Well, whatever you did before, great!!

Now what are you doing? Finding out why nothing else can be done? Perhaps
this is why you are no longer working there...

Regards,
John
--
When Viagra fails to work--you are DOOMED!!!

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...
| Joel Kolstad wrote:
|
| Michael,
|
| If you don't mind my asking, what sort of professional electron
wrangling did
| you do prior to becoming disabled?
|
| Good luck on converting your garage... I think there's a good chance you
can
| get a decent amount of equipment and supplies donated once it's clear
(to the
| outside world) that you're serious about what you're doing.
|
| ----Joel
|
| I worked for L-3com/Microdyne at their Ocala plant as a production
| and engineering tech. I also worked with purchasing to find and qualify
| replacement sources for components, and the nasty job of removing long
| time vendors from our approved list. I worked in every area of the
| product line, built test fixtures, wrote test procedures and fought the
| apathy of a couple older engineers to fix old design problems. I knew
| more about our oldest products than anyone in engineering, so when a
| problem cropped up they came running to my bench to ask questions rather
| than take the time to research the old records. The last product I
| worked on was their RCB-2000, a dual DSP based telemetry receiver, to
| take it from the engineering prototypes to the production floor. I was
| laid off when my health no longer let me work overtime, even though I
| did more in an eight hour shift than any two other people on the line.
| Suddenly, I was deemed "Not a team player" because I could barely walk
| out the door after my shift. I was troubleshooting and testing the
| signal processing boards under a stereo microscope and I did most of my
| own rework rather than wait for it to go through the rework department.
| I hand soldered 288 pin SMD chips under the microscope. After the
| cleaning room was done, QC couldn't find my work on the PC boards. This
| radio was introduced to the market at about $80,000. One of the VME
| based boards in it cost about $8,000 to stuff, reflow and test. I miss
| the work, but I doubt that I'll be able to do that kind of work again,
| and the high tech companies have pretty well left this part of the
| country.
|
|
| --
| Former professional electron wrangler.
|
| Michael A. Terrell
| Central Florida