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Lars Bergman you wrote: “A few days ago you referred to Bodger's Method, of which I have never heard, and cannot find any information of.”
I’m sorry Lars, it was a bit of a joke, based upon the current English interpretation of “to bodge” or “a bodger”.  Originally, a bodger was a chap who worked in the beech woods around High Wycombe turning chair legs from green beechwood on a pole lathe.  Of late, it’s become a slightly derisory expression for someone who, lacking the correct tools or equipment, in my case higher mathematics, knocks something up from what’s available to them.   It’s what I believe in the USA is called ‘a duct tape method’.  One lesson from chair leg bodging is that you never drilled a hole in the seat to fit the leg, because craftsmen only had so many ‘bits’ (drills).  You always had a sample hole and turned the leg to fit the hole.  There must be a moral in that somewhere.
 
My memory being what it is, I thought I’d better check I hadn’t dreamt this up, so see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging

I once knew a chap called 'Bodger'.  It was in my first year on the University Air Squadron in 1962. I can't remember his first name.  He was a very pleasant chap, but he only stayed one year, so I never got to know him well.  DaveP