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Welcome to The Repair Shop,
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where cherished family heirlooms are
brought back to life...
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This is the workshop of dreams.
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..home to furniture restorer
Jay Blades.
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Nowadays, everybody spends a fortune
on stuff that, once it's broken,
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they just bin it. But everybody has
something that means too much to be
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thrown away, and that's
where we come in.
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Working alongside Jay will be some
of the country's leading
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craftspeople.
Every piece has its own story.
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It's amazing to think that some of
my work becomes part of that story.
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I've always played with things, I've
always repaired things,
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and I just love it. There is a real
pleasure in bringing people's pieces
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back to life again.
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Each with their own unique set of
skills...
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I can't wait to get started.
..they will resurrect,
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revive... Come on, man!
..and rejuvenate
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treasured possessions and
irreplaceable pieces
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of family history... Wow!
..bringing both the objects...
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She's fantastic! That's just taken
me back 50 years.
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..and the memories that they hold...
Oh, yes!
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..back to life. Oh, my God!
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This place is filthy!
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LAUGHTER
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In The Repair Shop today,
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furniture restorers
Will and Sonnaz join forces...
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I'm Will.
Hello, Will, nice to meet you.
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Sonnaz. ..making big improvements to
a very small chair.
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So, we've got creative freedom.
Yes, you have. Yeah. Exciting.
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Yeah! And clock expert Steve swaps
time for money,
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as he tackles a
century-old cash register.
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I've no idea where to start on this!
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I thought as much!
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But first into The Repair Shop,
Richard and Lesley Bower
from Cornwall.
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Hello. Hello. How are we doing?
Fine, thanks.
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I'm Jay. Jay, I'm Richard. All
right, Richard, how are we doing?
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I'm very well, thank you.
So what have we got in the bag?
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Three guesses!
Well, it's quite small -
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I would say it looks like a camera.
Yeah, it does indeed, doesn't it?
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Is it a camera? Shall I open it?
Yes, please. OK.
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Whoa! OK.
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Don't tell me this is a record
player. It's a record player, isn't
it? It's a record player.
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Oh, that is cool. Tim, you've got to
see this. This is one for you, mate.
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Hello. Have a look at this.
Gramophone expert Tim Weeks has been
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hooked on classic record players
since 1963,
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when his father bought him his first
machine at a jumble sale.
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It's a record player,
but a portable one.
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But when you put the record on...
METALLIC GRINDING
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Cor, blimey. ..it grinds to a halt.
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Yeah. If I might intervene
at this point...
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Yeah, please!
..this is called a Peter Pan.
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This particular model
was made only in 1924.
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So how come you guys have got this?
What's the history behind it?
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Well, it was given to me
by my father...
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Right. ..and he told me stories
about taking it out on picnics.
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OK. He was courting my mother
at the time,
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and he would play these records,
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perhaps some Ella Fitzgerald or
something... Yeah, yeah.
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..on a portable record player.
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But I think it was given to him by
my grandfather, his father.
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OK. He was a naval captain, so he
would go from Liverpool down to
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Southampton, then down to Tenerife,
and then the Ivory Coast,
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in West Africa. He had it and then
he passed it to your dad, and then
your dad... To my dad, yeah.
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..has given it to you. Yeah, and now
I've got a...
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we've got two daughters,
and one grandson,
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and so, obviously,
when time's right...
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Yeah. ..I'm just dying to,
you know, pass it on.
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And it did work. I think our
daughters might have had something
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to do with it! It's always a little
bit worrying when you hear that
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someone's children have been
playing with things...
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OK! ..because children can be
remarkably destructive creatures!
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So, what do you reckon, Tim?
Can we sort this out?
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Well, if the motor's all there
inside... Maybe? Yeah.
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OK. Yeah. Well, what I'd say is...
75%. Thank you.
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LAUGHTER
Thank you for bringing it in...
Thank you.
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..and leave it with us. OK.
We'll get it sorted.
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It's going to happen! All right.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
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Tim's first task is to take the
record player apart,
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starting with the sound box,
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which passes vibrations
from the stylus to the horn.
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Something very peculiar has been
done to this.
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Someone seems to have put what looks
like a cardboard -
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or possibly it's felt -
washer in there.
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But if we take the whole thing out,
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we can see,
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possibly, what's inside there.
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Aha!
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Now, that's what you
would expect to see.
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I don't know why somebody would have
put that in there.
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If they were trying to sort of
quieten the volume down,
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you would put, you know, you would
jam something into the end of the
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horn, literally. And yes,
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that is where the expression,
"put a sock in it," comes from.
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Why somebody hid that behind this
bit of stuff, goodness only knows.
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Next, Tim turns his attention to the
motor that powers the turntable.
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Yes, it shouldn't be making that
clicking, churning noise.
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So that suggests there's something
stuck inside there on one of the
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gears. What it is, well, we shall
find out when we get it apart.
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Some of the treasures that arrive at
The Repair Shop may not be large of
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stature, but they hold decades of
family history.
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Judy Ford from East Lothian has
brought in one such item.
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Hello. Hi, there. Brought my chair.
Oh, lovely. Thank you.
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I think I know just the lady
for this.
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Good. Sonnaz? This is a job
for the furniture dream team -
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restorer Will Kirk and upholsterer
Sonnaz Nooranvary.
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So what have we got here?
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Child's rocking chair.
Child's rocking chair.
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That's been with me all my life,
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and my mum says she had it
as a child as well, so
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it could be about 120 years old.
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Right. Wow! Can you remember this
from, like, as a child?
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Yes. I played with it, I rocked
on it, I went over on it,
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because it's not very stable!
Gosh, yes! Right!
LAUGHTER
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And my daughters both used it.
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Right. And my grandchildren
both used it.
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Oh, right! So, four generations. But
I'd like to pass it onto the fifth,
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when my grandchildren
have their kids. Their kids.
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Wow, that's incredible.
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But at the moment it's just
scruffy and tatty and...
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Not quite usable.
It's a little bit, er...
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Coming to pieces! ..bit loose there.
It's been sitting in an airing
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cupboard now for, I would say, 30
years. Cos looking at these joints
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here, I think that's where all
of the glue looks like...
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Yeah. Well, I would have said dry,
but there's no glue there to be dry.
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So, um, so that's why
that's all popped out.
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The key, really, is what colour
fabric. Fabric, yeah.
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Well, something...
Jazzy yellow, or...?
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Or some nice brown...
Not necessarily...
No, I don't want brown!
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Something appropriate for children.
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OK. I don't mind.
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You don't mind, so we've got
creative freedom.
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Yes, you have. Yeah. Exciting.
Yeah. Exciting indeed.
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That's brilliant, thank you very
much. Thanks for coming down.
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Thank you. Thank you very much.
Bye. Cheers, bye-bye.
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Love it, love it.
It's great, isn't it? Yeah.
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I kind of want to
have a little sit down.
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No, no, don't do that yet.
No? It's coming apart already, look.
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These joints are really bad. Yeah.
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I need to strip this off so that you
can get on with the woodwork side.
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Yeah, I think you should take it now
before I try and sit on it.
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Exactly. So without further ado...
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Take it away. Cool.
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See you later.
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At his bench, gramophone expert Tim
is taking apart the motor
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of the tiny antique record player.
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All these gears, all these teeth
will need cleaning up.
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It's just 90 years'
worth of grot, basically.
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Ah, now,
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you can probably see here
one old needle.
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You always find these inside the
boxes of gramophones, and that,
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jammed against that, will have been
probably what's making that strange,
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scrunching, grinding noise
as it was running round.
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So I'm glad we found that.
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One thing you can't do, and it's a
mistake that people often make,
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is they put a lot of fresh oil on
without cleaning all the old stuff
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off first, and that is basically
like polishing a car
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without washing it first.
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Next into the workshop, Judy Evans
has a piece of history that's been
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part of her family business
for four generations.
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Right, what have we got?
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We have my family's old cash
register from 1913.
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Oh, my word!
Dom, can you give me a hand?
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Judy's hoping that Steve and The
Repair Shop team can get this old
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heavyweight back on its feet again.
Oh, blimey!
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Cor, dear! You wouldn't run away
with that till, would you?
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You wouldn't!
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I'll leave you with that.
Thanks, Dom, appreciate that.
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Right, what have we got here, apart
from, obviously, it's a till?
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Yes, it's a cash register for my
family business, which started in
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1862. Oh, right. And this was
purchased by my great-grandfather,
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Mr George Williams.
So the business is still in...
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It's still in... in existence? Yes,
I'm now running the shop,
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as the great-great-granddaughter.
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If you look inside the drawer here,
so you look on the underside there,
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you can just about make out
George Williams here, and 1913,
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and you read the guarantee,
it's two years.
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And sadly the guarantee
has run out...in 1915!
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LAUGHTER
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When was the last time
this was used?
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Well, my father thinks it was around
1965-ish.
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I mean, my dad used to joke, he
didn't throw it out because he
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didn't think decimalisation was
going to take off. Oh, right!
LAUGHTER
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This is a great project, so thank
you so much for bringing it in.
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My pleasure, thank you.
You're welcome.
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The cash register was
manufactured in America
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by the National Cash
Register Corporation.
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Founded in 1884 in Ohio,
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they were the makers of the world's
first mechanical cash register.
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By 1914 the company was producing
over 100,000 a year,
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and it's still going strong today.
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But it's up to Steve to fix
this 100-year-old model.
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Steve, are we in the money yet? Eh?
LAUGHTER
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Must be payday.
Look at that, down in there.
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Whoa! See all the muck and grime?
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Dirty in there, innit? So what are
we going to do? Are we going to get
it open? Yeah, let's get the back
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off, shall we? Can you just hold
that? See, it's really heavy.
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Yeah, I've got it. There we go.
Oh, my goodness!
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That is heavy.
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I've no idea where to start on this!
LAUGHTER
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I thought as much
because normally you're,
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"Right, I'll take that bit
off, take that bit off..."
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I think the first thing we need to
do is get a Hoover.
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All right, I'll get the Hoover. OK.
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There we are.
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Cool. Do you know how to use it?
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Of course I do!
I clean up every night, mate!
LAUGHTER
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There we go, there we go.
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Oh, look at that.
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You're enjoying that, aren't you?
I am, as well!
LAUGHTER
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Look at that.
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That looks so much better already,
doesn't it?
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No dust. Still doesn't work!
LAUGHTER
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On the opposite side of
the workshop,
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the child's rocking chair has been
stripped of its upholstery
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and passed over to
wood expert, Will.
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It looks to be in relatively
good condition.
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I think that the back here is just
popping out there,
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where the glue has dried, and the
joints have come away,
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but getting some glue in there,
that should be quite a
straightforward fix.
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I'm going to give it a nice clean
now and sort of see what I'm left
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with after. Not everybody really
knows the best way to clean
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furniture, as well, so a lot of
cleaners melt the top surface of the
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polish to make it look cleaner, but
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what you're doing is actually
removing what you really
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want to keep on there in order to
protect the furniture.
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Sometimes, just a really light clean
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with a bit of white spirits, just to
clear off any surface dirt,
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is more than enough.
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All that needs to be done now is,
I need to get some glue into the
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wobbly joints up here,
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and clamp that down.
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I'm really pleased with this.
I love it.
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Once the structure is secure, Will
passes the chair back to Sonnaz.
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Thank you. Wow, you've done
a great job. Thank you very much.
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Over to you. Thank you. And I look
forward to seeing the fabric. Yes.
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Now I've got this chair
back from Will, I can now get some
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upholstery on here -
get upholstering it, rather.
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First step, black and white webbing
on the seat base,
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and all I've got to do is web,
I'd say, three webs across there.
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A little bit tricky, because it
obviously wants to rock.
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That is ready to rock and roll.
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OK, so I've got my fabric here.
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Lovely, light-colour fabric.
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I can see straight away that it does
really bring out the lovely tones of
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brown in the woodwork, and Will's
lovely work that he's done to clean
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this up has really made
a difference.
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So this is not my final fix,
this is just a temporary fix.
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Often your first anchoring tacks
are too tight.
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You can see here, this staple is a
little bit too tight.
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This is called a tack drag. You can
tell that it's too tight because
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there's a bit of an arc
in the weft of the fabric.
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The way that you remember
what a weft and a weave is,
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is weft goes "weft to wight", and a
weave goes up the roll.
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So as long as you remember "weft to
wight", you won't get confused.
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So I think I need to get a little
bit more tension through the front,
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but apart from that,
it's looking quite good.
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Horologist Steve has had to do some
swotting up on the inner workings of
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the antique till, as it's a far cry
from his usual clocks and watches.
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I've gone online to see what
problems there are with the...these
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National Cash Registers, and they've
suggested that the problem is
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usually in the totaliser, which is a
bit of mechanism here on the front.
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So I'm going to take, hopefully take
this off. They say it's very, very
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simple, so I'm very conscious
that...
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..there may be springs...
METALLIC PING
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Oh! Some spring went, then.
HE CHUCKLES
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Cor, that's heavy! Wow, this...
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This is amazing.
This is the totaliser.
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This will give them a total of the
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amount of money that's been put
through the till in a day.
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I'll just pop this over here.
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Once broken, these complicated
mechanisms are often beyond repair,
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and the only way to get
the till up and running
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is to remove
the totaliser completely.
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They say that this will
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unjam it.
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Yes!
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That's brilliant.
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The one thing that isn't working is,
the till's supposed to fly out.
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As Steve delves deeper into
the till's workings,
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ceramics restorer Kirsten
joins the investigation.
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Hi, Steve. Hiya, you all right?
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This is like a detective
sort of thing, really.
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Someone has tried,
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or someone has successfully broken
into it at some point.
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Really? Cos this unit here,
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you can see it's supposed
to have a loop over it.
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Yeah, absolutely. And that actually
goes into the locking part of the
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till. Right. Right, and it's been
forced, so it's actually broken it,
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so I need to repair that as well.
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Oh, my goodness!
But not only that, they've
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actually tried putting a lever in...
This is what I believe.
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Right, OK, Detective Steve! Bear
with me, they've put a lever in,
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and they've actually broken the
corner of that cast-iron front off.
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How fascinating. Yep. Goodness me!
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So, well, it is fascinating,
because I want you to...
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LAUGHTER
..erm, I'd like you to,
I'm asking you to...
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OK, are you begging me?
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Yeah, I'm begging, right, begging to
actually make a new piece there.
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OK, let's have a look, then.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's fine.
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I've got a modelling material,
which would be fine for metal,
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and I could make up
that corner, yeah.
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Steve's asked me to have a look at
this section from the cash register.
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Although I don't normally work on
metal items,
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one of the fillers that I use,
it's a two-part epoxy,
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and it does actually
cure really, really hard.
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I come with gifts. Ooh, well done!
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OK? Well, that's brilliant,
absolutely brilliant!
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Thank you.
That's superb. All right?
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Yeah, I can finish it off now.
Good, I look forward to seeing it.
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I'm just going to see whether it
actually fits into the till
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with the front on now,
and locks all right.
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And it does. Perfect.
Absolutely perfect.
TILL RINGS
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Ch-ching! That's all right,
that works well. Good.
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Meanwhile, Tim is still working on
the 95-year-old Peter Pan
gramophone.
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The acid test now - wind her up,
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and will it actually work?
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Oh, yes. She's turning,
and the turntable,
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or the spider, there we go.
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Well, that looks pretty good.
He's doing a nice, consistent speed.
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As Tim reunites the record player
with its case,
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its owners, Richard and Lesley, are
en route to The Repair Shop.
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OK, keeping it real
on the wheels of steel.
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Good afternoon, Richard.
Hello, Tim, nice to see you again.
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Good afternoon, Lesley. Hi, Tim.
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Well, how do you remember this,
last time you saw it?
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Defunct. The springs had gone, it
was looking a bit tatty, a bit used.
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Yeah, it wasn't looking very happy.
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Well, I'll take the cover off...
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Yeah... ..you let me know if you can
spot any changes.
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Oh, my word! Oh, look at that! Oh!
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Do you want to open it up and
assemble it? Yeah, sure.
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OK...
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Ah, that's different!
That looks totally different.
And the needle's there.
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It still goes together in the same
way. Oh, yes, it still goes
together.
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A lot of the problem is old
gramophone needles that had fallen
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down inside and were sticking
into the gear.
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Really? Is that right? Fancy that.
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Now, we had a think about what
you might like...
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and... Oh, wow! ..there we go.
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MUSIC: Sentimental Journey
by Ella Fitzgerald
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Wow! A little birdie told us you
like this one.
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Ah, right. It was one your dad
liked, wasn't it? Yeah.
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Oh, yes!
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# Going to take a sentimental
journey... #
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APPLAUSE
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Well done, Tim. Well done.
Thank you. It's a pleasure,
it's a pleasure.
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If it makes you happy. then...
You're a remarkable man.
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A remarkable man. Well, it beats
going out and getting a proper job,
doesn't it? So how does it feel to
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hear Ella Fitzgerald singing
Sentimental Journey? I'm over
the moon! I'm over the moon.
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And Sentimental Journey is such
an apt piece of music to play
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anyway, considering, you know,
what this is all about.
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Mm. It's remarkable it's been able
to be restored, and we can listen to
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it again, and we can pass it on
to our grandson...
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As long as you're happy. Thank you
very much. Thank you. A pleasure,
a pleasure. Bye-bye. Safe journey.
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Upholstery expert Sonnaz is putting
the finishing touches to
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the 100-year-old rocking chair,
with a colourful modern twist.
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The challenge with these particular
studs is that the colour is actually
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an enamelled colour finish, and I
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have got a nylon-tipped
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tack hammer, which will hopefully
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mean that I'm not going to scratch
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or dent the top surface of my stud.
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Whacking it in. As I hit the
stud, I've really got to hit it
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square on the head
of the actual dome.
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If I don't hit it square,
then two things can happen -
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the pin could buckle, or the head
could actually move off-centre.
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Owner Judy has arrived to claim her
family heirloom.
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Hi! Hello! How are you?
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I'm good, thank you.
Nice to see you again.
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And you, and you. So, are you ready?
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Yeah.
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Oh, isn't that lovely?
SHE LAUGHS
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Oh, lovely. They look like
tiddlywinks, don't they?
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Yeah, yeah, good.
That's lovely, natural colours.
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Thank you very, very much. Pleasure.
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Smashing. I've made you a little
extra something to go with it.
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Oh, have you? I have,
which is just down here.
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I thought it was missing a cushion
to go with it.
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Oh! So we've made you a little
round cushion to match it all...
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That is lovely, for a little person.
Yeah, yeah. That is lovely.
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I just love this chair. Aawww!
I really do. It's part of my life.
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Mmm. It's fabulous. Thank you.
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It's in a better condition than I
ever remember it being in.
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It's just wonderful to get it back
in a usable state.
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I'll find a little spot for it, so I
can be proud of it yet again.
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Mechanical whiz Steve has finished
work on his first ever cash register
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repair, and it's time for foreman
Jay's inspection.
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How we doing? Yeah, all done.
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Yeah? Is it working, though?
That's the main thing.
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Yeah. Go on, have a go.
Ten shillings and sixpence.
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Ten shillings? Ten shillings, yeah.
That one. No, that's just ten
shillings!
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You've missed out the sixpence.
What, you've got to press them both
together? Yeah.
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Ten shillings and sixpence. Yeah.
TILL RINGS
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OK. Ch-ching. Ch-ching!
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I've got one for you.
Two fat ladies. 88!
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Oh, that's nice.
You've done a good job.
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So even though it's the first time
you've ever done a till...
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Yeah. ..you've done it all right.
Yeah. It's good, yeah.
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Well done. You happy? Yeah, really
happy. I love this.
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This is going to look amazing
in the shop, isn't it?
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Yeah, it's going to look brilliant.
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The till is transported back home to
the shop in Cheshire,
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where Judy's mum and dad, Derek and
Megan, are reminiscing.
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We've called it
Williams's since 1862.
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And we've run it for five
generations now,
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of which Judy is the latest.
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£1.80, thank you very much.
OK, thank you.
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We always had the till there, and
it was rather a nice thing to have.
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I like the "ching". It went "Ping!"
Like Open All Hours, it really was!
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To celebrate its return, Judy has
invited shop assistant Olive, and
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Jean, who worked at the shop from
the age of 14 until she retired.
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Well, look what's back,
everybody.
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Shall we take a look?
Let's have a look.
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This old friend of the shop.
I name this till Tilly!
LAUGHTER
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This is going to bring back a few
memories, Jean, isn't it?
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The cash register's really
important to me, because it really
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gives me that connection with the
past and with my great-grandfather.
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Oh, look at that!
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That's fantastic! Oh, the corner's
all fixed, look, that's fantastic!
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So this was here when you came,
Jean, was it?
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Oh, yeah, that was definitely here,
yeah, yeah.
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TILL RINGS
Oh, that's it! Oh, there we go!
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Ch-ching! A lovely ring, isn't it?
That's what I call music.
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Yeah, it's nice to have this back in
the shop now. It's lovely, yeah.
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And it'll be here for a good while
longer, we hope!
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We hope, yes!
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It just brings back memories, and
I'm glad it's able to be used again.
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It's wonderful that it's
actually working.
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Working better than it did
when I was here!
SHE CHUCKLES
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TILL RINGS
Wahey!
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Join us next time, as more
extraordinary treasures...
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Oh, marvellous!
..are rescued and restored...
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That is just how I remember it!
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..in The Repair Shop.65433
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