The Old Xray Equipment!

[Donald Duck]

Damn... there goes that theory.... but why would so many residents living in the same area , who do not go on the mine, contract cancer.....?

Lifestyle?

[Michael Alexander]

Good Point on this fine Friday Uncle Kenny.... you coming down to the bowls club 2nite for a pint.... or are you of to that brassed bell of yours again?

:emot19:

[Donald Duck]

Would love to join you all at the Bowling Club but cannot make it 'cos I won't make the border in time. Now if you'd only reminded me a wee bit earlier........

If you do read this before you go Mike, please give my regards to all and a slap for you know who.

P.S. Just had to turn down two tickets for Heather and myself for the Newlands game tomorrow.
Work beckons.........

[Michael Alexander]

A man for all moments.... ye be!

Well it's 21h00... I have not braaied yet... Drank a mountain of Draught.... fires ready.... the sharks just won... so I'll braaai now and see if I'm up to the Bowling club....

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Bowling club ....it'll be nearly 11 the time you go home.

[Michael Alexander]

Ywenty to ten... and I still have'nt braaied yet..... but the music  is good!

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

And now you gonna put that meat back so sheena can buy it ....  right  .. braai

[Clive Symes]

Mike,
Any old equipment from Town was usually dumped in a few places, In the scrapyards (dumps) behind the Garage, In the reclaim yard (Oranjemund West) where the dredge offices are or in the Loop road scrapyard on the hill to the west of the area where the rubbish is burnt (that was usually vehicles or sensitive equipment)
When the old X-ray equipment was stripped out and replaced with new updated technology, the supplier would most properly have removed the source material. Unless the equipment went to another mine??

The scary thing, Mike , is that during the 70's a nuclear source was removed from some equipment and was on a workbench in the old Central fields workshop, there was one hell of a spin to locate it and get the artisan to be checked out in the Hospital ( I think the source was in some container or other)

[Michael Alexander]

An interesting Comment from Gerald Hodgson"

"When the xray machines were removed from the old Police Station in the seventies when the town was declared OPEN, the machines were taken to North Hostel on the mine, by Mr Hennie Van Tonder Plumbing and Fitter Foreman in town - Fitter Dougie Wilson (Scotsman and Soccer Player) and the Plumber workshop staff (Not sure if Mr Ronnie Jew and a Mr Pieterse (not Frans)  were part of the helpers .
The unit was set up at North. "

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Mike ,i got this from a really reliable source: the machines were given to hospitals in the North, not as in Uubvley North but like in Ovamboland North,besides i never heard of xray Machines in the mine  

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Do you people still get x-rayed nowadays or are they using a more "friendly" way to look for the odd 50 hidden stones?  Meaning something like ultrasound scans .....

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Yeah ,somethings will never change apartfrom sex, it is xrays,xrays and more xrays,but the only difference is the technology got better. bling1   

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Better technology for the x-rays or better for the sex?     :emot19: 


  -  I'm young and innocent!

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Are you sure you wanna come and stay here?? with Ronel and Francois and maybe Amor too .? braai  

[Michael Alexander]

Adriaan, I also have it from a reliable source, from the people that put it up AT NORTH ( on the mine) ..... SUE speak to Gerald!