The Repair Shop is getting to me...

Money for nothing ,this programe lets people believe this is possible.Have you tried to get scrap from your tip.I got a block of steel 6'*6'*6" from the tip but had to pay the operator 10 pounds to sneak it into my boot without the foreman noticing.The presenters time at the tip is not considered in the costing or the travel involved,so don't kid us it's money for nothing.

Yes I watch jerryrigeverything now and then. Now that is a story of love & determination. regards

One problelm I have with the repair shop is the keepingof "trade secrets" particuarly regarding materials. Maybe they are worried about advertiing but it would be nice to know at least what type of product they are using for specific jobs.

As has been said it's entertainment. I've had direct knowledge of a some TV productions and unfortunatly the director and producers think the average viewer is not interested in, or unable to understand, the "technical bits" so concentrate on shots of things being hit with hammers etc. I was actually in one show that had been pitched as promoting engineering.During filming they took a lot of footage of detail work, technical explanations etc. In the end 99% of this was left on the cutting room floor and the final product had the celebrity host (who hardly appeared during the week of filming) getting most of it wrong. TV production is also a time machine, things can be shown out of sequence, compressed or expanded. The show I refer to was a "3 day challenge" that actually took a whole week. The final competion had one team heavily handicapped and another significantly aided so the producers got the close result they wanted. Thankfully that show only lasted one series.

Robert G8RPI.

I am unlike to watch The Repair Shop. I prefer to watch the farming programmes about which I know nothing!

I did watch James May's The Reassembler a few years ago and there were some good useful bits. He used an old GPO tool to hold screws when assembling a 1950s telephone. I went away and bought one from RS. If you are going to make small models a slotted screw starter is a very useful tool. I only knew of its existance from watching the programmes. Thanks James.

JA

Edited By JA on 10/01/2021 12:08:41

Some nice acerbic comments here.

I always wonder, how, if its so important, did it get in such a state anyhow? Sometimes there is an accident, or the materials decay naturally, in other situations it just sat in a damp loft without any oil.

And I thought it was just me who was grumpy about this load off rubbish. I have had to resort to the switch, could stand no more of it, should have been a nicer experiance.

There would be even more blubbing if there were bills presented on collection, say x hours at say £40 -50 an hour = 850 notes sir, lol. ......."no way, wish I had left it neglected now"

So the "experts" are paid by the program makers, I would like to see the paperwork ?

Here is this TV, the last link with my old Dad - It has a hole in the screen.

Why?

I threw a brick at it while watching the Repair Shop. Can you fix it?

The experts did the same with Guy Martin when he started on TV

And apparently Edd China in Wheeler Dealers felt the show was becoming less technical too

It's only real enthusiasts who can see enough of a difference between the same job on different cars to keep watching

As I have government approved credentials for being an expert on Wheeler Dealers(), I contend that they had actually run out of worthwhile subjects

Programs that turn me off .. Salvage Hunters comes to mind as an example of buying rubbish and selling rubbish at ridiculously inflated prices !

My painting foreman's claim to fame was that he was painting a house when Barry Bucknell ( remember him?) turned up with a team, to do some filming. During the shoot he saw my painter applying mastic round a frame & asked what it was & its purpose. He then asked to have a go. Needless to say he could not do a good job. So my painter did a section, then they filmed Barry with the mastic gun, making it look as though he had done it. He also explained all about it & how to do it, from the info my painter had given him

As for programs that turn me off are some, but not all, Australian fishing shows.

Most are just thinly veiled advertorials for the sponsor's products ranging from boats, sounders, rods, reels and lures they are often hosted by muppets who just want to show off their sunglasses and underwater cameras.

I wince evey time that I see a right handed bloke cast a rod with his right hand and the switch it to to their left (less dominant) hand to wind the handl. with their right hand.

Even worse are the ones who cast a fly rod, fight the fish with the fly rod in their right hand whilst stripping line with their left hand and the wind the fly line in with their right hand.

At one alpine lake that I like to fish, even the use of a mobile phone would get one the cold shoulder'
We go there to get away from all that crapola!

Totally inefficient and a poor way to promote the finesse of the noble art of angling.

Izaak Walton must be rolling in his grave.

Rant over, now back to the OP's topic.

* danny *

Edited By Danny M2Z on 11/01/2021 09:16:19

Hi, well I don't think the BBC is forcing anyone to watch this programme, and as far as I'm concerned, it's better than watching 22 blokes kicking a ball of wind about, especially as the same one seems to get repeated a few times on a weekend, and much better than the Guy Martin programmes in my opinion. There's always the off switch or pulling the plug.

Regards Nick.

Indeed. That's what's begun to happen. I used to watch it quite often, but now I only do if I know something that might interest me is coming up, and only then in the faint hope that I might get a clue as to how to do something I can't do at present. I'm not sure if that's happened yet, but one lives in hope...

When watching various auction,antique,vintage and restoration,various experts give their opinions,sounds ok until an item /subject comes comes up which i have some some knowledge then I know this expert is clueless so I wonder is he/she any good on the subjects which I know little or nothing about.Then you get the age estimations, just count up the numer of times that objects are supposedly late victorian 1890,I once went to one programme expert who also runs an auction house,went to one of his auctions,very rude when asked a sensible question and the auction rooms were a sh-t hole.Drew Pritchard is watchable as he goes to some interesting places,and makes a living seling a lot of rubbish to idiots,who are about,my local barbers has the rough bench in front of the chairs held up by three short rusty Acro props ,bet the barber got conned for a lot of money for the industrial effect.Though you cannot make money with two people driving a transit hundreds of mile to buy 3 items with a low profit margin, though i have learnt one useful thing,the chap who repairs the lamps uses a tool like an end on pair of grips to remove bulb hold holder locking rings up inside lamp shades,I thought I have one of those in one of my drawers,given to me years ago by a friend who did not know what it was,tried it on a bulb holder and makes removing those rings which always jam up very easy.

Bricky,

Are you sure?

3.7 tonnes into your boot? Let alone in one piece! Sell it for scrap and make a HUGE profit!

Even if you got your feet and inches swapped around, that is still over 300kg!

6" square block mild steel. Approx 58lb /26Kg not 300Kg. regards

The "repairers" are really "conservators", it is possible to go to West Dean College (not far from the Repair Shop Barn on the same estate) to learn the skills displayed in the programme.

The programme is a popular interest TV item, not an instructional course for experts, many of whom apparently exist on this Forum.

As said above, you do not have to watch it.

No, but we're entitled to comment on it if we don't like its overplay of emotion and underplay of technical detail.