Re: [MBZ] Online manual

2020-04-04 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Thanks. On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 6:03 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > https://www.tradebit.com/G/manuals > > > Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > > April 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM > > Could someone please

[MBZ] Hell of a deal, price discounted big

2020-04-04 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** OT: Cruise Ship v. Navy Ship

2020-04-04 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
I call dibs on the "funds manager" title... ; On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 6:21 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Good idea. Cher and that ny broad with the big nose (babs or is it > boob? strysick) can go there with the money, and stay > > > G Mann via Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** OT: Cruise Ship v. Navy Ship

2020-04-04 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Good idea.   Cher and that ny broad with the big nose (babs or is it boob? strysick) can go there with the money, and stay G Mann via Mercedes April 4, 2020 at 8:11 PM It's OK... Venezuela has a big navy and lots of spare ships. It's communist leaders will just

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** OT: Cruise Ship v. Navy Ship

2020-04-04 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
It's OK... Venezuela has a big navy and lots of spare ships. It's communist leaders will just issue them another one... Let's start a go fund me and ask all Hollywood to "contribute their fair share" to replace the ship you know, like the Clinton Foundation. On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 6:05 PM

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** OT: Cruise Ship v. Navy Ship

2020-04-04 Thread Mitchell Haley EA via Mercedes
On Sat, April 4, 2020 7:22 pm, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes wrote: > https://www.jpost.com/international/venezuelan-warship-shoots-rams-into-g > erman-cruise-vessel-before-sinking-623422 > > > > Perhaps the name of the ship might have given the Venezuelans a hint > about the strength of the hull!

[MBZ] ***SPAM*** OT: Cruise Ship v. Navy Ship

2020-04-04 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
https://www.jpost.com/international/venezuelan-warship-shoots-rams-into-german-cruise-vessel-before-sinking-623422 Perhaps the name of the ship might have given the Venezuelans a hint about the strength of the hull! ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Online manual

2020-04-04 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
https://www.tradebit.com/G/manuals Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes April 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM Could someone please re-post the link to online repair manuals? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

[MBZ] Online manual

2020-04-04 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Could someone please re-post the link to online repair manuals? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] [Banned] 220SE

2020-04-04 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
If you have the ca$h for a car with a chewed up seat I have a better deal for you: a classic station wagon with unchewed seats at a fraction of the price. Andrew 1983 300TD on the way to 1 million miles On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:52 AM Bill Wachsmuth via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> One person decided that the best way to do this is with a solar cell > battery charger - charges by day, discharges by night - automatically! I'd > be tempted to try that with a generator if it isn't under too many trees. I'm doing that with our three pickup trucks. Solar minders sitting on

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> I'm not willing to try and delid CPUs. I’ve read and seen too many horror > stories about the process going wrong. Having been through it, it's easy. There are just a few mistakes to avoid. I learned what not to do on a $6 X5650, which I destroyed. You could, too. Or, learn from my mistakes

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
In studying up on the maintenance of aircraft lead acid batteries, I've read that the batteries need some time to periodically drain if they are sitting unused for long periods of time. The recommendation from the battery manufacturers is to not plug the Minder in till the day after the last

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> I bet I could heat my house with that setup. The 4,1, according to my calibrated feet, puts out less heat than the 2,1 did. It's not that much. My work on the 2,1, when trying to get its power draw down, had a minimal system drawing about 100W. Even fairly loaded up it was still only about

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> Am I to understand this involves cutting off/removing the metal can > covering the CPU's chip? Yes. Some people use a vise and extreme force. Others, including me, use heat to melt the solder. There is a low-temperature indium (?) solder used to solder the top of the die directly to a heavy

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Not unless he’s doing some rendering or ripping video. For my regular day to day stuff my machine is rarely ever above 2%-4% utilization. I hear my hard drives more than I hear the fans. You want heat you should see one of the forensic workstations we have at work. We call it the “space

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Jim, You are a far braver man than I. I have both a single and dual CPU tray for a 4,1. My current cheesegrater (flashed to 5,1, of course) is running the dual tray but with two quad core Xeons running at 2.26 GHz. I would love to do a CPU upgrade just for grins and because it’s a huge bump in

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
I bet I could heat my house with that setup. G. -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cathey via Mercedes Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2020 12:34 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Jim Cathey Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers Recently I

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 12:33:57 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > For thermal reasons, though, the heat sinks are different on the > dual-CPU 4,1 machines. There isn't enough room to fit two of the > single-CPU sinks, so Apple spec'd de-lidded CPUs for the duals, and > those are a bit hard to

Re: [MBZ] OT: Computers

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Recently I had purchased a dual-CPU MacPro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1) to upgrade from my 2,1 running El Capitan. I had to have High Sierra in order to run my work's VMware tasks, and the 5,1 is capable of this. (Not, however, without the 6-core CPU's.) I'd bought a low-speed 4,1 single-CPU tray,

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
My mistake, our computer cluster is running off an APC Smart-UPS 2000, not a 1500. It's holding up three Mac Pros (cheese graters), a Mac Mini, a Macbook Pro, two Ethernet switches, a Lenovo ThinkCentre, an old ISC DNP20, which has been running sprinklers and lights since 1995 or thereabouts, and

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Batteries suck, period. The only ones that don't appear to are the old Nickel-Iron Edison batteries. (But even those suck, if cost, weight, and/or charge efficiency matter to you.) We hates them. I'm fairly well pleased, though, that the 75AH 4-battery SLA bank on my APC Smart-UPS 1500 has

Re: [MBZ] [Banned] 220SE

2020-04-04 Thread Bill Wachsmuth via Mercedes
As I went through the pics I was all “wow, I have the cash for that” then I got to the binnacle (wrong) and then the seat that was eaten by a dinosaur. And what the fuck is that color combination. I have a neighbor with a tobacco brown Pagoda that his mom bought new. Time to hit him up. On Fri,

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Doubtful. In almost 25 years in the business, and granted, that ended some years back, batteries have always been a major Achille’s heel of standby generator systems. Because they’re constantly being charged, even just at a “float” voltage and current, their life is limited. Think about your

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Mitchell Haley EA via Mercedes
On Sat, April 4, 2020 6:51 am, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > > Battery chargers have always seemed to be an issue for everyone. Kohler > had problems with them for years as did Onan and Generac. Some models > worked well, others were inadequate. Part of the problem is trying to > come up with a

Re: [MBZ] 220SE

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
That binnacle is jarring. I like the Alpine under dash cassette deck. Nice retro touch. -D > On Apr 3, 2020, at 10:40 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > 1966 Mercedes Special edition EURO > >

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
That’s one of Generac’s load shed modules. It’s a WiFi controlled contactor that the transfer switch logic talks to in order to shed load. They use these a lot with the smaller standby sets, as it allows them to size it in a manner that controls loads on the generator set so you prioritize

Re: [MBZ] OT - Home Standby Generator

2020-04-04 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
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