Re: [MBZ] 240D Mystery Bolt: Update

2013-09-22 Thread Michael Canfield
Glad to help! You are very welcome. Mike On Sep 21, 2013 11:25 PM, Greg Fiorentino gf...@dslnorthwest.net wrote: Sincere thanks to all of you who shared your experiences and offered advice on this issue; especially Mike Canfield who sent me a replacement bolt. After some delays and struggles

Re: [MBZ] 240D Mystery Bolt: Update

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: Greg Fiorentino gf...@dslnorthwest.net To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:25 PM Subject: [MBZ] 240D Mystery Bolt: Update Sincere thanks to all of you who shared your experiences and

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes 300D reduced $$

2013-09-22 Thread Michael Canfield
If it wasn't so far I would have to grab that one up. Mike On Sep 22, 2013 12:44 AM, Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com wrote: considering hte scrap man will pay 400, it's pretty close to rock bottom On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:38 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:

[MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
Here's the straight poop. A piece I did for briefing a Kiwanis group several months ago. GOLDSBORO BROKEN ARROW By Wilton Strickland BROKEN ARROW - an accident with a nuclear weapon or component that does not pose threat of nuclear war. For more than 40 years after WW II, The United States

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread OK Don
Excellent article, as usual. Thanks for sharing it with us. On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:55 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Here's the straight poop. A piece I did for briefing a Kiwanis group several months ago. -- OK Don They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Ok so a stupid question for Wilton, but very important I suppose. So say we were having a Q somewhere and a zombie outbreak happens. There is a B52 or similar near by. Our only escape is for Wilton to fly us out of there. Can you fire it up and fly us out? Or are we all zombie food? Maybe

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread Gerry Archer
Question: If the parachute had not failed on the second bomb, would it have gone off. Thanks, Gerry On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:55 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Here's the straight poop. A piece I did for briefing a Kiwanis group several months ago.

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
If that's what it takes for survival, we'll manage something. Bring Agne along for good measure. Wilton - Original Message - From: Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT but

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
Not very likely - same as bomb #1, ARM/SAFE switches were SAFE. Crew RN had not armed them and never would have without a properly authenticated go-code and certainly not even then, over friendly territory. Wilton - Original Message - From: Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com To:

Re: [MBZ] HVAC / Mono valve issue. UPDATE

2013-09-22 Thread Michael Esh
Dan, If you send me your address I will send the PBU over to you. If not repairable I will order one from Gary. I am not sure, but I think this one was a used one from Programa. I will have to check it when I pull it later this week. Thanks, Mike On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Dan Penoff

Re: [MBZ] W116 clock

2013-09-22 Thread Mike Esh
Ditto on the clock in my 84 300D, it is perfect. Michael E. Esh 231-286-2344 On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: The clock in my 300SD works but runs fast. Very fast. Gains hours a week, or more. Repairable? By contrast the clock in my W123 300D is

Re: [MBZ] OT - photos of the Cessna landing only on microsofty

2013-09-22 Thread Hendrik and Fay
What's that? M$ has something that will only work on their stuff, gee that's never happened before. Hendrik who will have to switch over windoze soon to do some business stuff On 20/09/13 15:30, Craig wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:25:57 -0500 OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: Our son shot

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread Mountain Man
Wy cool description, Wilton - thanks. Are there any pictures of a secondary - just to see that 1960's technology that has enabled a disaster to not turn in to a fiasco? Perhaps you never saw the internals of the package that you flew with? Perhaps it was deemed unimportant for you guys to

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread Mountain Man
Another comment. Perhaps you should gain a bit more notoriety and submit this article to The Guardian so some correct press is gained about this incident. You could become the Edward Snowden of nuke accidents... if this is considered a nuke accident? I suspect you do not consider this as

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
I've seen only sketches and illustrations of secondaries - no more than such found on internet today. 'Some mockups of internal controls 50 years ago. Wilton - Original Message - From: Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent:

[MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
Journalists and wannabe journalists enjoy bringing the subject up every few years and touting it each time as a new, story spiced with sensationalism. Many of them tend to fill in any gaps in their new knowledge about the subject with imagination or what they may have seen in some fictitious

Re: [MBZ] W116 clock

2013-09-22 Thread Dan Penoff
Needs some new caps, probably. Under $3 to repair with Radio Shavk parts. Dan Sent from my iPad On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Mike Esh michael...@mac.com wrote: Ditto on the clock in my 84 300D, it is perfect. Michael E. Esh 231-286-2344 On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Allan Streib

Re: [MBZ] OT but interesting

2013-09-22 Thread WILTON
Oh, in reference to Snowden: I haven't revealed anything that's classified. Wilton - Original Message - From: WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:16 PM Subject: [MBZ] OT but interesting Journalists and