Re: [MBZ] OT: End of the Nuke Era in Switzerland

2019-12-21 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Vlad is flipping the bird to the west with his gas emanations. He just flipped the switch on a massive gas pipeline to China a few days ago. Their demand, his supply, will result in increased prices for NG in NATO nations. Even the folks in AK are trying to ship CNG to our Sino buddies, as

Re: [MBZ] OT: End of the Nuke Era in Switzerland

2019-12-20 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Unless the place has done some serious upgrades to power supply in the past 45 years, there is going to be many cold/dark nights. I recall when the plant they just shuttered came online. Big cheers that there would be reliable power so the economy could grow and Helvetia would be safe for

Re: [MBZ] Cell phones, long post

2019-12-20 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
for in flight streaming clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. > On Dec 20, 2019, at 2:14 AM, dan--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > Here’s the straight poop from someone who was involved heavily

Re: [MBZ] How do I pull the radio head unit?

2019-12-19 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Those hooks are for pulling the cluster. Radio takes another key set that inserts into those channels. There is a finger loop on your side and the blade end tapers to a pointed end that will engage the spring metal detents, releasing their hold on the radio. At that point you can use the

Re: [MBZ] Few minutes to buy a reasonably-priced G500

2019-12-19 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I think G wagons have always been a bit of a cult item, since the Shah of Iran had MB design and build some for his army use. When the things were about as basic as a rock, the trucks were pretty solid. Lots of grey market lust in USA until MBUSA got the go ahead to import them. As LUXURY

Re: [MBZ] OT: Winter tires

2019-12-18 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I have been doing research to learn more about why and what are the best winter tires to mount for the Arctic. There is a fellow on the TUBE of Ewe who drives around the Nokian winter track testing tires in his VW. Seems there are two forms of winter tire Hakipolita X3 or such. He tested

Re: [MBZ] OT: Winter tires

2019-12-18 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Winter tires do make a difference. Depends on how much ice and snow you are dealing with if they are a reasonable investment. The compound is much more pliable in very low temps. There is added traction and reduced stopping distance in braking. I am not sure about crawling up a hill. SWMBA

Re: [MBZ] TV's

2019-12-18 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Speaking of the game of rings. Y’all recall the hype when the Lake Placid Olympics were being sent by fiber to be broadcast? So much better picture quality… on our clapped out color CRT over the air. I doubt even cable had any impact on the upgraded transmissions clay > On Dec 18, 2019, at

Re: [MBZ] TV's

2019-12-17 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
the kids have hooked video game to it and sit almost a meter off the screen staring at a steep angle up the wall. clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. > On Dec 17, 2019, at 7:01 PM, Rick Knoble via

Re: [MBZ] Holy crap

2019-12-17 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
That looks pretty cobbled together. Not a pro job clay > On Dec 17, 2019, at 3:29 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2898535976872128/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > >

Re: [MBZ] OT more boars 

2019-12-17 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Therefore, there will be a changing of the climate, but the waters of the ocean, sky and rivers will not increase, such that they break the covenant. There living creatures will get damp feet, but will all do fine. Greenland will become green, Antarctica will remain dark for months, as will

Re: [MBZ] ***SPAM*** RE: ***SPAM*** RE: Something for the guys who need to avoid deer

2019-12-14 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Invasive plagues? Maybe relates to climate change, but I have noted an increase is nature attacking. There was a story in the paper about a deer out clubbing in the nightlife district a few weeks ago. Middle of downtown, rollicking Friday night around 1am with drunks, hookers, club bands

Re: [MBZ] OT: Smoldering iron still works

2019-12-14 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Well invested and congratulations on getting the Canon back on the road. Keep and eye on the Seattle Goodwill store on the bay of fleas. There is an awful lot of camera gear that shows up regularly. The intake system for goods has developed specialists who will divert the quality merch from

Re: [MBZ] 1980 300SD Drive train vibration

2019-12-11 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
My indy was of the mind that it was a waste of his time and my cash to fix just one flex disk when I came in with vibrations. His book time to do the front and rears along with the center bearing was close enough to just doing a single disk. Just the cost of parts with the mark up. I never

Re: [MBZ] Barrister Question

2019-12-09 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The degree only matters for the big firms. They have to feel they are purchasing cream of the crop. SWMBA’s firm was big fish in the small PDX pond, but really wanted Ivy League talent. Those folks tended to either have been locals and would stay put, or left in a few years. Turned out the

Re: [MBZ] OT - Roomba

2019-12-09 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
We had/have one. It was the pet hair edition, because that was supposed to be the top of the line at the time. Pretty simple to operate once it was charged up. Let it loose and over time it would map the space and become much more reliable at removing dirt. When it died, #2 boy adopted it

Re: [MBZ] OT - There be spies

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Too much fresh stuff still on hand, though I did eat the last two week old banana, so maybe I need more. Just hard to be a faithful consumer when you no longer consume as prodigiously. Maybe I stock up when I get the shingles shot. That is bound to alert all manner of spam purveyors. clay >

Re: [MBZ] OT - There be spies

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
; Randy > > On 05/12/2019 4:22 PM, Clay Monroe via Mercedes wrote: >> Maybe some of the clean living. Not a real dine out sort, so I do my own >> cooking. SWMBA does not have real food, just this chemical parade of >> powders to meet the Ketogenic recipes. All that

Re: [MBZ] OT - There be spies

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
beans were left on the self, having become "less nutritious” a few years ago. clay > On Dec 5, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Clay Monroe via Mercedes > wrote: > > Maybe some of the clean living. Not a real dine out sort, so I do my own > cooking. SWMBA does not have real food, just

Re: [MBZ] OT - There be spies

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
There was a question about contacting me. I gave the phone # for contacting ME, which was the only contact point, as I have never had portal with them and want my results on paper, not some web spot the chinese can hack clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and sh

Re: [MBZ] OT - There be spies

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Maybe some of the clean living. Not a real dine out sort, so I do my own cooking. SWMBA does not have real food, just this chemical parade of powders to meet the Ketogenic recipes. All that leaves to eat is cheese disguising itself as tortilla, pizza dough, bread, and strange sugar

Re: [MBZ] Accident

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Subrogation is good, but I have learned the need for police reports, a call to an attorney right off, take all medical care offered or needed, and do not talk to opposing side unless my lawyers is talking. Speeds my side right up and slows the other guy from bending me over. clay > On Dec

[MBZ] OT - There be spies

2019-12-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I am now looking for the black helicopters I was doing my annual visit to the internist. He was pleased to see that a loss of 12 kilo had dropped all my stats well into the healthy zone, and the cholesterol figures were great. Blood pressure has dropped too. He tells me I need to keep

Re: [MBZ] So this "abandoned" S55..

2019-12-03 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I would run screaming from any W220. The one I had was all manner of trouble, and it was a 2002. The teething issues on a 2000 would scare me. Ask Don though clay > On Dec 3, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > So YOU could buy this S55... > > --FT > > On 12/3/19

Re: [MBZ] Florida Wildlife for Andrew

2019-12-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
B-i-L was able to arrange with local farm folk to get tags to remove pesky deer. Had to get a special permit, then take the remains home to put to good use. Farmers got venison and sausage for their troubles. That was over a decade ago, before he split with SWMBA's sister. clay monroe >

Re: [MBZ] New Parkinsons Treatment?

2019-12-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Might be a left brain-right brain motion and eye movement integration. I seem to recall something where the treatment was and eye movement exercise, which somehow re-integrated the hemispheres. clay > On Dec 1, 2019, at 9:40 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > That's interesting,

Re: [MBZ] 500 SEL Anybody?

2019-11-29 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Seattle No exploded soda inside. Could be useful to have Regina drive it, since it runs and will be wrecked soon enough, so no need to bother with a full Martha clay Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media,

Re: [MBZ] Tomorrow's activities

2019-11-27 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Back in the kitchen at Mom’s place, same as most every year. Smaller crowd, as the bulk of the extended family is dispersed. Will have to deal with special menu, as half the attendees have medical issues. Mom told me she is going to eat real food this meal, even if she suffers for the next

Re: [MBZ] OT - User Friendly

2019-11-23 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
t; eliminating the switches and motors and wiring that my 124 cars have. I > would consider that an upgrade in usefulness if I could retro-fit those > type of seats and get the color / material to match. > > > ----- > Max > Charleston SC > > > On Fri, N

[MBZ] OT - User Friendly

2019-11-22 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
This may not be off topic, but I found the article interesting enough to go look for the book https://www.wired.com/story/how-dumb-design-wwii-plane-led-macintosh/ I wonder how much the dumbing down of the user experience has impacted the newer model cars. I had to drive SWMBA’s ‘yota of

Re: [MBZ] Cheep Jeep

2019-11-18 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Yeep Grand Crumpet lived in the garage for at least a year or more before #2 boy was old enough to use it for transport to high school and work. Then it sat idle for months on end until he returned back north this past summer. I did take it out and off the trickle charger a few times last

[MBZ] Cheep Jeep

2019-11-17 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Busy weekend, sort of Began when SWMBA finally got confirmation the ‘yota was on the move north. Seems the best way to suck a car to the GWN is to initiate the process from this end instead of futzing around with generic and unproven brokers in the lower 48. I truly appreciate the

Re: [MBZ] Panic bidding for 240D Euro 5 speed on BAT

2019-11-17 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
There are fewer and fewer people interested in the classics. Having acknowledged that, the fellow who won best of show at the local section Show and Shine this year was early 30’s with an original 1953 sedan he was in the process of putting back together. Preservation, not restoration type

Re: [MBZ] Natural gas vs oil?

2019-11-14 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
prices do fluctuate. At the moment it is pretty cheap in PNW. Alaska has so much on hand, they want to make an LNG plant and ship gas to china. There are even a few shipping lines converting to run on LNG between SEA and ANC the stuff is so low price. clay monroe > I turned my compu

Re: [MBZ] List Mom

2019-11-13 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Guenther Schwab, an Austrian, aligned himself with a group that best matched his conservationist beliefs in the 1920’s. Deep into blood and soil being bonded and radical environmental thought. He wrote a book in 1958, "Dance with the Devil”. It preached about rising CO2 and became the guide

Re: [MBZ] OT - Car Hauler?

2019-11-13 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
“yota highlander to replace the 20 year old jeep. This months weather is messed up and the main roads would be I-80 or I-90 for distance. Probable best course is I-40 or I-10 to avoid the blizzards, and drive up I-5 out of Kali. Same bad issues the hauler faces for a road tripping event.

[MBZ] OT - Car Hauler?

2019-11-12 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
SWMBA purchased a car out of Southeast MO. The transport broker(?) who was supposed to get the thing hauled to SEA for placement onto a boat has dropped the ball. The car was expected to be on the ship last week. Now it looks like it might not be up here for driving until 2020 if she keeps

Re: [MBZ] Kleb - a train is coming for you ...

2019-11-11 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
is that it will be on the rails maybe next summer. clay monroe > On Nov 11, 2019, at 3:23 PM, OK Don via Mercedes > wrote: > > Union Pacific steam locomotive to stop in OK > https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/iconic-union-pacific-steam-locomotive-to-make-a-few-stops-in-oklahoma-this-m

Re: [MBZ] Still hate Toyota?

2019-11-02 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Costco is selling the plug in boxes for the house for a plug in car clay > On Nov 1, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > Just kidding. I know that to own a Prius would absolutely Destroy you. > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 5:07 PM Dimitri Seretakis > wrote: > >>

Re: [MBZ] tank patched

2019-11-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
#1 boy (apprentice electrician) says those things scare the crap out of guys who work on them. Massive 15 foot pole behind a shield and run away. He sends me pix of scary electric panels and scorch marks nearby in the shape of work boots clay > On Nov 1, 2019, at 1:27 PM, Andrew Strasfogel

[MBZ] WUZ -Re: OT: Daimler switching out of developing natural gas powered trucks

2019-10-30 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The arctic must be warming. I took a visit to the ‘yota lot this week (SWMBA finally got her car in for service after four years). It looks like there is a market for Priapus cars now. No other hybrid models for sale, just the pr. There was even a plug in type went past while I was

Re: [MBZ] OT: Daimler switching out of developing natural gas powered trucks

2019-10-30 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
ppens when the power lines break from ice accumulation? h > Just a thought Think I'll keep motoring along in my "million mile > Mercedes"... > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:07 PM Clay Monroe via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Angry

Re: [MBZ] OT: Daimler switching out of developing natural gas powered trucks

2019-10-29 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Angry children are the ones who will be purchasing the utopian marketing machines. They are going to save the world by driving all over with their off set carbons. clay > On Oct 28, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > Maybe they listened to a Scandinavian child who

Re: [MBZ] All electric cars

2019-10-29 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
That did give me very bad ideas clay > On Oct 28, 2019, at 9:03 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > >> What you really needed, was the auxiliary tank that mounted in the trunk! > > That 240D slug we had, with the aux tank in the trunk, easily had a 1000 mile > range. Clay even saw it

Re: [MBZ] All electric cars

2019-10-29 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Maybe, but I would have felt a burning need to keep the tanks filled at each fuel stop. The jerry cans allowed for refueling my choice of cars, SD, SDL, or some old diesel toyota pickup clay > On Oct 28, 2019, at 8:39 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > On 27/10/2019 9

Re: [MBZ] WUZ: Re: wretched ricebox WUZ: Re: (no subject)

2019-10-26 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
aside, the soldier's skill will most > likely be the same as a video gamer's. > > Clay Monroe via Mercedes wrote on 10/26/19 2:18 PM: >> ... >> Three Score and 15 years ago, we SIMULTANEOUSLY defeated enemies on both >> sides of the world. Today, we are concerned a

Re: [MBZ] Know as the best car ever built do your homework........

2019-10-26 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
That is a very odd deformation in the rear seat. Would indicate MiL was Botero-esque or there are more miles on the clock clay > On Oct 26, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > 4spd, looks pretty nice > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1235057036682452/ >

Re: [MBZ] Not for bottom feeders

2019-10-26 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Looks really nice, but need to drop his ask by $1500 due to the radio being incorrect for that model year clay > On Oct 26, 2019, at 7:29 AM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > wrote: > > https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/787358529/overview/ > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI >

Re: [MBZ] wretched ricebox

2019-10-26 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Randy, it might be a matter of apples and tangerines. There were a number of asian autos I have owned that I liked and gave good service. For some reason most of them were not held onto for overly long, being upgraded to fresher asian iron by SWMBA. This group likes the reliability of those

[MBZ] WUZ: Re: wretched ricebox WUZ: Re: (no subject)

2019-10-26 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The wont is pretty strong in the nation at the moment. Should the need arise, the whole effort would become mired in the process and paperwork, committees and focus groups before anything shovel ready could be brought online. There just is not the ready infrastructure in place to ramp up.

Re: [MBZ] wretched ricebox WUZ: Re: (no subject)

2019-10-24 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The US will lose the next war because we no longer have the industrial infrastructure to supply the arms required. This came to me as I was walking the dog the other day and seeing the 40 year old homes in the neighborhoods rotting away. Low cost, slap dash construction with T1-11 and no

Re: [MBZ] wretched ricebox WUZ: Re: (no subject)

2019-10-24 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The appliances are not cheap. The things are expensive, do not remain reliable and functional for very long and do not repair. That is idiocy. But it does keep the factories churning out consumer goods. Except not our factories. Alaska is a small town. No way for economy of scale, so the

Re: [MBZ] wretched ricebox WUZ: Re: (no subject)

2019-10-24 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
complex computerized bells, whistles, dingles and dongles. The base models are not even up to the interior quality of early Honda, Subaru, Datsun or Toyota, which had more robust fabric, vinyl, door cards and molded plastic. This new stuff is akin to Dollar Store motorized toys. clay monroe

Re: [MBZ] (no subject)

2019-10-23 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
SWMBA thinks along those lines. New cars are “more reliable” so cost less to keep on the road. Steaming Pile She has not taken the thing she drives to the shop for other than oil changes in the past six years and 50k miles. Tossing $20k + paying it off all that time and no visit to keep

Re: [MBZ] I Am Living Right

2019-10-23 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The dark side does have cookies. The truly evil aspect is there is no mention that these same cookies will be shared with you. clay > On Oct 23, 2019, at 9:50 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > Come to the dark side, we have cookies... > >On Wednesday, October 23, 2019,

Re: [MBZ] 1983 Mercedes 380SL project car - $1500 (Charleston)

2019-10-23 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I would put money on it. Heck, I have most of the parts it needs on my shelves right now. clay > On Oct 23, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > Could be a decent beater or to fix up. Seems to be an actual honest ad! > >

Re: [MBZ] I Am Living Right

2019-10-21 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Much of ANC is pretty darn rural and industrial, as there is a glaring lack of urban planning. I have found a pocket neighborhood between light industrial tracts and some heavy commercial. Things grow like mushrooms on cow patties and very willy nilly. The neighborhood of SWMBA has HOA and

Re: [MBZ] I Am Living Right

2019-10-21 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
as a pin and wreak havoc on my assessments each year. Populated by prickly people with enviro aspirations with their Priuapussies and Tesla, Gore tex and kayak carriers. clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fa

Re: [MBZ] OT: USA's largest and very old storage battery

2019-10-21 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I take a few of the extending education for olde folke classes. One is renewable energy in the great dark north. The last class had the leader of the Kodiak electric company. Old way they spew electrons was with diesel, then they build a hydro set up with room for three generators, but

Re: [MBZ] Think this will buff out?

2019-10-20 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
-D > > >> On Oct 20, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Clay Monroe via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> SWMBA is on auto purchase path for the jeep replacement, which means a >> ‘Yota, not this. I made the mistake of mentioning the Daimler and was >> swiftly shut down.

Re: [MBZ] wow

2019-10-20 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
. I put 8-10 tanks of fuel through, that car is getting maybe 2 fillings per season. Gummed up injectors and filters. A good PPI will tell the tale clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. > On Oct

Re: [MBZ] Think this will buff out?

2019-10-20 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
. The Daimler would need new interior by a pro, and the market for Jag derived cars in SEA is slack. There are too many people there who want new stuff, not the older cars desiring rebuilds. Maybe I get $3k? clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookm

Re: [MBZ] Think this will buff out?

2019-10-20 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
SWMBA is on auto purchase path for the jeep replacement, which means a ‘Yota, not this. I made the mistake of mentioning the Daimler and was swiftly shut down. Just as well, I have no tools or goodies to work on it, nor a heated space in ANC. clay monroe > I turned my computer upside d

[MBZ] Think this will buff out?

2019-10-18 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
https://anchorage.craigslist.org/cto/d/fairbanks-1965-daimler-250-saloon/6989425931.html Nice enough project car that I could spiff up and put onto BaT clay ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] Nice E430 for Kleb

2019-10-17 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I was passed on the road this afternoon by a w210 with a ghetto respray. I came up in the rear view mirror and I was confused, because I knew the profile, but the day-glow green racing stripe and fanciful lightning bolts scheme felt wrong. At a stop light I could see that the rattle can black

Re: [MBZ] Clay - It's Only Getting Worse!

2019-10-16 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
End of last weeks a homeless gal had her trailer towed and parked in front of a City council members home. Made the local conservative radio show. clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. > On Oct

Re: [MBZ] Cord Cutting

2019-10-13 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
How does youtubeTV get there? I had assumed it ran on your interwebz. I gave up on live TV due to poor quality digital signal and cost of service for cable shows. I had intended to swap to the DSL folks back many years ago and took the crimecast box back to their store. The fellow behind

Re: [MBZ] Tesla Model 3: More "Global Climate Change" than a Mercedes

2019-10-13 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
that was about. It is the part of AK that has trains. clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. > On Oct 12, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > At $0.34/KwH it wouldn’t make a l

Re: [MBZ] Tesla Model 3: More "Global Climate Change" than a Mercedes

2019-10-12 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The local installer who was part of the presentation only does on grid stuff, so was not all that versed with off grid system. The main presenter was all engineering and knowledge, as well as a user of his own PV system. He made note that there is, or upcoming tech to allow you to sever the

Re: [MBZ] Tesla Model 3: More "Global Climate Change" than a Mercedes

2019-10-11 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I am taking “old People Education classes” now that I am back in the cold of ANC. One class is run by an astrophysicist who is preaching global warming under the guise of Climate change in the arctic. A very frantic fellow who extrapolates from limited data sets to spew the accepted party

Re: [MBZ] Tesla Model 3: More "Global Climate Change" than a Mercedes

2019-10-11 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The TESLA-rati in SEA are working around the issue of remoteness. With the big goobermint rebates going to be phased out, there was a mad rush to toss solar PV on as many roofs of the homes of tesla owners. I took my morning constitutionals this past summer and found house after house with

Re: [MBZ] 107 SL question

2019-10-07 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Need to make sure it has double row timing chain. Price is on the spot for a #4 example. There are a few niggling issues all over, with paint, interior, engine, and controls that will benefit with many hours of attention to details. The car is a driver, but will take around $20k investment

Re: [MBZ] 107 SL question

2019-10-07 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
The 107 is a short legged persons car. As we age, gravity begins to defeat your ability to spring jauntily out of the driver seat. If you are an athletic fellow in full midlife crisis mode, entering and exiting the SL is not a chore. For an old fart out of shape guy, you want to stay in the

Re: [MBZ] Painting my alloy wheels.

2019-10-07 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
DO NOT SAND BLAST the wheels are cast, soft, and have voids that will be exposed under that intense abrasive action. Soda blasting is about as vigorous as I would attempt. Best to completely wash and remove the old finish by hand with a chemical stripper or sanding paper. Get it fresh and

Re: [MBZ] Hey Clay

2019-10-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Nope, not mine. I am down to stuff that will go along with the W126 sale and a few bits and bobs that will fit a host of other examples. A wall of nuts/bolts/screws door latches, and a few more thing like that clay > On Oct 5, 2019, at 2:23 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes > wrote: > > Just

Re: [MBZ] Corn squeezins

2019-10-04 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
That will be less than good. As it is the undrunk petrol I use in the SL can garner aught but 88 octane once the likker is wash out. More of that contamination and there will be a need to source racing fuel to give it a better kick clay ___

Re: [MBZ] Holy smokes, it’s a green on green 107 that appears to be in nice shape

2019-10-03 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Depends on build date. Later build ’74 would get the cats. Early one, like mine is cat free. clay > On Oct 3, 2019, at 8:30 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes > wrote: > > Aren't the '74-'75's years to avoid because of the under hood cats? > > > Rick > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent:

Re: [MBZ] Holy smokes, it’s a green on green 107 that appears to be in nice shape

2019-10-03 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Almost as good as mine. This one has MBtex, to my leather, bundts instead of my hubcaps, and only half the pistons clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1982 SD - Allen 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks

[MBZ] OT - road tax

2019-10-03 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Hybrid vehicle owners sound off on increased car tab renewal fee http://via.q13fox.com/PSlmY Maybe a non issue for this group, as we do not have electric benz Sent from my iPad ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] 93 (140) Diesel for Sale in Dallas

2019-10-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I will need to find my SDL a new home in December. Great car for being a project. Strong OM603 with #14 head and smooth transmission. Drove like a dream on my round trip to PDX in September. Would be a superb winter tear down or body shop/welding event clay > On Sep 30, 2019, at 9:10

Re: [MBZ] Automotive Carpet Cleaner

2019-10-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Gerry, Peroxide in a weak solution does a superior job of attacking mold and mildew. 10:1 with H2O. Spray and scrub the surfaces over a bunch of weeks and it will take the smell, spores and active cultures. Weak enough that it does no damage at all to the fabrics or other surfaces. Safe

Re: [MBZ] New Addition

2019-10-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
My youngest is wasting his mother’s retirement funds at a liberal private college. Thinks his degree will be in computers. He knows nothing about the hardware and less about software. He does play computer games. The level of difficulty his 200 level comp sci class achieves does not rival

Re: [MBZ] Remember Clay's Poleizi car?

2019-10-01 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I get no hassles from the pigs for the most part. One Barney Fife got his skivvies stained, but the rest of the men in blue want to take pix of them posing with it. The hebrew national neighbors are the sort to get all in an uproar. Somehow it is a symbol on Nazi unrest in the hood. I

Re: [MBZ] OT Today in Seattle!!!

2019-09-25 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
thing reminded me of Laguna Beach/Blue Bird Canyon in the early 70’s where scrubland was being turned into denser and denser homesites. Then a bunch of years later the whole place went up in flames. Seems Hawai’i lets you plant homes in lava flows. clay monroe > I turned my computer ups

Re: [MBZ] gas gouging?

2019-09-22 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
ANC had a spate of price gouging. I had meant to fuel up the jeep early in the week and found unleaded for $2.64. Failed to fill, so next day I did fill and price was $2.79. The next day I passed the filling station and saw it was $2.99. Today’s price was back to $2.74 clay > On Sep 21,

Re: [MBZ] Frig keeps tripping the GFCI

2019-09-22 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Compressor is drawing too many electrons on start? clay > On Sep 21, 2019, at 11:26 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > I have this Samsung refrigerator that is about 2 years old which is plugged > into the outlet directly behind it. All of the sudden I heard a GFCI trip in > the

[MBZ] Viable GWN Benz shoppe

2019-09-19 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I have returned to the GWN, but it is just raining for now. SWMBA has had her yoda for five years and I just found out that she has not performed any of the scheduled care other than oil changes. She spends buckets of cash on virtue signaling foods, shoes for many occasions, and other

Re: [MBZ] at the PNP today

2019-09-11 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Given the price, I was usually removing the whole fuel pump set up from the back end of W116 sedans (73-75) for spare parts shelf on the SL. Not really into used filters on the newer cars. Wonder if the guy thought he would be getting extra fuel out of this filter. clay > On Sep 10,

Re: [MBZ] Top Tier Diesel

2019-09-06 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Like Frank’s Hot Sauce, I use that stuff in all my cars. The SL really likes it when I am forced to use alcohol polluted fuel. The diesels it keeps things ticking along and clean. I will need to purchase a supply for use in GWN clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei

Re: [MBZ] Top Tier Diesel

2019-09-06 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
AK and some WA stores have it at the pump. I am not sure how they figured the market in WA, as there is but one I know of, which is down by the Boeing 737 plant. Maybe there are guys with trucks or lots of VW clay > On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:46 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > No

Re: [MBZ] OT: Fear the Canadian black bear!

2019-09-05 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
We have the same idiotic set up here. Now the suburbs are crawling with coyote, bear, puma and deer. No way the predators can gobble up all the cats, puppies and bunnies running rampant, along with garden produce, bird seeds, garbage/yard waste buckets. When I was doing big predator hunting,

Re: [MBZ] OT: Its not even Dorian

2019-09-04 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Been to FL for extended times, central and gulf coast (Sarasota/Englewood), small time in Miami Dade. Not my particular cup of tea, but it could grow on a person. Most best place I found to live was Guatemala City. Constant spring temperatures at that altitude. 18-24c all day, every day for

Re: [MBZ] W123 euro headlight help

2019-09-04 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Pierre is a pretty good guy. When I was moderating the MBCA w115 forum with him, I thought he was less than erudite, but quite knowledgeable about the model. He has only become more learned in the past decade and a bit. I much prefer him swinging a wrench on my car than Papa Kent. Or, one

Re: [MBZ] Online tires

2019-09-04 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
Kelly TIres! Those are the ones that michelin’s old molds are used to produce. Not cheap tires, just making the older stuff to fit older cars. Sort of like BP pulling out of Alaska, not enough market for the low overhead. Wonder if BP is headed to drill in Africa instead. clay > On Sep

Re: [MBZ] Online tires

2019-09-03 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I seem to recall that the michelins molds get passed down to a secondary producer under their corporate umbrella. Been out in the sun with garage beers in the brain at the moment, so foggy on detail. I have the General Altimax tires on the R107, but think I put the down market non michelin

Re: [MBZ] Clockworks

2019-09-03 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I need to get the clock for the R107 made functional. Probably will have no impact on resale, but… well, I have never had accurate clock in the car but for twice each day. The change out of the clock/tach has shown that these mechanical clocks just keep on ticking, but the prastic gear fails,

Re: [MBZ] Old Man Tan - But Look at the Interior!!

2019-09-02 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I do like that green clay > On Sep 2, 2019, at 9:16 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > Wow. I’m not sure what to say about this: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/264449050981 > > -D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] 220SE on BaT

2019-08-27 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I have one of the old classic metal and enamel badges as well as the tie pin. Will that triple the value of my car? clay monroe > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. > On Aug 27, 2019, at 3:56 AM, Dan P

[MBZ] The Smell of MBtex in the Afternoon

2019-08-23 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I am doing a preliminary sweep of the spare/excess MB inventory in the homestead that will be destined for the landfill. I came across some seat parts. Lower and back spring set for a w126, leather skin and padding, and the MBtex back cover for I suspect either a w123 or w116, not sure, been

Re: [MBZ] OT: Tesla power

2019-08-22 Thread Clay Monroe via Mercedes
I may have missed the window to see supercars up north, but doubt it. The newer breed of petroleum enhanced employee is a bit less conspicuous about flashing his ill gotten gains. Nordstrom closed up shop after 44 years in GWN. I think the early residents had a need to flash and keep the

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