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Hi Carl, Glad I could help with the truck question. Who is T_Bone? The nickname T_Bone was given to me when I worked at Coors 35yrs ago. When we worked overtime Coors would buy us dinner. Everyone would order hambugers, Not me :-)
So the name stuck with me over the years. Welding I was a natural at and started about 12yrs old. My Dad was a ironworker and known to be one of the best welders around and got me started. Funny I don't remember alot of instruction from him, but hey I was a kid so I may have picked up more than what I thought. At Coors is where I enetered into the SheetMetal trade. They had an extreamely good welding department with some excellant craftsmen that I was fortutnate have teach me. My partner that taught me to use a cutting torch properaly, cut on a bench for 15yrs and could cut a perfect circle "free hand" and with no "slag". Coors also fabricated most everything on site. SS Tanks, mild steel tanks, glass bottles, procilin, AL cans, cardboard, structural steel for there buildings, etc:, so I was exposed to alot of construction and manufacturing processes that wasn't not available to me at other companys I worked for. I also quickly learned that all one had to do, was to ask to work on a pictular project, so thats what I did. Every three months or so I asked to work in a different area. Thats how I learned to weld SS, CU, mild steel with SMAW, GTAW, GMAW and SAW (sumeraged arc welding), use 250-ton cranes (master rigger), set srtuctural steel with a heliocopter, built/disassymble tower rail track cranes, SS tank farm (14ftx 44ft SS tanks), mild steel tank farm (SAW) (glass lined 14ft diameter tanks), SS shop, mild steel shop, SS pipe shop, mild steel pipe shop, glass plant, Can plant, porcilin plant, and the new brew house where I Tig welded 1/2" CU brew kettles. I also attended coors night trade schools they offered. In my first year at Coors, I was certified in SMAW, GMAW and GTAW in both plate and pipe and certified SAW the 2nd year. I then quit Coors after 4yrs and joined the Sheetmetal Workers Union and served a 3yr apprenticeship. By that time I had a quest for knowledge and attended all the extra classes that I could but found they didn't move at a fast enough pace for me so I started buying books and teaching my self. I was having a hard time finding the SM trade challenaging so I decided to go into HVAC refrigeration. There I quickly figured that refrigeration controls was the hardest to accomplish so I fell in love with that. That also led me into Indoor Air Quality, Energy Management and Construction Management. During my SM career I enjoyed teaching. I taught welding, SM layout, HVAC and refrigeration. Then in the mid-80's I seen that computers were going to control the HVAC industry so I built my first puter, a 486hz machine. Wow what a screamer for the time LOL. Then in the mid 90's my career ended when I crushed my foot. When all said and done I had the following paper hanging on the wall: Member of ASHREA (American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers)
Certified Indoor Air Quality
Certified Energy Management
Master Rigger
AWS CWI (Certified Weld Inspector) nuclear power plants Aws Certified Welder in SMAW, GTAW, GMAW and SAW
35 Weld certification tests, failed 1/3 of one test. T_Bone
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