Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

Viable cold is seeing your exhalation. Very Cold is when your nose hairs freeze up and snap off at inhalation. Balaclava helps, but you get icing and your eyebrows and lashes frost over. Eyeballs get sucked dry and hurt. Exterior relative humidity runs around 75%, but interior falls to 3-4%

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

Hoar frost build up on road signs has rendered them unreadable. Tree limbs are becoming exceedingly heavy with increased frost over the very dry snow cover. I suspect the constant condensate from all the furnaces and power plant/vehicles is precipitating out. There are frost rainbows to the

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

I was too lazy to transfer the temp F to C, as it was reported in the newspaper. Not local ANC temp, this was out in the boonies where there are no reliable services the way there are in an urban setting. clay > On Jan 11, 2020, at 8:33 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 1

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:06:42 -0500 Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: > Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:33:42 -0900 Clay via Mercedes > > wrote: > > > >> The more pressing issues seem to be freezing up of drain lines in the > >> -50c weather the past weeks. > > > >-70F ?

Re: [MBZ] Progress 300D 2.5

For non structural rust repair, POR-15 and fiberglass makes a great repair if you don’t want to weld. It’s actually preferable in some cases where the weld can’t be protected from the backside. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 9, 2020, at 5:07 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > I have f

Re: [MBZ] Progress 300D 2.5

I did not know Curley had a 2.5. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 12, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes > wrote: > > I have never welded sheet metal into a car before, but I might tear into > various spots soon. There is a little edge bender I saw that helps make a > little bevel on

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

Yeah, probably - at least if you linger outside at all! Any exposed mucous membranes like your mouth or nose will tell you the minute the ambient air hits them. Another way to tell how *really* cold it is is to expectorate and see how quickly it freezes. If it turns to ice before it hits the g

Re: [MBZ] Replacement Key Head for 124

> Curt wrote: > I made one out of spruce. It lasted tolerably well considering > my poor woodworking skills. I've still got it around somewhere. What about 3D print? Not as elegant, for sure. But easy and effective. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search lis

Re: [MBZ] Replacement Key Head for 124

Mitch - yes, Wilton made one from wood, for his 300D, and that ignition cylinder is now in my long languishing cabriolet, and I have the key too. It is very nice, I simply don't have time to replicate it. Maybe Floyd can set up his DIY CNC machine to cut a batch from wood? Max Dillon Charlest

Re: [MBZ] Progress 300D 2.5

I have never welded sheet metal into a car before, but I might tear into various spots soon. There is a little edge bender I saw that helps make a little bevel on both sides so the weld ends up flush with the surface. On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 2:07 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com>

Re: [MBZ] Replacement Key Head for 124

I have run one of those aluminum key heads on a 123 key for a year or two and aside from the black color wearing off the corners it is as good as the day I put it on. I agree the price is steep. I was going to have a machinist friend do a run in part because my mechanic always comments on how nice

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

-30F north of MPLS one January - we couldn't trun the prop of the radial engine with two of us hanging on it. It took an hour of a big propane heater on the engine and the gasoline powered cabin heater running before we could turn it over - straight 50 wt. oil. Also a new battery - the old one was

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

I experienced -28F one Christmas eve in Central NY. Old Subaru fired right off. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 12:41 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I usually suggest that -20F is, for me anyway, the point at which cold > really starts to hurt.

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

I usually suggest that -20F is, for me anyway, the point at which cold really starts to hurt. Beyond that, as you say, it's pretty much all the same. I think -30f is as cold as I've ever experienced. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 6:59 AM, Dan Penoff via Merce

Re: [MBZ] Replacement Key Head for 124

I made one out of spruce. It lasted tolerably well considering my poor woodworking skills. I've still got it around somewhere. Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 9:55 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > I bought one of these fo

Re: [MBZ] watch out for gray smiley sprinters.

Most likely lawsuits will not be directed at the Island of Large Wimmen or it’s owner. Many of the Amazonia sprinters you see are contractors who own the truck and routes they serve, much like FedEx Ground does. -D > On Jan 12, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > Wher

Re: [MBZ] More windows 10 update

If you’re referring to the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, they hired the Israeli firm (Cellebrite) that does mobile forensic software. No hacker kids involved. -D > On Jan 12, 2020, at 8:53 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > Well, like last time all they have to do is hire a long

[MBZ] watch out for gray smiley sprinters.

Wherever you drive, (on any continent or island)  Watch out for moron drivers in gray sprinter vans with a goofy yellow "smile" on the sides and ends.   I saw one come on an onramp, cut in behind a semi, then immediately cut into the left land on a busy interstate.   The sprinter was going all

Re: [MBZ] More windows 10 update

Well, like last time all they have to do is hire a long haired maggot infested hacker kid. Mitch Haley via Mercedes January 12, 2020 at 6:04 AM The feds are once again mad at Apple, because a dead Saudi 'mass shooter' won't unlock his iPhone for them and Apple

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

Craig via Mercedes wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:33:42 -0900 Clay via Mercedes wrote: The more pressing issues seem to be freezing up of drain lines in the -50c weather the past weeks. -70F ? In Anchorage? -40C=-40F -50C=-58F ___ http://www.okieben

Re: [MBZ] More windows 10 update

Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: It's not "physical" off-site storage, but it is off-site nonetheless. And encrypted is good. I would think most encryption has back doors for our favorite three letter agencies. IIRC, PGP or one popular encryption software was killed due to the lack of access by sai

Re: [MBZ] One for Clay

I could see that. We would occasionally have -40F or colder in WI in the winter. For those who have never experienced temperatures like this, understand that once it gets below about -20F you really can’t tell the difference. It’s just COLD. -D > On Jan 12, 2020, at 12:34 AM, Craig via Mercede

Re: [MBZ] OT - RIP - Neal Peart

Good read. Thanks! -D > On Jan 11, 2020, at 11:53 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > Here is one BMWMOA News article. > > http://neilpeart.net/files/5113/5307/9661/bmw.pdf > > There is a more recent one also.While the band traveled by bus, he rode > to the next destination on