Here 'bodge' can be used as a variant of 'botch', I.e 'to bugger something up'
And the idea of putting a couple of teams in a waste tip and having them construct a neat project out of whatever they can hack together...I like that!
I'd sign up. You'd be surprised just how much one can scrounge, especially if you go with a big backpack for finds, a set of screwdrivers, pair of pliers and some bolt cutters (for shearing metal plating off things)
Plenty fridges, electron gun/vacuum tubes from CRTs, the tubes, if you can open them without the things imploding make for a not half bad filtration flask on a large scale. And the electron gun is the beginnings of a particle accelerator in its own right. Just the sort of thing one could take and with enough (non-scrounged in several cases) bits and pieces make an electron LINAC out of, or a betatron perhaps, one could even hack together some parts from fridges/freezers for the initial starter 'roughing' pumps, if chained in series, although a much more powerful pump would be needed to exhaust the pressure chamber (low pressure that is, particle accelerators operate in extremely hard vacuum conditions, one needs an initial strong pump or lesser powered pumps chained up in series to start up a turbomolecular pump at least.
And you aren't finding a turbopump with mag-lev frictionless bearings at a dump. Always wanted to have a crack at making a cyclotron myself though (not from bits and pieces scrounged from a dump, well, excluding things like roughing pumps, copper wire for the RF emitters and magnetic pole pieces of course, the cheaper the better if it can be made to work properly that is) Although an electron accelerator would be easier, I'd far prefer a proton accelerator, for various reasons. Such as for example, whilst deuterium (hydrogen containing a neutron, in addition to the proton and electron of your run of the mill 'protium' hydrogen isotope, is unlike tritium, (hydrogen with 2 neutrons per atom) is nonradioactive, yet according to some of my reading, bombarding certain elements, or possibly just certain isotopes of certain elements, not sure on that one, with deuterons (ionized deuterium nuclei) can render them radioactive. I'd very much like to figure out not just what, but why. And I'd rather do it mysef than be told the answer (assuming its known, I deliberately have never looked that up, so as to leave open the possibiity of experiment and discovery. There is much less satisfaction in simply reading an answer to a problem known of, compared to doing the experimental and working it out. Might just be me, but thats the way my mind works, in respect to most things.
