Well - my extremely wobbly set-up impressed me enough to rebuild it and make it somewhat portable.
My wife says she thinks it's doing some good when she steams her face, and I've managed to reduce a mark on my face - which I've had there since I tried to squeeze a z*t TWENTY years ago - to a faint red mark in two days of ten-minute sessions steaming my face. (I'd say that mark is 80% gone.
*** Sorry about the revolting reference to ***s.
So .......... There's a rice cooker (electronically controlled to keep boiling nicely).
The rice cooker has a 1.5 cm pipe out of the vent, which slides into another plastic tube which fits nicely under the handle (from a vacuum cleaner hose). And the narrow pipe is cut at an angle which faces towards the outlet.
The other end of the vacuum cleaner pipe has a minature brushless fan of negligible wattage.
I sat the glass envelope containing the platinum discs at the bottom and put some plastic feet on it and fixed them with caulking.
On top of that is the aquarium pump, and at the top is the HV unit.
- It's a lot better than it was before I remade it last night.
I am going to see if continued use of it improves the astigmatism I have developed over the past five years. and see if the mark goes completely from my face - see if it can get rid of about 1kg (More like 4) of blubber on my waist.
I'm also curious if it can make me any more handsome? (Previously thought of as impossible).
* So I'm hoping for miracles. wish me luck and I'm going to keep you informed of events.
* Next step is to fashion some sort of 'tent' so I can steam by body. - I thought a washing machine box lined with plastic and a hole cut in the top for my head.
It seems a bit crazy even for me! But maybe a miracle will occur?
What has been won by the brave at great cost can be lost cheaply by fools and once gone can rarely be regained and only then at great cost.