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New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« on: February 25, 2021, 06:44:08 pm »
Many UK people here will know and love Tim's "Secret Life of Machines" series.
He's just announced something new, coming very soon!

https://youtu.be/6JAgXz6xO0s
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2021, 06:51:37 pm »
That's fantastic. I remember his original TV series and binged-watched them recently. Glad to know this will be on YT.

Anyone who has never seen the originals, check them out!
 

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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2021, 08:28:32 pm »
Exxxxxcellent.  Really enjoyed his series on PBS years ago.
 

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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2021, 08:39:13 pm »
Really looking forward to this. I must watch SLoM with my boys - see if they like it as much as I did.
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2021, 08:59:58 pm »
I love that show, I can't remember when I 1st saw it on youtube, but it was only a few years ago. I wished there was a lot more.
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2021, 09:17:20 pm »
Wow, flashbacks... I remember sending off for the news-paper-like-format of his hand drawn diagrams.  And I still ahve a casio watch with a polarizer removed so it can only be read with sunglasses.

The man is a national treasure.  I'll be honest, since Rex Garrod passed, I had kind of forgotten about him
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2021, 09:23:52 pm »
Many UK people here will know and love Tim's "Secret Life of Machines" series.
He's just announced something new, coming very soon!

https://youtu.be/6JAgXz6xO0s

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it here before but it'll stand a repeat, the original series and more are all linked from his website.

https://www.timhunkin.com/control/n_tv_index.htm
 
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2021, 10:18:42 pm »
Weee this is going to be a great year!

I remember fondly seeing the videos about how a sewing machine works some time ago.
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2021, 12:18:55 am »
That's fantastic. I remember his original TV series and binged-watched them recently. Glad to know this will be on YT.

Anyone who has never seen the originals, check them out!

Original TV Series? Ha! I remember the original, his cartoon series in the Observer back in the 1970s. Mandatory reading back then as far as I was concerned.
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« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2021, 07:42:29 pm »
And the first episode is up:

Anybody got a syringe I can use to squeeze the magic smoke back into this?
 
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2021, 07:47:33 pm »
The original series has also been remastered with added recent commentary. All episodes linked here: https://www.timhunkin.com/41_slom1.htm
 
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2021, 01:20:32 am »
Just watched the first installment.  I now know more about chains and toothed belts than I ever did before.  I'll probably never need to know any of it but it was a wonderful experience learning it.  Marvellous stuff.
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2021, 05:29:27 pm »
I skipped through the 'Chain video' myself and it is interesting for people wanting to build something. These kind of videos make Youtube a treasure trove of information about all kinds of engineering and craftmanship.

A big 'thank you' to Mike for starting this thread  :-+
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2021, 10:28:51 pm »
I'll have to watch it tomorrow, when I have the time, as it's getting late now.

I remember the original programme very well, even though I was a child at the time. It was fascinating. They should have made more.
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2021, 01:36:53 pm »
Quote from: tim hunkin on YouTube
The LED episode premiers on Thursday march11th. Also premiering on Saturday March 13th the new remastered versions of The original Secret life of Machines, series 1

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2021, 02:56:16 pm »
This is very exciting!

I was given a copy of his book "The Rudiments of Wisdom" when I was a kid and must have read it 1000 times cover to cover. I built several contraptions from it.

I remember watching the Secret Life of Machines on engines in a science lesson at school, aged 12, and went straight home and built a petrol and sparkplug powered scaffold tube  potato artillery gun :D

 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2021, 05:19:40 pm »
Quote from: tim hunkin on YouTube
The LED episode premiers on Thursday march11th. Also premiering on Saturday March 13th the new remastered versions of The original Secret life of Machines, series 1

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The remasters are already available : https://www.timhunkin.com/41_slom1.htm
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2021, 06:38:52 pm »
Those remaster are linked from timhunkin.com but are unlisted on YouTube. I think maybe I stumbled over them before the official launch.
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2021, 08:08:39 pm »
I've been a fan of The Secret Life of Machines since I first saw it as a kid on Discovery.  It's nice to finally have a decent quality copy of it.  The previous files (including the ones on Archive.org, and Tim's own site) were low resolution, over compressed, and worst of all, the 25 fps video had been encoded at 30 fps, resulting in jerky motion. 
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2021, 10:18:28 am »
Second episode is now up: LEDs -



Fantastic as always from Tim.
 

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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2021, 10:26:49 am »
Here's the page that links to all of the remastered episodes (which, until today, I wasn't aware existed):

https://www.timhunkin.com/a243_Secret-Life-of-Machines-intro.htm

Truly wonderful stuff.
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2022, 09:11:11 am »
Tim is back with a second series.




 
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Re: New Tim Hunkin "Secret Life" Series incoming!!!
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2022, 09:30:03 pm »
Tim is one of our wonderfully eccentric, unpretentious English fellows. He is a marvel, and I love his style, and have since I watched him and Rex on Channel 4 UK, first broadcast back in the 90s.
 


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