I think the loophole is people that bring a gun to the gun show they
intend to resell.
There is no loophole. Federally-licensed dealers are required to
do Federal background checks on a sale, private citizens are not.
loophole is media-speak to try to inure the public to go for full
nationwide
And again, the technology, while extremely cool, would not be useful
in
the highest traffic areas. People who drive to a major downtown park
in
covered multilevel garages. The sun is powerful, but not THAT
powerful.
Rental sun trees are stupid, unless metered by the kWH.
What about clouds?
A la hydro power? ;)
Wilton
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And again, the technology, while extremely
Barring normal temperature super conductors, Ohm's law will get you every
time!
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
And again, the technology, while extremely cool, would not be useful in
the highest traffic areas. People who drive to a major downtown
Barring normal temperature super conductors, Ohm's law will get you every
time!
No Problem! Just get the o'bummer to sign an executed order, and
poof, Ohm's law is gone, just like the constitution and every right
we had. No Problemo!
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On a Mac or just about any Apple product, you just hold down the key
for the character you want and any variants of that character appear
above your cursor on the screen. You choose the one you want and it
is inserted.
On every Mac, including the first one, it was the same:
Hold down option
Only Mac I have, or have had, is an iPhone.
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On a Mac or just about any
I too have come to that conclusion. It solidifies and makes it hard to move
things. Brake cleaner and penetrating lube solved that issue
clay
On Mar 26, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
Is white lithium suitable for linkage rods if I pop them off socket and lube?
I won't use that crap
Is white lithium suitable for linkage rods if I pop them off socket
and lube?
I won't use that crap for anything. It turns into the rock
it's named for, or so it seems.
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If I have to tear into the door panel, I will, but any other ideas?
Only two wires go to the window motor, you should be able to
not only measure good continuity there at the switch, through
the motor, but to run it by applying 12V directly. (I used
a battery charger.) Up or down, depending
I have adjusted the spam filters down as it is sometimes catching
list members messages. If you send email to the server and it
bounces back due to getting caught in the spam filter, the message
includes simple instructions for whitelisting yourself. That
should take care of that problem in
Tried that did not help. When up unplug the charger it shuts off
immediately just as if power completely removed
As, in fact, it was. Did you check for the obvious, such as bent
battery
contact fingers? Sometimes the problems aren't all that deep.
-- Jim
It still sounds like a bad ground. Parking brake, brake wear, and low
fuel indicators are independent of the alternator and are directly
powered by 12 volts.
Not independent. The lamp-test function uses a diode and
resistor to send current into the alternator for each of the
lamps that don't
And this saves horse power, converting torque into electricity and
then back into torque again? ...I don't see how this increases fuel
economy.
Obviously because the _average_ load is much lower than the
peak supply that the mechanical-only is capable of supplying.
Enough so that it more than
A county highway worker?
That must have been a mess.
Dan
On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Gerry Archer wrote:
Son had one take out his windshield. Fortunately didn't hurt him and he made
it several hundred miles home in his naturally air conditioned car.
Gerry
From: Dan Penoff
Obviously I was referring to the more efficient vulture since the highway
worker would have caused more damage and made a bigger mess; not to mention
the penalties for destroying state property. [:o)
Gerry
From: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com
A county highway worker?
That must have been a mess.
how did ya get the dent in the rear door, was it like a meteor shower
of deer?
They spin when you hit 'em. Like a quintain.
Double the damage, double the fun!
-- Jim
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Hopefully doesn't hit you in the back of the head.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
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how did ya get the dent in the rear door, was it like a meteor shower of
deer
I was lucky, I clipped mine on the front leg -- left a hoof mark
sliding down the hood in the dust.
Spun it around, dented in my driver's door enough to make crease marks
where the re-enforcing bars are, but missed the mirror.
Deer ran away -- believe me, I checked as soon as I knew the
Last one I hit destroyed the front right corner of my vehicle, then it
wrapped itself around a telephone pole guide wire spilling its guts
not even the roadkill hunters would touch it.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Peter Frederick psf...@earthlink.netwrote:
I was lucky, I clipped mine
One good thing about Florida - turkey vultures.
Far more efficient than the typical county highway worker. And cheaper, too.
Dan
On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Brian Toscano wrote:
Last one I hit destroyed the front right corner of my vehicle, then it
wrapped itself around a telephone pole
Son had one take out his windshield. Fortunately didn't hurt him and he
made it several hundred miles home in his naturally air conditioned car.
Gerry
From: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com
One good thing about Florida - turkey vultures.
Far more efficient than the typical county highway worker.
Your Italian grinder is 50 cycle.. your USA power is 60 cycle it
won't
be happy.
If it's a universal motor (AC/DC), the common brushed loud-as-hell
blender type motor, it won't care a bit. If it's an induction motor,
quiet humming like a fan motor, it'll choke and die.
-- Jim
Three gallons an hours at $6/hr for 24 hours = $145/day for
electricity!
No wonder we save up all our heavy loads and run 'em all
at once! I think of it as my 'hot shower' genny. Those
showers are measured in dollars each. Still worth it!
Most of our genny needs are met with the
I remember that car [Kadett] well, as it was so poorly built and tin
cannish it wasn't funny.
My HS math teacher had a Kadett. (Logging town, B school, you can
imagine
the pay grade.) She lived with her parents, and I think the Kadett was
well-used by that time. Not much of a car, is what
My cousin had one of those things back when, it was like his first new
car after a Valiant with push-button shifter for the auto box. He
thrashed the *** out of the thing. He really wanted the Opel GT but
could only afford the Kadett but he would slam powershifts on it. I
remember riding
In Europe, the Opel line has a reputation similar to the Yugo here. I drove
an Opel Manta in the 70's. Okay car but a bit tinny. It had fuel injection
a full decade before it became popular with US automakers.
There was a joke in Germany - Why do Opel owners keep a bale of straw in
the back seat?
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The grinder is made 110v also, so universal motor strap may be in place?
Possibly, but high-volume (i.e. relatively low cost) consumer
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:17 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Trnsformer ad says it's 500W, 2.3A; 'sounds like output amperage to me -
220V x 2.3A = 506W (efficiency unk). Grinder: 1/3 hp (an assumption?)
746W/3 = 249W. I think the trnsformer will handle grinder.
Noticed primary fuse is
Tim C wrote:
Noticed primary fuse is 5A, which I think supports this view (?).
FWIW Alex on Banned has confirmed that Italian plugs will fit into Swiss
jacks.
Yeah, I saw your banned to Alex.
Thanks Wilton/Tim.
mao
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The grinder is made 110v also, so universal motor strap may be in
place?
Possibly, but high-volume (i.e. relatively low cost) consumer
products tend to be more optimized than that.
I dunno what the thing sounds like - blender or other, but it is
coffee grinder so prolly loud?
Every small
Jim wrote:
$87 shipping? Not going to end up being all that attractive
a deal, I wouldn't think.
Yes, but a lookee-see is inexpensive. These get crazy dollars here at 110v.
mao
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Thing will not start now.
I lost an ignition module when I left the key on for an
hour working on I-don't-remember-what. Fortunately PNP
had a 380 in that day, I wasn't out much.
New battery, fresh spark plug and wires, just filled the tank with
fuel. Starter spins up great. Does not
Yep, goes to show that mythbusters is purely entertainment. :P
I could go on for hours about how they botched stuff...
Walt
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Walt Zarnoch wrote:
IIRC Mythbusters sucked up a half gallon of gas into a
shopvac, and left it run for
Yep, goes to show that mythbusters is purely entertainment. :P
I could go on for hours about how they botched stuff...
I do, it seems. My son loves the show, and I like it too.
I do carp a bit, though... We just watched (again) the cement
truck meets dynamite episode. Great fun!
-- Jim
Uh, no. Sparks and such from the sucker (if electric-powered) might
not play nice with diesel fuel. One of those cheap hand-powered
siphon pumps would be fine.
AC vacuum pumps (Robinaire, etc.) don't spark. Actual piston/diapragm
vacum pumps don't spark. Only a shop-vac vacuum source
Diesel, garlic, what's the difference:)
One repels blood-sucking parasites. The other repels vampires!
-- Jim
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Vampirettes?
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Diesel, garlic, what's the difference:)
One repels blood-sucking parasites. The other repels vampires!
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The question regarded the $2 sucker, which is (at least for mine)
powered by a shop vac. The extraction fumes go through the vac, and
that would be a bit of concern, to me at least.But YMMV.
I recall my boss when I worked at the FBO summers, telling me about an
experience when he was
I would be very worried about using a shop vac..run car til almost out
of fuel first so what is left can be caught in a large drain pan when you
pull off the hose. It is still running and doesn't stumble at highway
speed so I am betting the fuel strainer will let all of the fuel out when
you
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wrote:
Another option is a long piece of fuel line into a can beside the car.
Unhook stock line, slip long one in its place and swap fuel cans as they
get full.
You can use a pair of vise-grips and a couple of washers (to
All this could very well just be a bad hose at the tank. Few people
change those, except the folks on this list. I have ended up
changing that on almost every MB I have owned somewhere around the
20-25 year old range. On #1 daughter's gasser, I paid rusty big
bucks for the OE hose to and
I will bow to more experienced folks. I don't have a $2 oil sucker or a
car that it would work on so I have not used one.
I have a $150 sucker that uses the air compressor to create a vaccum in
a tank that is then used to withdraw oil but it is for the boat.
Would not have to worry about it
That would work very well for the job. Diesel sure isn't going to hurt
that.
Mike
On Sep 12, 2012 12:56 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:
I will bow to more experienced folks. I don't have a $2 oil sucker or a
car that it would work on so I have not used one.
I have a $150 sucker
I will bow to more experienced folks. I don't have a $2 oil sucker
or a car that it would work on so I have not used one.
I have a $150 sucker that uses the air compressor to create a vaccum
in a tank that is then used to withdraw oil but it is for the boat.
Would not have to worry about it
Michael Canfield wrote:
Another option is a long piece of fuel line into a can beside
the car. Unhook stock line, slip long one in its place and
swap fuel cans as they get full.
Except if the strainer is plugged, it still won't empty the
tank. The fuel will stop running out when the level
What? You don't have a Mercedes at all?
Wilton
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I will bow to more
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I will bow to more experienced folks. I don't have a $2 oil sucker or
a car that it would work on so I have not used one.
I have a $150 sucker that uses the air compressor to create a vaccum
Invest in an electronic fuel pump from your local FLAPS. Low pressure cheap
one is good enough, a few feet of fuel hose, tap into the fuel delivery
hose from the tank where it comes out in engine bay. 12V pump will run on
your battery charger [you have one don't you?] plug it all together, put
the
IIRC Mythbusters sucked up a half gallon of gas into a shopvac, and
left it run for quite a while without any boom.
Diesel, being harder to ignite due to the vapor pressure difference,
should at least be as safe.
Still gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about sucking that stuff up though...
Walt Zarnoch wrote:
IIRC Mythbusters sucked up a half gallon of gas into a
shopvac, and left it run for quite a while without any boom.
I personally know someone who used a car wash vacuum cleaner to
clean up a gasoline spill in the truck. It exploded. No one
was seriously injured, but the
Where do you buy them?
I no longer remember. It was one of the many
electronic surplus houses. You might try Mouser.
-- Jim
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I think Loren has a 200D, so he can comment about peppyness.
A manual tranny 200D is quite peppy. Mine is, anyhow.
It was also built with a column shifter, which was replaced
by some PO, badly, with a console shifter. I thought the
thing had a 240D head on it, the block part number is 615
and
Apples Oranges:
The subject was a 123 200D euro. That would be a OM 616.
Jim has a 200D, but it is a 115 I think. I'm not sure if it is OM615
or OM616 It would be close to the subject car.
I have a 110 with OM621. not very peppy even as a 4 speed. However
the #1 son has 110 with a
OK Don wrote:
The cartooney color is the default showroom setting - you can dial the
saturation and contrast way down and get a very nice picture - at least
ours did.
My parents' 22 Haier 1080p LED is pretty nice.
I paid $180 for it at Walmart a couple of years ago.
Saw it on sale at Newegg a
What's better, LED or LCD and why?
Both are LCD. The distinction is fluorescent vs LED backlight.
I dislike most (if not all) LED units I've seen, I think they're
too 'cartooney' color-wise. Best colors I've seen have been on
plasma units. Smallest of those is 42, which is not all that
big
The cartooney color is the default showroom setting - you can dial the
saturation and contrast way down and get a very nice picture - at least
ours did.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
What's better, LED or LCD and why?
Both are LCD. The distinction
I got a plasma a couple years back because I don't like LCD TVs. The
LED TVs just have LED backlighting instead of fluorescent, and while
that's an improvement (the lamps won't dim and burn out like
fluorescents), I don't like either the color or the terrible off-axis
quality. I have a
I also tried to put it back on the ball on the arm, and ended up
popping the arm out of the socket up at the top of the windshield, it
has a bigass spring in there too, with some kind of little rods on
each end, that looks hard to push back in, but I guess it will with
some force?
Yes, but
A lil history: I am not sure when MB first installed the breakaway
mirror in production cars, but for a decade or two (maybe more) while
Deeriot and other carmakers were screwing a potmetal headslicer
mirror to the windshield, MB was quietly saving lives, heads and
faces by using the
Can't say who makes it but it says Bosch right on it.
You sure that's an s, and not a t? :-)
-- Jim
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I need to understand why a clogged radiator or ailing water pump
wouldn't cause my car to run hot at lower speeds or while idling?
How hard is it working then?
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What's wrong with Sony?
Lousy menus, confusing controls, borderline specs, poor reliability.
-- Jim
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Bought a rear projection TV from them some years back. Poor design that
experienced failures on an annual basis. Got tired of it being fixed after the
fourth year (luckily I had a five year warranty) and took them to small claims
to recover costs.
They wanted to give me another one (same
This is an ideal Craigslist item. For the most part, you can find good speaker
deals on CL and save some serious coin.
I have a pair of TimeFrames that act as my front channel speakers. Nothing for
rears, yet. The TFs cost me a whopping $100.
Dan
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On Jul 14, 2012, at 12:09
The original viscous clutches were not thermostatic, I have one
that I (mistakenly) refurbished and put into the Frankenheap.
It decouples at freeway RPM's. I got it out of an old 116 gasser.
Even the newer thermostatic ones decouple at high RPM's, or
so says the MB manuals to my recollection.
My family's first Sony experience was a little radio/tape unit
in the 70's. Broke a couple of times, was fixed under warrantee.
I noticed that the tape's erase head was just a permanent magnet.
So much for the 'good' Sony rep that was why Dad bought it in the
first place.
I was given an older
What's wrong with Sony?
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Sony: Rhymes with baloney. I only owned one sony audio product. A
dual tape cassette deck, bought in 1972. It ate every low quality
tape. It ate the highest quality tapes frequently. Only the best
Maxcel tapes worked most of
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Bought a rear projection TV from them some years back. Poor design that
experienced failures on an annual
Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net writes:
What's wrong with Sony?
Lousy menus
Menus??? Gawd it has been a while since I looked at audio gear. What's
wrong with knobs and switches.
Allan
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Back in the 90s I flew to London on BA, business class, and they gave me
a $500 Amex gift card. (Work let us keep our FF benefits and such) I
bought a Sony rcvr with that money, and a pair of dipole Boston
Acoustics speakers for back channels to go with my large Advents. That
Sony receiver
Diesels run cooler at idle and hotter under load.
Gas engines are the opposite. They tend to lean out at idle (run hotter)
and run rich under high load (cooler). The excess (unburned) fuel actually
serves a cooling function.
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
I have a pretty good receiver (Sony) but my speakers are from the late
'90s. I think I am not getting full benefit of my receiver. Any good
cheap decent speaker packages out there?
Used to be that 50% of your system cost should be the speakers.
I don't think this has really changed. My
I didn't realize that 50% was a rule, but the last system I bought it
worked out that way - a Denon DN-A7100 and a pair of JBL 4328's. My
neighbors didn't care for the system, but I loved being able to work in
their yard and hear my music.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Jim Cathey
I didn't realize that 50% was a rule, but the last system I bought it
worked out that way - a Denon DN-A7100 and a pair of JBL 4328's.
It was the rule of thumb in the early 80's when I was buying
my first real stereo. Transducers are the most difficult thing
to get right, so if you were
What's wrong with Sony?
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I have a pretty good receiver (Sony) but my speakers are from the late '90s.
I think I am not getting full benefit of my receiver. Any good cheap
decent speaker packages out
How do I check for that without taking head off?
Your local mechanic will have a device for detecting
combustion gasses in the cooling system.
-- Jim
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Isn't a jarring turn or brake signal exactly what you want? Awaken
people from their driving stupor and all that.
If that were the only goal, then why not replace them with little
xenon stroboscope units and _really_ draw attention to you, and
only you?
-- Jim
I was behind some late model Dodge on the way in to work today. It had
taillights that consisted of a bunch of LEDs. One whole row of LEDs in one
taillight were out.
I bet that costs a chunk of change to replace.
It was sort of annoying, too.
Dan
On Jul 6, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Jim Cathey
On Jul 2, 2012 1:23 AM, dave walton walton.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an OCZ SSD in my net book, now running Ubuntu. So far no complaints
once they fixed the firmware, after 6 months or so, but it is not a
computer we use a lot. Definitely the best upgrade for that computer as far
as battery
I have found ubuntu to be far and away the easiest to install on multiple
strange hardware. No idea why. Win7 is garbage unless you have piles of oem
cd with drivers. Same with vista.Bound to be open source support for SSD.
clay
1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green
1972 220D - Gump
On Jul 2, 2012 11:59 AM, clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
Bound to be open source
support for SSD.
After reading a lot of reviews on Newegg, I'm leaning towards shelling out
the extra $50 for Intel over OCZ, not only because it sounds like you get
what you pay for in reliability, but
I have to say that Windows 7 has installed flawlessly whenever I've
tried it, which has only been a few times. It's the dozens of
update/reboot cycles post-install that are the pain.
Ubuntu is a commercially-sponsored distribution has as a primary goal
the creation of an easy-to-use Linux
almost too far.
If I am not able to get winblows to install, I have no issue with ubuntu on
that machine. These are failed hackintosh boxes from white box systems or
corporate toss away. AMD or intel, ubuntu does not care what the audio or
video card is, what sort of usb or firewire, wifi
Keep in mind that all SSD's have limited write cycles and will
eventually wear out. Writes progressively slow down as you reach it's
end of life.
A company I once worked for switched their BSD-based product to
SSD's for 'reliability'. The failures, infrequent before than,
then started pouring
I am deploying a 200TB IBM SAN (XIV) this week that uses around 3TBs of SSDs
for caching. Looking forward to putting this baby into service... we have a
bunch of ESX boxes that I want to expand, along with increasing the size of the
disk pool for our Tivoli storage library.
Dan
On Jul 1,
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
Flash, IIRC, degrades to something like 1/10 of initial write speed,
or even worse, over the rated life span.
How do I determine the rated life span?
Dave Walton wrote:
If speed is paramount, buy a larger drive, format
How do I determine the rated life span?
Ideally it's in the spec sheet.
-- Jim
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On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
How do I determine the rated life span?
Ideally it's in the spec sheet.
All it says is for the OCZ drive I linked to is MBTF 2 million hours.
I wondered how that compared to a modern (conventional) hard drive, so
I
Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com writes:
Dave Walton wrote:
If speed is paramount, buy a larger drive, format it to a lower capacity,
and run the manufacturer's utility to add the extra space into the wear
leveling cache. That will speed up writes.
Are these utilities something you
There is a protocol that aligns the block size used by the OS with the
block size used by the drive. This can minimize writes depending on
the application.
Not sure if the wear leveling realignment utilities are generally
released. You can probably find them somewhere. Increasing the number
of
Any idea if it would also apply to a late '70s W116 OM617?
I haven't seen it, but I think it's on how to get a tach-equipped
Nippondenso cross-pollinated into the MB. The W116 most likely
uses a GM R4 or A6 compressor. You'll find those over in the
Chevy part of the junkyard!
-- Jim
If the seal between the pump and the block is what was leaking, it
would
be a shame to replace the whole pump (it costs $224.00 and I'm
unemployed), but I would really hate to have to do this again if the
leaking is really coming from the shaft seals.
Agreed, but my money is on the shaft seal.
http://www.v8archie.com/ssl500fs.htm
That's funny! I always thought the R129 looked a lot
like an 80's Mustang. Apparently I'm not the only one!
If I'm going to drop 16 large on such a car, I think I'll wait
'til I find an actual R129 for that price.
-- Jim
'Zackly.
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Fordbudget
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On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
http://www.v8archie.com/ssl500fs.htm
That's funny! I always thought the R129 looked a lot
like an 80's Mustang. Apparently I'm not the only one!
And in turn the early-'80s Mustang's stylists borrowed from the C107,
I'm
Of Jim Cathey
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 1:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT - Jeep heater hoses
How's that genset running? Did you move the power like you wanted?
Still
have the pictures of the derusting project?
Runs OK, but I haven't started it in probably
On May 8, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Scott Ritchey ritche...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Of course if you
have reliable natural gas, that eliminates the storage problem at less cost.
Natural gas would be shut down in the event of an earthquake. Chances may be
slim of an earthquake in your locale, but really
Natural gas would be shut down in the event of an earthquake. Chances may
be slim of an earthquake in your locale, but really no place is 100%
earthquake free. The Midwest is very vulnerable. We don't have mountains,
which seem to attenuate them to a certain area, so they are felt over a much
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