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I started work here over in ice

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engineering as a technician , they

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needed help in here as people retired

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in the machine shop and I moved over

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here . I've just learned as I go and

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and now I'm actually running the

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machine shop and take care of the whole

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facility most of the time . Um , I make

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the designs , the , the researcher will

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come to me with a general idea , but

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usually they hand me apart and say can

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you make this fit ? So I sit down and

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and I started doing the , figuring out

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basically of how to how to put this

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system together and make it so it's

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usable . It's easily assembled in the

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field and disassembled . We are

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involved in so many projects here at

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Coral . A lot of the testing that is

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done here is testing done with fixtures

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or components that we've made in this

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shop . Everything has to be custom .

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You can't buy this stuff off the shelf .

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There may be an off the shelf product

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that is similar , but the application

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is so much different here because of

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say cold weather that it , it just

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doesn't exist and it has to be created

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here . It's super important that we

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continue to have that kind of

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capability here to make these things

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for the researchers so they could do

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their work . We have so much material

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and and so much nice equipment to use .

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Just getting to make these things for

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people and seeing them actually come to

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life from an idea from a sketch and

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function correctly and actually produce

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the results that people are looking for .

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That's that's quite a thrill . This is

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what I do . I make things and I'm the

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fix it guy at home , too . So yeah ,

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this , this is what I really enjoy .