148 CHAPTER 12 The most adventurous modern-day visit to support a Western States customer was Ed Dunsmuir’s 2010 journey to the Ethiopian Sugar Corporation’s Finchaa Factory, located about 220 miles northwest of the capital city of Addis Ababa. Dunsmuir departed Cincinnati on February 23. When he returned to Ohio on April 12, he was 30 pounds lighter and armed with enough stories to fill a book. Dunsmuir knew it would be a rough stay upon his arrival at Finchaa, when he checked into a bug-infested hotel room that lacked air conditioning. The next day, he was moved to a “nicer” room and was curious why the water tingled when he took a shower. He discovered that the Ethiopians heated water with an electric coil inside the shower head, and this particular coil was missing insulation. Not in the mood for continued electrocution, Dunsmuir used electrical tape to insulate the coil. left: These photos are courtesy of Ed Dunsmuir. They are from the Premier Sugar Mill in Mardan, Pakistan, during his trip in the late 1970s to install 54” x 40” batch machines. The first three are of the “old fashioned” sugar mill, where the worker in the middle feeds the cane into a basin and the horse moves the bar around to mash it up. Then the mixture is fed into the building. It gets boiled in large ceramic tubs (pictured), and then it’s gathered in cheese cloth. To separate the liquid from the sugar, they swing it around over their heads; in essence, a totally manual process, using centrifugal force to get the final product.