trainfan1 wrote:
K. Smith wrote:
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Are you the same K. Smith that works at Orbital?

Well well, it's all starting to make sense now... talk about "spruiking"
or whatever that all is...

Rob


I don't "work" for anyone but myself & if I did it certainly wouldn't be
any of the DFI spruikers including Orbital.

Because Orbital were flogging this crap here long before your EPA even
mentioned OB engines, I do have some long term knowledge of that
particular technology & even how it compared to Ficht when Ficht was
still trying to flog it, again long before any of the sad dumb OB
manufacturers fell for it.

But Rob don't you think it's time you admitted just exactly how big the
extra kickbacks are to you blokes to keep pushing a known defective
design??? At best it's Ficht MK3 or as runaway says it's nothing like
Ficht, then it's another experimental, no consumer track record attempt
to run IC engines lean at power? So come on Rob is it still 30% agg.
kickbacks to the dealers??? that would explain the super high prices for
a cheap to make over grown whipper snipper 2 stroke motor.

I'll give you a series of E-Tec problems posts over the next little
while (once your season is in full swing) so have your say & try to deal
with the issues. Also try to hush up as many of the failures as you can
like you did with Ficht because there will be a torrent, now they've
gone past the magic 500CC/cyl when using a short stroke, poor
atomisation from low injection pressure, iffy timing from multi firing
of the plug,super hot chambers from the slow flamefront lean mixtures &
totally dangerous sometimes oiling.

K

Your Krause lie for the day is the one where he pretends Ullico the
union thug pension fund is actually "his" business, when in reality it's
where he works:-) But the interesting thing here is get a go of how they
spend hard working unionists' money on themselves!!!

I'm not wondering if the liar Krause won't come back & tell us this is a
lie just so unionists' don't twig to what a rip off he & his mates
a-) Where is Jimmy??? Even Mythbusters couldn't find him:-)

We have first-class benefits, including a top-of-the-line health
insurance plan, a non-contributory defined-benefit pension plan, a
401k,
and a life insurance policy equal to annual salary. We
contribute a
share of profits to the 401k on behalf of the employee. Our
employees
pay $4.50 for generic prescriptions and $8.00 for
non-generics, but
that's going up next year to $10 and $15. New employees get two
weeks
vacation the first year, and that goes to three weeks the third
year. In
addition, we have 12 paid holidays and we shut down from noon on
Christmas eve to the day after New Year's Day. We also provide 20
days
of paid sick leave a year. And we have an outside company
administering
pre-tax flexible bennies for our employees.
Our fringe benefit package follows the trade union model,
except, of
course, for the profit contributions to 401k's. Trade unions are
not-for-profit enterprises.
How do these compare to the bennies at your shop?

Paid? Every year? I call "bull****". With 3 weeks vacation, 12
paid
holidays, and 20 paid sick days that's 47 *paid* days off every
year. Are
they hourly employees? For a "small business", that's the road to
bankruptcy.

Boy...and you had me going there for a minute.

Not quite so simple, though you are trying hard to make it so. Our
business is up because we're on the cusp of an election year. Our
business always goes up in a major election year.
You could say we're going to be doing very well in 2004 because
Bush is
such a total failure.


The 20 paid sick days aren't part of the "paid" days off unless
those
days are used. None of our people abuses sick leave. In fact, no
one as
yet has even come close to using 20 sick days in one year. They're
there
in case they're needed.


Oh, I forgot. We also provide everyone with LTD.

The company provides an insurance plan that pays 50% of an
employe's
salary for Long Term Disability. Employes have the option of
purchasing
an additional 16.66%, bringing their total to 66.66%. The basic
benefit
maximum is $4,000 per month. With the buy up, the limit is
increased to
$10,000 per month.