Engineer rolled up with a pile of boxes and having confirmed theat the problem was with the upper scanner proceeded to swap the top section of the printer with a new one. Half an hour later all is sorted and we are getting clean scans again. Now to get stuck into the last couple of hundred Model Engineer magazines now that I only need to run them through once.

Have been looking online to see what other volumes of the magazine are available pre-1950 and there have been a few batches that may be worth buting to fill the gap in my archive. I also picked up the USB stick being sold on eBay - perhaps in breach of copyright - that has a discointed set of volumes from the early days until today. I am still hopeful that I can recover my own later scans when the poilce finally return what they seized in 2019 and 2020. THAT meeting was to have taken place today but has been pushed back again to next Thursday.