

2013-02-08 Thread Benz Hogs
So our ML has picked up a new nail in the left rear tire, this being the 3rd, 1st back in October, and two in the last 3 weeks. Guess I'm gonna be replacing two tires so I have some matching. All tires are at 8/32, so I should have another year before needing to replace the last two. Any

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! AHHH!!

2013-02-08 Thread Jon Agne
Well said. I LOVE my Harmony's. Jon On Feb 8, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Dieselhead wrote: Maybe the snow tires really make a difference. Allan -- 1983 300D 1979 300SD Good tires are cheap insurance. Good tires are the first insurance policy you should buy (and renew) Good

[MBZ] white list?

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Hawkins Java
Kaleb so, am i white listed? i resent the mail with the code in the subject or do i have to beg you? please . thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] 4Matic tire purchase

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Knoble
On Feb 8, 2013, at 10:30 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: Any thoughts on having new tires on the rear vs. front? Tire Rack says rear. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=52bPostID=post-id-358d9073-5924-4d8d-8227-0309a0611e95currentpage=10 Rick Sent from

Re: [MBZ] aremezyr great blizzard of 78

2013-02-08 Thread Rich Thomas
Awesome story. Y'all should have come over to see Deep Throat --R On 2/8/13 8:23 PM, Rick Hawkins Java wrote: Folks, (this email bounced back to me a few minutes ago) and bounced again mercedes@okiebenz.com: host okiebenz.com[68.71.135.146] said: 554 5.7.1 Mail (id-36037-25415)

Re: [MBZ] white list?

2013-02-08 Thread OK Don
You seem to be here, so you must have failed. Happy Moose Friday. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Rick Hawkins Java macj...@aol.com wrote: Kaleb so, am i white listed? i resent the mail with the code in the subject or do i have to beg you? please . thanks, xx rick Rick

Re: [MBZ] 4Matic tire purchase

2013-02-08 Thread OK Don
When did you get an ML? Which one? The tire rack advice sounds good - but I do wish they'd addressed all wheel drive vehicles with traction control - might make a difference, might not. Anyway - bite the bullet and replace all four. Your bride is worth it. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Benz

Re: [MBZ] white list?

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Knoble
On Feb 8, 2013, at 10:39 PM, Rick Hawkins Java macj...@aol.com wrote: Kaleb so, am i white listed? i resent the mail with the code in the subject or do i have to beg you? please . It is the spam filter that is rejecting the emails, not the mailing list software. I have been

Re: [MBZ] 4Matic tire purchase

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Knoble
On Feb 8, 2013, at 11:25 PM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - bite the bullet and replace all four. Your bride is worth it. He told you. Ouch. Rick Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] 4Matic tire purchase

2013-02-08 Thread Benz Hogs
Does my signature answer any of this? :) ML purchase was made in June. We were shopping for a house, made an acceptable offer, set closing date, loan company, Wells Fargo, lost paperwork (along with no communication) for 2 weeks, then told us 5 days before closing that our paperwork was

Re: [MBZ] 4Matic tire purchase

2013-02-08 Thread Rick Knoble
On Feb 8, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote: Wells Fargo, lost paperwork (along with no communication) for 2 weeks, then told us 5 days before closing that our paperwork was incomplete. That is another reason why I hate big banks and why I lobbied my Senators and

Re: [MBZ] BLIZZARD!!!! Memories...

2013-02-08 Thread Kevin Kraly
I'd be amazed if you could type a whole email in accent And the accent is even more entertaining when spoken by my computer's synthesized speech! Hopefully, nawt to many cahs ah snowed ovah along the streets neah Hahvahd Squayah aftah this stawm! Kevin in LaPorte, Colorado, praying for