Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Have a look at this youtube tutorial on doing cheap plastic welding.. all home tooled. Save the parts broken out of your bumper and weld them back in... I've used a soldering iron, cheap lowest cost Harbor Freight iron, to weld a lot of broken plastic. With just a bit of practice, you'll get pretty

Re: [MBZ] Crack

2019-06-12 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 22:14:38 -0500 Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > 1995 Mercedes-Benz 300D Diesel 23cty/34hwy great shape all original > > https://austin.craigslist.org/cto/d/round-rock-1995-mercedes-benz-300d/6910635263.html That's odd ... you usually see an inoperative A/C, not an inoper

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 01:13:42 + (UTC) Curt Raymond wrote: > *sigh* > For reasons I don't understand if you copy directly from the browser > Yahoo turns URLs into some kind of weird thing that isn't really a URL. > If you first copy them somewhere thats just plain text it doesn't. Try > this:

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
I had,similar problem in my 2005 E320. After MB Indy changed comand unit, ash tray was,stuck. They made it work but small plastic latch unit had to be replaced. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 8:25 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > So in my desire to have everything in orde

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
In upstate NY they were called 'winter rats'. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 9:07 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > No need to apologize, it’s not your fault. > > I just have to get in the mindset that the ML is a beater truck, or when I > was a kid we called them “farm tr

[MBZ] I’ll

2019-06-12 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
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[MBZ] Crack

2019-06-12 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
1995 Mercedes-Benz 300D Diesel 23cty/34hwy great shape all original https://austin.craigslist.org/cto/d/round-rock-1995-mercedes-benz-300d/6910635263.html Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
These grew 'wild' in NE PA where i grew up. Some people boiled them down for jelly. IIRC,also called choke cherries Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 9:14 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > *sigh* > For reasons I don't understand if you copy directl

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 21:06:46 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > No need to apologize, it’s not your fault. I wasn't apologizing, I was empathizing with your situation. > I bumped the corner of the ML into the corner of the garage. A hole the > size of a softball in the right rear corner of

Re: [MBZ] This would be a lot nicer than that ugly SLC

2019-06-12 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
That is cheap for CD- even non turbo. Dwight Giles Jr. 1982 300CD 2005 E320 4matic Wickford RI On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 8:48 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > How much is Randy going to bid on it? > > > On June 12, 2019 at 1:54 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Kevin Kraly via Mercedes
Just patch it with some matching duct tape Kevin, on a cruise 🚢 in Hoonah, AK Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2019, at 5:06 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > No need to apologize, it’s not your fault. > > I just have to get in the mindset that the ML is a beater truck, or when I >

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Fascinating story. Gotta be careful not to confuse chokecherry with pokeweed berries. You only make that mistake once... On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 8:04 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > URL? > > > > > > Craig > > > DuckDuckGo suggests: > > https://extension.umaine.edu/

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Dan said: >Still sucks, but I’ll get over it. Yup. You'll get over it, after you fix it, when the Finnie is up for sale. For now, out of sight out of mind. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubsc

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
*sigh* For reasons I don't understand if you copy directly from the browser Yahoo turns URLs into some kind of weird thing that isn't really a URL. If you first copy them somewhere thats just plain text it doesn't. Try this: https://extension.umaine.edu/agriculture/aronia/plant-description-and-h

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
No need to apologize, it’s not your fault. I just have to get in the mindset that the ML is a beater truck, or when I was a kid we called them “farm trucks”. Work trucks that were just another tool for getting a job done. Still sucks, but I’ll get over it. -D > On Jun 12, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Cr

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:29:58 -0400 Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Ouch! Indeed! Sorry for the problems! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://ma

Re: [MBZ] This would be a lot nicer than that ugly SLC

2019-06-12 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
How much is Randy going to bid on it? > On June 12, 2019 at 1:54 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > > https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979-mercedes-benz-300cd-6 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/

Re: [MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Ouch! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC On June 12, 2019 8:24:48 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >So in my desire to have everything in order on the ML500 before I send >it off to long term storage, I decide I’m going to get the front ash >tray working (it sticks closed) and replace the light

[MBZ] The Details

2019-06-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
So in my desire to have everything in order on the ML500 before I send it off to long term storage, I decide I’m going to get the front ash tray working (it sticks closed) and replace the light bulb in it, too. Little did I know…. So I fight with the ashtray for a good 30 minutes. The insert com

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> URL? > > > Craig DuckDuckGo suggests: https://extension.umaine.edu/agriculture/aronia/plant-description-and-habitat/ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: h

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:30:23 + (UTC) Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > UMaine has an interesting write up: Plant Description and Habitat of > Aronia (black chokeberry) - Cooperative Extension: Agriculture - > University of Maine Cooperative Extension URL? Craig _

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
UMaine has an interesting write up: Plant Description and Habitat of Aronia (black chokeberry) - Cooperative Extension: Agriculture - University of Maine Cooperative Extension | | | | | | | | | | | Plant Description and Habitat of Aronia (black chokeberry) - Cooperative... Black ch

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Aronia   much like a blueberry, but better, except not as sweet.  Dogs love em.  Berries make great wine too. Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote on 6/12/19 1:43 PM: That word "expensive"... We've been looking at planting berries of some sort to attract birds. We're zone 4a so anything we plant

Re: [MBZ] Hey Kaleb

2019-06-12 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Water went down here week before last. We were stuck at home for 11 days Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2019, at 5:10 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > What is the story on the flooding? I tried a google search but there is not > much out there on the web that I see. > > Typica

[MBZ] Hey Kaleb

2019-06-12 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
What is the story on the flooding?  I tried a google search but there is not much out there on the web that I see. Typical news reports - lots of interest when bad things are happening but no news when things start to get cleaned up. ___ http://www.okieben

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Yup, I grew turnips one year. I was unsure what the deer would do with them. I found that the deer would both browse the tops and pull the whole turnip out of the ground to eat the root. That was one of my more successful experiments and I intend to try that again in the next year or two. For n

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
That word "expensive"... We've been looking at planting berries of some sort to attract birds. We're zone 4a so anything we plant has to be very cold tolerant. Thinking about lingonberries, if they're good enough for the Swedes they should be okay for us. -Curt On Wednesday, June 12, 2019,

Re: [MBZ] This would be a lot nicer than that ugly SLC

2019-06-12 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
As if anyone needs an excuse to visit Vancouver BC... BTW, that is ENGLISH, not "brilliant" red. On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 1:55 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979-mercedes-benz-300cd-6 > > -- > --FT > > > _

[MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
One of my hunting buddies grows a few plots of Brassica for the whitetails at his camp. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt Raymond via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 11:15 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curt Raym

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Oh I get it. Why not should grow the most expensive, fragrant, beautiful roses instead - excellent deer bait On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:35 PM Curt Raymond wrote: > Specifically to attract the deer and fatten them up, crazy no? > > The idea is to the harvest the deer. Hasn't worked yet but we see

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Specifically to attract the deer and fatten them up, crazy no? The idea is to the harvest the deer. Hasn't worked yet but we see more deer sign every year. I've chased several does around but the bucks are elusive. -Curt On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, 2:32:28 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel wrote

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
In a word-venison. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:33 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > You grow a crop to feed deer?? Here in suburban DC we go out of our way to > plant shrubs that deer find repellent. > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:1

Re: [MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
You grow a crop to feed deer?? Here in suburban DC we go out of our way to plant shrubs that deer find repellent. On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:15 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Have any of you watched the MN Millennial Farmer on YouTube? > https://www.youtube.com/cha

[MBZ] OT: Millennial Farmer

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Have any of you watched the MN Millennial Farmer on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp0rRUsMDlJ1meYAQ6_37Dw I find his videos moderately entertaining even if he doesn't seem to realize that real tractors are red. Its still fun to watch big equipment running around doing big equipment t

[MBZ] This would be a lot nicer than that ugly SLC

2019-06-12 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979-mercedes-benz-300cd-6 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_oki

Re: [MBZ] Finnie Fun is Baaaack!

2019-06-12 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 11/06/2019 9:00 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: Why do you want a radio in a Mercedes? You should be revelling in the precision mechanical hum of the engine, tranny, etc. Too true. My 300D has had nothing but a hole in the dash where the radio used to be for the past 13 years or so. I have a

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
In that particular group yes Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2019, at 11:14 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > So, what we need is not brighter gauges, but brighter people. > > >> On 12/06/2019 5:00 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> Just to clarify, I am NOT in that group, nor

Re: [MBZ] 1980 450SL C on BAT

2019-06-12 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On June 12, 2019 at 12:11 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > > If I hear you correctly, Grant, you would prefer it be painted in another > color? There are two acceptable colors to do that in. The factory paint (which is claimed here but I haven't confirmed). Anything that look

Re: [MBZ] Finnie Fun is Baaaack!

2019-06-12 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
How archaic. You could have fun by turning it on, and then giving a voice command ("play now") after 2 minutes. Your passengers will be very impressed at the advanced technology from the '60s.. On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 6:09 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Thanks! > >

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
So, what we need is not brighter gauges, but brighter people. On 12/06/2019 5:00 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: Just to clarify, I am NOT in that group, nor do I intend to join. I’m sure if I was I would be very unpopular in a hurry. -D On Jun 11, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Curley McLain via Mer

Re: [MBZ] 1980 450SL C on BAT

2019-06-12 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
If I hear you correctly, Grant, you would prefer it be painted in another color? On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 1:37 AM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > Complete strip and paint? In THAT color? . Why bother... > That car is singularly the most un-exciting example I believe I have ever > seen. When I l

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Exactly!  that is why I was suggesting a way to melt their instrument clusters. Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote on 6/12/19 5:08 AM: Ah c'mon. Join the fun! One of the resident gurus had to correct Kaleb the other day Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.co

Re: [MBZ] Kaleb Car Alert!!

2019-06-12 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Go for it Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 12, 2019, at 9:38 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > What a steal!! > > https://sarasota.craigslist.org/cto/d/north-port-1984-mercedes-190/6901543501.html > > -D > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To se

Re: [MBZ] Kaleb Car Alert!!

2019-06-12 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
We can stuff a V12 in there --FT On 6/12/19 10:38 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: What a steal!! https://sarasota.craigslist.org/cto/d/north-port-1984-mercedes-190/6901543501.html -D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okieb

[MBZ] Kaleb Car Alert!!

2019-06-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
What a steal!! https://sarasota.craigslist.org/cto/d/north-port-1984-mercedes-190/6901543501.html -D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.c

Re: [MBZ] OT time to do something about by main desktop

2019-06-12 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Security in the office has gotten to the point where I can't take anything home anymore which is a shame. I do have an XW8600 at home that got replaced with a Mac Pro. I haven't turned it on for months, I probably should get it moved out and get a smaller desk, it'd make space in our living roo

Re: [MBZ] Chowdah cooker?

2019-06-12 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Stack yo diesel bro and cook them quahogs --FT On 6/11/19 8:47 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: Maybe make a W123 version? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190611/b9c0207b6a8215ed2a77f9762c90068a.jpg ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread MG via Mercedes
That's what i was thinking but the needles would be very hard to see. They need to glow red to make it work right. MG Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: Got me thinking: Kleb and Dan and whoever else is on the fakebuch 123 kiddie klub could have some fun raving about how they installed haloge

Re: [MBZ] Chowdah cooker?

2019-06-12 Thread MG via Mercedes
Would have to. That one won't go very far. Looks like the tires are flat on the bottom. Needs to rotate them things. MG Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: Maybe make a W123 version? https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190611/b9c0207b6a8215ed2a77f9762c90068a.jpg __

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I keep my presence on FB to a minimum. If it wasn’t for the Vet’s group I wouldn’t be there at all. -D > On Jun 12, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes > wrote: > > Ah c'mon. Join the fun! One of the resident gurus had to correct Kaleb the > other day > > > Rick > > From: merc

Re: [MBZ] Finnie Fun is Baaaack!

2019-06-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Thanks! I was really struggling with what to do radio-wise. Finding a working Becker or other brand that is period correct is getting to be pretty expensive these days. Luckily, I found this one for cheap from a BW forum member who had listed it for sale some months ago with no takers. No facep

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Ah c'mon. Join the fun! One of the resident gurus had to correct Kaleb the other day Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: June 12, 2019 5:01 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: d...@penoff.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges? Just to clarify, I am NOT in t

Re: [MBZ] brighter gauges?

2019-06-12 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Just to clarify, I am NOT in that group, nor do I intend to join. I’m sure if I was I would be very unpopular in a hurry. -D > On Jun 11, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > Got me thinking: Kleb and Dan and whoever else is on the fakebuch 123 kiddie > klub could have

Re: [MBZ] OT time to do something about by main desktop

2019-06-12 Thread fmiser via Mercedes
> Curt wrote: > One of my instructor systems at work is at least 9 years old, > HP XW8600, it still works good but we're looking at ending > support for Windows 7 and I've got a system thats 2 generations > newer so I'll probably switch to that. I could give that XW8600 a good home here __