how many guys watch T.V. shows like ,
forged in fire,
overhauling
Wheeler Dealers ,
fast and loud,
counting cars, etc
and cringe when they see some guy or gal,who obviously is ,
lets just say, far less skilled, or obviously clueless,
with a welder or at welding,or a code scanner,
or completely incompetent in the way he , or she, measures ,
or installs , or disassembles, or cleans some part,
or checks a component function.
some how you just know just off screen theres a director saying
"hold this near here, on the car, and smile"
and, you can,t doubt, its the very first time the actor has ever seen the tool..
guys that can,t even correctly hold a tool,
or are about to try to weld on a filthy grease covered rusted frame,
weld on a fuel tank,etc.
and do you....ever start screaming at the T.V. ...
about, "your a F#$%^ IDIOT!" , why would he do that?
my wife has threaten to turn off the T.V. at times
she asked me why I get upset?
you know as well as I do they must have actual skilled people doing the work,
off camera,and what takes two minutes on the show took some skilled guys 6-9 hour's to do it,
or those cars would never get completed or run...
it makes my wife a bit crazy,
when I stop the t.v. show, back it up,
and point out the ways the guy is simply clueless....
and those actors should never be allowed near any technical , or precision,damn tool,
more complicated than a yard stick or rubber mallet!
let alone a welder, plasma cutter or drill press, or micrometer!
and its all too obvious that precisely using a torque wrench,
soldering, gun, doing wiring, using a multi meter and a vacuum gauge
or a timing light is far above the pay grade.
now I have an extensive back ground in engineering,
Ive never been what anyone would consider an expert welder,
but after 45-50 years of running several types of mig,
TIG, ARC, and oxy-acetylene torch welders
and owning a full size mill, is it as obvious too you guys,
that some of the actors don,t have a clue what they are pretending to do,
and have zero idea how some component is installed or supposed to function?
I'm watching forged in fire, and several muscle car rebuilding shows,
and the total incompetence , and lack of skills, at times is really amazingly depressing!
once ED CHINIA left wheeler dealers the show started to suck,
and theres several other shows that skip over or ignore the mechanical skills,
and gloss over the upholstery, wiring, trouble shooting, body work, welding painting ETC.
TO me the whole reason to watch the show is to pick up tips, and to see expert skilled people work...
I'm obviously not grasping what the people paying for the show have in mind!
am I the only one who thinks most of these show's ignore the basics and try not to teach or instruct?
WE all make mistakes, but we learn from the mistakes!
if you watch many of these shows its obvious that hours or even days of work are skipped,
or ignored, glossed over or made to seem totally inconsequential...
if something took two days to complete it should have 5-6 minutes,
spent detailing what was required, in tools skills and parts, to get the work done!
forged in fire,
overhauling
Wheeler Dealers ,
fast and loud,
counting cars, etc
and cringe when they see some guy or gal,who obviously is ,
lets just say, far less skilled, or obviously clueless,
with a welder or at welding,or a code scanner,
or completely incompetent in the way he , or she, measures ,
or installs , or disassembles, or cleans some part,
or checks a component function.
some how you just know just off screen theres a director saying
"hold this near here, on the car, and smile"
and, you can,t doubt, its the very first time the actor has ever seen the tool..
guys that can,t even correctly hold a tool,
or are about to try to weld on a filthy grease covered rusted frame,
weld on a fuel tank,etc.
and do you....ever start screaming at the T.V. ...
about, "your a F#$%^ IDIOT!" , why would he do that?
my wife has threaten to turn off the T.V. at times
she asked me why I get upset?
you know as well as I do they must have actual skilled people doing the work,
off camera,and what takes two minutes on the show took some skilled guys 6-9 hour's to do it,
or those cars would never get completed or run...
it makes my wife a bit crazy,
when I stop the t.v. show, back it up,
and point out the ways the guy is simply clueless....
and those actors should never be allowed near any technical , or precision,damn tool,
more complicated than a yard stick or rubber mallet!
let alone a welder, plasma cutter or drill press, or micrometer!
and its all too obvious that precisely using a torque wrench,
soldering, gun, doing wiring, using a multi meter and a vacuum gauge
or a timing light is far above the pay grade.
now I have an extensive back ground in engineering,
Ive never been what anyone would consider an expert welder,
but after 45-50 years of running several types of mig,
TIG, ARC, and oxy-acetylene torch welders
and owning a full size mill, is it as obvious too you guys,
that some of the actors don,t have a clue what they are pretending to do,
and have zero idea how some component is installed or supposed to function?
I'm watching forged in fire, and several muscle car rebuilding shows,
and the total incompetence , and lack of skills, at times is really amazingly depressing!
once ED CHINIA left wheeler dealers the show started to suck,
and theres several other shows that skip over or ignore the mechanical skills,
and gloss over the upholstery, wiring, trouble shooting, body work, welding painting ETC.
TO me the whole reason to watch the show is to pick up tips, and to see expert skilled people work...
I'm obviously not grasping what the people paying for the show have in mind!
am I the only one who thinks most of these show's ignore the basics and try not to teach or instruct?
WE all make mistakes, but we learn from the mistakes!
if you watch many of these shows its obvious that hours or even days of work are skipped,
or ignored, glossed over or made to seem totally inconsequential...
if something took two days to complete it should have 5-6 minutes,
spent detailing what was required, in tools skills and parts, to get the work done!
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