Well, we bought a milking machine in December trying to beat the VAT increase, as we knew we wanted one for this spring. It was delivered very quickly, and I upwrapped it, to find there was no instruction manual. I emailed the company, and they said, oh terribly sorry, we'll post you another one. In the meantime, I located a piece of A4 paper which had some instructions on how to use the machine, but nothing on how to put it together or how to clean it.
So after a few days, the post came, and along from the milking maching people came....
the same piece of A4 that we already had.
So we eventually screwed up the courage to try to put it together and use it this week. I put it together, and had to guess where some of the tubes plugged in. We tryed it out on Evita, as her owner (she is on loan to me) uses a milking machine, so she was used to it. However, we couldn't get the suction to work properly, so we eventually gave up and I milked her by hand.
Alex then got the suction working properly, and we decided to try Surf with it, who had never been exposed to a milking maching before. She was actually ver good, and stood very still. However, the flow of milk in the machine didn't go where we expected it to. Sadly, none of thought to switch it of, and instead we waited until she was fully milked before switching it off.
Then all her milk cascaded out of the bottom of the generater part......
Ooops.