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   On 7/8/2025 12:38 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 7/8/2025 4:09 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:104hoe1$360ar$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>> ...   
   >>   
   >> Before the crackdown on Freon I was trained to build industrial   
   >> refrigeration including brazing tubing, but I didn't have much   
   >> practical experience before recovery equipment became mandatory.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I learned to service refrigeration from a mail order course my dad took.   
   >   He learned to fix refrigeration because we lived far from town, and if   
   > we didn't fix it ourselves it wouldn't get fixed.  My dad had a buddy   
   > named Paul Drudge who ran a refrigeration business out of Gila Bend (55   
   > miles away) who would come out, and he taught my dad a lot, but when   
   > Paul retired we were on our own.  Nobody wanted to drive 68 miles (from   
   > Yuma) to service a country grocery store.   
   >   
   Paul also got us started in the satellite TV business.  Basically my   
   first exposure to communication contracting work.  We used to drive to   
   Phoenix, and pick up systems from Echosphere.  They had a store in   
   Phoenix, and manufactured dishes in a facility out west of Buckeye.   
      
      
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