"Yet the off-campus job he'd taken to earn college money, working as a spot-welder in a nearby Studebaker automobile factory, would become his decisive artistic preparation."
"In Mexico, a spot-welder makes $2.20 an hour at a plant owned my Whirlpool Corp., a Michigan based company."
"We had a workshop with a Myford lathe, (which I bought with the money I earned at my first job), a spot-welder, (made from a transformer wound and set up by ourselves). a reciprocating hack saw made by me, an electric arc welder made from a transformer taken from an old cinematograph projector light source, drill press, long steel bench and all."