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Howdy from Calgary

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Happerstein

Hap in Calgary
Thanx for the acceptance. I retired from Engineering some 5 years ago, and now I, like others, can't figure out how I found the time to work. I've been whittling metal for about 60 years, and have directed the construction of MCI buses, Foremost industrial ATVs, gasfield compressors, linepipe, artificial diamond manufacturing facility, oil & gas facilities. Now I am smoothing sheet metal for old Fords.
 
Happerstein said:
Thanx for the acceptance. I retired from Engineering some 5 years ago, and now I, like others, can't figure out how I found the time to work. I've been whittling metal for about 60 years, and have directed the construction of MCI buses, Foremost industrial ATVs, gasfield compressors, linepipe, artificial diamond manufacturing facility, oil & gas facilities. Now I am smoothing sheet metal for old Fords.
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welcome.

when do we all go into the diamond business?
 
Welcome from Kitchener, Ontario.

I apprenticed as a machinist in the 1980s working on knee style vertical mills, surface grinders while making cutter heads and carbide cartridges. When the recession hit and we were laid off.

I went back to school for Machinery Design and spent co-op work-terms at Kellogg’s Engineering in London.
Following the completion of Project 2000, I was recruited by a company in the farmland North of London and designed some patented machinery for a corrugated pipe company (Big O Pipe).
Big O had plants and warehouses across Canada, there was a sales yard in Taber, Alberta.
Technology transfers from Norway, MRPII / PLM software implementations and more capital machinery projects were managed for a fabrication firm and SIHI Vacuum Systems.

Now, I work PT for an automotive and industrial machinery company in Cambridge and HQ is Woodstock where the company has a parts warehouse and a machine shop that turns and grinds rolls for virtually every flour mill in Canada.

Variety of work is good !!
I have been in metalwork, food processing, plastic extrusion, Flare Gas Recovery Skids for oil refinery operations and . . . now supply chain for automotive restoration & finishing.
 
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