Remember those shoe x-ray machines?

[netibiza]

I was thinking about them in bed last night, anyone here remember them and can we sue Clarks for overexposure to radiation?

http://2.bp.blogspot....bpE/s400/sfxrmach.jpg

[Prudie]

I remember longing to have a go as a child but my mum never ever let me!

[Old_Geezer]

Unless you were getting them rayed twice daily I suspect you don't have much of a case.

[netibiza]

Guess you are right OG but I used to love; them always getting my feet in them but of course they were not switched on!

[deggers316]

Trimeresurus
i get ya drift lol

[4getmenot]

didnt think they x-rayed. Just electronic measuring device.

[ladyalex]

At the time of these machines there were no electronic measuring devices. We had to make do with rulers and measuring tapes.

[EvianBaby]

I think you might be a little mistaken in what the machine did. All it does is measure the outside of your foot. (unless there was some odd machine I never heard of).

I had a short stint as the supervisor in the childs dept at Clarks. It was the most headache inducing year of my life. Little sods.

[EvianBaby]

hhmm, I should learn to click on links.

That is nothing like what I am talking about. Infact that looks terrifying!

[netibiza]

I don't think they measured anything, one just looked down the tube and wriggled the toes and one could see the outline of the shoe and the toes and how much room one had!

[daftgrandad]

These are the forerunners of the type I remember.
Your feet were always green in the screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7oqMw6ipo&feature=related

[Buenchico]

I remember them. I always wanted to have a go but children weren't allowed to ;(

The radiation levels were probably quite low anyway. For example, you receive roughly 8 times as much radiation from taking a trans-Atlantic flight as you do from a dental X-ray. See the 'banana' table here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975

[carlton23]

I remember `Frisby`s had one, and I remember seeing the bones of my feet, about 1948.

[4getmenot]

Oh I thought you meant the machines that slowly closed in to measure your feet, I remember thinking they wernt going to stop when I was young and they would crush my feet