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Post by Michael on May 13, 2007 8:00:13 GMT
Hopefully the secret as to who may have won is still kept, so tell me.....after the programme is aired at 5.40 C4 today...who SHOULD have won!!!
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Post by will on May 13, 2007 13:37:12 GMT
awesome!! will deffo watch this evening!!
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Post by will on May 13, 2007 17:40:24 GMT
wehey great one len!! was a great episode!
was very quick tom's last run! but it did'nt seen to want to steer much tho?
well done to you both and i thought that the judge was very good too stridey!!
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Post by BOS on May 13, 2007 17:45:03 GMT
Well done everyone! A great show! They didnt say what Toms teams last time was! Well done on the win Len!
BOS
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Post by Longy on May 13, 2007 17:57:47 GMT
Excellent designs from Tom and Len. Now why didn't anyone stick a V8 on a deck? Stridey was succinct and spoka da good English....in all very civilised. I was expecting at least somebody to cop off with the well sexy female presenter and at least somebody catching fire/chopping a finger or an ear off. Well entertaining tho' hard work from all. Tom looked well knackered at the end of the build. Were the teams good to work with?
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Post by Michael Stride on May 13, 2007 18:38:48 GMT
It was great fun,and the times were close, Toms final run was hampered by the conage.....
But, boy, did the teams work hard. They both did extremely well.
behind the scenes dramas were Len replacing the engine completely, and Tom fixing his betweenruns, both strenous tasks.
All in all a right laugh!
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Post by windy on May 13, 2007 19:10:52 GMT
great stuff , tis a shame Tom's team didnt get it going sooner it looked quick when it was running, what was their time? would it have won without the penalties? ?
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Post by boneless on May 14, 2007 7:07:09 GMT
WOW, thanks Len, Tom n Expert Judge Michael!
Top quality TV that just made our day!
(we taped it on good ole fashioned vhs if anyone missed it...)
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Post by TomW on May 14, 2007 7:17:07 GMT
Haahaha! YES! Len's was clearly the better design, but all the same in our final run we only lost by 3 seconds, so if we hadn't clobbered that second cone, we could've had a win. For my team: 1st run - Thing fell apart. 2nd run - Batteries went flat. 3rd run - I pinched the battery of the catering truck, and the thing absolutely flew! Longy - Of course I asked for a V8, but this is scrapheap - so they gave me a 1hp electric motor and a bunch of dead car batteries instead. I asked for a pair of RWD car axles, one with a working diff, so they gave me one 12" floor cleaner with a diff made from monkey-metal. You wouldn't believe the nightmare we had trying to get that motor to run at all. Firstly the motor was not related to the floor cleaner at all - it just hapened to be there tangled up inside the thing, so the ECU we pinched from the cleaner didn't want to work for the motor as it was not matched to the software. So I had to ring the ECU manufacturer and download a new software patch from their website onto a laptop - then wire in a RS232 port onto the ECU PCB and re-map the controller using the software patch. Then order a potentiometer from the RS catalogue to use as a throttle control etc.... etc.... etc... Software, download, on scrapheap??? Wot? Oh, and we had to spend a few minutes finding the other bits and welding the rest of the thing together in between. Then when they were loading the finished build onto the truck to take it to the final shoot, they stacked len's build on top of ours and ended up breaking both our UJ's, meaning that the pivot pins had to be welded solid about 1/2 hour before the run. Oh, and you are not allowed to do any testing whatsoever. ;D To be fair, Len had his own fair share of disasters - the best of which was when somebody connected up his battery back to front and fried the electrics on the scooter (The whole loom melted!). This meant he had to scrap the entire motor and strip down ANOTHER scooter, and fit the new motor on the morning of the shoot... In all it was great fun and well worth doing, as I'm sure both Len and Stridey would agree. Ride hard, stay safe. Tom W. P.S. Its a pity they chose to show all that crappy old black & white 1960's slalom footage though. Some up-to-date UK downhill slalom action would have been much better - they came and filmed us at one of the Hillingdon Wasteland Races, why didn't they use that footage instead?? Shame...
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Post by Joel on May 14, 2007 8:26:03 GMT
Hia
Great stuff, loved it. We had a guest round at the time, but relegated them to boredom in the corner while anna and i were glued to the tellybox.
Congratulations to Len, that was definatly up to your usualy design/welding standards. Also to Tom for a very entertaining design, hilarious seing the team scampering all over the deck.
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Post by Michael Stride on May 14, 2007 15:44:07 GMT
Channel4 chose these pics for theri microsite on Scrapheap; Len..what were you thinking?
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Post by Joel on May 14, 2007 15:52:35 GMT
Oh, by the way Tom, WTF was all that about eggs???!!!
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Post by JasonA on May 18, 2007 14:45:05 GMT
Bugger. I had this on my Outlook calendar well in advance, and then went into hospital Sunday afternoon (emergency, not pre-arranged) and only got out today, so I missed it! Bugger!
So please may I borrow the VHS tape of anyone who recorded it? Dying to see it!
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Post by MichaelStride on May 18, 2007 17:33:44 GMT
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Post by will on May 18, 2007 20:32:20 GMT
Len..what were you thinking?
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Post by Joel on May 19, 2007 9:17:40 GMT
Channel4 chose these pics for theri microsite on Scrapheap; Len..what were you thinking? I dunno, Tom's hand seems to be quite blurred...
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Post by Ian r on Feb 27, 2011 13:40:52 GMT
Just watched this again on More 4 this morning :-)
Great Stuff !
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