From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 7/8/2025 2:38 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.   
   >   
      
     After they medically retired Dad from working at Hill AFB in '76 he   
   opened an AC/R repair business . A large part of his business was   
   servicing farm equipment . Often sitting in a field several miles from   
   the nearest highway and frequently a hundred miles from town . There's a   
   LOT of dry wheat acreage in western Box Elder County Utahaha . And you   
   ain't farmin' 4,000 acres on an open tractor in that climate .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)