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Finally had to put the poor fella down, …AGA style Rt. Click. Create filter from Message

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> Finally had to put the poor fella down, …AGA style > Rt. Click. Create filter from Message

Yesserieeeebob. Trying to carry on a normal conversation and attempting to reason with that stinkin’ drunk horse’s ass is like pissing without unzipping and is a total waste of time. Just ignore the goober maroon.

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>> Finally had to put the poor fella down, …AGA style > Rt. Click. Create filter from Message > Yesserieeeebob. Trying to carry on a normal conversation > and attempting to reason with that stinkin’ drunk horse’s ass > is like pissing without unzipping and is a total waste of time. > Just ignore the goober maroon.

It’s amusing really Ed. Here’s a lonely guy just ranting in the middle of the night, post after post. Harmless. The only reason I canned him is that there’s too many in a sequence and not one _ever_ has to do with gear, how to play better, how to fix something mechanical, etc. Just some poor bastard typing away like a madman in defense of that which can only be defended with defective logic constructed of ignorance, a lack of education, blind bias and as philosopher Bertrand Russel put it: "…Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves…". Over the years virtually any and every attempt I’ve ever made to post on gear, how to play better, how to fix something mechanical, etc. has met with stunned silence. They know it, you know it, I know it. Now that the entire neocon baby is getting thrown out with its excrement and the next two major national elections are set to end all that was the Hannity/Limbaugh/Bush crowd, expect more last min. straw grabs from the drowning Elenore Gtski’s* of AGA -in the middle of the night. mvm *….picks up the rice at a church where a wedding has been…

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>> Finally had to put the poor fella down, …AGA style > Rt. Click. Create filter from Message >Yesserieeeebob. Trying to carry on a normal conversation >and attempting to reason with that stinkin’ drunk horse’s ass >is like pissing without unzipping and is a total waste of time. >Just ignore the goober maroon.

Ed, exactly the same applies to the Sak you’ve just replied to (and all his socks), IMO. -Dave

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> I suck hard on this…-Dave

For Guitarists: Modal Playing Made Practical, by Marc Mulay We’re "beginning at the beginning" of the neck, first position, first note, 6th string, the note "F". In these diagrams, beginning with a blank space -sometimes two- is obviously where you would jump forward on a string a fret or two away from the nut, toward your bridge.   ILLUSTRATIVE KEY:   *  *  * = "1,3,5" As in, root, skip a fret hit, skip a fret hit.   * *  *  = "1,2,4" As in, fret, next fret hit, skip a fret hit.   *  * *  = "1,3,4" As in,  fret, skip a fret hit, next fret hit.    Major / "Ionian" ;   Start      |      |      1  3  5      6th "FAT"      1  3  5       2 3  5     <—NUT — BRIDGE       2 3  5         3  5 6         3  5 6    1st "THIN"     Now Dorian-       3  5 6       3  5  7       3  5  7       3  5  7          5 6  8          5 6  8   Gitcha some phrygian now baby!     5 6  8     5  7 8     5  7 8     5  7  9       6  8  10       6  8  10     Lydian:     6  8  10      7 8  10      7 8  10      7  9 10        8  10 11        8  10  12     Mixolydian:     8  10  12     8  10  12     8  10  12      9 10  12        10 11  13        10  12 13     Aeolian:     10  12 13     10  12 13     10  12  14     10  12  14       11   13  15         12 13  15     Finally, the 7th mode of the Major scale, Locrian:      12 13  15      12 13  15      12  14 15      12  14 15         13  15  17         13  15  17   Note- your first finger is now back on the ‘F’ note of the 1st string at the 13th fret. This all begins again with the Ionian scale at the 13th fret, just as was the case at the first fret;     13 15 17      6th "FAT"     13 15 17      1415 17    <—NUT — BRIDGE      1415 17        15 1718        15 1718   1st "THIN"   Notice that each modal form ends with a three note sequence on the 1st string which defines the exact same three notes of the 6th string beginning the next mode! This is central to seeing the bigger picture; how the modal forms all smoothly interlock to create a perfectly connected "treadmill" on the neck.   Next, how to link them up, hop around, where they fit into chords, and how they’re over-layed by every one of the five M/m Pentas and Blues grids.   As is the case with virtually every athletic sport, there’s *NO* way around proficiency with modal playing other than…repetition. Alternate picking: Starting with Ionian, walk the form at each position on the neck from the first to the 15th fret. AT EACH FRET, PLAY THE MODE IN REVERSE TOO. FORWARD, REVERSE. THEN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT FRET. Don’t start Dorian until you’ve "mastered" Ionian Same with Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian. WHEN YOU HAVE DONE THIS, PAUSE, THEN STARTING WITH ‘F IONIAN’ RUN IT INTO G DORIAN—>A PHRYGIAN—>Bb LYDIAN to E Locrian a couple of times. Get each "mastered" before moving on to the next. You are building  a powerful foundation. THIS is training. Self-discipline. You’re getting all of this stuff under your fingers and deeply into muscle memory. Day after day, week after week, month after month. It’s the only way. Do it. Now Diatonic Theory is just taking a scale and building chords on top of each root note. The ‘F’ major scale is what we’ll look at(because we’ve laid out the whole modal/scale system from Fret 1, 6th string, note ‘F’ as an ‘agreed-upon’ begin with the beginning point, purely for logical flow illustrative purposes).     I       ii        iii         IV       V     vi        vii     F       Gm7       Am7        BbMaj7    C7    Dm7       Ebm7b5 The modes, Ionian-Locrian can just as easily be named 1-7. (I-vii). They line up perfectly with the sequential progression above and in every other key. Don’t ever ‘F-up’ by forgetting that there’s always   a 1/2 step hop between iii and IV.     Also, note- I, IV and V are always major, thus upper case for illustrative purposes.    ii, iii, vi, and sorta vii are all minor, thus lower case. The minor modes, Dorian, Phrgian and Aeolian, -alway fit over minor chords. The major modes, Ionian, Lydian and Mixolydian -over the major chords. The Locrian was made for the half diminished or m7b5 chord. If you’re a rocker or bluzer, that ranks right up there with what’s a little toe for anyway? Shhhhhhhhwiiiingggggggg Where all of this work begins to turn to fun, and then payoff, is where you integrate the overlay of the modal system over pentatonic or blues boxes. Any/every player can find these, however for basic illustrative purposes, let’s say you’re playing ye old Blues Box #1 at the 5th fret: A. 5    8      .042 5 6 7 5   7 5   7 5    8 5    8      .010 Now, play the Dorian form _there_, starting of course at A, 6th  string, 5th fret. Voila. You’re locked in. Toward the bridge into phrygian or back toward the nut into Ionia, then Locrian…again, if you want to work this back toward the nut and forward, you’re in A Blues by playing your Locrian form starting at the 2nd Fret, F# 6th string and moving forward. As you internalize the whole modal system over time, you’ll get to the point you’ve probably been stuck at with pentatonic or blues boxes in that you’re probably comfortable jumping from "Blues Box 1" -say at the 5th fret(keyed off the 6th string), to say, "Blues Box 3" at the 10th fret. In this instance, the modal form equivalent would be to play that A Dorian form starting at A, 6th string, 5th fret, and leap up to the Mixolydian form at the 10th fret. It all starts to really "happen" for you as you think less and play more…timing, rhythm, dynamics like bends, hammer ons and pull offs in conjunction with the tone(s) YOUR ear digs make all this grunt work pay off with tons of extra colors and textures. The real key is grabbing phrases from each form and making them YOUR licks. Jam OWN it mvm www.geocities.com/mvm55555 P.S. If any of this seems ‘muddy’ to you, feel free to write me an observation, that’d be cool too. Thanks, Marc Peace Marc www.geocities.com/mvm55555

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Finally had to put the poor fella down, …AGA style >> Rt. Click. Create filter from Message > Yesserieeeebob. Trying to carry on a normal conversation > and attempting to reason with that stinkin’ drunk horse’s ass > is like pissing without unzipping and is a total waste of time. > Just ignore the goober maroon. > Ed, exactly the same applies to the Sak you’ve > just replied to (and all his socks), IMO. > -Dave

Hmmm- Dave Curtis took objection to this; It’s amusing really Ed. Here’s a lonely guy just ranting in the middle of the night, post after post. Harmless. The only reason I canned him is that there’s too many in a sequence and not one _ever_ has to do with gear, how to play better, how to fix something mechanical, etc. Just some poor bastard typing away like a madman in defense of that which can only be defended with defective logic constructed of ignorance, a lack of education, blind bias and as philosopher Bertrand Russel put it: "…Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves…". Over the years virtually any and every attempt I’ve ever made to post on gear, how to play better, how to fix something mechanical, etc. has met with stunned silence. They know it, you know it, I know it. Now that the entire neocon baby is getting thrown out with its excrement and the next two major national elections are set to end all that was the Hannity/Limbaugh/Bush crowd, expect more last min. straw grabs from the drowning Elenore Gtski’s* of AGA -in the middle of the night. mvm *….picks up the rice at a church where a wedding has been… Why? Say Dave- since you don’t know how to play an instrument at all, let alone well, I hope you’re a half-decent conventional wrench. Clearly- the neocon thing isn’t workin’ for ya.

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I just got home from a movie, shown at a very old movie theater. It’s a neighborhood landmark, but fairly dilapidated. The owner is trying to renovate it, so I occasionally take my kids to see movies there to show support. Anyway, the sound system is, according to the owner, a very old tube system, and it sounded like shit tonight. He’s aware of that, but doesn’t know how to fix it. There are no experts around here as far as I know, and I’ve sent my amps to Robert Braught in Kansas because of that. The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state? TIA, ~Rich

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >I just got home from a movie, shown at a very old movie theater. It’s a >neighborhood landmark, but fairly dilapidated. The owner is trying to >renovate it, so I occasionally take my kids to see movies there to show >support. Anyway, the sound system is, according to the owner, a very >old tube system, and it sounded like shit tonight. He’s aware of that, >but doesn’t know how to fix it. There are no experts around here as far >as I know, and I’ve sent my amps to Robert Braught in Kansas because of >that. >The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated >flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can >any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The >owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What >else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state? >TIA, ~Rich

I think that there might be somebody in Denver that can fix it… Look up NBS electronics in the phone book. Claude

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I might recommend replacing. The sound quality of today’s theater equipmen t is so far superiour to that of days gone by, that trying to save the old tube stuff in this situation is no worth it. Just my opinion. I think the guy would end up spending a great deal more to repair the tube system to achieve a lower quality sound system than is available in today’s systems. The average theater goer (read as the owner’s patrons) does not hear, or even care to hear, the dif between a tube sound system and a modern theater system. However if they did I believe they would have a negative reaction to the sound system rather than a positive to the tube system. So the expense would not be justified… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I just got home from a movie, shown at a very old movie theater. It’s a > neighborhood landmark, but fairly dilapidated. The owner is trying to > renovate it, so I occasionally take my kids to see movies there to show > support. Anyway, the sound system is, according to the owner, a very > old tube system, and it sounded like shit tonight. He’s aware of that, > but doesn’t know how to fix it. There are no experts around here as far > as I know, and I’ve sent my amps to Robert Braught in Kansas because of > that. > The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated > flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can > any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The > owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What > else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state? > TIA, ~Rich

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I would suggest replacing as well, but I don’t think he’s up for that kind of expense. He does have a lot of other problems with the theater besides the sound, but the immediate fix of the static/white noise is very necessary. BTW I’m in Nebraska, so calling Valve probably isn’t in the cards. A house call from The Lord would be outrageously expensive, don’t you think?

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>I would suggest replacing as well, but I don’t think he’s up for that >kind of expense. He does have a lot of other problems with the theater >besides the sound, but the immediate fix of the static/white noise is >very necessary. BTW I’m in Nebraska, so calling Valve probably isn’t in >the cards. A house call from The Lord would be outrageously expensive, >don’t you think?

I dunno. Call him and ask. Maybe he’d talk somebody thru the troubleshooting over the phone or IRC or something… Robert might be able to do something like that too. Ask him…. Claude

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I can see your piont. However, He may be into a larger expense to repair or have repaired the current system, and still not come out with the best sound available. I wouold recommend pricing out both way before doing either. Again just a suggestion. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I would suggest replacing as well, but I don’t think he’s up for that > kind of expense. He does have a lot of other problems with the theater > besides the sound, but the immediate fix of the static/white noise is > very necessary. BTW I’m in Nebraska, so calling Valve probably isn’t in > the cards. A house call from The Lord would be outrageously expensive, > don’t you think?

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I just got home from a movie, shown at a very old movie theater. It’s a >neighborhood landmark, but fairly dilapidated. The owner is trying to >renovate it, so I occasionally take my kids to see movies there to show >support. Anyway, the sound system is, according to the owner, a very >old tube system, and it sounded like shit tonight. He’s aware of that, >but doesn’t know how to fix it. There are no experts around here as far >as I know, and I’ve sent my amps to Robert Braught in Kansas because of >that. >The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated >flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can >any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The >owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What >else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state? >TIA, ~Rich

If he doesn’t really know what he’s doing with an old tube amp, and can’t afford to pay someone to do maintenance on it, then it might be time for him to cut his losses, and instead look for advice on a very dependable solid state power amp, and just sell the old tube amp to a tube enthusiast. You know, because if new tubes don’t fix the problem, then he’ll add the expense of the new tubes to the cost of the new amp he’ll have to buy anyhow.  And how well can anyone troubleshoot an amp long distance? Is it really tubes, or does it need a cap job too?  Or both? Some more info about what this amp he has is might be helpful here too. Well, he’d probably have better luck buying tubes from Lord Valve, and discussing what’s going on with the amp, than he would be buying the tubes from a shopping cart style online tube dealer.  And I know that LV can also set him up with degradable SS power amps. Pete — Oh look, the exploding circus is coming to town. One night only. –Brak’s Dad

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I just got home from a movie, shown at a very old movie theater. It’s a > neighborhood landmark, but fairly dilapidated. The owner is trying to > renovate it, so I occasionally take my kids to see movies there to show > support. Anyway, the sound system is, according to the owner, a very > old tube system, and it sounded like shit tonight. He’s aware of that, > but doesn’t know how to fix it. There are no experts around here as far > as I know, and I’ve sent my amps to Robert Braught in Kansas because of > that. > The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated > flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can > any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The > owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What > else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state? > TIA, ~Rich

If it’s old, it probably needs some routine maintenance.  That might mean a cap job, new tubes, and someone to check the various resistors and caps to make sure they are still good.  There’s no getting around it.  If the amp chassis can be removed and carefully packed, it can be shipped out for maintenance.  Just arrange for someone like Robert or Willie to agree to put the work on the front of the bench as soon as it arrives.  If you use FedEx, it can be back within a week.  Otherwise, your friend is shut down until it returns. Just my 2 cents.  I don’t know much. Phil

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I just got home from a movie, shown at a very old movie theater. It’s a >neighborhood landmark, but fairly dilapidated. The owner is trying to >renovate it, so I occasionally take my kids to see movies there to show >support. Anyway, the sound system is, according to the owner, a very >old tube system, and it sounded like shit tonight. He’s aware of that, >but doesn’t know how to fix it. There are no experts around here as far >as I know, and I’ve sent my amps to Robert Braught in Kansas because of >that. >The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated >flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can >any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The >owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What >else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state? >TIA, ~Rich >If he doesn’t really know what he’s doing with an old tube amp, and >can’t afford to pay someone to do maintenance on it, then it might be >time for him to cut his losses, and instead look for advice on a very >dependable solid state power amp, and just sell the old tube amp to a >tube enthusiast. >You know, because if new tubes don’t fix the problem, then he’ll add >the expense of the new tubes to the cost of the new amp he’ll have to >buy anyhow.  And how well can anyone troubleshoot an amp long >distance? >Is it really tubes, or does it need a cap job too?  Or both? >Some more info about what this amp he has is might be helpful here >too. >Well, he’d probably have better luck buying tubes from Lord Valve, and >discussing what’s going on with the amp, than he would be buying the >tubes from a shopping cart style online tube dealer.  And I know that >LV can also set him up with degradable SS power amps. >Pete

My spellchecker got me again!  I guess I misspelled dependable, and it must have suggested "degradable", and I wasn’t paying close enough attention.  Sorry. Or was that a freudian slip?  Degradable SS power amp.  That’d be a tough one to sell, but it almost sounds like a brand name. Phil S brought up that it might be something other than tubes or caps. Yep.   God only knows what went funky on an old tube amp that might never have had *any* maintenance yet.  Considering how old it probably is by now, that’s pretty impressive. Pete — Oh look, the exploding circus is coming to town. One night only. –Brak’s Dad

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Rich, tied to the tracks, said: … > The system was very noisy, and the sound of the film (the animated > flick Madagascar) was buried beneath the static/white noise etc. Can > any of the experts here make some suggestions as to the cause/cure? The > owner’s going to be net shopping for tubes, hoping that’ll fix it. What > else can he do, other than hire an expert from out of town/state?

I’d start by just removing and reinserting the tubes a few times in case there’s a bad connection in a socket.  Low probability, but cheap enough so long as you’re careful.  The amp has to be off and the tubes cool, of course. If that’s not it, time to try new tubes.  But as someone else noted, this *could* get pricey.  or not. Where are you located?

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>I might recommend replacing. The sound quality of today’s theater >equipmen t is so far superiour to that of days gone by, that trying to

Could be….But not sure if the high end stuff is going to be cheap. Most of the old movie house stuff was real high quality stuff..IE: western electric, etc, etc.. The hang is the overall condition. New caps in many circuits would be a given.  But it’s quite possible that stuff could be put back into working order fairly easily.  That it’s working now, although crappish, is a real good sign.  The best bet to fix it is probably some 85 year old fart that used to work tube TV/radio repair…. No joke… But fixing that thing up shouldn’t be that big a deal really unless it’s really ancient.  Now that I think about it, I used to talk to a guy on the radio, that traveled town to town fixing movie house gear, but I ain’t heard from him in years… His job probably became semi obsolete with all the plug n play solid state stuff… As far as noise, clean and tighten all sockets, clean pots, look for leaking caps, including coupling caps, etc… The usual.. All the electrolytics are probably half toast…Does it hummmmmm? How old is it? 50’s, 60’s is probably easier to deal with than some relic from the 30’s, 40’s… They used some funky tubes in the old days… I’ve got a 1948 RCA radio/phono console I snagged in a trade. It’s got a dual 6v6 output circuit, and actually would make a decent geetar amp.  But I hate to butcher it, as I like the radio.. It has AM-SW, and a big loop antenna in the back. Mellow sound, and the phono seems to work, except I think the needle is toast.  It’s 78’s only I think, naturally… I could plug a geetar to the phono input, and it should work I would think. I got it all working except the output tranny fried after about an hour of operation.  It shorted out due to the dreaded "green oxidation" you see in some of those ancient trannies that have sat for years.. It forms around the wire of the windings, and shorts them out… I bet that movie amp  would sound great if overhauled, if it was good gear to begin with… Most were. Might need some new speakers after a while…But maybe not… MK

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>Just arrange for someone like Robert or Willie to agree to put >the work on the front of the bench as soon as it arrives.  If you use FedEx, >it can be back within a week.  Otherwise, your friend is shut down until it >returns.

Best bet, if the owner doesn’t have a clue about amps. This assuming Robert or Willie works on those… It would be best if whoever looks at it actually knows something about amps… :/  Sometimes the "golden diddlestick" can get lucky if something like a loose tube, dirty pot, etc, but usually not if anything serious… You want everything right for it to live up to it’s full potential, and not blow up after two weeks..  :( MK

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Thanks for the advice everyone. I’ll get in touch with the guy and tell him what you’ve said, and see what he thinks. I haven’t seen the system myself, so I have no idea what it is or its age. BTW we’re in Lincoln, NE.

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> Thanks for the advice everyone. I’ll get in touch with the guy and tell > him what you’ve said, and see what he thinks. I haven’t seen the system > myself, so I have no idea what it is or its age. BTW we’re in Lincoln, > NE.

Robert Braught is probably within 100 miles of there: http://www.braught.com/ Is that the theater in Havelock?  I remember seeing a few flicks there when I was going to school.  There was a great short subject called Hardware Wars, a spoof of Star Wars that included a Princess Leia character who wore cheese danishes on the sides of her head, and a hero named Oggie-Ben-Doggie. Great stuff. Jeff

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>Robert Braught is probably within 100 > miles of there: >http://www.braught.com/ >Is that the theater in Havelock? I > remember seeing a few flicks there > when I was going to school. There was > a great short subject called Hardware > Wars, a spoof of Star Wars that > included a Princess Leia character who > wore cheese danishes on the sides of > her head, and a hero named > Oggie-Ben-Doggie. Great stuff. >Jeff

Robert’s a bit further away than that…he’s closer to KC, but a house call from him wouldn’t be cheap either. When I had him work on my Vibro-Champ a while back he was about to raise prices. Yeah, it’s the theater in Havelock..it’s called the Joyo, and it’s in pretty bad shape. I haven’t had the chance to see the owner yet, but since he does have Monday Night Football there, I may pop in to let him know the score as everyone here sees it. Maybe he’ll let me have a peek at it and I can pass that along to you all here. Thanks again. BTW sorry about the lack of quotes in my previous posts. I used Google to access the group from my computer and it’s not as intuitive as I’d like. I couldn’t find a way to do quotes or sig lines. Webtv may be slow, but it’s easy as hell! ~Rich See my gear at the link! http://community.webtv.net/one4rich/RichsGuitarPage

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Robert Braught is probably within 100 > miles of there: >http://www.braught.com/ >Is that the theater in Havelock? I > remember seeing a few flicks there > when I was going to school. There was > a great short subject called Hardware > Wars, a spoof of Star Wars that > included a Princess Leia character who > wore cheese danishes on the sides of > her head, and a hero named > Oggie-Ben-Doggie. Great stuff. >Jeff >Robert’s a bit further away than that…he’s closer to KC, but a house >call from him wouldn’t be cheap either. When I had him work on my >Vibro-Champ a while back he was about to raise prices. >Yeah, it’s the theater in Havelock..it’s called the Joyo, and it’s in >pretty bad shape. I haven’t had the chance to see the owner yet, but >since he does have Monday Night Football there, I may pop in to let him >know the score as everyone here sees it. Maybe he’ll let me have a peek >at it and I can pass that along to you all here. Thanks again. >BTW sorry about the lack of quotes in my previous posts. I used Google >to access the group from my computer and it’s not as intuitive as I’d >like. I couldn’t find a way to do quotes or sig lines. Webtv may be >slow, but it’s easy as hell! >~Rich >See my gear at the link! >http://community.webtv.net/one4rich/RichsGuitarPage

If you get a chance to look at it, bring s digital camera if you have one, and put a picture of it on your website. BTW, cool 4104 Marshall combo.  I want one of those sometime. Pete — Oh look, the exploding circus is coming to town. One night only. –Brak’s Dad

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I have a friend in Tempe, AZ who is a whiz at old motion picture equipment. His name is Randy Lee Munro, known professionally as Mr. Projectionist. He travels all over the country dealing with antique equipment such as Western Electric, Victor, Edison, Powers, etc. He understands electronics as well as mechanicals. His website is www.mrprojectionist.com and his cell phone is (602) 487-7682. Have your friend call him and he will be able to give him invaluable advice regarding what to do and where to get it done. Tell him I referred you. P " We had a knob, and all we had to do was turn it."  -  Les Paul Grins, Peter                                                                                                                     http://community.webtv.net/guitarmaniax/THISISTHE http://community.webtv.net/guitarmaniax/unfinished3 http://community.webtv.net/guitarmaniax/KAYDELUXEELTROVADOR http://community.webtv.net/guitarmaniax/PhotoReserveNo1 http://community.webtv.net/guitarmaniax/MYFRIEND

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This thread is NOT off-topic.

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>This thread is NOT off-topic.

Well, it’s not exactly guitar amps, is it? I’ll grant you it’s not as off topic as this group usually gets, but I felt the OT was necessary nonetheless. No harm, no foul. ~Rich

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>>This thread is NOT off-topic. >Well, it’s not exactly guitar amps, is it?

TUBE and AMP it is.  You came to the right place to find tube amp circuit benders, no doubt in that.   > I’ll grant you it’s not as >off topic as this group usually gets, but I felt the OT was necessary >nonetheless. No harm, no foul.

I just wish my kill filters on "OT:*" hadn’t hid this gem from me.  In amonst the muck of politic threads there this was.

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To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I’m just curious, how does it feel? How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows? That’s right. Horse shows. I really want to know — and I ask you this in all sincerity and with all due respect — how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush has shown for your safety? C’mon, give me just a moment of honesty. Don’t start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us in case of an emergency or catastrophe. I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America. Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer? When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure? When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a threat that was never there? Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people? Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD? With the nation’s debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn’t he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake. That’s not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water. It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you’re doing a heck of a job!" My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world? And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain? Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can’t string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can’t pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever. Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you’ve sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the problem will somehow go away? I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn’t up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren’t up for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose? I have an idea, and it isn’t a horse show.

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Hey I remeber you. You had the funny green / orange hair back in the 80’s, and were one of the most popular toys of the day. Do you still have the jewel in your navel Trollboy. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: > On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I’m just curious, how does it feel? > How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were > attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification > was that he ran horse shows? > That’s right. Horse shows. > I really want to know — and I ask you this in all sincerity and with all > due respect — how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush has shown > for your safety? C’mon, give me just a moment of honesty. Don’t start > ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the fault of one of > the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred of Democrats and > liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye > and tell me our President did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse > show runner as the top man to protect us in case of an emergency or > catastrophe. > I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of > Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and > just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America. > Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show > runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero > experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer? > When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with > little experience in national security, do you feel secure? > When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die > in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to > conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a > threat that was never there? > Do you really believe that turning over important government services to > private corporations has resulted in better services for the people? > Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for > politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the > federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and > the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD? > With the nation’s debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the > rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of > thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? > Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn’t he say that we would be judged by > how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the > facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind > howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America > shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States > fiddles and tells them to eat cake. > That’s not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, > John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full > day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had > cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this > while New Orleans sank under water. > It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his > jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him as he > flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a > trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in > a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR > DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael > Brown), you’re doing a heck of a job!" > My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of > the world? > And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those > who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every > bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, > then did the 3,000 die in vain? > Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural > disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight > Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where > one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can’t string a > coherent sentence together. The middle class can’t pay the mortgage or the > hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever. > Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and build > so many gated communities before the fruit of what you’ve sown will be > crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you really want to > wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if they are left alone long > enough to soil themselves and shoot themselves and drown in the filth that > fills the street that maybe the problem will somehow go away? > I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn’t > up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren’t up for the job. You > did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. > Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has > to be fixed. What do you propose? > I have an idea, and it isn’t a horse show.

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Swack on crack

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"ndugu" tries more moonbat bullshit: > How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were > attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main > qualification was that he ran horse shows?>

How des it feel to know your left wing, douche bag Senators approved the guy’s nomination? How does it also feel to know that based upon the man’s work in Florida last year he was priased by DemoCRAPS as a hero? Sorry, asshole, the blood’s on the hands of the incompetent, corrupt idiots who run :Louisiana: All DemoCROOKS! Let the investigations begin!!!! (Remaining commie bullshit flushed like fecal matter.)

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Have a nice bray, & don’t foget to whipe the spittle off your keyboard

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this is so cool this administration has gotten so inept and crooked, that not even the wackos on AGA can sucessfully defend it! HA! HA!    I LOVE IT I have been waiting 5 years for this day! PS – read more about these crooks: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-10-katrina-contracts_…

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>this is so cool >this administration has gotten so inept and crooked, that not even the >wackos on AGA can sucessfully defend it! >HA! HA!    I LOVE IT >I have been waiting 5 years for this day! >PS – read more about these crooks: >http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-10-katrina-contracts_…

There’s a message from the President, just for you, at: http://bopbush.com/BushFinger.gif Regards Claude

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>To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: >On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I’m just curious, how does it feel? >How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were >attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification >was that he ran horse shows? >That’s right. Horse shows.

LOL! Dickweed doesn’t give credit to Michael "Fatass" Moore because even he knows Moore is an idiot! Thanks Mick. I just looked at Moore’s site and he gives a lot of space to Cindy Shemale. My question to the fat slob is this – What are Cindy Sheehan’s qualifications to lead an anti-war movement? Because a son she didn’t raise died and she’s an attention-whore? Because she knows nothing at all about foreign policy and wants the immediate pullout of troops, meaning we will have wasted the last few years and pulled out before the job was done? Michael Moore is a phony. His Fahrenheit 9/11 ‘documentary’ and others are blatant ripoffs of 1930’s-40’s Nazi propaganda films against the Jews. They are the exact same style. The pictures of Bush’s cabinet (instead of Jews) shown candidly with mysterious and evil-like music, dubbed with his slow, soft whining commentary. I don’t understand how libs can take his propaganda as any kind of unbiased and factual commentary. …but then again, we’re talking libs here.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Hey I remeber you. You had the funny green / orange hair back in the > 80’s, and were one of the most popular toys of the day. Do you still > have the jewel in your navel Trollboy. > To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: > On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I’m just curious, how does it > feel? > How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we > were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main > qualification was that he ran horse shows? > That’s right. Horse shows. > I really want to know — and I ask you this in all sincerity and with > all due respect — how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush > has shown for your safety? C’mon, give me just a moment of honesty. > Don’t start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the > fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred > of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. > Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing > after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us > in case of an emergency or catastrophe. > I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of > Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger > and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call > America. > Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the > horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency > preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you > think we are safer? > When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a > man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure? > When men who never served in the military and have never seen young > men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they > know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your > legs blown off for a threat that was never there? > Do you really believe that turning over important government services > to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people? > Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for > politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund > the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs > like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for > America? GOOD OR BAD? > With the nation’s debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for > the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds > of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? > Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn’t he say that we would be judged > by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew > off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. > The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the > poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of > the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake. > That’s not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. > Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with > cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair > funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer > gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water. > It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in > his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him > as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE > DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was > no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" > to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie > (FEMA director Michael Brown), you’re doing a heck of a job!" > My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing > stock of the world? > And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame > those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves > today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright > sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain? > Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural > disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight > Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system > where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do > can’t string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can’t pay > the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health > coverage whatsoever. > Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and > build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you’ve sown > will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you > really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if > they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot > themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the > problem will somehow go away? > I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who > wasn’t up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren’t up for > the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New > Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and > safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose? > I have an idea, and it isn’t a horse show.

Actually, back when they first got popular back in the sixties, we called them "damn-dolls".

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Prease sir, your fortunr cookie read: http://www.badcookie.com/

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hey I remeber you. You had the funny green / orange hair back in the > 80’s, and were one of the most popular toys of the day. Do you still > have the jewel in your navel Trollboy. >> To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: >> On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I’m just curious, how does >> it feel? >> How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we >> were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main >> qualification was that he ran horse shows? >> That’s right. Horse shows. >> I really want to know — and I ask you this in all sincerity and with >> all due respect — how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush >> has shown for your safety? C’mon, give me just a moment of honesty. >> Don’t start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the >> fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred >> of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. >> Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing >> after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us >> in case of an emergency or catastrophe. >> I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of >> Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger >> and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call >> America. >> Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the >> horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency >> preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you >> think we are safer? >> When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a >> man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure? >> When men who never served in the military and have never seen young >> men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they >> know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your >> legs blown off for a threat that was never there? >> Do you really believe that turning over important government services >> to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people? >> Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for >> politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund >> the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs >> like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for >> America? GOOD OR BAD? >> With the nation’s debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for >> the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds >> of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? >> Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn’t he say that we would be >> judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in >> and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and >> justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was >> revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die >> while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to >> eat cake. >> That’s not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, >> Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves >> with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose >> repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some >> country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water. >> It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in >> his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below >> him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO >> MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. >> This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My >> Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than >> saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you’re doing a heck of >> a job!" >> My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing >> stock of the world? >> And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame >> those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves >> today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that >> bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain? >> Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or >> natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one >> in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an >> education system where one in six children never graduate and most of >> those who do can’t string a coherent sentence together. The middle >> class can’t pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million >> have no health coverage whatsoever. >> Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out >> and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you’ve >> sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. >> Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope >> that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot >> themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe >> the problem will somehow go away? >> I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who >> wasn’t up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren’t up >> for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New >> Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace >> and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose? >> I have an idea, and it isn’t a horse show. > Actually, back when they first got popular back in the sixties, we > called them "damn-dolls".

Well there you go. I bet everyone will get used to seing me get corrected on these things. It helps me learn. I can’t remember that far back. The whole infantcy thing. Thanks.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Hey I remeber you. You had the funny green / orange hair back in the >> 80’s, and were one of the most popular toys of the day. Do you still >> have the jewel in your navel Trollboy. >>> To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: >>> On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I’m just curious, how does >>> it feel? >>> How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after >>> we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose >>> main qualification was that he ran horse shows? >>> That’s right. Horse shows. >>> I really want to know — and I ask you this in all sincerity and >>> with all due respect — how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. >>> Bush has shown for your safety? C’mon, give me just a moment of >>> honesty. Don’t start ranting on about how this disaster in New >>> Orleans was the fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put >>> aside your hatred of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last >>> name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye and tell me our President >>> did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the >>> top man to protect us in case of an emergency or catastrophe. >>> I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of >>> Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger >>> and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both >>> call America. >>> Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the >>> horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency >>> preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you >>> think we are safer? >>> When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a >>> man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure? >>> When men who never served in the military and have never seen young >>> men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think >>> they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have >>> your legs blown off for a threat that was never there? >>> Do you really believe that turning over important government >>> services to private corporations has resulted in better services for >>> the people? >>> Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for >>> politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to >>> de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal >>> programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or >>> bad for America? GOOD OR BAD? >>> With the nation’s debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts >>> for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so >>> hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? >>> Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn’t he say that we would be >>> judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in >>> and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and >>> justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was >>> revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and >>> die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them >>> to eat cake. >>> That’s not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, >>> Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves >>> with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose >>> repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some >>> country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water. >>> It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in >>> his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below >>> him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO >>> MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. >>> This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read >>> "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than >>> saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you’re doing a heck >>> of a job!" >>> My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing >>> stock of the world? >>> And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or >>> shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find >>> ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on >>> that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain? >>> Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or >>> natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one >>> in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an >>> education system where one in six children never graduate and most >>> of those who do can’t string a coherent sentence together. The >>> middle class can’t pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 >>> million have no health coverage whatsoever. >>> Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out >>> and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you’ve >>> sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. >>> Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope >>> that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot >>> themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe >>> the problem will somehow go away? >>> I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who >>> wasn’t up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren’t up >>> for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New >>> Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace >>> and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose? >>> I have an idea, and it isn’t a horse show. > Actually, back when they first got popular back in the sixties, we > called them "damn-dolls". > Well there you go. I bet everyone will get used to seing me get > corrected on these things. It helps me learn. I can’t remember that far > back. The whole infantcy thing. Thanks.

Oh, I wasn’t correcting you….just dumping out some useless trivia.

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As someone who voted for Bush I can tell you I am just as angry about the lack of effectiveness of the government at all levels in this disaster. Let me just say that if Clinton were still president, the response would be just as bad.  We conservatives would be screaming just as loud as liberals are now.  Why would response be so bad?  Because government only knows how to throw money at problems, not how to fix them. It is now projected that the Federal government will spend over $100 billion on relief and cleanup on the Katrina disaster.  Considering that there are approx. 300,000 families that are victims of the storm, that amounts to over $300,000 per family!  Does anyone believe any of these families, or for that matter, the American people will receive anything resembling their money’s worth? The initial $10.5 Billion has been spent.  Other than a few $2,000 debit cards, the victims have received very little assistance from FEMA.  They’ve received help from volunteers, private citizens and corporations that are making it their business to help them. When are we going to realize that we must help ourselves when we can, and help each other when we cannot?  Expecting government to solve our problems is just too costly and inefficient. </rant>

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Have you thought to look beyond the major media and their ‘blame FEMA’ catch-all answer to Katrina? City had evacuation plan but strayed from strategy By LISE OLSEN Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Cancer patient Earl Robicheaux, his immune system depleted by radical chemotherapy, lay in a hospital bed as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans. Trying to leave, he thought, seemed suicidal. But after four days in the hospital’s reeking darkness, he escaped via a Black Hawk helicopter that landed on the roof of the University Hospital under heavy guard because of the threat of sniper fire. It was not the evacuation plan authorities had envisioned for its sick, its elderly and its poor. As the floodwaters recede, serious questions remain about whether New Orleans and Louisiana officials followed their own plans for evacuating people with no other way out. The mayor’s mandatory evacuation order was issued 20 hours before the storm struck the Louisiana coast, less than half the time researchers determined would be needed to get everyone out. City officials had 550 municipal buses and hundreds of additional school buses at their disposal but made no plans to use them to get people out of New Orleans before the storm, said Chester Wilmot, a civil engineering professor at Louisiana State University and an expert in transportation planning, who helped the city put together its evacuation plan. Instead, local buses were used to ferry people from 12 pickup points to poorly supplied "shelters of last resort" in the city. An estimated 50,000 New Orleans households have no access to cars, Wilmot said. State and local plans both called for extra help to be provided in advance to residents with "special needs," though no specific timetable was prepared. But phone lines for people who needed specialized shelters opened at noon Saturday

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I have a Fender Concert II (circa 1982) that I had purchased as new. I popped the original speaker in it several years back and replaced it with a 100w Black Shadow.  All was fine for about a year.  The amp seemed to lose power and makes a sort of crackling sound when ever something touches it.  I took it to the local amp guru (Gar Gillies of Garnet amps fame) and he basically changed the tubes and dusted it off before handing me a $200.00 dollar bill. I wanted to "dust" him off.  Anyway he never fixed it.  It was the sweetest amp I’ve owned and I want it back.  Any help from you amp tech type dudes out there would see you on my christmas card list for an eternity.  Thanks in advance.

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>I have a Fender Concert II (circa 1982) that I had purchased as new. > I popped the original speaker in it several years back and replaced it > with a 100w Black Shadow.  All was fine for about a year.  The amp > seemed to lose power and makes > a sort of crackling sound when ever something touches it.  I took it > to the local amp guru (Gar Gillies of Garnet amps fame) and he > basically changed the tubes and dusted it off before handing me a > $200.00 dollar bill. I wanted to "dust" him off.  Anyway he never > fixed it.  It was the sweetest amp I’ve owned and I want it back.  Any > help from you amp tech type dudes out there would see you on my > christmas card list for an eternity.  Thanks in advance.

I would take it back to the tech and tell him that he did not repair the problem. David

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I have a Fender Concert II (circa 1982) that I had purchased as new. > I popped the original speaker in it several years back and replaced it > with a 100w Black Shadow.  All was fine for about a year.  The amp > seemed to lose power and makes > a sort of crackling sound when ever something touches it.  I took it > to the local amp guru (Gar Gillies of Garnet amps fame) and he > basically changed the tubes and dusted it off before handing me a > $200.00 dollar bill. I wanted to "dust" him off.  Anyway he never > fixed it.  It was the sweetest amp I’ve owned and I want it back. Any > help from you amp tech type dudes out there would see you on my > christmas card list for an eternity.  Thanks in advance. > I would take it back to the tech and tell him that he did not repair the > problem. > David

What he said, with the following added: Everyone (I presume) who works on amps is human; all (of us humans! I’m one too!) make mistakes, miss on communication on occasion (i.e. information on intake), have bad days, etc. Mr. Gillies has the reputation that causes me to think he *could* fix your amp, if he set his mind to it. His mind might not have been set to it (see above.) If I assume he would act like most humans I’ve had experience with (myself included), if I’m ‘called out’ when I’ve missed something and the experience is hostile (i.e. "You didn’t fix the damn thing the first time, do it right, NOW, or I’ll sue!") I doubt you’d get the focused, caring attention second time ’round that I believe you’d want. Maybe there’s another reason why you felt like ‘dusting him off’. I dunno. I don’t know Mr. Gillies. I don’t know if you paid for services you didn’t agree to (all new tubes?), had to endure the wait of a long backlog of work for Mr. Gillies, you got treated rudely…? But I do expect that if I took something back to somebody for correction of their oversight, without attitude or negative emotional baggage, I’d expect them to respond positively. Whoops. You wanted one of us to tell you how to fix your amp. OK. …..the ground pin on your AC cord is broken off (‘crackles whenever something touches it’ tells me that it might be floating from ground. …unless you’re talking *mechanical* like if you *tap on it* it ‘crackles’, then maybe lets look for that darned intermittent connection inside…) My 2c- -Robert QTS http://www.Braught.com

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Ok I found a fix for this problem which has worked for one day so thats a good start I’m unsure if its a GOOD fix (the for long term) but it worked this morning at 10f Basically you spray the deicer on the door latch and on the locking latch when the car is warm.  This morning the door opened *easily* (and it was colder than yesterday) and it closed just fine.  I noticed that *all* doors are affected by this problem (god forbid I have to hold the passengers side door closed while going down the interstate (no just kidding, that’d be a bungee situation)…but so there’s a fix..try it out for your aerostar..can of deicer spray while the car is warm.

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So are you referring to the sticking door in the morning or the fact that the door won’t close?  Or both?  I don’t see how spraying the door seals will allow the latch to lock after getting the door open (so it will close again)…am I missing something?

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So basically its the seals that are preventing the door from closing? It doesn’t have anythign to do with the latch/locking mechanism inside? That’d be great if thats all it is…

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I live up in Vermont and have had this problem since last year that is bugging me and I want to solve it.  When I get up in the morning I cannot open the drivers side door (it feels like its frozen shut).  I then have to go in the drivers side rear door and lean over the seat and manually pull the door un "stuck".  I can then go back and pull pretty hard on the door and it will open.  It seems as if its stuck from ice or snow. This morning I tried to use some deicer on the door latch but that didn’t work.  I am wondering what I can do in order to either a) prevent this from ever happening or b) fix it when it does happen. Its a real pain driving down the interstate holding the door shut Thanks!

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Maybe I’ll just get in the passengers-side door  I can’t be opening up my car door and working on it outside for extended periods when the ambient temperature is usually around 5f.  (no garage, and definitely not a heated one!) Thanks though for the info…If there’s anyway/thoughts to do this without taking the door apart i’d love to know Thanks! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >[top posting fixed] >>So are you referring to the sticking door in the morning or the fact >>that the door won’t close?  Or both?  I don’t see how spraying the door >>seals will allow the latch to lock after getting the door open (so it >>will close again)…am I missing something? > You’re right, sounds like you are describing two different problems. > The silicone spray will fix the problem with the door freezing shut, > but won’t fix the latch problem.  I’m not sure how to fix the latch, > but would start by taking the cover off the door and lubricating the > latch linkages.  Jim Warman should be a pro at this if he is online. >My ‘93 Aerostar has a chronic problem with exactly these same symptoms. >It is caused by water getting into the cable that runs from the inside >door handle to the latch mechanism.  I’ve fixed it by thawing out the >cable and blowing out the water with compressed air, then lubing the >cable with Tri-Flow or equivalent.  

Cheers, -sd http://www.zoom.sh

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[top posting fixed] >So are you referring to the sticking door in the morning or the fact >that the door won’t close?  Or both?  I don’t see how spraying the door >seals will allow the latch to lock after getting the door open (so it >will close again)…am I missing something? > You’re right, sounds like you are describing two different problems. > The silicone spray will fix the problem with the door freezing shut, > but won’t fix the latch problem.  I’m not sure how to fix the latch, > but would start by taking the cover off the door and lubricating the > latch linkages.  Jim Warman should be a pro at this if he is online.

My ‘93 Aerostar has a chronic problem with exactly these same symptoms. It is caused by water getting into the cable that runs from the inside door handle to the latch mechanism.  I’ve fixed it by thawing out the cable and blowing out the water with compressed air, then lubing the cable with Tri-Flow or equivalent.  

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You’re right, sounds like you are describing two different problems. The silicone spray will fix the problem with the door freezing shut, but won’t fix the latch problem.  I’m not sure how to fix the latch, but would start by taking the cover off the door and lubricating the latch linkages.  Jim Warman should be a pro at this if he is online. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->So are you referring to the sticking door in the morning or the fact >that the door won’t close?  Or both?  I don’t see how spraying the door >seals will allow the latch to lock after getting the door open (so it >will close again)…am I missing something?

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Spray the rubber door seals with silicone spray every few months. That will keep them flexible and also prevent them from freezing. While you’re at it, run the window down and spray the channels. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I live up in Vermont and have had this problem since last year that is >bugging me and I want to solve it.  When I get up in the morning I >cannot open the drivers side door (it feels like its frozen shut).  I >then have to go in the drivers side rear door and lean over the seat >and manually pull the door un "stuck".  I can then go back and pull >pretty hard on the door and it will open.  It seems as if its stuck >from ice or snow. >This morning I tried to use some deicer on the door latch but that >didn’t work.  I am wondering what I can do in order to either a) >prevent this from ever happening or b) fix it when it does happen. >Its a real pain driving down the interstate holding the door shut >Thanks!

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I just bought an Accord and it has a cruise control that is physco and I’m lost on how to fix it. The master switch seems to work and when I press "set" the instrument cluster "cruise control" light sometimes (pressing the set button 15 times) comes on but even it does usually nothing happens. Once it actually did work, and twice the car started accelerating faster and faster but 99% of the time the car nothing happens. I have the Honda service manual for the car and tested all the inputs (power, set, resume, speed etc) to the cruise control computer and they were OK so I replaced the cruise computer yet it hasn’t made any difference at all. I’ve tested the vacuum solenoid/actuator and it worked (pulled in the actuator rod and held it), however, the vent and safety solenoids did not seem to function. I am wondering if faulty vent/safety solenoids would cause the scenario as described above?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I just bought an Accord and it has a cruise control that is physco and I’m > lost on how to fix it. > The master switch seems to work and when I press "set" the instrument > cluster "cruise control" light sometimes (pressing the set button 15 > times) comes on but even it does usually nothing happens. Once it actually > did work, and twice the car started accelerating faster and faster but 99% > of the time the car nothing happens. > I have the Honda service manual for the car and tested all the inputs > (power, set, resume, speed etc) to the cruise control computer and they > were OK so I replaced the cruise computer yet it hasn’t made any > difference at all. I’ve tested the vacuum solenoid/actuator and it worked > (pulled in the actuator rod and held it), however, the vent and safety > solenoids did not seem to function. > I am wondering if faulty vent/safety solenoids would cause the scenario as > described above?

Have you checked BOTH switches on the brake pedal? One is for lights, the other for the cruise. A short to ground  (intermittent) might cause the problems you describe. ‘Curly’

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Car is a 1995 E34 BMW 5-series (M5). I noticed yesterday that if I use the LEFT indicator (turn signal), then both sets of indicators flash (i.e., it looks as if the hazard warning switch has been used). – the RIGHT indicator works fine – The HAZARD lights work fine – The ALARM (BMW factory fits) works fine – it flashes the indicators on arm/disarm – All 6 indicator bulbs are working – The telltale bulbs in the dash are working I have tried removing and reseating the LKM module and the Flasher relay, but neither of these made any difference. Other than planning all my routes to avoid ever turning left can anybody suggest where I should look next? — Philip K Hertfordshire, England 1995 BMW ///M5 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Sport Coupe

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Philip, not having owned an E34, not sure if this might help… but the same thing happened to me in an E30 325i se, traced it to the control stalk in the end… hard to track the correct one down tho because of the computer function on the stalk… hope it maybe helps? best of luck, louis s, hampshire

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Car is a 1995 E34 BMW 5-series (M5). > I noticed yesterday that if I use the LEFT indicator (turn signal), then > both sets of indicators flash (i.e., it looks as if the hazard warning > switch has been used). > – the RIGHT indicator works fine > – The HAZARD lights work fine > – The ALARM (BMW factory fits) works fine – it flashes the indicators on > arm/disarm > – All 6 indicator bulbs are working > – The telltale bulbs in the dash are working > I have tried removing and reseating the LKM module and the Flasher > relay, but neither of these made any difference. > Other than planning all my routes to avoid ever turning left can > anybody suggest where I should look next? > — > Philip K > Hertfordshire, England > 1995 BMW ///M5 > 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Sport Coupe

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hi, I’m experiencing the exact same thing. except my car is a ‘97 Z3. If you were able to fix your problem please tell me how to fix it as i am really desperate. (checked the fuses and everything, but couldnt find the problem). thank you very much in advance.

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I drive a 1998 528i and just this past weekend my wife got in the car and attempted to adjust the seat to her liking and discovered the seat controls no longer worked.  I subsequently discovered that the steering column adjuster did not work either.  My first thought was the fuses (13 and 21) which I have since tested and they are fine.  Everything else in the car is working fine although my wife did note that the ASC warning light did come on out of the middle of nowhere when she was on the highway.  It is fine now though.  It clearly sounds like the typical BMW gremlins.  Does anyone have any prior experiences as to how to fix?

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> I drive a 1998 528i and just this past weekend my wife got in the car and > attempted to adjust the seat to her liking and discovered the seat controls > no longer worked.  I subsequently discovered that the steering column > adjuster did not work either.  My first thought was the fuses (13 and 21) > which I have since tested and they are fine.  Everything else in the car is > working fine although my wife did note that the ASC warning light did come > on out of the middle of nowhere when she was on the highway.  It is fine now > though.  It clearly sounds like the typical BMW gremlins.  Does anyone have > any prior experiences as to how to fix?

Ignition switch

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Do you know if that is something I can do myself or must I take it in to have it repaired?

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I drive a 1998 528i and just this past weekend my wife got in the car and > attempted to adjust the seat to her liking and discovered the seat controls > no longer worked.  I subsequently discovered that the steering column > adjuster did not work either.  My first thought was the fuses (13 and 21) > which I have since tested and they are fine.  Everything else in the car is > working fine although my wife did note that the ASC warning light did come > on out of the middle of nowhere when she was on the highway.  It is fine now > though.  It clearly sounds like the typical BMW gremlins.  Does anyone have > any prior experiences as to how to fix? > Ignition switch

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I drive a 1998 528i and just this past weekend my wife got in the car and > attempted to adjust the seat to her liking and discovered the seat controls > no longer worked.  I subsequently discovered that the steering column > adjuster did not work either.  My first thought was the fuses (13 and 21) > which I have since tested and they are fine.  Everything else in the car is > working fine although my wife did note that the ASC warning light did come > on out of the middle of nowhere when she was on the highway.  It is fine now > though.  It clearly sounds like the typical BMW gremlins.  Does anyone have > any prior experiences as to how to fix?

SI 32 02 98.  Replace seat control unit and recode, replace steering column up/down motor unless motor has a black plastic box and lid attached to it. If it has metal box, plastic lid, replace it. Brett Anderson KMS www.bmw-stuff.com

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THE DOOR AJAR LIGHT STAYS ON WHENEVER THE BACK LIFT GATE IS OPEN AND THEN CLOSED. ALSO THE INTERIOR DOME LIGHTS STAY ON AND DONT SHUT OFF. I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. IF ANY ONE CAN HELP IT WOULD BE GREAT.

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I looked in my 95 factory service manual. Pretty complex stuff for a simple light. Lots of potential components not working properly can cause the problem. Recommend you get either a factory manual or a  "factory type" CD (available on eBay for $10 to $25) and start through the troubleshooting procedures. Paying a Ford dealer "could" be most effective solution. Sorry I don’t have a better answer. Good luck – Jerry

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> THE DOOR AJAR LIGHT STAYS ON WHENEVER THE BACK LIFT GATE IS OPEN AND THEN > CLOSED. ALSO THE INTERIOR DOME LIGHTS STAY ON AND DONT SHUT OFF. I DONT > KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. IF ANY ONE CAN HELP IT WOULD BE GREAT.

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Here’s the deal: I also have a 95 EB and get the same condition.  First place to look is the back hatch switches for the hinging rear most door.  They are black plastic things that have to slide freely (one on each side).  I think they may be magnetic activated, so be sure they don’t have any greese, dirt on them.  See if you can slide them freely.  Next be sure to firmly close the back glass window. Most importantly, the Exps have a stay on feature on the lights. Notice when you pull up on the locked door, the lights come on and stay on so you can see the number lock pad and inside the car.  If you leave one of the doors open, or switch isn’t working, the lights are supposed to go out after about 20 minutes if its not running. Good Luck – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I looked in my 95 factory service manual. Pretty complex stuff for a simple > light. Lots of potential components not working properly can cause the > problem. Recommend you get either a factory manual or a  "factory type" CD > (available on eBay for $10 to $25) and start through the troubleshooting > procedures. Paying a Ford dealer "could" be most effective solution. Sorry I > don’t have a better answer. Good luck – Jerry > THE DOOR AJAR LIGHT STAYS ON WHENEVER THE BACK LIFT GATE IS OPEN AND THEN > CLOSED. ALSO THE INTERIOR DOME LIGHTS STAY ON AND DONT SHUT OFF. I DONT > KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. IF ANY ONE CAN HELP IT WOULD BE GREAT.

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I have a 95 also and found that you may need to jiggle the door handle a little to get the light to go out. Make sure that when you close the rear door that the handle returns to the horizontal position when the door closes. This will keep the door ajar light on. Mine doesn’t anymore so I have to place it in the horizontal position by hand after I close the door. > THE DOOR AJAR LIGHT STAYS ON WHENEVER THE BACK LIFT GATE IS OPEN AND > THEN CLOSED. ALSO THE INTERIOR DOME LIGHTS STAY ON AND DONT SHUT OFF. > I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT. IF ANY ONE CAN HELP IT WOULD BE GREAT.

– Tony For replies, please correct my email address.

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Wife bought a new 2004 Stratus 4 dr 2.7L automatic. At 3500 mi, the check engine light came on. Dealer said it needs a new transmission controller. Two weeks to get the part (national backorder). Dealer put the new controller in last Fri. Now the check engine light is on, and the speedometer doesn’t work. You’d think by now they should know how to fix this. Not a very good feeling for a brand new car. Bob

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In the back of your manual there is a 800 # for Chrysler.  Call it.  That usually gets the dealer’s attention.  Suddenly they assign competent technicians to your repair.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Wife bought a new 2004 Stratus 4 dr 2.7L automatic. At 3500 mi, the check > engine light came on. Dealer said it needs a new transmission controller. > Two weeks to get the part (national backorder). Dealer put the new > controller in last Fri. Now the check engine light is on, and the > speedometer doesn’t work. You’d think by now they should know how to fix > this. Not a very good feeling for a brand new car. > Bob

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also "whisper" PERHAPS THIS CAR IS A LEMON…….in the ears of the servicemanager or owner of the dealership or even both of them That will get the dealer’s attention — In the words of the IMMORTAL USED CAR DEALER: THERE IS AN ASS FOR EVERY SEAT!

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the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Wife bought a new 2004 Stratus 4 dr 2.7L automatic. At 3500 mi, the check > engine light came on. Dealer said it needs a new transmission controller. > Two weeks to get the part (national backorder). Dealer put the new > controller in last Fri. Now the check engine light is on, and the > speedometer doesn’t work. You’d think by now they should know how to fix > this. Not a very good feeling for a brand new car. > Bob

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> the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and > when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things

So the dealer didn’t perform the repair properly by neglecting to reset the pinion angle….  Please expand on this lack of competence and how it would fit into the Re: 2.7 overfilled with oil, what damage would be caused, discussion elsewhere in this group. Thanks!

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it has nothing to do with the other post so why would you even refer  it to the other post – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and > when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things > So the dealer didn’t perform the repair properly by neglecting to > reset the pinion angle….  Please expand on this lack of > competence and how it would fit into the Re: 2.7 overfilled with > oil, what damage would be caused, discussion elsewhere in this > group. > Thanks!

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> it has nothing to do with the other post so why would you even refer  it to > the > other post

I never said it had anything to do with the other discussion, I’m just curious about how this occurrence would fit into what is being discussed in the; Re: 2.7 overfilled with oil, what damage would be caused, thread and specifically how such an occurrence meshes with your last comment to Dan Stern. IOWs, what explains this Stratus being DDRed (Down Da Road) with a very basic step in the TCM install having been omitted, and how might this relate to spending a day with you working flat rate? The relevance is the other thread is about shoddy workmanship, this thread has an element of shoddy workmanship. And no, I’m not necessarily making an attack on you personally.

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> the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and > when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things

That seems to have fixed it. All is well. Thanks! Bob

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Wife bought a new 2004 Stratus 4 dr 2.7L automatic. At 3500 mi, the check engine light came on. Dealer said it needs a new transmission controller. Two weeks to get the part (national backorder). Dealer put the new controller in last Fri. Now the check engine light is on, and the speedometer doesn’t work. You’d think by now they should know how to fix this. Not a very good feeling for a brand new car. Bob

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In the back of your manual there is a 800 # for Chrysler.  Call it.  That usually gets the dealer’s attention.  Suddenly they assign competent technicians to your repair.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Wife bought a new 2004 Stratus 4 dr 2.7L automatic. At 3500 mi, the check > engine light came on. Dealer said it needs a new transmission controller. > Two weeks to get the part (national backorder). Dealer put the new > controller in last Fri. Now the check engine light is on, and the > speedometer doesn’t work. You’d think by now they should know how to fix > this. Not a very good feeling for a brand new car. > Bob

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also "whisper" PERHAPS THIS CAR IS A LEMON…….in the ears of the servicemanager or owner of the dealership or even both of them That will get the dealer’s attention — In the words of the IMMORTAL USED CAR DEALER: THERE IS AN ASS FOR EVERY SEAT!

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the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Wife bought a new 2004 Stratus 4 dr 2.7L automatic. At 3500 mi, the check > engine light came on. Dealer said it needs a new transmission controller. > Two weeks to get the part (national backorder). Dealer put the new > controller in last Fri. Now the check engine light is on, and the > speedometer doesn’t work. You’d think by now they should know how to fix > this. Not a very good feeling for a brand new car. > Bob

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> the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and > when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things

So the dealer didn’t perform the repair properly by neglecting to reset the pinion angle….  Please expand on this lack of competence and how it would fit into the Re: 2.7 overfilled with oil, what damage would be caused, discussion elsewhere in this group. Thanks!

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it has nothing to do with the other post so why would you even refer  it to the other post – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and > when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things > So the dealer didn’t perform the repair properly by neglecting to > reset the pinion angle….  Please expand on this lack of > competence and how it would fit into the Re: 2.7 overfilled with > oil, what damage would be caused, discussion elsewhere in this > group. > Thanks!

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> it has nothing to do with the other post so why would you even refer  it to > the > other post

I never said it had anything to do with the other discussion, I’m just curious about how this occurrence would fit into what is being discussed in the; Re: 2.7 overfilled with oil, what damage would be caused, thread and specifically how such an occurrence meshes with your last comment to Dan Stern. IOWs, what explains this Stratus being DDRed (Down Da Road) with a very basic step in the TCM install having been omitted, and how might this relate to spending a day with you working flat rate? The relevance is the other thread is about shoddy workmanship, this thread has an element of shoddy workmanship. And no, I’m not necessarily making an attack on you personally.

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> the pinion angle has to be reset in the tcm it’s all vin specific now and > when there is none or a mismatch it does alll sorts of things

That seems to have fixed it. All is well. Thanks! Bob

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