Cost of X-Ray machine?

[Wedg1e]

What was really interesting with this product was, parts made from mild steel sheet, matl was free issue from NE, and had low activity tests done to each sheet, much of this material came from salvaged steel from Scapa Flow pre WW2 ship wrecks, any materials post Nagasaki and Hiroshima nuclear bomb drops, are classed as reactive, as exposed to radiation fall out. Pre: materials not subjected to radiation from the nuclear bombs and protected by the water. Why: depending on ones illness, low level radioactive dies are injected into a patient, followed and traced using scanner, false readings can be picked up if scanner is built using post WW2 materials.

Yep, old ammunition on sunken ships used to be (probably still is) sought-after for its pre-nuclear-age lead content to be used in shielding.

On the subject of ships, one of the MOD sites we've looked after for years used to have a big lump of rock in their reception area. Or at least that's what I presumed it was for years, until someone told me it was a section of armour-plate from the Tirpitz. It was about 2 cubic feet of solid steel with a flame-cut edge - why I thought rock would look like that I don't know

I'll see if I can get some pics of the linear accelerator we've just decommissioned, if I can do it without breaching anything contractual - it's an 8MeV output unit dating from the 1970s and was fully operational till the day its replacement was commissioned. Sadly it will be broken up for scrap, though there might be some tasty parts to be liberated - anyone need a klystron?
I've already bagged a pair of 300A 75mV shunts to fit in my welders to drive ammeters... there are a number of ganged 3-phase variacs, most of them motor driven, including a 3-phase mains stabiliser unit that would cost thousands to buy new, but will probably fetch buttons weighed-in... and a water cooler the size of a car.
Construction quality of the thing is just as it should be; even the fibreglass covers are aerospace quality.
More great British engineering gone the journey