I’ve known him for most of my career. He’s a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, New York. He’s absolutely delightful and he talks faster than I can think. He has an accent you could schmear on a bagel and he’s also as good as it gets when it comes to hydronics — both steam and hot water, both old and new.
Out of the blue, he wrote to me; and this is what he had to say: