Many thanks for all your input!
Have sourced a Termovar unit from a company based near Exeter (just up the line from me) for a very reasonable price (less than the best I had posted before). Trade users can gain a nice wee discount. Companies site is
http://www.termomix.co.uk. Very fast delivery, as the manager lives not far outside of Plymouth, so dropped it off to me on his way back the day I ordered it!
And now, I get to finish the most fiddly job I have had in a long while...
