Jim had 5 Gremlins

Jim Anslow's Bio

 

Born 1957 in Portland Oregon.

Graduate of Benson Polytechnical High School. Jim Graduated with honors in 1975, with an Outstand Student Award, and turned down a scholarship because he wanted to start wiring houses and commercial buildings as soon as he could at 20 years old.

Jim worked for an Electrician in the Portland Oregon area for 6 months, the electrician had a broken collar bone and needed help until he recovered. He was a union man. For about 6 months he wired houses, like the fire alarm systems he installed in apartment building, all the wiring for his boss, installing a dumb waiter elevator systemin for a resident with lake front property, he would wire up the motor controller electrical system for his boss, the electrician.

In 1976 Jim switched technical positions and became a refrigeration technician in 1976. He soon became a shop foreman and held that position for 25 years. His technical career lasted 35 years.

Jim' a family man with 8 grandkids and lives with his darling wife Carmen for over 40 years. The redwoods was a favorite spot, a trip each year for 26 straight years. One year we went twice. Jim drove to Alaska in 2002 for a 3 1/2 week trip.

Jim's other hobby, Cars, Cars , Cars. Jim has owned 75 cars, truck, or motor homes now. He rebuilt 4 engines, a preformed 8 engine  swaps on different vehicles he owned. 

 

There is a Inventor Bug in the family. 

 

Jim Grandfather was an inventor, made a test system for Portland General Electric Power Company, they used it to test the electric meters on all houses in Portland, Oregon.

Jim’s father was an inventor.

He worked on the Geodesic Dome Homes in 1974, and invented the S.W.A.M.I. (signal  wave activated monitor interrupter) system for CB radios and stereo systems coupled together made for the trucking industry. Jim received school credits for working at home, making circuit boards for this invention in the basement shop at his grandfather’s house that he built in 1943.

He also designed a Semi Truck “Trailer Loading Calculator”, spreading the weight in the truck trailer by box size and dimensions. It was a Weight Spreading Load Calculator. The Calculator was a clear plastic rotating wheel like a slide rule. Line up the trailer size, box size and weight and the calculator told you how to stack the load evenly. His father drove trucks for the last 27 years of his life. It took a months to layout on the family dining room table when Jim was a teenager. He worked on TV sets in the 60s.

As a shop foreman for 25 years.

Jim taught electrical troubleshooting, refrigeration theory and maintenance, welding brazing, and mechanical repair technics. He trained all new employees with a one a on one basis for new employees, each class lasted 2 days, covering  as many as 15  machines the company serviced.

If apart was needed for any piece of equipment, he could fabricate the part, saving time and money on the rebuild cost of these machines. He tested and rebuilt equipment as a trade. He ran a crew of 5 technicians in a Vancouver, Washington shop, and helped other outside technicians and customers by the phone daily.

Types of equipment specialized in:

Taylor Freezer Ice cream machines, 8 models of Taylor equipment, including milk shake machines, slushy machines and pasturing machines. 3 major brands of Espresso machines, new and rebuilt machines, Deep Fat fryer, Ice Machine, Walk-in in coolers, rooftop AC and Heating Systems. Has universal Boiler - Refrigeration handling card.

He passed the test in 2001, and received a Journeyman's Electrician's License issued by the State of Washington.

He specialized in Computer Controlled Interfaced Equipment. He built a Robotic Pizza Machine for scratch for his boss, it took 30 days. Evaluating each system of this machine, redesigning the refrigeration system to 134A ozone friendly gas type.

He worked with the computer programmer on the conversion of the Computer System for this automated machine, including making diagrams and an up-grade manual for these machines. Removing the 1996 386 computer system that had failed.  A new computer and program was needed to operate this automated pizza machine.

With the new computer program installed and how to load the PLC Computer system, loading the new PLC computer system on this equipment, and he made a manual on how to operate this automated pizza machine, giving it new life to a great machine that had over 1 million invested in it by the original manufacturer.

Jim would design new factory diagrams to bypass the wiring on machines with problems, upgrading several stand-by systems for Taylor Freezer Ice Cream Machines, making new diagrams for each up-grade. He made electrical diagrams for each conversion, there were about 7 conversion wiring diagrams he made for the company and for the machines he worked with.

In 1999 he began a patent study on Zeolite Refrigeration, then made a study on Hydrogen Production Patents Study. He developed a closed loop system with a safety electrical control system. He built a new style of electrolysis system using 8 carbon rods, resistant to the electrolyte break down of nickel plating that normally occurs on current hydrogen generators. Then designed a hydrogen system electrical safety controls needed to operate this system.  and a mini Hardon Carbon Arc hydrogen automotive hybrid onboard hydrogen without electrolysis and carbon arc under water in a closed loop, extracting hydrogen gas as its made, on demand no storage of hydrogen gas.

He made 4 different carbon arc rod feeder models and used them to test run on a 360 V8 engine, with 3 deep cycle batteries, and a 180 amp extra alternator that was added to the 360 V8 engine, removing the California Air pump. He drove this rig  to Alaska in 2003, not with hydrogen, but testing the dual alternator system, and it had the extra batteries under the bed if they need them on the Alaska Trip in the year 2000.

 

Inventions:

1. Dual Valve refrigeration stand-by system for Taylor Freezer.

2. Computer controlled Pizza machine in 1999, built one complete machine, to set up an assembly line. The company he worked for bought out the Pizza Machine company for $200 K and his boss invested $40 K into the re-design of the computer system, which Jim learned how to load on a PLC. Jim worked with the computer interface and re-wired control switching board. Jim also re-designed the refrigeration system to 134A.

3. Designed a deep fat fryer standby system. auto temp cutout with custom wiring and testing this system for placement in the field.

4.Designed a high production refrigeration system made for high outdoor temperatures. No one knows of this. Made to work in 100-degree temperatures. Both freezers and coolers.

5. Designed a way to rebuild the ‘pressure Control block for Ballentine Cookers. Once rebuilt with a S.S. insert, made it last forever. Block cost 80.00 new, 15 busks rebuilt , no longer needs replacing every 3 to 4 years average, along with the lost down time of the equipment.

6. Designed a Sobe Air Injection System and won the equipment up-grade contract, wining a two team competition for the best cheapest design that worked and was placed in 8 store to test the product for the Sobe Company, placed in Fred Meyers across Portland, Oregon.

7. Designed a custom refrigerated salad bar system for new hamburger sales located inside the small quick service stores. They were used with a Nieco 200 Flame Broilers, and was used to provided fresh condiments for this self serve hamburger bar, used in Mini Mart type stores across Oregon and Washington State. 

8. Zeolite Refrigeration Study, a cold beverage refrigerated cup invention. No Ice Needed, just Zeolites and water.

9. 2 Hydrogen Production inventions in 1999 to 2004. New 8 carbon rod electrolysis design and a mini–Carbon Arc Hydrogen Generator for a 4 cylinder gas engine, installed on an automobile for better gas mileage and lowering the pollution output by 40% according to the DOE of the US. a Hybrid On -Demand Hydrogen Injection System.

 

Jim retired in 2008, and lives in the country . . .

 

 

 

 

Below:

Some of Jim's cars he had fun with and the diagrams Jim made to develop new electrical control systems for his Hobbies . . .

 

2 Fiat X-19 sports cars

 120 miles per hour in the gold 5 speed 4cylnder car.

Below: Jim's free car 1999 4 cam V8 North Star Engine in his Aurora

Above:

The switching board diagram Jim made for the an automated pizza machine.

Above:

Mario Andretti's Fast Track Pizza shop.

1995

 

Jackie . . . 1960 to 2003 my pal around little sister and best friend.