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221. Re: Bleeding Brake failure (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:23:14 -0400; As long as we're correcting mistakes, it's GRAMMAR, not grammer! Bob OOPS! that; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01413.html (8,426 bytes)
222. Re: Coil.... To Ballast or Not To Ballast.... (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:39:11 -0400; Isn't this backwards? It's my understanding that the ballast resistor's purpose in life is to PREVENT a coil with no internal resistor from burning out prematurely. Bob; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01414.html (8,498 bytes)
223. Re: Bleeding Brake failure (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:01:59 -0400; Don't you mean - - - The HANDS are on my time (piece)? heh-heh! Bob; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01439.html (8,292 bytes)
224. Re: Safety and Young Drivers in Spridgets (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:30:11 -0400; Again, I ask......What is this "curling" that pops up on the list every so often. It sounds like something you do with your hair, but which hair is involved in it?! Bob; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01597.html (8,827 bytes)
225. Re: Curling exposed! (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:00:28 -0400; Thanks for the explanation! We don't see too many frozen lakes way down here in south Georgia. For fun around here, we re-enact Civil War battles. Funny thing is, though, in all our re-enactments, t; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01609.html (9,403 bytes)
226. Re: Curling exposed! (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:55:10 -0400; Oh!! We are, we are! The problem is, we don't have much in the way of communication down here (we don't trust them newfangled TVs and radios or anything that uses thet thar' electrical-ticity), so we; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01630.html (7,887 bytes)
227. Re: Curling exposed! (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:20:30 -0400; Bob; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01636.html (9,106 bytes)
228. Re: Nader, was: Side Marker Reflectors (score: 1): Author: "Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:26:54 -0400; main Yeah....that and the fact that every one of them caught fire and burned up on the side of the road. In the 60s and 70s, the appropriate response to anyone who mentioned that they owned a Corvai; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01637.html (8,639 bytes)
229. Re: brake drag (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:01:20 -0500; I agree 100% with Peter Westcott. It seems that the problem has to be due to something inhibiting the flow of brake fluid through the line, since active pressure on the brake pedal will probably not; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00035.html (10,464 bytes)
230. Re: MG keys (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:50:24 -0500; I just happened to see an ad in Hemmings for MG key blanks. The guy's name is Peter Groh, Ellicott City, MD; phone # 410-750-2352. By the way, about a month ago, I bought a '66 Midget for parts and; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00051.html (9,483 bytes)
231. Re: Painting dash and RE: Sprite Tuning Video (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:56:19 -0500; The paint won't wrinkle unless you put it on thick. You have probably been putting it on too thin in the areas where it's not wrinkling. Bob -- dash small to the and it going will; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00053.html (9,244 bytes)
232. Re: MG keys (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 21:33:46 -0500; This was NOT an April Fool's joke. It really did occur. However, I should have mentioned that all the cars and keys were 1966 and earlier, with the ignition switch mounted on the dash rather than th; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00074.html (10,788 bytes)
233. Re: windshield and rubber (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:16:41 -0400; Hi Y'all, I just wanted to add my 2 cents worth about Scarborough Faire. I bought several hundred dollars worth of parts from them for an MGA about 7 or 8 years ago and had a very similar experience; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00209.html (11,536 bytes)
234. Re: Thanks (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:23:04 -0400; Moss Motors sells them, but they're made in Taiwan and have weak springs, I'm told. These inferior ones will work better on a Spitfire. -- closed reasonable it; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00353.html (8,707 bytes)
235. Re: Riddle me this..... (little LBC) (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:30:10 -0400; It can't be done. You've already wasted too much time going 30 MPH Bob -- <mgs@autox.team.net> MPH.; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00410.html (9,201 bytes)
236. Re: new subscriber(s) (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 23:10:25 -0400; What is curling, anyway?!? Is it like a speed thing for women to see who can put their hair in curlers the fastest? Bob -- and; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00455.html (8,568 bytes)
237. Re: Transmission - Painted? (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:19:32 -0400; Bob F., I have 2 unmolested Mark I Midgets that have never been restored with less than 45,000 miles each, and both of them have the remains of the same color of green paint as used on the engines. O; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00688.html (9,403 bytes)
238. Re: fresh air hose (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:42:47 -0400; Sounds good! Are the wire loops about 5/8 inch apart, though, like on the originals? Also, do you have to tell them the length you want or does it come pre-cut? Thanks, Bob --; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00746.html (8,446 bytes)
239. Washer Bottles (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:14:27 -0400; Hi Y'all, I am completely baffled!! Does anyone know which windscreen washer bottle cap is correct for the 1963 Spridgets? I know the '62s and earlier models have a metal stud on the cap to attach th; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00798.html (7,290 bytes)
240. Re: Constant Speed Sputter (score: 1): Author: "Bob Wiedemeyer" <boxweed@thebest.net>; Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:53:41 -0400; It sounds like the head (or block) has a very small, hairline crack between a cylinder and the water jacket. The expansion at higher RPMs (increased heat) will allow water to leak into the cylinders,; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00836.html (11,829 bytes)

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