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Clair Barratt I suspect, she can use my machinary anytime!
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No doubt some moaning Minnie will pick it too pieces tho
Who are we to disappoint?
Never had any problem with that programme bar that annoying git Jerry/Gerry? The one who thinks he's a perfectionist whilst being one of the most half arsed people I've ever seen.
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The are repeats on the cable/ satellite/freebies channels then as I thought they stopped making them a few years back. It like all the shows American ones included.
They are all oh my God I've got to get a pile of rust working in two week because the is a show/anniversary/ whatever deadline and the just make it. Error TV programs are made months in advance if not years. All adds up to add spice to the programme though
They are all oh my God I've got to get a pile of rust working in two week because the is a show/anniversary/ whatever deadline and the just make it. Error TV programs are made months in advance if not years. All adds up to add spice to the programme though
Was funny on the mill restoration I think,when he filed too much off the drive shaft so the bearing blocks rattled like bolts in a biscuit tin!
The expert guy gave a right verbal boot up the backside.
Claire Is certainly worth watching
The expert guy gave a right verbal boot up the backside.
Claire Is certainly worth watching
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I am watching it, as said bean a few years since it was on the goggle box.
I met that Jerry/Gerry at a Land Rover show, he was meant to building a S111. He spent most of his time talking to the crowds explaining how hard he was working. Sad Fact was, the crew who did the work never got a mention.
Clair has helped on a Steam engine, fitted to a old cannel tug I have helped over the years to keep going. The pilot show was never aired.
Sadly, according to Suggs there will be now new series?
Any one got news on Rico, from the show "The Salvager?"
I met that Jerry/Gerry at a Land Rover show, he was meant to building a S111. He spent most of his time talking to the crowds explaining how hard he was working. Sad Fact was, the crew who did the work never got a mention.
Clair has helped on a Steam engine, fitted to a old cannel tug I have helped over the years to keep going. The pilot show was never aired.
Sadly, according to Suggs there will be now new series?
Any one got news on Rico, from the show "The Salvager?"
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Was funny on the mill restoration I think,when he filed too much off the drive shaft so the bearing blocks rattled like bolts in a biscuit tin!
The expert guy gave a right verbal boot up the backside.
Claire Is certainly worth watching
Or Gerry, when he was turning and threading a water pump valve spindle for the Massy Shaw fire boat, the threading tool dug in...'thats a hundred quids worth of bronze ruined'
they should have stopped it out of his wages!
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haha yeah he seems like a bit of a tool , i saw that when he ruined that threaded bar
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According to Wiki Claire Barrett is an "industrial archeologist and steam engineer" yet aparrently thinks that gear wheels are "cogs" and the things that run on an electric motor's comuntator are bushes not brushes.
While accepting that the programme is made to entertain rather than inform they could at least have it "proof read" by a genuine " engineer".
While accepting that the programme is made to entertain rather than inform they could at least have it "proof read" by a genuine " engineer".
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Can't stand the prog.
On the face of it, there's a good story to be told on their 'projects', however, the twerps that write the scripts assume that there is a lowest common denominator as an audience and make things too simplistic for anyone with an interest in the subject.
I assume that the script writers actually have an interest themselves....could be that they're just another bunch of luvvy wasters that would be bettor off writing for Coronation Street or other such dross.
I watched the one about the Model T racing car and that's an hour of my life I could have spent watching clouds.
What annoyed me most was the set-up with the buckled rear wheel. As if anyone would have missed that. I reckon they knew they were short of material to fill the hour and ignored the bent wheel so they could come back to it as an 'emergency action' in the fabricated race to get the car done.
The also went the wrong way round the Ford Dunton test track.
On the face of it, there's a good story to be told on their 'projects', however, the twerps that write the scripts assume that there is a lowest common denominator as an audience and make things too simplistic for anyone with an interest in the subject.
I assume that the script writers actually have an interest themselves....could be that they're just another bunch of luvvy wasters that would be bettor off writing for Coronation Street or other such dross.
I watched the one about the Model T racing car and that's an hour of my life I could have spent watching clouds.
What annoyed me most was the set-up with the buckled rear wheel. As if anyone would have missed that. I reckon they knew they were short of material to fill the hour and ignored the bent wheel so they could come back to it as an 'emergency action' in the fabricated race to get the car done.
The also went the wrong way round the Ford Dunton test track.
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It's a shame that so many interesting programmes are filled with mock problems and fake deadlines, the discovery channel has to be the worst culprit for this!
I still enjoy the programs, but they would be so much better if they cut out the bull####!
I still enjoy the programs, but they would be so much better if they cut out the bull####!
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I've just got the last 2 to watch where they sort out the problems left from the first time they did the Blackpool tram and the Massey Shaw
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Well done bill , that's the kind of post I was waiting for. Victor meldrew is alive and well
Well, I don't mind being a hero like Victor. Someone has to.
Given that the majority of the cost in (relatively) low-budget TV is associated with all the kit and caboodle required, just to collect and edit the footage, it surely couldn't hurt to spend a little more time and effort on the content, could it?
Couple that to a bit more respect for the target audience and there could be an interesting TV series.
What do the following have in common?
Shed heads.
American pickers.
American hotrod + the bike equivalent.
Salvage squad.
For the love of cars.
Thats just for a start,
Well, they're all the sort of things that can give you the best runner beans and rhubarb in the street, if carefully applied around the roots.
I doubt any of us would want a techy programme introduced by a boring old f@rt in a monotone voice, talking to a bunch of rivet-counting model steam enthusiasts, but there is surely a middle way, isn't there?
Look at some of the projects that have been featured on this web site, they knock all the aforesaid b@llocks into a cocked hat. No drama, no pouting, no BS, just good stuff, and plenty of it.
The scotch will be gone soon.
Don't forget the one with the tank restoration where he ripped out a perfectly good ignition system and bodged a Jaguar ignition system on to it all because it wasn't sparking when he tried cranking the engine. There was a lot of discussion about this in the MVT (Military Vehicle Trust), what actually happened is the "know-it-all" didn't understand the ignition system so he condemned it, IF he'd asked someone who was familiar with it they could have told him what he was doing wrong (just needed to use a jumper cable to boost the power to original ignition circuit whilst cranking the engine)
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I liked the show generally. The guy who used to help with the car stuff , i think he is rolls royce or aston martin trained was someone who really appeared to know his stuff. Jerry thurston, don't get me started, he strikes me as an upper middle class wally who read everything he knows out of a book. He currently writes in "the classic motorcycle" magazine, and i refuse to buy it until he is gone.
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A couple of my mates help Jerry out at the Landy shows. One of them is the chief engineer on a steam railway. Years ago when they built Project 90, the winch challenge truck, I got the spanner-jockeys a couple of cases of beer from the brewery to keep their spirits up.
Jerry is a nice enough bloke in the flesh - his TV persona is far removed from real life.
That may very well be true but he has only got himself to blame for coming across as first class b*llsh*ter whilst claiming to be an expert. He should have had the balls to either be himself on camera or tell the producer/director where to stick it, rather than selling out just for his 15 minutes of fame
