Andy-No-Knee

Cheers. I mean the Asset Co service, they are called the Emergancy Fire Crew Capability Service. They are also the scabs. As far as I know there were only 1 or 2 FF's that worked. A FF in London gets 4 months full time training before they leave training school. then 4 years on the job training before they get taken off probation. The clowns got 2 weeks 3 months ago and then 2 days just before the strike.

Well if you want the truth.... I am an officer in the LFB. For the last 5 years there have been some 'discussions' (I say that because they were not in any way classed as in depth serious ones, they were 'So what do you think about this...' type of discussion.) about changing the shift hours from a 9hr day and 15hr night to an equal shift of 12 hrs for both. The union asked its members 5 years ago and it was a rousing NO vote to the change, for various reasons. (Just some of them) Personnel. People with children will not be able to get child care for that length of time, or rather longer as they have to go to work and return as well. Time of travel. One of the reasons for was given that they wanted to move the change over of watches to a time where there was no/less rush hour. It was pointed out that to do that meant less public transport available to be used, and the impact of this on time of travel/takes longer increasing time for child care/away from family/EU rest hours between shifts etc. General Impact on family life. The changes and times given were shown in the Brigades own report to be very detrimental to family life/recruitment and retention of women and ethnic minorities. (Women I can understand...but the others???) Business Case for. The Brigade then gave a business case for changing the shifts and the start finish time, which was severely flawed. All to so call improvements in productivity that there were after could all be achieved by changing work routines while still keeping the shifts the same. This was shown to them but they still disagreed and wanted the change. This then created an impasse which lasted for some time, about 2 years IIRC. Then a 'secret' Brigade document was sent to the union showing that the real plan for the 12hr shifts was so that fire stations could be closed at nights, reducing costs, freeing up manpower that could then be redeployed in the Brigade, and as the shifts were equal they could be sent onto days easily to ensure the correct hours are worked. That didn’t bode well for a few reasons. 1. The Public. You expect us to be there when you need us, by law the 1st machine has to be there within 5 mins of the call, the second within 8. This was changed ever so quietly to say it should be not it will be. 2. Less fire happen at night, but more deaths from fire occur at night. 3. Because buildings are empty or the occupiers are asleep it means fires will burn longer and be more developed before they are detected. This creates added danger to anyone in the building or for those trying to fight the fire as the fire is harder to tackle. 4. Add into the equation now that stations are closed so FF's have to travel further to get to the fire taking even longer...means the fire is even bigger, more developed and therefore far more dangerous, and there is a far higher probability that the occupants will be dead unless a smoke alarm has been fitted and works and actuates to alert them of the fire. Then the governing body of the Fire Brigade changed from a mainly Labour run to a Tory, headed by an odious reptile called Brian Coleman, who for some unknown reason hates the LFB with a passion. For years he has been trying to chip away at the service, he tried to get the museum shut saying ‘When you have seen one old helmet you have seen them all…’ Nice huh! When that happened he made a deal with the company that owns the fire appliances, Asset Co. it was a 12 million pound deal for them to provide ‘Emergency Cover’ in times of need, and it was supposed to be for any further terrorist events where the Brigade is over stretched. He then got a vote passed that 1. Froze FF’s pay for 2 year. 2. Gave the Commissioner of the LFB a 28% pay rise. 3. Gave himself and all the other members of the authority an £8k pay rise. He now had them bought and paid for. He and the commissioner, Ron Dobson then suddenly (and I mean VERY suddenly) started talks on the changes after a hiatus of about a year…. After 2 or 3 meetings where not much was covered, nothing ‘big’ just peripherals’ like stand by duties expenses (a stand by duty is when a FF gets sent from one station to another to cover a temporary gap) and other small issues. They then hit us with a Section 188. This is a legal document that basically says ‘Agree to what we want or we sack you’. In effect they are giving us legal notice that they are cancelling out current contracts of employment and are about to issue us with new ones. If we refuse to sign he new ones we are out of a job, no redundancy or anything. Nice huh!?!?! So in short, the strike is to force the employers to drop the section 188 and to negotiate not dictate. As soon as the 188 is dropped then the strikes will stop, but until it is then the strikes will get longer and longer. A bit more info for you… On Saturday the first strike, the Brigade started the day with 27 machines to cover London (normally 115) and 1 rescue unit (normally 15) By 1400 they were down to 11. 4 had accidents, eg hitting trees, other road users. 1 was arrested by the Police for going to MacDonalds to get lunch on the Blue Lights. The rest were removed because the crews realised they had been lied to and did not want to be strike breakers. A small flat fire in Millwall was attended by the scabs, and on arrival they refused to go into the fire, so stayed outside and squirted water through the windows. The fire spread and ended up gutting 4 flats and the roof of the building. A small smouldering fire in Enfield spread to the entire roof and top floor of the house, because when the clowns turned up it took them 30 mins!!! To remember how to get water out of the fire engine! Then when they had water there was a crew in the front garden and a crew in the back garden squirting water on each other by shooting it over the house and totally missing the fire!!! The commissioner states that the clowns attended 49 fires!!! He doesn’t bother to mention that they were called to 81 and didn’t bother, or were unable to attend the rest. Some because the Romanian drivers could not understand the sat nav directions, one because they refused to leave the forecourt of Romford Police Station, others because they just got plain lost.

Ok thanks. Time to strip it off and sell it on I supose...

Ah. Would it cause problems if one was fitted to a set up that was EMB and now changing to Apexi Power FC?

Hi mate, I have a small net book, bought for the wife last year and never used.... Dell Inspiron 1010 Model No: 1010-8325 Colour - Black Windows XP Home Edition. I came as part of a Vodafone package, lappy and sim to surf on. It has a built in sim card holder to get onto the internet with. Sim will not be included. Built in Wireless as well...... Errr.... I think a 120GB hard drive. If you are intrested please pm me with an offer.

So.... is it a no no to fit it if you are using an Emanage Blue or an Apexi Power FC?

Your welcome Craig.

There were some made up on here a few years ago all nice and shiny with Supra etched on them, but these look just as good and half the price!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Supra-7MGTE-2JZGTE-1JZGTE-Celica-MR2-Vacuum-Manifold-BK-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem5889ef3cbaQQitemZ380271279290QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

Fantastic!! Was it an old Guiletta? Or a Guilia??

Left school, joined the Army at 16, found I have a dodgy knee and left then went from job to job. Became a aluminium welder and started my own bussiness by 20, came to work one day and found one of my partners sawing the barrel off a shotgun in a vice (he was in a bike gang that was having a war with the Angels at the time) so decided to sell up and move on. Joined the TA and lived off that and the money I sold my share of the company for for a few years, then got back from Bosnia in 1997 and decided to get a real job. Joined the London Fire Brigade, love it and hate it in equal amounts. Its great being on shift and having days off in the week but shit if you actually want a weekend off or have something planned as they are so short now there is now way of getting the leave. Love the up side of driving to a fire like a loony, getting there and then running in and getting everyone out safely and then (if it is a big job...) letting the building burn down cos the senior officers are shit or putting the fire out if I am in charge. Weirdest job I have had.... Pulling a junkie out of a toilet cistern in a libray where he had gone to score, he tried to make his shot up on the top od the water tank, it fell behind so he climbed up onto the seat of the toilet to reach over and down, he has taken his shoes off (why???) and his feet slipped and in he went. The view I had when I went in was of a toilet, a built to the wall cover for a cister and two small feet waggling and just sticking out of the top of the cistern. Laugh...I nearly shat a kidney!

I used ebay - RealStreetPerformace RSP and they gave a very low value of goods on the parcel and I only had a £30 charge.

This happend with mine. You have dropped off the network, you have to reregister onto it. By... Turn phone off. Remove SIM. Turn phone on with no sim in. Turn phone off Replace sim Turn phone back on. That gets me back up again, but it can be a weekly thing.

Damn this looks good!

My millenium evo wheel for sale... http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=221590

I took my Soarer matrix core to Harts Radiators Ltd. They sorted it out perfectly for me and pressure tested it in front of me.

Ahhh. The reason why they call them that is.... They have six speed manual boxs instead of 5 speed manual boxes. They came in both flavours. The Soarer never did.

There are differences. Soarer to Supra, there are mounting braket differences, they can be sorted, and auto to manual boxs - autos have a cooler part at the bottom of the rad that is not there on a manual, the same as in a Supra. (Just like the post above!) Yes they can be swapped but it depends on the amount of work you want to do. Ajazyasin/Teflon Don has fitted one to his Soarer and I am in the process of doing one to mine. PS, what is a TT5?

Mad scientists

Pulleys will, cams will not.

In short yes but with work having to be done you can fit 2JZ cams into a 1JZ head. I have a set of 2JZ cams that I am selling due to this little mistake...I have a 1JZ.

In the second photo you can just see two copper coloured humps. That is the top of the matrix. You have to take the gas out of the air con because you have to disconnect all the pipes running to the heater box (the big grey box holding the matrix) and then semi remove the box until the matirx can be pull out upward away from the windscreen. Toyota wanted just under £250 for a new matrix for mine so I took it to a recon place just up the A10 from me into Herford, called Hertford Rads. Charged me £40 to recon my old one and a find job he did too! Pressure tested it in front of me as well to find the problem and then prove he had fixed it.

Where what is?? Attached are some photos from when I did my matrix on my Soarer. Basically the same bits with a few changes here and there.

Fit a mortis lock with a different shape/style of key. I cant describe it well but they are very hard to pick even by locksmiths and you cannot slip the lock, which is another way of getting into a property with that type of lock on it.

Kiev Shmiev.....Doh!!!

So all we would have to pay is flights to Kiev? What would the all in cost (inc flights) be?