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Blind Navigation
This week the challenge is to negotiate obstacles in a vehicle and drop paint-bombs on targets marked on a map. Sounds easy? Well, all the vehicles' windows will be blacked out, so the teams will have no visual clues as to their location. All they will know is what direction they are facing in when they start.
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| Bryan Ruby, Kee 'Lamo' Lam and Paul Brandon |
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| Graham Barguss |
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Academics Anonymous
This team should know a thing or two about engineering – they all work in the engineering department of Kingston University, in south London. Paul Brandon, the team captain, is a lecturer who teaches water-skiing to children with disabilities in his spare time. Kee Lam ('Lamo') took an apprenticeship in fabrication and worked for a range of companies before joining the staff at Kingston. As well as teaching, Bryan Ruby maintains the department's machines. He is also a course tutor for a model engineering evening class.
The Academics' technical consultant is Graham Barguss. Graham has just taken early retirement, having spent the last 13 years working at the Manchester Science and Industry Museum, where he was responsible for making interactive exhibits.
The Academics are clearly well-qualified. But can they put engineering theory into bodging practice?
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| Steve 'Psycho' Edwards, Mike 'Majik' Connell and John 'Vigilante' Mossop |
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The Hammerlocks
The Hammerlocks are the wrestlers Mike 'Majik' Connell, Stephen 'Psycho Steve' Edwards and John 'The Vigilante' Mossop. By day Mike, the captain, is an IT officer; in the ring he's the UK's Junior Heavyweight Champion. Steve, an engineer, shares Mike's interest in wrestling, as well as in motorcycles and 'fixing things'. John Mossop has recently taken the title of National Wrestling Alliance United Heavyweight Champion. He is only 22, but he has already been a professional wrestler for five years.
The team's technical consultant is Steve Pizzy, director of Science Projects, which makes all kinds of weird and wonderful exhibits for science museums throughout the world.
Steve will be hoping for a technical knockout. The others are planning to throw their weight around ...
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The expert
This week's expert is Dick Strawbridge, a Scrapheap veteran. Dick has recently retired from the army after 23 years. He now works for General Dynamics, which specialises in developing and installing communication and computing systems in military vehicles.
This will be Dick's twelfth appearance on Scrapheap following an illustrious career as a team member. In past challenges, he famously shot the rifle of his cannon half-way up the range and took his dragster up the strip in reverse after the gearbox blew up.
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