Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 32

Hi all, here's the latest Visor sighting. On the TV show "Junkyard Wars" playing on TLC, a guy from an American team had a BVDx. Anyone else see this episode? It was the one where they built a mini sub...Geo had a BVDx.

__________________
seanseanadams
your friend and mine

Registered: Aug 2000
Location:
Posts: 7

Watched the Show Last Night

Yep, seen the show last night. Love the show. Thought it was cool seeing the Visor.

Registered: Aug 2000
Location:
Posts: 8

They showed an up close of it two or three times.

Did anyone see the episode where they built a walking car?
I love that show...

Registered: Aug 2000
Location:
Posts: 63

That is one of the best shows on TV. But I gotta say, I realy thought the American team, the Nerds(very appropriately named), seemed more interested in doing the math than actually building crap, they were a poorly organized team. Did you see the part where one of the guys is looking in some book and asking the other teammate how to convert moles. Just build the damn machine. And there machine really wasn't that innovative or well built. My favorite episode last night was the rerun of the the demolition machine, even though the Chaos crew team lost, they built one of the coolest machines, it was a huge undertaking to try and build a hydralic arm with a jaw to basically munch down brick walls. That took serious work and some guts to build that machine in 10 hours. I never thought they would make it. And even though they lost I think they should get an invite back next season.

-Visorholic

Registered: Nov 2000
Location:
Posts: 61

I need TiVo!!!!!!!!

Ok.. This tell me i need go get my CC card out and Order Tivo!

Registered: Sep 2000
Location:
Posts: 39

what a great show. the walking car one and the cannon one are my two personal favorites.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location:
Posts: 30

junkyard wars

Saw the visor on the show the other night. I think junkyard wars is a really excellent show too... EXCEPT for the episode they where they built Radio Controlled bombers. I'm sorry, but no one is going to dump a bunch of radio controlled cars in a junkyard. Furthermore, there's no way they'd still work if left out in the rain for more than a few days (this does take place in ENGLAND, right?)
BTW, those cars weren't toys-r-us models, they were hobby show grade cars. I think i saw a clod buster in there, which costs $300 or more.

Did you see the scene where one of the blimp guys randomly pops the trunk of a wrecked car, and finds a full roll of mylar, just sitting in there. GIve me a break.


All gripeing aside, I do like the show, but they should stick to the big projects which use stuff you can find in a junkyard.

Registered: Dec 2000
Location:
Posts: 3

Hey...I'm from the Uk and I always get my mylar at junkyards...

It's cheaper that way!! <g>

Andrew

__________________


"not if you were the last junkie on earth"

Registered: Oct 2000
Location:
Posts: 34

The question of whether or not the scrapyard in Scrapyard Heap (Junkyard Wars in the US)is 'seeded' is confirmed true by the producters of the show. And while that may seem like cheating, there are very good reasons for it:

1) Contestants must be able to reasonbly find the materials to build the projects. They do not necessarily need to either use them or even know of their existance. They may not know about the materials seeded and go a completely different route than expected.

2) Contestants must be expected to complete the project in one day. They may find hydraulics in a junkyard, but *working* ones are faster to put into action than those that need new seals, a shaft replaced, etc.

3) Safety. There's no way that the producers are going to allow pressurized devices without making sure that they are intact and operational. In cases of steel pressure tanks, they are certified and registered. One show coming up deals with steam power. Boilers were provided in the yard and had to be safety inspected beforehand. Producers keep books with the licenses and certifications of all the critical components in the yard that have been placed there.
Propellers are high speed and dangerous devices. You do not want a blade to fly off at speed in an already shaky apparatus. You need to ensure only propellers in good condition are in place. Those that are needing repair or damaged may not be recognized as such by those contestants who don't know what to look for. Better to use good materials in the first place.

4) Contestants do not know what they are building until they are brought together and given the starting time. They are given 'experts' to help and guide them, but not make the decisions.

5) Education. The entire point of the show is about education. You may be watching teams building machines to tear down walls, but cleverly hidden in those contests are explantions and applied use of hydraulic principles, leverage, gravity, building techniques, etc. Physics in the real world using materials you can concievably find around you. It's one thing to see a demonstration of a principle using highly polished aluminum stands, glass beakers, shiny components and expensive materials, but quite another using 55 gallon oil drums, fan motors out of a Ford, and some angle iron welded up into a jigsaw puzzle.


Oh, and to see a Visor on the show was a real hoot! I wish I could have seen what application they were using. The show did put on quite about about how the "crazy americans" were really using their traveling computer systems to help them in the challenge. Heh. Nobody had a Stowaway though or a Minstrel modem. Hmm... I wonder if using a Minstrel would be cheating since you could have access to the entire Internet for reference materials?

__________________
Green Vdx
The Mountain Dew of PDA's.

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Oregon
Posts: 115

I saw the one where they had to demo the brick walls. I didn't think either team would be able to get through that last wall, It was a blast wall! But they did it.
I think the team that used the hydralics would have won for sure if it hadn't broken down twice.

__________________
Rose's are Red
My Visor is Blue...