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Gentlemen,

I have been to Harwell today to work at a site and then by arrangement met John Manders, amusingly I left Harwell got on to the A34 to go north before I rang john to find that his place of work is only a few hundred yards from where I have been for the last two days.Its also amazing how far the next junction turns out to be when you want to turn around and go back. Any way john has very kindly given me something very different to run at a rally with my Tarpen, a 110v washing m/c, it looks like a large saucepan with no handle and a motor in the lid to drive a paddle so when I'm camping I can take less undies cos I can wash the day befores :-))

Thanks John

P.S. Kim how is your radioactive brick getting on, got the bottle to lift it out of the boot yet :-))

Martin P

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Campingstoveman
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Alas, John took the block away. It wasn't weapons grade plutonium at all, but only a lead shielding brick.....

Two storys, very brief not to highjack the thread:

A friend of mine worked in a lab which had a radioactive source and one day he walked past a Geiger counter and it screamed its head off at him. After a lot of faffing about, it turned out that his Grandfather's pocket watch (ex German submariner, first war) had it's numerals lined in Radium paint so you could see it in the dark. We said he was lucky the counter was on, otherwise HE'D glow in the dark!

I keep a few "toys" on the table by the guest chair, one being the tip of a graphite control rod from an early GCR. It was never used and came from the Science Museum, but it's hard to get people to pick it up.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn,

Martin Perman said

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J K Siddorn

I didn't have any instructions for the washing machine but thought that Martin was a most appropriate recipient. That's not a comment on his personal Hygiene but the device is intended to be used on a stove to heat the water. As a result, it brings together most of Martins interests, i.e. engines driving generators, camping, and stoves. It is also probably the most unusual exhibit likely to be seen on a rally field, a showman washing his smalls. The only problem is that when it is running, the lid containing the motor is on the main container and so nothing can be seen working. Whether Martin can put a viewing window in the main body is another question. If so, the workings could be seen functioning. Unfortunately, so could Martins washing. Now there's a quandary. What are the thoughts on modifying something such as this? I know the folks who show the old milk churn coolers do it but they are not likely to ever use them in anger. This washing machine is still a useful piece of equipment that is quite capable of performing it's function. Hope you have fun with it Martin. I look forward to visiting the new whiter than white Perman at Great Dorset.

John

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John Manders

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