Machinist /owner, 03/2000 to 05/2013
B&B machine Inc – 645 Lester Doss Road
Job duties include design and manufacturing of new electric motors as well as repair of shaft bearing fits, pulley fits, seal fits, endbell bearing and seal fits by means of welding, bushing, making new and metalizing. D/C motors repairing slip rings and making new. Exclusive contractor for The Louis Allis/ Alliance Specialty Motors Company. Trouble shooting of mechanical problems during disassembly and assembly of motors, from 1 horsepower to 20,000 horsepower. Experience with vertical motors both grease and oil bath type bearings, with or without anti-rotation devices, alignment of motors with indicator and laser, on site machining in shipyards, familiar with z drives and propulsion units installation and alignment.
Machinist, 03/1989 to 06/2000
Birmingham Gear and Machine – 703 Crest Drive Dora, Alabama
Ran lathes, mills, horizontal bar mills ,keyseaters, shapers, gear cutting machines including internal ,external gears ,splines and bevel gears. Rebuilding gear boxes in house and in field such as Falk and Old Dominion.
machinist, 07/1986 to 04/1989
Precision Plating – 980 North Pine Hill Road Birmingham Alabama
Job duties included making hydraulic cylinder rods, tube glands and pistons, cylindrical grinding, rebuilding cylinders and re-chroming cylinder rods welding and fabricating
