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The Reassembler - James May rebuilds old stuff on BBC Four |
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The Reassembler - James May rebuilds old stuff on BBC Four
9 PM Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.
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Looking forward to it
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I love James May's programmes! PVR already set to record all three.
I believe the Quest Channel are repeating Toy Stories, too. |
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Cheers OP wouldn't have known this was on without your post! Sounds right up my street this
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I would have watched it but I broke the digibox. Can he put it back together?
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It's more slow TV! Quips at Hammond's expense! Strong tea! Makes you proud to be British!
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Wish he'd spent more time explaining parts like the governor. But the time actually flew by.
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Well that was the most relaxing thing i have seen on TV ever !! Loved it
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Really enjoyed it. Did what it stated on the box. Relaxing 30 minutes of TV.
Looking forward to the guitar one. Would be interesting to see him actually build one himself.. perhaps with Brian May's help. That would be brilliant. |
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Three part series begins at 10pm. Taking apart and reassembling a Boeing 747!
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Three part series begins at 10pm. Taking apart and reassembling a Boeing 747!
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Three part series begins at 10pm. Taking apart and reassembling a Boeing 747!
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I look forward to the bit where he has three bits left over and keeps turning the instruction leaflet round and round again to figure out what to do with them, then says 'whatever'
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I took a carburettor apart once - and I put it back together, I amazed myself!
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It's a separate series with different hosts. Not sure why it was posted about in this thread.
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Wish he'd spent more time explaining parts like the governor. But the time actually flew by.
The idea of a factory making an entire machine like that from scratch these days is almost unthinkable. Not sure reassembling the electric guitar will be as interesting but I'll watch anyway. |
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It shows that certain TV presenters could do the crossword in silence for 30 minutes and people would watch it engrossed .
Gotta be the cheapest 30 minute TV show ever . I'd be interested how the spark was produced, I saw no battery. Also why an engine RPM increases when the butterfly flap allows more air/petrol mixture into the combustion chamber has never been explained to my complete satisfaction. In fact, I don't think the boffins know, and like the theory of how fast flowing air going over the leading wing edge makes a plane rise [ HAH ! ], they just make up some half-arsed hypothesis hoping no-one will cotton on. |
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It's more slow TV! Quips at Hammond's expense! Strong tea! Makes you proud to be British!
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Well that was the most relaxing thing i have seen on TV ever !! Loved it
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It shows that certain TV presenters could do the crossword in silence for 30 minutes and people would watch it engrossed .
Gotta be the cheapest 30 minute TV show ever . I'd be interested how the spark was produced, I saw no battery. Quote:
In fact, I don't think the boffins know, and like the theory of how fast flowing air going over the leading wing edge makes a plane rise [ HAH ! ], they just make up some half-arsed hypothesis hoping no-one will cotton on.
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Next week, with his pipe in his mouth, James May sits in his garden shed and explains how to make an eel trap.
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I took a carburettor apart once - and I put it back together, I amazed myself!
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Next week, with his pipe in his mouth, James May sits in his garden shed and explains how to make an eel trap.
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For me this could easily have been stretched to 45 mins or maybe even an hour, really enjoyed it, too short at 30 mins
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I took a CRT television apart once. Couldn't put it together again though.
Although not as nasty as those big uninterruptible power supplies. In a previous occupation, we had an engineer in servicing one of our USPs. When he took the cover off I wanted to run and hide. Big ****-off capacitors the size of paint tins. He however was remarkably laid-back about it. |
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It shows that certain TV presenters could do the crossword in silence for 30 minutes and people would watch it engrossed .
Gotta be the cheapest 30 minute TV show ever . I'd be interested how the spark was produced, I saw no battery. Also why an engine RPM increases when the butterfly flap allows more air/petrol mixture into the combustion chamber has never been explained to my complete satisfaction. In fact, I don't think the boffins know, and like the theory of how fast flowing air going over the leading wing edge makes a plane rise [ HAH ! ], they just make up some half-arsed hypothesis hoping no-one will cotton on. In a four strike engine, the first stroke (intake) draws in the petrol/air mixture, the second (compression) compresses it, the third (combustion) is the firing stroke and the fourth the exhaust stroke. If the butterfly is more open as the piston descends it will draw in more vapour and thus produce a "bigger bang." Thus speeding up the engine. In a two stroke engine before the firing stroke is completed, it draws in more petrol air mixture to be compressed as it goes back up the cylinder for the next firing stroke. I used to do quite a bit on cars, my last "big job" was thirty years ago, to change a cylinder head valve on my 2ltr Alfa Romeo. Re-shimming it afterwards was an absolute pain. Though I did have fun tinkering with balancing the two twin-choke down-draught Webber carburretors. Modern cars are designed for you not to mess with. These days, my involvement, is only checking the oil and water. Computer diagnostics, renders a lot of the old-fashioned skills unnecessary. Quote:
You're lucky it didn't take you apart. Full of nasty sparky electrickery, CRT's are.
Although not as nasty as those big uninterruptible power supplies. In a previous occupation, we had an engineer in servicing one of our USPs. When he took the cover off I wanted to run and hide. Big ****-off capacitors the size of paint tins. He however was remarkably laid-back about it. TV engineers rarely need a soldering iron these days, no capacitors or resistors to change like in the old valve sets. Computer diagnostics reduces the job to mostly swopping, "pull out, push in," printed circuit boards. |
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