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Dan Coleman

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Dan Coleman

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Not really a new member. Just a new member to posting on the forum. I taught HS Industrial Arts for 10 years before going to a local utility to teach welding for 2.5 years. I was a CWI and Quality Supervisor for the same utility for another 21 years. My turning is mostly utilitarian; tool handles, pens, tool parts, furniture parts, ornaments. I enjoy making tools and parts. I do tool repair for our Guild and Woodturners Clubs.,
 
Dan,
Your background surely provides some knowledge and experience we can all benefit from. The industrial world provides an incentive to make solutions and repairs happen in a timely basis. The facility I work at had a $50,000 an hour down time expense twenty years ago, with the other ventures on site today it is closer to $500,000 an hour when critical facilities are not running. We have several machine shops and fabricators that make good money and provide fast turnarounds for components and repairs we need on a timely basis. Plenty of opportunities for skilled craftsman that have the skill sets to design, fabricate, machine and assemble tooling, jigs, machinery and controls.
 
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