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Post by RedMoon11 on Dec 13, 2016 19:23:44 GMT
The RemagnetiserWhilst reassembling his childhood toy train set, James has a rather exciting remagnetising tool to show us.  Release date: 9 December 2016 Duration: 2 minutes Video clip: bbc.in/2gz7VFuwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ksrvvGiving life to an old magnet - James May: The Christmas Reassembler - BBC FourPublished on Dec 23, 2016Programme website: bbc.in/2hfxY3l Whilst reassembling his childhood toy train set, James has a rather exciting gift to show us - a magnetiser!
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Post by RedMoon11 on Dec 27, 2016 22:42:18 GMT
James May: The Reassembler - Portable Record Player Ep 4/4 Wednesday 18 January 9.00pm-9.30pm BBC FOUR
Back in the 1950s listening to music meant sitting around with your Mum and Dad and having to listen to whatever drivel they wanted. Thankfully, along came the portable record player - which helped gave birth to the teenager and a magical music revolution.
James May Reassembles the past to hear what it sounded like as he pieces together the 195 parts of the game changing 1963 Dansette Bermuda portable record player. James reminisces about his teenage years and what it was like growing up in the 1970s as he takes us on a journey through sound and mechanical wonderment. James falls in love with the beautiful mechanisms that lie in the belly of the beast, finds the perfect solution to his soldering dilemma and has a rather exciting new screwdriver to show us. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2017/03/james-may-the-reassembler-record-player
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Post by RedMoon11 on Dec 29, 2016 21:12:19 GMT
Christmas: Hornby Train SetJames May: The Reassembler, Series 2 Episode 1 of 4 Much like Santa Claus, James May has spent the year in his workshop getting ready for Christmas, in a festive special in which he reassembles his favourite childhood Christmas present. But this isn't just any Christmas present, this is the one that changed his life and sent him on to a path of mechanical intrigue and reassembly. This is the Hornby Flying Scotsman with realistic chuffing sounds which James ripped open on Christmas Day 1972. Laid out in all its 138 tiny component parts, James lovingly reassembles the train as well as his memories of Christmases and toys past. From the exhilarating re-magnetising of the motor's magnets to some thrilling wheel-quartering amidst a backdrop of James's continued bafflement of electricity, we watch as James rebuilds the entire train set and hopes at the end his Christmas wish will come true and the train will start up and realistically chuff into the night. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086t7c9www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086t7c9/james-may-the-reassembler-series-2-1-christmas-hornby-train-set
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Post by dit on Jan 1, 2017 2:39:20 GMT
Putting this on here as no-one seems to be sending messages anymore.
Happy New Year to all! Have a good one.
/home/linuxlite/Pictures/Interesting pictures/Happy new year fireworks(animation).mp4
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 6, 2017 2:16:16 GMT
Putting this on here as no-one seems to be sending messages anymore. Happy New Year to all! Have a good one. /home/linuxlite/Pictures/Interesting pictures/Happy new year fireworks(animation).mp4 Happy New Year Published on Jan 4, 2017 James May is here again, this time reassembling the Kenwood chef a701a food mixer 
James May: The Reassembler -
Series 2: 2. Food Mixer
 When it comes to cooking James May is not the first name that comes to mind, but when it comes to reassembling cooking appliances, James is your man. James reassembles the 135 parts that make up a 1960s Kenwood Chef a701a Food Mixer. This literal food revolution is responsible for mixing more cake batter than Mary Berry has mixed in her entire lifetime. On James's journey to reassembling the food mixer he comes face to face with some mind-boggling components that will all come together to work in unison in the hope of making a chocolate cake mix. From reassembling the planetary gear system and the AC electric motor James muses on the imperial measurement system and shows off his trendy new magnification head gear as he attempts some dreaded soldering. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b087kbc8/james-may-the-reassembler-series-2-2-food-mixer |
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 11, 2017 7:09:50 GMT
Mini Motorcycle
James May: The Reassembler, Series 2 Episode 3 of 4
Wednesday 11 January 21:00/9:00PM BBC FOUR As James May spends most of his spare time in his workshop tinkering around with old motorbikes, we thought we'd film it. James is faced with reassembling a 1970s Honda Z50A Mini Trail Motorcycle from all its 303 component parts. This exciting and portable mini motorcycle was fun for all the family and got a whole generation of kids hooked on motorcycles for the rest of their lives. This is an object James can't wait to reassemble, but along the way he faces a very real and very hostile battle with some springs, ponders over correct workshop etiquette and contemplates the lifelong debate - what's the difference between a bolt and a screw? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0888hqhPublished on Jan 11, 2017 James May has been banished to the shed again, to slowly rebuild a Honda Z50 Minitrail "Monkey Bike"
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 11, 2017 7:32:57 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 15, 2017 8:12:38 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 15, 2017 8:36:29 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 15, 2017 9:03:03 GMT
The eternal questionJames finds himself trying to answer the eternal question that is: What’s the difference between a bolt and a screw? clip - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04p79p4 Release date: 12 January 2017 Duration: 2 minutes This clip is from James May: The ReassemblerSeries 2, Mini Motorcycle  1970’s beige
Whilst reassembling the Portable Record Player James reminisces about the 1970’s and the limited choices that were available in the 1970’s. clip - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04p79qlDuration: 2 minutes This clip is from James May: The ReassemblerSeries 2, Portable Record Player |
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Post by dit on Jan 15, 2017 17:22:52 GMT
Four years ago I wouldn't have had the faintest idea what James was talking about in this episode, or what he was doing. Now, thanks to having Bloke in my life I know about forks, sprockets and filters. Oh, how my life has changed! (though I've had to draw the line at bike parts in the dishwasher) And thought you might like this......  |
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 18, 2017 8:32:16 GMT
James May fails to get The Christmas Reassembler together
 He knows how boring all this is … James May: The Christmas Reassembler. Photograph: BBC/Plum PicturesChitra Ramaswamy Thursday 29 December 2016 In James May: The Christmas Reassembler (BBC4) there are at least as many elements, but the effect of piecing them together is considerably less entertaining. May rebuilds his own Hornby Flying Scotsman train set, gifted to him in 1972, and shows off his new gripping screwdriver, which he got for a fiver off eBay. The fact that he knows how boring all this is, and repeatedly says so, doesn’t make it fun. It makes it boring. “It’s my job to put it back together,” May quips, before a rare moment of tension when he can’t place his magnetising kit. (Spoiler: he finds it.) “It’s your job to not turn over to BBC2.” Still, electric train sets are cool (note to May, girls like them, too) and I do get an infinitesimal kick out of seeing the firebox light up when May attaches it to the locomotive. I’m not as moved as May, however, whose specs moisten with emotion. This is four hours and twenty minutes in to the project, which leaves me imagining an excruciating future in which this half-hour programme is extended into a real-time seven hour, forty two minute slow TV tool porn extravaganza. Maybe next Christmas. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/29/jonathan-creek-review-suitably-silly-scary-arch-pleased-with-itself
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 18, 2017 8:37:37 GMT
 Portable Record PlayerJames May: The Reassembler, Series 2 Episode 4 of 4
Wednesday 18 January 2016
21:00/9:00PM BBC FOURBack in the 1950s listening to music meant sitting around with your mum and dad and having to listen to whatever drivel they wanted, but thankfully along came the portable record player, which helped gave birth to the teenager and a magical music revolution. James May reassembles the past to hear what it sounded like as he pieces together the 195 parts of the game-changing 1963 Dansette Bermuda portable record player. James reminisces about his teenage years and what it was like growing up in the 1970s as he takes us on a journey through sound and mechanical wonderment. James falls in love with the beautiful mechanisms that lie in the belly of the beast, finds the perfect solution to his soldering dilemma and has a rather exciting new screwdriver to show us. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088syhb |
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Post by RedMoon11 on Jan 20, 2017 10:04:47 GMT
 Published on Jan 19, 2017 HD reupload James is going back to the year of his birth to reassemble the Dansette Bermuda portable(ish) record player |
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Post by RedMoon11 on May 28, 2017 1:47:09 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on May 28, 2017 1:53:31 GMT
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Post by RedMoon11 on Dec 22, 2018 12:51:10 GMT
Re-reassembling Christmas, tonight at 7pm, on @bbcfour
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Post by RedMoon11 on Apr 7, 2020 22:33:17 GMT
45-minute extended cut versions of James May:The Reassembler
James May BUILDS a Lawn Mower Ep 1
James tries to put a 1959 Suffolk Colt petrol lawnmower, which helped make mowing accessible to the masses by producing a smaller and affordable machine, back together.
James May explores the intricacies and engineering marvels of various objects by putting them back together again from a pile of hundreds of their component parts.
Episode 2 Telephone
James tackles a 1957 Bakelite dial telephone - 211 pieces, most of them very small indeed, must be reassembled in the correct order if this phone is ever to ring again.
Episode 3 James May The Reassembler: Electric Guitar
James concludes his quest to truly understand everyday objects by putting them back together piece by piece with an electric guitar.
147 pieces must be reassembled carefully and in the correct order, which will entail soldering, extensive use of James's precision Japanese screwdrivers and some fiddly electronics.
The electric guitar transformed the music industry and society itself and, channelling his namesake Brian, James will plug in his reassembled guitar and hope he put all the bits together correctly as he gets ready to perform one of most unexpected guitar solos of all time.
James May explores the intricacies and engineering marvels of various objects by putting them back together again from a pile of hundreds of their component parts.
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