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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 31/12/2025 10:17 pm, Blueshirt wrote:   
   > Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 30/12/2025 11:02 pm, Blueshirt wrote:   
   >>> Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There was a project that I always meant to do for our   
   >>>> university open days, but I never got around to it. The   
   >>>> idea was to attach wheels and a motor to the bottom of a   
   >>>> metal garbage can, and add some suitable control   
   >>>> electronics. I would then set the device to wandering the   
   >>>> corridors, saying "Exterminate" in a suitable voice.   
   >>>   
   >>> That would have been a cool project.   
   >>   
   >> Would have been more appropriate if the Garbage Bin had been   
   >> up-ended before the wheels were attached.   
   >>   
   >> I mean ... The Daleks were thinner at the top than at the   
   >> bottom!   
   >   
   > The metal dustbins of those days were generally uniform in size,   
   > silver metal and had domed lids... so you could stretch your   
   > imagination and make Daleks out of them, if you were that way   
   > inclined.   
   >   
   > A remote controlled metal dustbin tearing down a corridor sounds   
   > like it could have been fun!   
   >   
   Oh!! Back in my youth, the metal bins were always slightly wider at the   
   top so you could stack them, one inside the other, with the Handles just   
   below the rim.   
      
   And the lids were stacked separately.   
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   Daniel70   
      
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