Known him for years. Friends with his buddy Brian too. In fact, I helped Brian with the engine for his T/A. I usually see Tom and his son at Carlisle.
@detmatt kind of knows him too....
Funny NPG (well, I guess it was NVG at the time) story... I was over there calibrating the granite surface plates and my contact wanted to take his break... He said "C'mon over to stores and I'll introduce you to Tom and you can sit with him". Turned out to be Tom B. Had a good laugh on that one... The contact was an older Polish guy that worked in quality with a nickname I can't remember. He spent most of his time with me selling others raffle tickets and he was really, really fond of taking breaks. He had a "pre-break" and then a "post-break" routine. He knew
everybody there.