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Tech Fab

Varga closed it's doors in June of 1982. My memory of that last day was when George called us all together on the factory floor. Apparently, because we had diverted funds to production and was unable to pay the required payroll taxes, the IRS had just been to the bank and had taken all of Varga's remaining money. He said that, since he couldn't pay us for the week, we all may as well go home. Most of us met again the next day on the unemployment line.

In September of '82, a fter a futile effort to find a job, I was running out of unemployment benefits so former Varga shop foreman Al Wilson and I decided to ask George Varga and the other owner if we could open up the manufacturing side of the Varga factory and use it to run a metal fabrication shop.

We called ourselves Tech-Fab and partly due to the unique nature of the machinery that we had and Al Wilson's experience we began to get business right away...