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27th May 2020, 9:46 pm | #402 |
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I enjoy watching the program, it's entertainment rather than educational. I prefer the furniture and art restorations rather than technology, I know nothing about these and can't pick holes!
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27th May 2020, 11:48 pm | #403 |
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It's arguably a GOOD thing that errors and inconsistencies can be picked out by us, if 100% accuracy was achieved our brains would have less to do!
Massive contrast in integrity between TRS and 'Money for Nothing' -witness the -potentially- grisly end facing a very stout bearing puller (i switched off early in disgust as it reached the workshop of Chenevix-Trench as it looked like it was going to end up being a lamp stand.) Dave |
28th May 2020, 3:26 am | #404 |
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I've stopped watching that prog; too frustrating that you are most unlikely to be able to learn from it. Also, it has something about it that makes me think it would have fitted in to the early evening Sunday TV made by Yorkshire in the 1970's .
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Back in the 50's & 60's German equipment like that Eumig projector would have had a red earth wire as standard on the lead supplied with the projector.
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28th May 2020, 7:50 am | #406 | |
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BTW, as I've previously said, I love the programme and these faux pas are just how it is in order to produce a programme that is entertaining for the masses. As a restorer myself I would much rather the populous watch this than say X-factor. I loved the job that the lady did on that painting, and I do like to see the response of the owners. It is not meant to be a cold, clinical, 100% accurate tutorial on how to restore stuff, such a programme would have a much more limited appeal and less commercial success, which is the reason that programmes are made of course.
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28th May 2020, 8:15 am | #407 |
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I wonder if there are teddy bear repair or pottery or painting restoration forums where folk are equally good at spotting errors and inconsistencies?
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A couple of my friends had Eumigs back in the 1960's and they seemed very solid and reliable machines.
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28th May 2020, 11:58 am | #409 |
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I have one of those Eumig P8s. It was my Dad's (I suppose it still is). I knew he hadn't threaded it properly when it jumped, I'd done it myself donkey's years ago. The only repair it will have needed will have been the belt, I can confirm the originals go gooey!
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3rd Jun 2020, 9:27 pm | #410 |
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I find the programme very entertaining and appreciate the skill of the experts particularly the "crafty" ones such as the furniture restorer, the leather worker, the upholsterer and the art restorer etc.
The more mechanical experts are good, however they have every tool imaginable available. It must be great to be able to "just turn one up" on a precision lathe or to have just the right saw to cut out a small piece of brass for something. They are obviously very skillful but having just the right equipment and materials to hand is helpful,
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I normally enjoy the BBC's Repair Shop but was a bit disappointed with the radiogram repair aired on the 29th Sept 2020. I appreciate as a viewer that I don't know all of the details of a specific repair but to replace both the radio and turntable for totally different models seemed to be going a bit too far to me. Then when they played the record as a demonstration, it seemed to be totally lacking any top end. Another comment or perhaps more of a question, where was the tonearm weight for the replacement deck? If that radiogram was mine, I would have been rather unhappy with the outcome.
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30th Sep 2020, 10:22 am | #412 |
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Yes it appeared that he couldn't be bothered with repairing the radio side so swapped it. And unless I missed it I can't remember hearing a demo of the radio at all. Probably wrote both those units off.
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30th Sep 2020, 10:24 am | #413 |
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I do wish they didn't keep sticking in totally irrelevant bits of previous viewings. I suppose it's just to satisfy the upcoming yoofs with short attention spans
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No I don't think any of us missed the radio being shown to work, they just did not bother with it, unless I had a very long blink with my hands over my ears and consequently missed it. They are doing some type of amplifier today, so we shall see how that ends up!
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I did see one where the original mains movement of a clock was replaced by a battery quartz one at the request of the owner. To be fair the clock man did seem a bit uncomfortable over that. Hopefully they kept the original movement.
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I just caught the radiogram item as I was going out to the pub, so recorded it out of interest. The deck and speakers were fair enough, they were going to replace them from the start. The change of chassis was a surprise, no reason was given for that. This item seemed to be a fill-in between the two main restorations to me, just a quick demonstration of the record that formed her main memory.
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30th Sep 2020, 1:56 pm | #417 |
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If this was the radiogram repair where the repairer tripped the breaker in the Repair Shop whilst testing it, then I am not a fan of his. He was wheeled back in to repair the Garrard motor that drove a barber's pole in another episode and then joked that he hoped it didn't "put out all the lights" before he plugged it in.
Frankly, he may know about gramophones but he shouldn't be let anywhere near electrics as he clearly hasn't got a clue about basic electrical safety. |
30th Sep 2020, 1:59 pm | #418 |
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There was no excuse for changing the Tuner/amp, the unit from the doner was completely different, the original had round selector switches, the doner square for instance.
The Deck was to be expected as the original one was lost and the speakers needed changing and would not be seen. The owner wanted it restored and instead got back her original case with different guts, not a restoration in my book. Peter |
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1) The tripped-all-the-lights thing might have been faked for programme interest reasons. I assume the filming lights kept going 2) The programme makers haven't a clue that different skills are needed between purely mechanical players of records and electrical/electronic players of records. Anyone with any understanding of a subject is not going to enjoy these programmes.I come from the hill above where they filmed the last of the summer wine, and the amount of fakery that went on was terrible. The trio walked into a corner on a path and came out of another corner a few miles away. Everything was bent to fit the image in the producer's head. A walk into a shop frontage in Holmfirth put them in Schofield's department store in Leeds. Not only a TARDIS shift in space, but it was an awful lot bigger inside than outside. I think anything touched on by the TV entertainment industry is going to be wrong in many, many ways. David
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30th Sep 2020, 2:46 pm | #420 |
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Yes, Mark Stuckey has gone down somewhat in my estimation after that one.
I watched the episode on line and it included the muffled demo. Perhaps that got edited out of shorter airings.
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