You're on the feed side. I'm on the delivery.

Two-roll mangle, fifty-four inch. Heat's in the chest, not the roll — the roll is padding and pressure. It doesn't press the water out, it boils it out. Too dry going in, you get a set wrinkle you'll never get back. Too wet, the hem comes out damp and it goes round again and I have to look at it twice.

• Grab a corner in the basket — hold the mouse down, or your thumb.
• SNAP it. Fast flick outward. A wave goes down the cloth and shakes the wrinkles flat. Slow drag does nothing.
• Feed the leading edge into the nip, square to the roll. Off-angle and it walks — comes out a parallelogram, worse at the far end than the near.
• Keep pace. The roll takes it at its own speed. Drag behind and it tears out of your hand; shove and it bunches.
• Let go before your fingers reach the guard bar. Cross it while she's turning and the knee brake stops her dead, and the basket doesn't get smaller while we're stopped.
• Treadle is along the bottom edge — drag it, or arrow keys. Slow is not careful. Slow is scorch.

Steam's at 105 and the whole floor draws at once around nine, so what worked at eight is wrong at half past. Watch the gauge.