But it's
the sort of thing he might well have done at need - he had
a real gift for things mechanical, and he did tend to end up in
places like Poland after the war, or rural India, where you can't
just pop down to the corner store and pick up an arc-welding helmet.
Your dad
wouldn't happened to be named MacGyver by any chance?
No, none of his names were anything like that. Malcolm Warren Parker.
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