Re: Unplanned Upgrade

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...

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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.
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 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 .
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