Steve Suspects Pranks are afoot as Mysterious Extra Gear Appears | The Repair Shop
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Steve Fletcher suspects someone is playing a prank on him as an extra gear turns up during his latest repair.
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One of the few BBC programs worth the time to watch at the moment!
As much as I love seeing the near miraculous transformations the Repair shop crew manage with the various items brought to them, I love seeing the genuine fondness they all have with one another. even more. Helping each other out is a big part of that but so to is how everyone seems to celebrate the success they each have in the work they do. No wonder this show is so well loved.
Aren't there always a bit of left over pieces when you re-assemble something? The corollary to this is that if you keep disassembling and re-assembling an item, you'll eventually have two of them.
Is that the 'Douglas Adams' multiplication technique?
Awesome degree of mechanical depth of understanding. This is someone with masses of experience and enviable skills. A pleasure to watch it.
If there were far more of these types of programmes on the BBC, the licence fee would be worth it. Sadly, the majority of BBC output falls below this level of content.
It’s a crime against humanity that there are like 15 seasons of The Bachelor/ette, but it’s next to impossible to find complete episodes of The Repair Shop!
Masterful. Such a joy to watch these.
I was an apprentice in the 1960s and the factory had a whole line of these clocks. If anyone was a bit late, the other workers would point out the clock that was running slow.
you take a watch apart, put it back together again and have bits left over, it's standard. that's how gears reproduce, where else would they come from.
Spacely Sprockets, or Cogswell Cogs, that's where they come from. 😁
@@brianbumgardner8704 Those are the artificial cogs and sprockets… you want those home grown ones that sprout out of things you repair. =]
To get a bag of bits and then turn them into a complicated time card machine demonstrates a level of prowess that's admirable.
When you can put something back together and have it work correctly with
fewer parts it just proves your at least smarter then the person who made
it. After 50+ years taking things apart and putting them back together,
if I don't have a few extra parts I feel as though I've failed somehow.
I consider it "improving on a design". 🤗
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My late husband was a mechanic, and putting extra nuts and bolts into the collection of parts was common practice, for the apprentices to figure out what to do with them 😂 Oh dear !!
That was done to me many years ago. I found the best thing to do with the bits leftover was to drop them in his next mug of tea!
I was taught that which separated a true engineer from run-of-the-mill mechanics was to have a functional machine and parts left over at the end of a job. Perhaps that's why I became an artist...
Im not a clock guy but im a vintage guy and it amazes me how we used to care about what we made , pride in workmenship quality in the parts used honour in what you worked for and money well spent . Now no pride only profit , makes me sad that we pushed out quality for polution . Thanks to people like you and me , we will do our best to preserve history and maybe our kids will get it , but i highly dought we can ever have a good quality life anymore , when we except lower standards then we all loose ..
the aspect you overlook in your comment is that if things were all made to the quality you speak of, the vast majority of the population would not be able to afford those items. Making products for the masses requires sacrifice in quality if the masses are to be able to afford it. Profit is profit regardless of quality, all makers of goods are out to be profitable.
@@hyfy-tr2jy how could you say the mass could not affortd it ? We wouldnt be waisting money buying things over and over there for money not waisted money slaved for quality items , also your telling me 80 grand for a pick up truck that breaks down in less then a year is a fair profit margins and quality , im guessing your one of the ones proffiting or you really dont get what im saying , quality items didn't cost an arm and a leg , yes expensive for the time but the % of proffit back then was not rediculous for what you were getting and if things were so expensive nobody would have owned them back then , its sad your ok with how much polution we produce and dump out as consumerism when we need to really work on saving our childrens planet for there futer , i guess you care about our kids just how easy it is to just toss out something and buy new , my kids can deal with the planet dieing , oh its ok you wont be here right . See when you dont teach your kids better then how do they make a differance , i guess you just want to exist not make a differance , too many people think like you and here we are today in a sinking ship ,
@@4486xxdawson When you make items to a quality standard of this nature, which are often hand crafted, it will cost at least 20x more than the mass produced item and potentially 100x or more depending on the item in question. This puts them in a category that either makes them too expensive even if you need the item or, on the other hand, too expensive to be practical for the problem it solves. Mechanical wristwatches are a perfect example
@@4486xxdawson In addition, if the environment is so paramount to your value statement, and making the assumption that you need to spend $80K on a truck for work purposes ($80K for a truck just for personal use is frankly ridiculous) why not go buy $80K worth of draft horses and really stand by your words?
@@4486xxdawson ...and how on earth did you take my simple first response and turn it into how I raised my child and my greater world view??? You my friend have some serious underlying guilt issues you should seek professional help with
The most evil harmless prank, I love it.
I love watching the show. The team are so great and work together so well. I personally would have like the mechanism to be on show as Steve said...I would have asked for a perspex box to be made for it ! But that wouldn't be in keeping. Great Show ! Great Team ! Long may you keep mending / Restoring !!
Reminds me of when i disassembled the wifes dirtbike engine to replace top and bottom end, and a few gears in transmission.
Waited for over a year to reassemble it and that was a challenge for sure. But shes still running like a top to this day!
An extra wheel will always find its place in a future project, what a wonderful clock.
That's a good trick, but a professional always have extra parts after a job.😁😁😁
As a stage hand we sent promising apprentices to get a number of yards of fallopian tubes as a rites of passage.
I couldn't find one that fell. But there were a number of them which were hanged.
What happened if they came back with said yards of fallopian tubes?
I had a room-mate who used the kitchen to tear down engines.
Oil, grease and random bits everywhere.
I broke him of the habit simply: I tossed a handful of mis-matched nuts and bolts into his latest project.
He spent hours trying to figure out why he had parts left over, and why some parts didn't fit!
Steve, I have an old Schoolbred clock - I believe that is the correct spelling - (with what appears to be a long wire rope as part of the mechanism.) I live in Northern France and have tried to have it repaired locally. A complete bodged disaster. Can you recommend anyone in the UK that could/would carry out this work please?
I always watch with great interest your beautiful work on The Repair shop. Any help or advice you could give would be most appreciated. As a long time RUclips video maker of "How to" videos I well understand the help and encouragement that RUclips gives everyone.
Not limited to mechanical engineering apprentices. In my Laboratory the Storesman kept a jar of 'Benzene Rings' (hand made from hexagonal bits of cardboard) for an unsuspecting apprentice...
I always believed that motorcycle motor creators made special crevices in a motor and used a special deteriorating wax to place a random part within.
As the wax dissolved a rattle would begin, necessitating a trip to the repair shop. (Who would re wax the part into the motor).
And as a deterrent to those silly enough to repair the motor themselves, this would also result in the "Extra screw" or similar item found to be remaining on the re-assembly of said motor.
Another ploy was to use the most benign looking part to hold something in place in the deepest part of the motor only to re-appear just as assembly finishes, sparking the realization that a complete strip-down was again required.
There was a single ball placed between 2 rods in the center of Yamaha's IT200 that frequently hid itself right to the last minute on a rebuild whereupon it would make itself known with a confirming non operation of the clutch, followed by an inanimate object (usually a hammer) becoming animate, usually in the form of flight across a garage, into something least suited as an animate object reciprocal...
You could not keep that a secret for long. On the other hand there are always some parts that have a shorter than necessary life span. For example, a BMW can drive on German motorways at 240 kmp/h. The brakes and the brake pads are designed for this speed. They use carbon fibres and ceramic fibres and other special materials and the brake disks are of expensive steel. However, when the model gets sold and adapted to the US there is a speed limit and the brake pads literally would not wear out for almost the whole life span of the car if you drive the car reasonably. And if they needed replacement one day they would be maybe four or five times the price of another manufacturer. Consumers in Germany would understand that the high-performance bakes are expensive and pay for it. The consumer in the US would not. So the car gets a different brake and standard brake pads that wear down as fast as the brakes of any other car.
@@adamabele785 Perhaps you missed good ol Kiwi humor...
BTW Ceramic brake pads aren't actually ceramic although may contain some...
'Good' brake manufacturers don't use Ceramic fibers they are a carcinogen and can be more dangerous than asbestos
Amazing
As far as my dad was concerned if you mend something and don't have a bit left over you have not repaired it right.
A man after my own heart , your dad 👍
I was taught that any mechanic could take something apart and re-assemble it, but a true engineer would have a fully functional machine with parts left over.
Yay!
these best spring clock ever made
The IKEA rebuild. Its either missing parts or got too many. Well spotted, Steve.
LOL.. It's like what they call Easter Eggs in Computer Software. The people working on the project get bored and add in some extra "features", in terms of software usually a joke or a small nonsense game to play, accessed by pressing certain key combinations.
The repair team are very good.....but there's one task that is completely, utterly irrevocably, totally beyond them. No amount of skill, expertise and major tooling will help...it would be easier for them to build another Hadron Collider than to........than to.........remove Jay Blades permanently immovable, cemented-on hat.
My grandfather was a diesel mechanic. He could listen to the noises your car was making and tell you what part would be bad within the next week or so. His philosophy was that if you have parts left over and the car still runs, then the parts weren't really needed in the first place.
I love your art of work 🧡
Subcribe again, sir, greetings from lovers of antique clocks from Indonesia
How can I get all the seasons in the US?
good question, I would like to know too.
Me too! Prime video has season three only! Figure that one out!
Ps Netflix.
@@geebeeman1 Netflix only has 3 seasons and I have blown through those rather quickly😂 I believe there are 7 total.
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Can you make your content accessible by formatting the auto caption into closed captioning please? it is very hard to enjoy your content relying on the dreaded auto caption.
I have an International Time recorder in working order.. I think it's the PONY model...
An extra gear in a wrong place, might lead to bankruptcy of the State.
Shame to covet it - solution install led light inside + camera = and send signal to LCD Screen next to clock ;)
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I bought some gear last week that souldnt exist .it was the bomb I was fukd dup🤪
Why not buy new ones, instead of repairing old clocks.
Heathen!
This is history, art, and mechanics combined.
An old clock that runs is a status symbol of a kind ,a family heirloom, sometimes.
A gravity clock has a music of it's own that differs with maker, method and material.
New clocks don't have any individuality.