02-08-2023, 04:16 PM
(02-08-2023, 02:56 PM)Refugee Wrote: It is pointless to spend a shed load of money on anything vintage only to gut it and fit modern parts.
It is much easier to buy a cheap bit of furniture and fit the modern bits in that.
This is true, but this programme has to appeal to a wide audience, many of whom will have little knowledge of the technical side of repairs. It's always a trade-off with these sorts of programmes if they are going to survive.
The blame here is on the production team. The barn where the jukeboxes were stored I think was in Chesterfield a long way away from the "top banana" repairer.
The guy choosing the jukebox I would suggest would have known naff-all about them.
So the deal had been done, the film was in the can and they had to do something with it, when the repairer told them it was too far gone.
The chrome had had it, so they had it sandblasted and painted!
I guess they didn't want to write it all off. So did what they could with it. They would have been more than a thousand pounds into it, so it ended up as a cheap conversion.
By comparison, the cat would have cost hardly anything to repair and was more interesting...just.
I think they must be struggling to find interesting repairs, when they included a windscreen wiper this week.
