Chat Ed winks
Chat Ed : Hello fellas! Welcome to 4Chat.
Brian Long : As an American hello everybody, and let me talk to those Brits!
redtwister : hello America
Nosher : Hi this is Nosh - we shall return triumphant!
Steve Garth : This is the pressure prince! hello!
Ann-Marie R : Greetings, welcome, and thanks for a wonderful transatlantic challenge
Dragonstar : bad luck nosh...get em next time..
Geezer : Nosher my man. Your team was a total inspiration to Brits everywhere!!! Well done mate. Shame you lost
Monsta : Guys so close what happened??? you should have whooped ass your bikers!!!! bodgers extraordinaire
Nosher : Yeah we should have won. But the bits lets us down, and we couldn't put anymore pressure on.
Annabelle : Nosher - Would a cantilever on the crossbeam have made a difference?
Nosher : It might have done yes, we did put some strengthening on but not enough over the two pivot points where it counted. Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
alex : Megs it's not like you not to use heavy metal! What happened to the crossbar?
alexia : Bikers - If the Car was a VOLVO would you have won ?
Nosher : Volvo's are notoriously well built, if it was a volvo I think we would have lost out sooner.
dean redmond : Brian, in the show you said that the mini was England's worst ever car, how does it feel to prove yourself wrong?
Brian Long : It felt pretty good, it ran well. One of the things that the show didn't explain clearly was that the mini didn't overheat - the brakes were over-heating. So I'll stand behind the good engine that it is.
Patrick : Nosher - Bad luck mate we were all rooting for you and the team.I really think channel 4 should get the Aussies involved in Scrapheap so we can have SCRAPHEAP THE ASHES.What do you think?.ea
Nosher : Good idea! Yes we'd like to come back for another go. Next time, bigger and better.
ScRApLuVEr : brian-hello and welcome to Britain any way what made you choose to use the sheer force mechanism and not hydraulics (sorry for the spelling)?
Brian Long : Hi Scrapluver glad you could join us. The reason we decided to go with the big hammer was that the impact forces are greater... whereas with hydraulics it was a lot more complicated - we tried to keep it simple.
Steven : Nosh I think there should be a league system of Scrapheap teams. Making the series longer and the show more exciting, what do you think?
Nosher : Yeah make it longer, I'm all in agreement with that. It would be nice to have a few more hours to build. We only have 10 hours to build it. So it would be nice to have more of that.
Thomas : Steve, what was the feeling after the machine lost? Did you get beat up? ;-)
Steve Garth : Hi Thomas - I'm still alive, I was calling to the trees! But no doubt, these boys will return the British pride.
Noel : Nosher why didn't you use the dustbin truck in the scrape yard to crush the car?
Nosher laughs
Nosher : I think that one would be better directed at Steve.
Steve Garth : Basically there was a list we came up with, and the bits that we scavenged met our specifications, so it was just a matter of what we found first.
penski : okay - the final decider of the Anglo-American challenge - who out-drank who in the pub post-show?
Nosher : I think most of the drinking was done the night before the actual race. Some serious drinking.
Matt1 : Looked like it!!
Brian Long : When we came into the country they didn't allow our home made brew to come in with us!
Chat Ed : :)
Russell : The two teams always follow different approaches to a challenge, is this done on purpose by the producers?
Steve Garth : I think basically, talking on behalf of RDF - the thing is to achieve the same challenge with two totally different approaches.
matman : why weren't the cars placed on an even surface before measuring? Watching the show, it looked like the American car was dug into the ground
Kitey : yeah matman, we agree!
Nosher : Indeed it was buried into the ground. If we'd dragged them out it would have been a lot closer. But we gave it to them anyway cos we felt sorry for them!
Nosher chuckles
Nosher : They've come a long way!
Scrambled_Edd : Brian, did you think you'd get the bulkhead to go?
Tim : Brian, was that constant grin of yours during the crushing in any way forced?
Brian Long laughs
Brian Long : Hello Scrambled Edd. Yes I was enjoying myself, the sun was in my eyes so I was squinting. Once the bulkhead crushed we were home free, once that folded over it was basically sheet metal that had to be smashed.
Chat Ed : or another way of putting it...
Brit Geeza : Brian judging by that evil sadistic grin that you had while you were pummelling that Golf, I take it you having a bit of fun?
Chat Ed grins
Brian Long : I had the time of my life, it was a lot of fun, where else can you do that and have fun (legally)?
gissing : Tell us something that we DIDNT see on the programme!
Nosher : They missed out a bit where I threatened to beat up Robert Llewellyn and George - they questioned my welding! They ran away like babies!
Nosher chuckles
Brian Long : One thing that they didn't explain too well was how our wench system worked. We were using the brakes rather than the clutch and what you didn't see was the brakes smoking a lot.
Brian Long : That would be 'wrench' system!
Chat Ed chuckles
Chat Ed : ok stand back, folks, no wenches here.
marjory : Do the teams ever fight over who gets which juicy piece of scrap?
Steve Garth : We would have fought if I'd had known the Long Brothers big long hammer arms were made from the material that we wanted for our platform! This is why we had to lift the car instead of push it. But Kev and Nosh had the best muscle in Britain!
Steve Garth laughs
mopedboy : SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU DO WITH THE STUFF AFTER THE SHOW?
Nosher : I still have the walking machine from the last series. Bazza still has a trike from the very first series and I think we should be getting hold of the dragster from Champion of Champions. A lot of them just get put back on the scrapheap, particularly the cannons - they have to be destroyed.
Brian Long : Our buggy has been donated to a University for charity events. So keep an eye out for it. But the car crusher was too big to go in my garage
buckstardeluxe : Why couldn't you squash the car by crushing it from front and back or indeed side to side?
Steve Garth : The strongest points of the cars are to resist front and side impact, so they would be the hardest areas to squash - the roof is the weakest area to crush.
Darrell : Obviously safety is utmost.But you guys must have some serious battle scars?
Brian Long : Absolutely! Burns everywhere! Yes you do get battle bruises.
Steve Garth : My glasses - the left hand lens had weld speckles the right was clean, but no more!
dean redmond : brian, now that u've got the 'world cup', where are you going to keep it?
Brian Long : Strangeley enough it's sitting here with me. It will stay with me.
gissing : it looked dangerous did that trophy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brian Long : It will be shared amongst my other brothers at home.
Jooles : Are the brits planning to go to America for a challenge?
Nasty_Nick : Brain are the rules different in the US to the ones in the Uk
Brian Long : The rules are the same. In fact it was done in the same scrapheap/junkyard. But I'd love to take on the Megalomaniacs again, they were a great team and a good challenge. We'll give them an opportunity to beat them on our turf.
Steven : So Junkyard is filmed over here?
Brian Long : Yes this series was filmed in England.
Steve Garth : The scrapyard where we have filmed so far is no more, so the next one will be filmed in a new location.
Ann-Marie R : Teams tend to be pre-arranged....I'd love to take part, but I don't have any friends who are into this side of things...are teams assembled, or do you approach the program as a complete team?
Nosher : You approach the show as a team, that's the way the Production company require it.
Brian Long : One thing that we didn't want to do, was to be paired off with people we didn't know.
Steve Garth : They won because they communicate by telepathy!
Steve Garth laughs
nick : nosher can you say hello to my mum called sue she loves you?
Chat Ed : OK folks, last three questions now - our half hour is very nearly up...!
Nosher : Glad you like the show - hello Sue!
Bodger : How much junk was planted for this specific challenge?
Roger Ramjet : Where do you get all the 'junk' for the scrapheap? because there's a lot of cool stuff there you wouldn't find in any ordinary scrapheap
Steve Garth : How much junk is planted is unknown. The TV people plant it. There are a number of items, listed as necessary, to be placed there. All team members only know exactly what is there when the challenge takes place.
Hammer Head : Do they tell you what really good junk you missed?
Nosher : No they don't.
will : bet there's a bag of gold in there somewhere
Nosher : It's not till many weeks after the show that they turn around and say, well if you'd have looked a bit harder you would have found this and this... and we go DOH!
Darrell : Are the Mega going to be there next series?
mik : nosher r u going to come back next year for another go
Stuart Gilbert : Nosher, your moustache, is it real?!
Nosher laughs
Nosher : It's real, yes!
Jamie : NOSHER ROCKS!!
Nosher : Yes we will be returning, hopefully next year, to defend the British Championship.
Chat Ed : last ones now, folks..
Dave_K : How come we don't have a celebrity Scrapheap challenge ? or a batte of the sexes challenge
DoctorBooze : Yeah let's get Handy Andy and Lawrence Lewellyn-Bowen in!!!
Nosher : There was suggestion of a Celebrity one with myself and Bazza as captains, but they couldn't find any celebrities who could weld or anything, or were that way inclined. They're all lovies.
WhaleR : NOSH YOU RULE
Colin : best wishes to both teams in future challenges
Raika : If the british team could have changed anything in their design, what would it have been?
Nosher : I would have had the Long Brothers machine!
Nosher chuckles
Chat Ed : That's it folks! Thanks for joining us fellas, that was great
Neil : Nosher: at least you have the satisfaction of knowing the Yanks will be paying excess baggage taking that trophy back to the States
Sandi : MERY CHRISTMAS GUYS !!!!
Phoenix : WE LOVE NOSH! WE LOVE NOSH!
Steven : Merry Xmas, Nosh Brian Steve & Everyone else
Nosher roars with laughter
Kate Jones : Merry Xmas to all at Scrapheap ! Love the show !
Scrapheap-addict : You had a good attempt at winning,well done any way, HAPPY NEW YEAR
Skelter : MARRY ME NOSH!!!
g! : Nosher, Nosher, Nosher!
Brian Long : Thanks to everyone for watching - these guys were a great team and we are looking forward to next year.
StevenM : take it easy guys! till the next series!!!
Steve Garth : Yeah thanks to you all, spread the word!
holder mouse emmas : brian you was ace
Steve Garth : Make sure everyone knows we'll be back!
WhaleR : Oh you'll be back!!!
Stuart Gilbert : WHEN?????
Nosher : I'd like to accept this academy award on behalf of the rest of the Megalomaniacs, who cannot be with us as they are babysitting!
Chat Ed : bless
Nosher : Hopefully next year we'll be back. Not too sure when exactly. Demand that we come back!
WhaleR : YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
sabotage : i demand
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