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Old 3rd Apr 2019, 6:07 pm   #121
Biggles
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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Default Re: BBC TV: The Repair Shop

Not the Repair Shop, but Money for Nothing again. Today, a lovely old piece of mechanised gardening equipment that deserved to spend the rest of it's days in a quiet corner of a museum was heartlessly broken up to make two occasional tables from the wheels and guess what? a lamp from an internal cog with a candle bulb stuck in the top. Wonderful. I think it sold for some vast sum in a shabby-chic boutique. The Repair Shop is somewhat more acceptable. I do think there are some skilled people on there, particularly the clock restorer. I used to know a very skilled precision engineer who could fabricate all manner of tiny gears and parts in his workshop. Skills that are probably rapidly disappearing. As for criticism of the radio restorer? I don't know if I could appear on camera and make much sense either! And yes, I normally have better things to do than watch daytime TV, but sometimes I have to take the odd rest day off from work.
Alan.

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