Edd China's Garage Revival

He is a good mechanic, well that is presuming he does not get the pro’s in off camera but he does come across very wet sometimes. Mind you the other one, the one that buys the motors in the program that slips my my mind come’s across as a red coat from buttlins. My biggest gripe with that program was he bought a car, ed did it up and then sell it for a few hundred quid profit discounting the fact the couple of weeks work ed puts in they must of lost £2000 + on each car 🙂 None the less I’ll be taking a look 🙂

I think both Edd and Mike are honest about what they do, but Edd comes across sometimes as so enthusiastic, he sounds a bit naive. Having watched all his old stuff more than once, I will be looking at his new venture. As an ex-workshop foreman of a business that worked on lots of Classics, I enjoy the mechanical work side of the shows very much and can appreciate that Edd is a very good mechanic/technician, with a wide knowledge and experience. I often found myself thinking “You will probably do THIS next, Edd“. It was gratifying when he did, because, like Edd, I was the kind of mech who would think on my feet to solve a problem, by any means available.

I knew he would be back in one way or another.

Bob,  the older cars were, or appeared to be, easier to work on with minimal tools, though of course that should not have been something to affect your operation. I saw his latest show, thanks PM, but while he got there and clearly helped the project to arrive I felt that the editing glossed over and left a little to be desired with several of the interesting bits left out. Not his fault and his hallmark side talks on why and how to do things was still there. I always thought he was as keen to impart knowledge on how to get things done as he was to do the job. The was the best part for me, though my doing much days are somewhat passed now. I did spend time this morning trying to restore the plastic headlight covers, a thankless task I found. I am not sure if they are as good as they could or should be but time and my energy ran out so I wrapped things up and headed out again. I don’t thing I could pull an engine out in just over an hour without a hoist or pit and single handed any more!

Richard, to polish plasic lenses you need the stuff that we in the AAC and RAF used on canopies and helicopter windscreens. Goddard’s plastic polish:

http://tinyurl.com/y7zwzaom

The worst two a/c to polish were the Sioux:

And the Alouette:

Just think about going over all those ‘bubbles’ with several soft cloths and a bottle of polish. It took hours and wore fingers down. None of us wanted that job, so they put it on a Rota. I workedout when my turn was due and managed to put in for a handy Course. Eventually I had to take a turn or two. Don’t know how you can source this stuff in Civvy Street, but it would be useful to know some serving RAF/AAC technicians!