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  1. We design, layout and build everything that is on or connected to the ground. No, that industry is full of the fruits and nuts!
  2. By what authority can they suspend the constitution
  3. Where I work, sexual harassment is a requirement, the females turned casual Friday into sexual harassment Friday. Violence happens and is just called stress relief, it’s funny when you see an 85 year old man throw a printer at the wall ant it explodes into pieces. The first time shocked me but IT just picked up the debris and put a new printer in the old ones place Functional alcoholics are common
  4. This week has been productive Allison fixed the speedometer signal drive issue so now I have a speedometer but no odometer. Now to check the calibration of the speedometer and drop it off at the speedometer shop with a spare or two so it can be fixed. I also found a few more air leaks In the course of rebuilding the white and green truck I stripped 3 cabs so I have a bunch of spare parts. Most of the work was because both of the trucks now have factory air conditioning in the cabs.
  5. So the union was offering an endorsement with hooks. You did not ask the candidates there option on the issues but wanted them to pledge support without allowing them to consider all the facts. I am happy that he turned down a special interest group such as a union. Union workers are 33.6 % of the public workers and only 6.2 % of the private workers https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
  6. Must be related to the officer who tripped over the curb or the one who fell out of the office chair, both had to retire due to there injuries
  7. It’s so the suits can make shore the drivers shoes are spit shined
  8. I think he is from the other side of the pond and they speak kings English Oops, I meant to edit my previous post. Darn all day online meeting has turned my brain to mush. Time for a margarita
  9. My advice is you need to read the actual vehicle code and not rely on what DMV says or publishes in there manuals. If the vehicle code supports what you are doing then you should keep copies of that section(s) in the vehicle and make them available to the LEO if you get pulled over.
  10. Did the mainstream drive by media show these pictures? If not they will claim they are fake. What do you expect from a career politician
  11. I think the state employees would strike if they were forced to drive a yuppie car
  12. I have two of them and have no complaints other then they are not powerhouses. They were used to power vocational trucks and do a good job at that. They were never, to my knowledge, marketed as an over the road engine. My research indicates that the engine was used in combines. The funny thing is I can get mechanics to work on the 7.8 easier than a Mack engine around here. This is because until CARB banned all older, mechanical, engines there were a lot still working. There will be quite a few still working under the low mileage exemption.
  13. A quintuple combination pumper or quint is a fire-fighting apparatus that serves the dual purpose of an engine and a ladder truck. “Quintuple” refers to the five functions that a quint provides - pump, water tank, fire hose, aerial device, and ground ladders. Another thing to consider is equipment standardization. Here in LA county all of the county pumpers are set up the same. Many stations have the primary pumper that is numbered to reflect the station, say 152 for example, and many stations also have a reserve or backup pumper that would be numbered 552. This allows the county to quickly deal with equipment breakdowns on call in a crew that is off to man the backup pumper for an emergency such as a large fire. I do agree that the SCBA argument is mute for most stations. I have never seen the entire crew of the truck jump off the truck as soon as they arrive on scene and run into a burning building. This behavior would be reckless and dangerous. It is better to arrive on scene, assess the situation, develop an attack plan and execute it, all of this can happen very quickly.
  14. It’s a ford engine also know as Brazilian or Ford New Holland
  15. I also did the tilt hood conversion on my other ford
  16. The pins serve many purposes but since the Zuni is carried in a launch tube they probably do not apply to this situation The RF can actually cause the igniter in the rocket motor to ignite the motor. The 1969 fire on the enterprise was attributed to the huffers exhaust heating the Zuni warhead and causing it to explode
  17. I would give her a full time job The wife plus probably not approve
  18. Speaking of buff and polish, I need to buff the rims out, they have gotten a little dull sitting in the shop.
  19. This is what I started with
  20. Yes The time a human can stay at a particular depth without decompression is governed by the US Navy dive tables
  21. It is interesting that the Forrestal Fire happened in 1967 and MIL STD 461 was issued the same year. MIL STD 461 deals with electromagnetic compatibility. There is a belief that MIL STD 461 was created as a result of the Forrestal incident. On the Forrestal the Zuni rocket launched because of EMS, electromagnetic susceptibility. A RF transmitter caused the rocket motor to ignite. The accidental discharge story was a cover because the military did not want to release the truth. The WOW, weight on wheels, switch prevents the accidental launch of weapons. On the ground it takes a lot more than just bumping the wrong switch to launch weapon.
  22. Since the fire started I have been talking to my dad on a daily basis because he is retired navy with 35 years in. He has been on many aircraft carriers when they are in the yard and I was amazed that the shore facilities typically compromised the watertight bulkheads. Adding to this the pipes, cables and other items that pass through a watertight bulkhead are in a sealed opening when the ship is operational, during yard work many of these openings are opened up to allow new cables and other items to pass through the watertight bulkhead. I have been told in the past that the firefighters air bottles are only good for 30 minutes, I know that an 80cf scuba tank will last about an hour at shallow debris. What you have on a this ship is passageways that are small to start with now contain cables, for power and lighting, hoses for ventilation, multiple fire hoses and an almost constant flow of firefighters going in and out. This sounds like a real pain in the ass to work in. The investigation will probably show that there were multiple issues on the ship cause by both the contractor and the navy and that this fire was started by one of these issues and the other issues combined to create what happened.
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