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Date: 4/16/15
Desk: BIZ
Slug: RETIRING
Assign Id: 30173461A

Retired 3M electrical engineer Bob Nepper, 82, has a workshop in his North St. Paul, Minnesota home filled with devices and tools he has designed and built over the years. Much of his work has been focused on water pasteurization, and he manufactures his SPORTSWAPI and SUPERWAPI, a small device that measures water temperature using melting wax, for a local company that makes solar ovens. He created this machine seen in photo for unspooling and counting wires that are used in the making of the SPORTSWAPI. He uses a flame to weaken the unspooled wire, which he then cuts, bundles and send to local pice workers who put the devices together.


Photo by Angela Jimenez for The New York Times
photographer contact 917-586-0916

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Date: 4/16/15<br /> Desk: BIZ<br /> Slug: RETIRING<br /> Assign Id: 30173461A<br /> <br /> Retired 3M electrical engineer Bob Nepper, 82, has a workshop in his North St. Paul, Minnesota home filled with devices and tools he has designed and built over the years. Much of his work has been focused on water pasteurization, and he manufactures his SPORTSWAPI and SUPERWAPI, a small device that measures water temperature using melting wax, for a local company that makes solar ovens. He created this machine seen in photo for unspooling and counting wires that are used in the making of the SPORTSWAPI. He uses a flame to weaken the unspooled wire, which he then cuts, bundles and send to local pice workers who put the devices together. <br /> <br /> <br /> Photo by Angela Jimenez for The New York Times <br /> photographer contact 917-586-0916