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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:22:42 -0600 (MDT)
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fordtrucks-digest Friday, September 12 1997 Volume 01 : Number 213



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In this issue:

Re: Welding and fabrications ["John F. Bauer III" ]
Re: Future plans ["deconblu" ]
RE: attachments and email software ["Payne, Kenneth"
Owner's/ Shop Manuals [schrozak idt.net (Chuck Schroeder)]
Attachment test...Let me know if there is an attachment [Randy Collins
Mail and attchment stuff [Randy Collins ]
Re: Attachment test...Let me know if there is an attachment ["deconblu"
RE: 2WD to 4WD Conversion [Keith Srb ]
Re: Future Plans [Tom Hogan ]
Replacment Steering Wheel [Keith Srb ]

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 08:22:19 -0400
From: "John F. Bauer III"
Subject: Re: Welding and fabrications

1. I use a Lincoln 225/140 AC/DC stick welder.

2. Used at least 1/4" plate steel to make shock mounts, bumper addons for
winch mounts, etc. I am definitely a, um, errr, tightwad at times and I
really don't have any elaborate welding setup. I just a guy working out of
his garage. I use a Dewalt 15amp body grinder with a 14" metal grinding
disc to do most metal cutting. Its not too bad, just cut through 1.25"
steel slab to form a "turning radius arm" to affix to the driver's side
wheel on a Dana 60 axle with a 78 Bronco steering tie bar welded to it to
extend parallel with the axle to act as a steering arm with the fulcrum on
the driver wheel itself with tie rod connecting to the passenger wheel to
provide steering in my 77 Ford E250 4WD van (breath in, the continue). Must
say, requires some pretty creative solutions that those parts chimps just
scatter when they see me walking into the parts store!

Hope this helps, fast become a pretty good stick welder by the sheer number
of welds on my van!

John

77 E250 4WD, 460, C6, custom van
96 F150 302, daily driver

At 12:01 AM 9/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Questions:
>
>1. What's the heaviest material you can weld with one of those SP100
>Lincoln wire feed welders? Can you safely do frame welding with it?
>Or just sheetmetal type repairs? What size equipment do you need to
>safely do chassis/frame welding?
>
>2. Does anyone out there fabricate their own brackets etc? What
>thickness of steel etc do you use for brackets? Is a metal brake
> >essential for this type of operation? What about cutting the metal to
>size...Inquiring minds want to know...Any other considerations? I
>realize this is pretty general but maybe you could give a sample of
>something you've fabricated (and I do mean truck related, not women
>related or anything else :)
>
>
>Thanks,
> Don
>Allen, Texas
>
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:00:24 -0700
From: "deconblu"
Subject: Re: Future plans

From: Donald R. Screen
>I will be out of the country working for UPS (can you say second strike, I
thought
>you could (grin)). I commute out of DFW airport to go to work

I worked at Ontario International Airport and have to say you UPS guys have
large kahonies! When one of your 747's would take off it would be so loaded
down there were times it had to be Angels lifting the plane cause it didn't
look like air speed and landing we could tell UPS by the thrust reversers
hard and long. We could set our clocks by you, always on time! Is it true
your planes are so loaded you have packages on your laps? :)

>Gonna degrease the entire wiring harness too and repair it if needed
(rewrap
>it for sure).

Just wanted to say when I did my wiring harness on my '73 F100 I didn't wrap
it. I made the harness using the wax string that GE uses on the Turbo Fans
wiring harness. Also made good use of the RTV tape on any splices!
Good luck!

No one wants to see these guys go on strike. They need our support! Working
on engines (The other guys, UPS do their own) You hear "It's OK they carry
packages" They just don't deserve better they need better!


I'm not a Union man!

Deacon Blues
Visit my Homepage at http://www.ford-trucks.com//lc/lc.php?action=do&link=http://home1.gte.net/deconblu/
or send me a fan or flame at deconblu gte.net not both. Never fan a flame!

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:31:11 -0400
From: "Payne, Kenneth"
Subject: RE: attachments and email software

At 03:01 PM 9/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>I have no problem with receiving attachments in emails I use Microsoft
>Outlook and seem to have no problems. Maybe you all just don't have
your
>receiving software setup right? I am no expert but it is a thought.
>Bear....
>

The problem is not in others software. The attachments used for text
"formating" are not yet standard and most email software doesn't support

it so it comes in as an attachment rather than text formating. My
software can receive them just fine. However, they inflate the email
sizes, put ugle garbage in the middle of the digests, make the on-line
archives take more space and have caused problems for me because there
are still many 7-bit only mail systems out there (some on purpose to
prevent binaries). As admin, I get a copy of bounced messages in my
personal email "inbox." Everytime someone posts a message with binaries

I get greeted with several dozen additional emails, not including the
"hey, I didn't get a copy of the digest" complaints. I have no problems

with people like Randy who take the time to track down the problem, I
think thats great (thanks Randy). If after notifying someone that
they're posting binaries they don't take any action or at least ask for
help, I'm faced with a decision: deal with the constant bounces or
unsubscribe them. Frankly, with the 100-300 emails a day I receive I'd
rather unsubscribe them.

Maybe the next release of Majordomo list software will filter out the
binaries so it won't be an issue.

Ken

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 13:30:46 -0400
From: schrozak idt.net (Chuck Schroeder)
Subject: Owner's/ Shop Manuals
>
Can anyone steer me toward a source for manuals for my truck?

Chuck Schroeder
64 F600 Stake Dump

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:09:16 -0700
From: Randy Collins
Subject: Attachment test...Let me know if there is an attachment

This is a test to see if the "reply to" feature creates an attachment.


Randy Collins
Boise, Idaho
rcollins micron.net

1975 Ford F250 4WD Supercab "Muscle Truck"
Soon to have the following Randy installed options:
460 C-6



- -----Original Message-----
From: Payne, Kenneth [SMTP:Kevin.Payne SouthernEnergy.Com]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 1997 6:31 AM
To: 'fordtrucks listservice.net'
Subject: RE: attachments and email software

At 03:01 PM 9/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>I have no problem with receiving attachments in emails I use Microsoft
>Outlook and seem to have no problems. Maybe you all just don't have
your
>receiving software setup right? I am no expert but it is a thought.
>Bear....
>

The problem is not in others software. The attachments used for text
"formating" are not yet standard and most email software doesn't support

it so it comes in as an attachment rather than text formating. My
software can receive them just fine. However, they inflate the email
sizes, put ugle garbage in the middle of the digests, make the on-line
archives take more space and have caused problems for me because there
are still many 7-bit only mail systems out there (some on purpose to
prevent binaries). As admin, I get a copy of bounced messages in my
personal email "inbox." Everytime someone posts a message with binaries

I get greeted with several dozen additional emails, not including the
"hey, I didn't get a copy of the digest" complaints. I have no problems

with people like Randy who take the time to track down the problem, I
think thats great (thanks Randy). If after notifying someone that
they're posting binaries they don't take any action or at least ask for
help, I'm faced with a decision: deal with the constant bounces or
unsubscribe them. Frankly, with the 100-300 emails a day I receive I'd
rather unsubscribe them.

Maybe the next release of Majordomo list software will filter out the
binaries so it won't be an issue.

Ken




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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:12:55 -0700
From: Randy Collins
Subject: Mail and attchment stuff

Ford folks,

I believe that I finally have a workaround for the mail problems that M/S
Outlook was creating for the list.

To set up the program go to:

....

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