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>> For 40 years, Bobby Bailey
has been bucking tradition.

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Her talents for
fixing things led her

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first to her work on race cars.

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Now she nurtures a
multi-million dollar

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air conditioning repair business

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as CNS Cheryl Pots reports,

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Bailey successes line, not
so much in what she's done,

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but how she's done it.

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>> Bobby Bailey wouldn't be

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happy if she couldn't
keep her hands

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on the working end of her
$20 million-a-year industry.

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>> Still think you need
to change that socket.

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>> Bailey is CEO of Our Way,

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an Atlanta plant
that remanufactures

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air conditioners and
refrigeration compressors.

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Bailey's been in the
industry for 40 years.

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She began by repairing race
car engines with her brother.

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>> I got started when
I was very young.

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I'm really
mechanically inclined.

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My brother was very talented,

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and I followed after him
and became his shadow.

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Bailey's mechanical
bend led her to

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a new industry in 1949,
air conditioning repair.

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As the industry grew,

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she changed her focus from
window units to compressors.

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>> You have to move
into other elements,

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and that's what I've
been able to do.

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I've been able to look ahead
and move into other areas.

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>> The company currently
does the bulk of rebuilding

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for major companies such
as Carrier and Copland.

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Bailey is as unique in

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the industry as the
azaleas in her factory.

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>> We're dealing in the world

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of cast iron and sheet metal,

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and it's not the type
of thing that you would

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expect perhaps a lady
to be involved in.

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>> Copland President, Dean Rue,

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has been working with
Bailey for 10 years.

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>> She really does
understand the business

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just as thoroughly as

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anyone that we have
ever worked with.

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>> If I go on the assembly line

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and someone says
they can't do that,

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I say, well, let me show you.

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She knows all the
work. She knows about

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everything that's in here,
knows how to do it all.

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She get right down
where you do it.

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>> Bailey says
she's never failed.

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Even in projects, she's
taken on as hobbies.

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In her spare time, she began
her own record company,

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produced a TV special
featuring the platters,

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and built beginner
homes in a subdivision.

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This summer, she'll join

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an ongoing expedition
to Greenland,

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where a device she helped
design and develop will allow

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searchers to delve more than
200 feet under the ice,

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and with luck, sit in

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the cockpit of a
World War II plane.

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>> It's just the knowing
that we've developed it,

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that I had some part
in designing it,

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and my people developed it.

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It's a payoff and we'll
bring the planes up to.

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>> That sense of adventure keeps

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Bailey from ever
considering retirement.

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>> I'm looking to
diversify and stay active.

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If you would retire me
probably I would end

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up somewhere in a ward because
I have too much energy.

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>> Cheryl Potts, CNN, Atlanta.