13th Sep 2022, 3:46 pm | #161 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
TRS gets across a very important message, in this throw-away society obsessed with so-called 'upgrades'; that we should give them some credit for - that old items are indeed repairable.
I'm less keen on the 're-purposing' demonstrated in other tv programmes; as this leads to useful items, such as Avos, and radios, with light-bulbs sticking out of them... |
13th Sep 2022, 7:46 pm | #162 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
I forgot to say; I do find it amusing that many of the so-called treasured heirlooms brought in by punters look as if they've been dredged from the bottom of a canal after 70 years...
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13th Sep 2022, 9:42 pm | #163 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
For anyone watching right now there's what looks like a GEC radiogram been brought in. The chap that's going to take it on just said that it was from the change over period from the wind up gramophone which you had to put the needles in to the later electronic reproduction types (or similar wording). Er....not wishing to be too critical, but I'm sorry to point out that this one you're looking at also has to have gramophone needles fitted and there's the pickup with the grub screw and the tin of Songster gramophone needles looking right up at you!
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14th Sep 2022, 6:33 am | #164 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
And when he turned it on a little later it blew all the fuses in the barn and the lights went out. He fiddled with the deck, seemed to find nothing wrong, did nothing and all was fine the second time. Maybe that bit was staged? At the end they played a record but didn't show the radio was working (or not) at all.
I tend to only see the old repeats on Yesterday so the comments on here refer to episodes I haven't seen. Interesting in parts but a lot of padding. Dave |
14th Sep 2022, 9:57 am | #165 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
I think it was all staged for good entertainment. There was no sign of a multimeter, bulb limiter or variac, he just plugged it in and turned it on after decades of disuse. Then the lights blew, supposedly. Just what you shouldn't do! No new capacitors or rewiring, much of the focus was on the tuning indicator, the last bit I would fix having sorted out the electrics first. But I guess that's just TV!
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14th Sep 2022, 12:19 pm | #166 |
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The programme today appears to be cancelled, understandably, there was going to be a secret wartime radio on it. Cannot find when on now, the prog next week makes no mention of said radio.
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14th Sep 2022, 12:45 pm | #167 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
If its a repeat I think that's how the Ever Ready 5214 was described.
Could be wrong. Cheers Mike T
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14th Sep 2022, 1:02 pm | #169 | |
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14th Sep 2022, 1:07 pm | #170 |
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14th Sep 2022, 2:07 pm | #171 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
If TRS production team were really brave they would start experimenting at this point to shake things up a bit; lose the voiceover man (he is also working elsewhere) and delegate half of the v/over to Blades with the remainder of the preambles done by the experts straight to camera (with a second man in the background as a focus for experts not comfortable with presenting.)
(I also suggested changes to the Cotswold Company furniture commercials- the changes were made.....by coincidence i'm sure....i'm still awaiting the cheque in any case..) Dave |
14th Sep 2022, 4:00 pm | #172 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
The lights will be on a different circuit to the bench supply. They probably went out because the RCD tripped. It is always a good policy to test these from time to time.
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14th Sep 2022, 4:45 pm | #173 | |
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I somehow think that this was staged for TV. I’m sure (hope) the Repair Shop barn won’t be protected by a main ( single)RCD! SimonT.
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14th Sep 2022, 5:31 pm | #174 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
That episode is definitely a repeat, and I suspect it was staged to discourage the public from messing with old electrical items.
I remember the incident at Royal Wootton Bassett. Rob was not happy because it took the server a while to check its disks and restart which delated auction payments. |
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14th Sep 2022, 6:40 pm | #176 |
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The prog was about a radio built into a book during wartime, it does not state whether a repeat or not.
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20th Sep 2022, 9:14 pm | #177 |
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Re: The Repair Shop. BBC TV programme.
It's a new item, Mark was working on it while I was doing the Jukebox.
The wiring and feeds are all round the barn on lots of thick cables with commando sockets on trailing distribution boards as being a proper old barn it doesn't have proper mains feeds. Everything runs on a huge silent run generator round the back. Part of the rules and regs. was that only the power sockets on the bench could be used by the experts and although there were heaters under each bench only 4 could be run at any one time. That radiogram was well before my time there.
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21st Sep 2022, 7:45 am | #178 |
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I haven't seen that episode yet.
It does sound like it wouldn't take much to trip the electrics there then. |
21st Sep 2022, 9:20 am | #179 | |
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It was one of the worst examples. Did anyone notice the BSR X5M type pick-up apparently glued to the bottom of the heavy magnetic head? At the end the record played was an ancient acoustic Enrico Caruso record that dated from around 1915! I think the terrible low level sound came from the head itself rather than the amplifier. The radio was never tested and probably didn't work. These are nice simple 5 valve superhet grams and with care produce a great sound. Pity. John. |
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21st Sep 2022, 7:22 pm | #180 |
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Certainly the wartime radio built into a book tonight. The recorder is set or to be pc, time shift is the phrase.
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