See what you've driven me to?

[sailingfc at dslextreme.com (DY Wong)]

 Cathy,

If you can wait a few days, I can mail you a couple of 150 ohm resistors I
have laying around from long gone projects.  Just need an address to mail
them to.

-Dick Wong-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
95 Passat GLX
Second Owner


-----Original Message-----
From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:29 AM
To: julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: See what you've driven me to?

The local nearest equivalent (The Source by Circuit City, what a catchy
name) doesn't have them, so that would mean I'd have to go to the mall in
the city <shiver>. NOt sure it's worth driving an hour each way for a $.10
part. OTOH, I DO have the little guys that I could splice together. So I'll
try that first.
Cathy

 On 5:31 am 10/22/07 julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Radio Shack sells a 147 ohm resistor @ 1.2 w for about 10 cents.Never 
> any rest for the afflicted right?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:13 PM
> > To: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: See what you've driven me to?
> >
> > Yeah, it's become a geek-fest in my garage. I just got in from 
> > trying to get my dash water temp guage to work. The problem is the 
> > ABA sensor and the MkI gauge don't play nice, the guage pegs at hot. 
> > So I'd tossed in the largest resistor I had and that pegged it at 
> > rest position. Which it never moved from. So something between 
> > nothing and 1000 ohms is right. So I ask the kid (he's gotta be good 
> > for something), he's got a potentiometer handy, likely from a 
> > helicopter. So here I am after twisting the dial and boiling water 
> > to immerse a spare sensor in, and it's still not perfect, but I'm
> closer. 150 ohms seems to be what's called for. Of course that means
> > adding up about six resistors in series. When I got the 16V a few 
> > years back, I didn't even know how to disconnect the battery cables. 
> > The other projects today were washing three cars (Bug/Klaus/Mustang, 
> > don't ask), getting a spare engine and tranny into a spot where I 
> > didn't keep knocking my shins on them, and figuring out fitment for 
> > battery relocation and the cutoff switch to go with it. All the 
> > piddly shit takes so much time! It was a beautiful fall day for it 
> > though. Hope you all had good weekends.
> > cathy
> >
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