quit. Craig went back to WS and I decided to literally sit on the machine for another week and just observe. It was here that I determined by the wear pattern on the numerous worn screens, that we needed to make the pot deeper, in fact retain the same diameter to depth ratio as the CC5 as this was a very successful machine. I debated this with WS management for several weeks and was told that the pot had a larger diameter which was all that was needed to do all the preparation of massecuite. Not satisfied with this answer, I insisted that WS days in Australia were over and unless WS changed the pot ratio, we were doomed. Roger Fair eventually said that he would put my theory to test. I sold a CC1400 machine to Plane Creek Mill using a pencil sketch on the Production Superintendents desk pad to explain how we would succeed over the Invictor Mill disaster. Fortunately, I had worked with the PS several years earlier when he was with CSR Technical Services and had earned his trust and respect. He agreed with my theories and placed the order subject to strict performance criteria. The machine was duly developed and supplied to Plane Creek on Time for the next season. I received the most outstanding letter of acceptance of the CC1400 from the Mill. The CC1400 performed above our expectations. I then went on to sell three more CC1400 machines in Australia and two redesigned CC1300 to the Australian industry and five to the Fiji Sugar Industry. The development of efficient, high capacity CC machines was now well in hand. I always went to the 'fugal station of all the mills visited to ensure correct operation of the centrifugals. I always say to mill people "you may have paid for these centrifugals but they're still my machines." In 1987 was the birth of Metric Manufacturing, a general engineering business specializing in the manufacture of Western States sugar centrifugals for the Australian and Fiji market. Metric manufactured a pharmaceutical grade stainless steel batch machine, Quadramatic 48x30CIP for GSK. Metric performed machine refurbishments for Western States machines. 166 CHAPTER 13