Dave and Richard, I was at my local recycling plant about 18 mouth ago and the couple next to me was throwing one of these away. I grab it of them before it touched the ground. I will be honest at the time i wasn't to sure what it was, but i got it home and had a read. Couldn't believe my luck. When i opened the box up, you could clearly see it had never been used. When i spoke to the lady at the tip she told me her Dad had died about a year earlier and her Mum had recently made the decision to 'clear the shed out'. Quite sad really!