From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 7/8/2025 4:34 PM, Snag wrote:   
   > On 7/8/2025 4:48 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   >> On 7/8/2025 2:33 PM, Snag wrote:   
   >>> 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 .   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> When I was still running The Security Consultant I got a referral from   
   >> the manufacturer to service a burglar alarm system for a country   
   >> grocery store in Wenden Arizona.  It is 128 miles from where my office   
   >> was at the time.  I called them and explained I'd have to charge them   
   >> mileage. I just couldn't take 2/3 of a day to drive up and back to see   
   >> them and do what they needed for the cost of a service call.  I also   
   >> explained that if I didn't have whatever they needed I might need to   
   >> make two trips.  I'd be as prepared as I could be, but no promises.   
   >> Their response was they didn't care as long as I was actually willing   
   >> to show up and fix it.  I fixed it.  I wound up doing a handful of   
   >> various service calls over the years for them.  Often if I needed to   
   >> go to Phoenix for something I'd take 95 to I10 instead of I8 t0 85 and   
   >> just charge them for the miles off the freeway.  They were happy to   
   >> have somebody who would come out and fix things.  I have mixed   
   >> feelings about it, but I'm kinda glad I never told them I could have   
   >> fixed almost anything in the store.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >    Dad didn't have your self-restraint . If he saw a problem he could   
   > fix he'd let the client know and offer to do the repair . And save the   
   > client a charge for another repairman . He had more business than he   
   > could handle sometimes .   
      
      
   I also had the concern of being a licensed contractor.  Performing work   
   outside the scope of my licenses came with certain risks.   
      
      
      
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