Does this leave you feeling slightly inadequate?

[John Rumm]

(even if there a team of helpers behind the scenes, some of the stuff she creates is still massively impressive!)

[Jim Stewart ...]

never work in the near of scotland

[John Rumm]

Na, she would dig down 6" and be under water!

[Mike Rogers]

Am I alone in being disappointed she didn't don a bikini...

Anon:-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

These films of Chinese people being amazingly hard working and clever are of course blessed by, if not funded by, the Chinese Communist Party. E.g. check out Lin Guoer . Obviously she seems to have an inexhaustible supply of spray paint, enammelled copper wire, access to a bead blaster, and never primes any metal...before spraying it pink....but there is no doubt she does the work and watching her lift 20kg loads is amazing.

[John Rumm]

ISTR she is from Singapore...

[jon]

Not many use coolant when machining steel either.

[Andrew]

Hope she used Fairy Liquid as plasticiser when rendering those walls - keep her hands nice and soft.

[Andrew]

Actually country houses used to build semi-underground structures like that with a roof and insulated with peat and straw so that they could be used as ice-storage in the days before leccy.

One was converted into a fantastic house a few years ago. I think it was on one of the grand designs programs.

[John Rumm]

I suppose one of the advantages of cob render is it is much kinder to the hands.

[tony sayer]

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Another one if Lin the mechanic doesn't seem to be anything she can't fix!..

[jkn]

Great stuff, thanks!

I like the way it's called pump 'repair', rather than 'total rebuild'

J^n

[The Natural Philosopher]

Back in the 1950s there were people with skills like this doing repairs all over Britain.

Then new kit became cheapser than labour.

[GB]

Is that really a repair, though? There's practically nothing left of the original pump.

And, it's not just the labour cost. The parts costs are so high that it's not really worthwhile, often, even with no labour costs.

[Brian Gaff]

I think some people just love machines and so.... Its like the aircraft restoration, you end up with more or less new, with a few original parts on them for authentic looks etc.

I wonder if, in the future somebody will make a replica Nuclear reactor? Brian

[The Natural Philosopher]

If its the one I saw, there's about 60% of the pump.

The spares are expensive because of the labour content in handling them and storing them ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

I doubt it. But they might lovingly restore a wind turbine....

[Fredxx]

One thought was why she didn't 'appear' to check the integrity of the stator windings before chiselling them out!

[The Natural Philosopher]

AFAICR she looked inside and they were blackened and burnt

[Animal]

search the 'nuclear boy scout'