1/3 programmes devoted to fixing stuff..

Great! We need more shedovision.

Heh just logged in to post a psa.

I have some brown beer warming in readiness

Dan Snow on BBC 1 and 4 at the same time. Stereo..

That was interesting, as I’ve a Suffolk Punch to build :D.
P51 Mustang on straight after on Decisive Weapons 😀 😀

#slowTV

Enjoyed that.

Yep, TV at my kind of pace 🙂

Best TV I’ve seen in a while. I enjoyed it in the same way as ‘Shed and Buried’.

Just read the Guardian review of this show. On my to do list for tomorrow.

Bloody excellent TV.

Looking forward to the guitar build.

8)

I’m sorry but I have to complain. It wasn’t slow/long enough. A few bits were skipped or not shown.

So, when programs are made that contain nothing (see pretty much any modern docu / live show etc) they get “stretched” to fill 1hr or more with vacuous cr*p. But when a program is made that contains a lot of information, it gets shrunk into 30mins??

Modern telly eh! Thank god for the ‘net………

Enjoyed that, very geeky. My wife hated it though, “you’re watching an old man build a lawnmower?” “Yes” “you’re very odd, you are”.

This was a show about fixing lawnmower, yes?

Hurry up Top Gear, please.

I’m sorry but I have to complain. It wasn’t slow/long enough. A few bits were skipped or not shown

this..would love to have seen more detail about rebuilding the carb for example. yes, I’m very sad

Mrs hoppy sat through it incredulous that I was watching it at all and enjoying it as well. I explained that what she was feeling was what an episode of call the midwife is like for me.

Missed this, but I like Shed & Buried so wish I hadn’t.

That said, Sunday saw the annual wake up from hibernation for the trusty old Hayter, so I’ve had my fix of shed and dismantled mower. (It was particularly recalcitrant this year.)

Missed it.

Programmes like that appeal to me. James May, on the other hand, I find to be rather a tit.

It wasn’t about fixing a lawnmower, it was about rebuilding it from its component parts, it would have been better if it had been an hour so he could have shown more detail on stuff like the carb , magneto etc. I definitely fall into the mechanical geek category so enjoyed it immensely and look forward to the next ones….

Just caught this on iPlayer. I could watch blokes in sheds building stuff all night. I was disappointed to not see oil on the gudgeon pin and piston rings during the assembly.

^ yeah, that upset my sensibilities as well, And he really should’ve put the gudgeon pin in the freezer and the piston in the oven at a low temp for 15mins before assembly.

What about the thrunge bracket, though?

Better tonight however missed the installation of the lead

Never seen that type of screwdriver before and need one, any one know where to get one??!

Does he have a sanding fetish?
Abrasive sheets
Abrasive belts
Multiple rolls of abrasive paper

Never seen that type of screwdriver before and need one, any one know where to get one??!

you can buy a plastic moulding claw that fits over any screwdriver bit and grips slotted screws.

Gentle
Calming
Informative
Inquisitive

Can some one get that?

And I have those but not that split blade system which I suspect is a bit rare…

I’ve got one of those screwdrivers somewhere, I never thought it was that good. You can only use it to start the screw, apply any torque and the two parts separate.

I’m glad I live in a world where a show like that can be made.

A delight.

No one has explained how he plugged an old pulse dial phone into the modern tone dial network and had it ring yet? Can the network even still supply the current that old phones took to ring?? (with their mechanical bell system)

There was a bit on tonights programme where JM explained about JIS screwdrivers. A subject that’s been discused on this very forum in relation to bikes.

Ringing no probs at all it’s 75-80V AC, you’ll feel it if you hold the line and have an incoming call.

The guitar one is also on iplayer. V interesting

Shame he didn’t mention setting the intonation etc & disappointed in a programme that uses the correct tools for a specific job he didn’t use a peg winder

Captive screwdrivers

http://www.longs.co.uk/acatalog/quickwedge.html