Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:30:32 -0600
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: 134 conversion
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Grungy (Baytown, TX)
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Grundy you have my sympathy. I lived in Baytown for about a year.
The humidity was so bad I had to clean mildew off the insides of the glass
in picture frames.
There were weeks when the humidity was so high latex paint would just slide
off the walls in sheets or never dry after it was rolled on.
When I found out what the medical implications were for living down wind of
1,000 refineries and chemical plants I sold my house at a loss and got the
hell outa there.
Hope you can leave before you develop any long term respiratory problems.
Oh! Yes. Baytown is right there in about #1 or #2 dirtiest air in the USA.
Dallas is still around #10 or #11 in dirtiest air so we're not much better.
Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grungy" <grungy@GRUNGY.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: 134 conversion
> >Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:28:11 -0600
> >From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
> >Subject: Re: 134 conversion
> >
> >But Mike you started in California.
> >You're supposed to start in El Paso and go to Texarkana Texas. (729
> >miles)(I think that is the longest possible trip in Texas).
>
> You can go quite a bit farther without leaving Texas, and do it on
> just one road - I-10. There's around 880 miles of I-10 in Texas.
> We live quite close to the 800 mile-marker, in Baytown, and there's a
> lot more miles east before getting to the Sabine River.
>
> Driving distance from the east side of Orange to a hair over the line
> into NM on I-10 is 874.8 miles. Crow-flies distance shows as 772
> miles.
>
> Crow-flies distance from Brownsville to Texline is 791 miles.
> Might squeeze another ten miles out of that by going to the
> south-most point and north-most point. I'm having trouble getting
> the web-based distance-engines to work to highway intersections (as
> the crow flies).
> Because of the routing, the driving distance is listed as over 1000
> miles between these points (Yahoo! takes the trip through Ft Worth
> ?!?)
>
> For some Vanagon content, I bought a cheap R12-to-R134 conversion kit
> at Wal-Mart and it worked - nothing has blown up yet. It's worked
> for over two years now. It came with two hose adapters and a small
> container of snake oil that was supposed to convert the lubricant in
> the R12 setup to something that would work with R134. That's all. I
> added several cans of R134 and it cools. I continue to add R134,
> about one can per month, because the compressor housing leaks
> visibly, but that's not necessarily the fault of the conversion
> method.
> --
>
> bcnu - Grungy (Baytown, TX) opinions are just that.obviously.
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