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Title: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: F96T12 DD VHO on January 03, 2018, 08:27:04 AM
I tried to watch every episode but I failed
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: Mandolin Girl on January 03, 2018, 08:36:50 AM
We loved watching them, one of the best bits were the very corny segues by Tony Hirst, most groan worthy.  ::)
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: MissRiaElaine on January 03, 2018, 09:11:25 AM

We loved watching them, one of the best bits were the very corny segues by Tony Hirst, most groan worthy.  ::)

Absolutely, we firmly believe he was responsible for inciting everyone else with a microphone to do the same  ::)

We did love the programmes though, did they ever do one about making SOX lamps, I wonder..?  :a_sox:
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: HomeBrewLamps on January 03, 2018, 03:59:26 PM
No, I don't believe so, However they did do one on mercury lamps I believe...
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: MissRiaElaine on March 08, 2018, 08:23:06 PM
No, I don't believe so, However they did do one on mercury lamps I believe...
Now that I'd like to see, does anyone know if it's on Youtube or somewhere..? The search facility on that is abysmal and always returns hundreds of results that are [censored] all to do with what I asked for  >:(
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: Beta 5 on March 09, 2018, 12:59:08 PM
Now that I'd like to see...

I would as well.
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: HomeBrewLamps on March 09, 2018, 11:24:00 PM
I would as well.

I don't know where to find it... I say that episode a long long time ago, I believe they refereed to them as HID bulbs, and did not specify what kind they were but recalling from memory they appeared to have the structure of a Mercury lamp... I believe they even coated them...
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: xmaslightguy on March 09, 2018, 11:46:06 PM
Never even knew about it til one time seeing a link to a YouTube vid for one ep.

Was it something that was actually on broadcast TV, or was it cable-only (if the latter that would explain my not knowing about it...)
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: MissRiaElaine on March 10, 2018, 01:31:35 PM
Never even knew about it til one time seeing a link to a YouTube vid for one ep.

Was it something that was actually on broadcast TV, or was it cable-only (if the latter that would explain my not knowing about it...)

How It's Made would have been broadcast on terrestrial TV, it certainly was here.
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: joseph_125 on April 16, 2018, 01:56:57 AM
I used to watch it around 10 years ago. It was on Discovery here which was a cable only channel. They did quite a few lighting related ones, including off the top of my head: fluorescent lamps, SBMV reflector lamps (referred to a HID bulbs on the show), and incandescent lamps.

A lot of those are on Youtube, there's a bunch of links to lighting related ones here. (https://www.lighting-gallery.net/index.php?topic=5583.0)
Title: Re: Who watched "How It's Made" when it was on air?
Post by: wide-lite 1000 on April 16, 2018, 07:29:27 PM
They called the mercury lamp episode "high intensity light bulbs" and they showed how self-ballasted mercury lamps are made. rather cool! they still show old episodes on the science channel here.