Re: Unplanned Upgrade

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...

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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.
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  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 .
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