Reviews materials prepared by Karl Trobas, Chief of the Restoration Lab of the Styria Provincial Archives in Graz, Austria, describing his paper washing machine. This machine was developed as an emergency response to a flood in which there was heavy sewage contamination of several hundred books: books were to be cleaned with a special formula (whose commercial preparation is pending) without needing to be disassembled after removal of the covers. The method is described; potential problems not addressed by the literature are brought up. -- AATA