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The Reassembler - James May rebuilds old stuff on BBC Four |
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I enjoyed this ...........it's good old eccentric British TV at it's best
My only quibble is that he doesn't really explain how things work ..........and he assumes that we all know what a commutator is and does.........I don't have a clue ! still............. it's about the rambling getting there rather than the finished product I really enjoyed this - a relaxed presentation with plenty of easy-going chat and no music or effects to irritate. |
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Damn, i missed this! I like May's style of presentation too. Will have to set the pvr for the remainder.
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I enjoyed this ...........it's good old eccentric British TV at it's best
My only quibble is that he doesn't really explain how things work ..........and he assumes that we all know what a commutator is and does.........I don't have a clue ! still............. it's about the rambling getting there rather than the finished product |
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Damn, i missed this! I like May's style of presentation too. Will have to set the pvr for the remainder.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...rnby-train-set |
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Lovely tv nostalgia for the geeks
I watched and enjoyed the Flying Scotsman assemblage as recorded on my back up tv this evening. I didn't understand his explanation about the different versions due to the train set switching owners through the decades until he arrived.
How much more well built was the Hornby Flying Scotsman engine than the one we saw him put together on his show ? |
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I watched the Flying Scotsman assemblage on my back up tv this evening. I didn't understand his explanation about the different versions as the train set switched owners through the decades until he arrived.
How much more well built was the Hornby Flying Scotsman engine than the one we saw him put together on his show. With model railways now lacking appeal to the X-Box generation, Hornby and others are now making superior products for an older and more discerning market. The latest models are more accurate, have more detail, have better motors and pick-ups and can run both more slowly and more smoothly. They are also much more expensive. All electric model engines lend themselves to computerised control through the use of retro-fitted 'chips' which is how most home and exhibition layouts are now controlled. What I hoped James would have shown more of were the pitfalls that befell the average teenager trying to reassemble his own locomotive. Mine ended up shorting out the transformer or running backwards. Nice programme though. Smiles all round from me. |
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Right thanks for the explanation iamian.
A slight criticism of the show is James May doesnt have any CGI to help us viewers visualize what he is saying. A tiny bit in the show might make it a little easier to comprehend. |
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Just had a google and the Hornby Flying Scotsman set with the locomotive, 3 coaches and some track is £133 at Tesco
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Right thanks for the explanation iamian.
A slight criticism of the show is James May doesnt have any CGI to help us viewers visualize what he is saying. A tiny bit in the show might make it a little easier to comprehend. |
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I'd have settled for that, some of those animated views of the motor and the original train would have saved us a few minutes of James Mays talking.
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would have saved us a few minutes of James Mays talking.
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For me this was one of the most enjoyable programmes on television this Christmas.
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I'd have settled for that, some of those animated views of the motor and the original train would have saved us a few minutes of James Mays talking.
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James May talking is a bad thing?
![]() Actually James's little potted history of him and train sets was heart warming in parts. I watched him and then later Diane Morgans view on Christmas and it all sort of made sense by the evenings close.
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Perhaps he would not be acceptable as he isn't an academic but James May would make an excellent presenter on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. It is well worth remembering that the BBC's front man on NASA's space program and the moon landings, James Burke had no science qualifications.
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Perhaps he would not be acceptable as he isn't an academic but James May would make an excellent presenter on the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. It is well worth remembering that the BBC's front man on NASA's space program and the moon landings, James Burke had no science qualifications.
He could certainly have done some of the demos they did on it this year - They got Prof. Danielle George in just to stamp on the accelerator of a Tesla Model S, and May could definitely have done that. |
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Just had a google and the Hornby Flying Scotsman set with the locomotive, 3 coaches and some track is £133 at Tesco
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