James May: The Reassembler

In this series, James May reassembles a whole host of objects which have been carefully taken apart to all their hundreds of individual component parts, vigilantly rebuilding the object to its complete form then testing its competency having gone through the process.

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S1 E1 - Lawnmower
April 3, 2016
46min
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In the opening episode, James is faced with the 331 pieces that make up a 1959 petrol lawn mower. The "Suffolk Colt" helped make lawnmowing accessible to the masses by producing a smaller and affordable machine to keep our nations lawns at regulation height.
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S1 E2 - Telephone
April 4, 2016
45min
13+
James continues in his quest to put history back together again one piece at a time by tackling a 1957 Bakelite dial telephone. This was one of the first phones that contained the bell on the inside and it took some very impressive engineering to create what was at the time a revolutionary object.
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S1 E3 - Electric Guitar
April 5, 2016
46min
13+
James concludes his quest to truly understand everyday objects by putting them back together piece by piece with an electric guitar. 147 pieces must be reassembled carefully and in the correct order, to rebuild his 1984 Japanese copy of a classic electric guitar.
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