Hi

We used to have this on the old board and it was quite fun.
I live in Linköping Sweden home of the JAS fighter jet, first operating delivered instable fly by wire multipurpose fighter. If you need one I can get a special price, we have a lot of them.
I don´t work on those but as a vibration measurement equipment developer, producer, seller, consultant and training leader in my own part owned company. A lot of fun, a lot of headache. Since this board don´t support email or otherwise I can be found emailed as olovDOTliATvtabDOTse and homepage is www.vibrationsteknik.com
I have to appologize that I sometimes do push my products a bit hard but we are a small company with limited budget please excuse me, trying to survive in this hard world.

Sorry Pete for being first this time, could not resist it, I will try to get your old thread alive again.

Olov Lindholm
Vibrationsteknik AB

Could not help adding a picture of what I have flying past my kitchen window every other day as they train in flight refuel.

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I live in Fort Myers Florida USA. You can see my house in this aerial photo taken by the Greg Stockton the flying Thermographer - Terry O

I have to say this was one of my favorite threads.

I'm in Milltown, NJ--home of, well, home of the Lawrence family.

As the initiator of this thread on the old boards I guess I will contribute here. Too bad the old board is gone, I think I set the record for number of replys to a post over there.

Steve Schultheis, I work for Lyondell Chemical Co. a large international chemical concern. I live near Houston Texas USA. I'm in the central engineering group and I support about 35 plants in 7 country's doing vibration analysis, rotordynamics, gas dynamics, and structural analysis. Outside of work I spend time with my family of 5 kids, and I play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo. Come visit my blog at www.xanga.com/bluespreacher

Steve -

Arne has provided some great instruction for me to rescue the contents of the "old board" and I am just trying to find enough time to do it justice and then decide how to handle it.

Long winded for - hang in there - I hope we can post the old boards soon.

I play quitar (Steve Earle, John Prine etc...) also. Maybe our paths will cross someday and we can pick a few tunes. Anyone else out there playing instruments? Maybe we could put a forum band togther and post a wav file!!!

Thanks
Terry O

Age: 36
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada
Languages: Engrish
Likes: Brazilian & Trinidad gals.
Dislikes: Don't get me started...
Musical Instrument: Car stereo, air guitar.
Favorite Movies: Vanishing Point, Two Lane Blacktop, Gone In 60 Seconds (Original), Bullitt, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Work: Vibration guy in paper mill. Continuous biitchin about my work's management team.
Hobbies:Snowmobiling, Continuous project of Summer Cabin on the lake.

My passion:
Snowmobile in leisure time.
Vibration in work time.

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Texas Gulf Coast - Clear Lake on Galveston Bay. Our family loves the water and spend our free time sailing and traveling.
www.reliabilitydirect.com/teamgallagher.htm
Joie de vivre,
Dave G.
www.reliabilitydirect.com

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Piedmont area of North Carolina. Woodcarver, aspiring banjo picker, and soon to be retired Boy Scout leader.

From Magog, Quebec.
45 yearsold.
Vibration guy in a chemical plant.
I'm a french speaking canadian so that's why my english could sometime be hard to read.
Great interest in trapping, hunting and outdoor life.
Sorry but I learn more than I can contribute in this board.

J-Marc

My name is Ron. I live and work in Toronto, Ontario Canada. I've been doing vibration work since 1996 in this same plant. Lot's of changes here over the last few years and it never gets boring.

Roy Gariepy, 44 yrs young, Goose Creek, South Carolina I work at a synthetic fibers manufacturing plant (for the time being, things ain't lookin good right now) Got into PdM @ 8 yrs ago. Inherited the program 2 1/2 yrs ago. Have certs with VI, TA, and ITC (thermography). Love this type of work, it's close to being as exciting as my former occupation, connecting iron for very tall steel structures (tallest endevour was 1100 ft tower). Like anything to do with the outdoors. Have 5 girls and a head full of gray hair from raising them. Have 4 grands one of which I am raising (the only boy to be blessed with. I call him Satans son while I'm pulling out my grays) Was always told girls were the hard ones to raise. I'd say it is more like 50/50.

I'm 58. Started VM seriously in '95, but 2 years later, the regular programme was stopped. It is now only used for troubleshooting.
We now live in Falkirk, but I still work in Fife.This is a valuable forum, it's what the internet's for.
Regards,
Joe Mc Cormack

I'm 54 and have been in predictive maintenance since the mid 80's. Until 1999 I worked in machine tool maintenance for a large manufacture. Thanks to an early retirement offer I have been working for myself since then. I live on the shores of the Illinois River just outside of Peoria, IL which is located in the central part of the state.

Started about eight years ago. Vibration first, work into ODS and structural analysis Thermography came second, Ultra-Sound third. Was a Millwright before I got a lucky break and was given the chance to learn Vibration, I jumped at it. Never looked back it is without question the most rewarding and frustrating job I have ever had.
All of you are most helpful, just wanted to include a thank you.
Coach Discus to any kid who wants to learn, hunt ducks, fish, photography, and wood working in that order fill in.
Easy chair is at Odessa Mo.
Perform above duties for Honeywell FM&T in Kansas City, Missouri.

Live well
Jerry Bryant

Started in Vibration testing right out of High School 25 years ago. I can remember lugging around the old Honeywell 1" tape recorders in the old days. Got into the Predictive End of things in 1992.

I was working in vibration analysis just after i got my grade in 1989 (from 1989 to 1992)in Corpoven S.A. (now Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.), after in metalmechanic manufacturer (Wix de Venezuela), after by myself and now i am working like a teacher in a universitary collegue (www.iutep.tec.ve)where im teaching Fluids machanic, Thermodinamic, Refrigerating and air condition, Physyc, Neumatic.
In the early last years i was always thinking in began to work in vibrations analysis again because this is beautiful science wich i like, so i collected all the books and magazines that i could before finish to work it in 1992. Here in Venezuela there is a very few places where to work it.
Thank to god i found all of you in this place, a new group of friends for me ,in order to share experiences, so i feel happy to begin to study my books because now is the first time that i can to share with somebody who know the same than i like, if you know some place where i could be to work in this area due to my experience and interest in the vibrations analysis area, please e-mail me.
Regards

Ed Hudson - I work for Entergy Corp. in Arkansas at Arkansas Nuclear One power plant. I been doing Predictive since 1990 (Vibes, Oil, Thermography, Motor Testing, etc... any one remember the old IRD 880?) and I'm the "Fleet Lead" PdM guy for Entergy's southern plants. Before that, I did NDE stuff for FP&L in Florida, and before that I worked in Huntsville Alabama as a contractor to NASA on shuttle rocket booster testing.
I'm 40 years old, play guitar some, and fiddle with antique cars. My wife and 10 year old daughter take up the rest of my time.

Ed Hudson

I'm 38, married almost 17 years, and I have 3 wonderful children. I've been doing maintenance on one thing or another since I can remember. Started professional maintenance training in the Air Force right out of high school in 84. Spent 13 years in the wood products industry in Oregon, 3 years in the mining industry in Arizona, and now I work for a large motor repair/service facility in Longview, TX. I've been doing vibration analysis, and other predictive techniques, for 10 years, and I've figured out that the more I learn about this, the more I realize I don't know. Hobbies: I'm game for anything! I grew up in Colorado, hunting, fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, white water rafting, exploring, hiking. Just moved from Arizona where I spent most my off time on my 4-wheelers climbing mountains or racing around the sand dunes. Not too many mountains or sand dunes in East Texas, so I'm thinking of getting a boat and taking up bass fishing.
Ya'll take care now, ya hear!

I'm 56 and have working in the auto industry analyzing machine tool problems since 1984. Home base is beautiful Muncie, Indiana, home of Tom Slick (for you old enough to remember) and Garfield the Cat (for you pups).

38 years old. Been in condition monitoring 9 years. 6 years in steel industry, last 3 in paper industry. Live in N.Wales, UK. Hobbies include fishing, camping, learning German and spending as much time with my kids as possible. Love listening to music, live and recorded, been trying (badly) to learn guitar for several years. Saw an earlier posting in this thread that mentioned Steve Earle. He was the reason that I first picked a guitar up, following one of his acoustic shows.