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RE: What We Do (a little long...)


>>So what do all of us Type 3 lovers do all day?

Okay, I'll relent.

By day I'm a physicist. I came by this profession because I like to 
take things apart and figure out how they work and how to make other 
things work. I have an MS in physics, plus 2-3 more years toward a 
Ph.D., but never had the stamina to finish that road.

I work for a complay that makes particle accelerators. Not the big 
ones that you've heard of, but just little ones. Some would fit in a 
2-car garage, but others would be several hundred yards long if you 
straightened out all the bends in them. I do mechanical design and RF 
power structures for pulsing and bunching systems. I spend a lot of 
time in the field sometimes doing trouble shooting and installations.

At home I'm obviously into type 3s (picked up my first squareback, 
new at the dealer, on March 2, 1968) and have had a number over the 
years. I got into fixŠšUVwn in about 1970 when a series of bad 
experiences with a bad dealership gave me the impression that I could 
do a better job. Eventually that became true.

Aside from type 3s, I have been a bicycle frame builder, and I repair 
old electronic test equipment and tube type stereo gear for fun.

In general, I like a challenge of something new and interesting to 
fix.
 
I think it has been established that I am not the oldest person on 
the list, but I am just barely post-war, and I am talking about WW 
II.

Jim
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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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