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A Sweating Mannequin? During one of the slow periods with the opera (we call them "lay-offs"), I did a job for a local, and highly specialized, instrumentation company. One of the products they custom manufacture are"sweating hot-plates," usually about 12 inches square in size. These devices are used in a laboratory setting to evaluate how fabrics interact with a warm and moist surface - such as a person. The primary clients have been fabric and clothing manufactures, who with sophisticated computers attached, test their latest creations. One such client was the Chinese Textile Institute. But the sweating hot plate they wanted was not the typical sweating hot plate (as if there is such a thing), No - they wanted a poseable sweating aluminum mannequin. And I just happen to come through MTNW's door...