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Old 04-04-2016, 17:09
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Old 04-04-2016, 18:48
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Looking forward to it
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Old 04-04-2016, 20:08
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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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Old 04-04-2016, 20:16
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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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Old 04-04-2016, 20:36
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I would have watched it but I broke the digibox. Can he put it back together?
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Old 04-04-2016, 21:21
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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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Old 04-04-2016, 21:30
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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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Old 04-04-2016, 21:30
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Well that was the most relaxing thing i have seen on TV ever !! Loved it
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Old 04-04-2016, 21:31
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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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Old 04-04-2016, 21:36
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Three part series begins at 10pm. Taking apart and reassembling a Boeing 747!
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Old 04-04-2016, 22:16
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Three part series begins at 10pm. Taking apart and reassembling a Boeing 747!
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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Old 04-04-2016, 22:22
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Three part series begins at 10pm. Taking apart and reassembling a Boeing 747!
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'
It's a separate series with different hosts. Not sure why it was posted about in this thread.
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Old 04-04-2016, 22:43
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I took a carburettor apart once - and I put it back together, I amazed myself!
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Old 04-04-2016, 23:15
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It's a separate series with different hosts. Not sure why it was posted about in this thread.
I know. I posted because of the similarity to the James May prog and might appeal to people in this thread
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Old 05-04-2016, 00:48
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Wish he'd spent more time explaining parts like the governor. But the time actually flew by.
Indeed. He mentioned he would demonstrate of how the governor worked when the mower was running, but it never got shown, or he forgot. Fascinating stuff all the same. Building something is a great way to demonstrate how it works.

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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Old 05-04-2016, 08:52
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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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Old 05-04-2016, 10:50
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It's more slow TV! Quips at Hammond's expense! Strong tea! Makes you proud to be British!
I was thinking myself that it would fit in well with a 'BBC Four Goes Slow' season.
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Old 05-04-2016, 11:33
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Well that was the most relaxing thing i have seen on TV ever !! Loved it
This will probably become an ASMR sensation.
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Old 05-04-2016, 11:43
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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.
When you yank the pull cord it turns the engine - the engine drives the lawnmower but also turns a dynamo which generates the electric for the spark.

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.
Air going over the curved upper surface has to move faster (as its a greater distance) than the air going under the wing. Since the air has to move faster it thus has less density which 'sucks' the wing upwards. See Boyle's law
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Old 05-04-2016, 12:10
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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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Old 05-04-2016, 12:12
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I took a carburettor apart once - and I put it back together, I amazed myself!
I took a CRT television apart once. Couldn't put it together again though.
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Old 05-04-2016, 12:26
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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.
Yay! James May for the new Jack Hargreaves!
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Old 05-04-2016, 13:07
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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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Old 05-04-2016, 13:08
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I took a CRT television apart once. Couldn't put it together again though.
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.
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Old 05-04-2016, 13:10
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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.
There's basically two types of engine, two-stroke and four stroke. The latter mostly used in cars. But the principle's the same.
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.

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.
The HT lead could give you quite a belt.

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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