pippindoo Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) Absolutely . Flying Scotsman trainsets only ever came with "system 6 " track. I suppose he could have got the set and run it on existing track he may have had.Ahem! If I (James) may.... I spent 18 years working for Beatties Leeds branch, and as a large retailer of model railways, we often got ex catalogue or export sets to clear out and I remember the Flying Scotsman sets well. They did indeed contain Super 4 track and some, though very few, even had the teak effect clerestory coaches inserted into the box tray instead of the Thompson coaches! Another gem was the Salmon bogie bolster wagon which had 2 R600 straights held on with rubber bands and was cheaper than 1 single R600 section of track! Many locos we returned when the 'chuff' failed and the Dads were gobsmacked that it only needed the sandpaper arm bending in a bit.Happy Days indeed, and great to remenice. Somewhere on the site is a post I started about Beatties which generated some fine reading! Edited January 5, 2017 by pippindoo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Phil Parker Posted January 6, 2017 Administrators Share Posted January 6, 2017 And yes, assembly by one person will take longer than a production line as each person in the production line will specialise in a particular part of the assembly and will do it o many times that in the end they could probably do it in their sleep! The production line operative doesn't have half a dozen people hanging around demanding they say something interesting to camera either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philsandy Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Watched last nights program, the Dansette record player, and enjoyed it just as much as the Hornby Flying Scotsman re assemble. It was very funny in parts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2017 Watched last nights program, the Dansette record player, and enjoyed it just as much as the Hornby Flying Scotsman re assemble. It was very funny in parts. I watched it while casting some moulds, I played spot the record title/lyric. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 An amazing extra to the Dansette was not mentioned at the end of the excellent program, the auto mechanism to turn the pickup from the 78 RPM Sapphire pick up side to the correct 45RPM diamond pickup side, whilst still playing the record,........ did this occur automatically, and if so where is the sensor to tell the mechanism the wrong type of stylus had been set? We should be told before the scandal of Stylus Gate gets out of hand and the BBC are accused of faking the playing of 45rpm records....... Or could it be Mr May put the pickup on the wrong setting, and stopped shooting to flip it over? Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 19, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) An amazing extra to the Dansette was not mentioned at the end of the excellent program, the auto mechanism to turn the pickup from the 78 RPM Sapphire pick up side to the correct 45RPM diamond pickup side, whilst still playing the record,........ did this occur automatically, and if so where is the sensor to tell the mechanism the wrong type of stylus had been set? We should be told before the scandal of Stylus Gate gets out of hand and the BBC are accused of faking the playing of 45rpm records....... Or could it be Mr May put the pickup on the wrong setting, and stopped shooting to flip it over? Stephen He could of course have done what I did and put a LP/45 stylus on both sides of the turnover cartridge. TC8 IIRC on my Dansette. (Just in case one got damaged!) Then spotted it showed 78 which would confuse the viewer. BTW you could get sapphire or diamond for both speeds, The diamond lasted a lot longer but cost more. Keith Edited January 19, 2017 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I watched the Dansette episode and I've seen a couple of others including the Hornby loco one. I enjoyed his presentation and the insights into the history and significance of the devices he's reassembling but I was constantly frustrated by so rarely being able to actually see what he was doing or the particular bit of the thing he was talking about. It's not a tutorial and I'm not expecting to know how to do it but, when he's talking about something he's holding or working on I really really want to see it. It's obvious (because you could often see it in the long shot) that the director had one camera, I think on a Steadicam mount, covering close ups of his face as well as his hands and another as the master shot, plus I think a fixed camera giving a very wide shot but for something like this you really need a camera dedicated to the actions. It can be shot on two operated cameras, though three would be better if you want to focus on the personality as well as what he's doing. I accept that for this show there was limited opportunity for later pick-up shots but it was heavily edited so there should have been far more material available to the editor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Repeated again this evening at 7 on BBC Four. Or in about eight minutes. But should be on the iPlayer for a while. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Just spent a pleasant half-hour watching Mr May reassembling his trainset again on BBC Four! (Sometimes repeats ARE worthwhile!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 I think it's now become a Christmas staple on BBC Four. They also had The Joy Of Train Sets on last week. So both should be on the iPlayer if you haven't got a copy already. Christmas TV in 1980 included The Great Railway Cavalcade: Rocket 150 at Rainhill https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e97babaf4d9c4f108d2e5523b0e0b661 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p011vfz4/the-great-railway-cavalcade-rocket-150-at-rainhill Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 I watched it last night and, though I generally enjoyed it, once again found it incredibly frustrating that he'd be talking about or doing something with some small component and there wouldn't be a close up of it so you often couldn't see what he was talking about. To shoot this sort of thing adequately you need one camera showing the subject and what they're doing and another focussing in detail on what they're doing, it's very basic technique for any kind of demonstration whether it's cookery, gardening or something like this. What you don't want is a close up of the demonstrator's face while they're trying to show you omething. 9/10 for James May but 3/10 for the director. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pteremy Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Did not see this originally, so a happy watcher of repeat. Personally not concerned that it did not get into 'YouTube' like detail - that cannot have been the purpose. Thanks also to Jason for reminder of 'Sets' which I had seen, but was happy to watch again. And could watch again, so add to the annual Christmas watch list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Pteremy said: Did not see this originally, so a happy watcher of repeat. Personally not concerned that it did not get into 'YouTube' like detail - that cannot have been the purpose. I agree that it didn't need the sort of detail required for a how-to demonstration, but when he was describing what he was doing in some detail I really wanted to see that and often couldn't. The golden rule is to show the viewer what they'd be looking at if they were in the room. Edited December 26, 2019 by Pacific231G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul80 Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) On his Drive Tribe YouTube channel he is currently doing a repair of an old Hornby Castle, got to the end of part 2 and it's not running yet, awaiting upload of part 3 so its a new video set, anyone else seen it ? Paul Edited December 26, 2019 by Paul80 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
don Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 The reassembler series are very enjoyable,well done Mr May. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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