04x14 - Ventriloquist's Dummy

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Welcome to The Repair Shop, where
much-loved but broken treasures...

This is amazing.
It is absolutely brilliant.

..are brought back to life.

Welcome to my universe.

It's pretty marvellous.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

It's so nice that we can be part of
that history

to just keep things going.

..and a dream team of

some of the country's most
skilled craftspeople...

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm
really liking the end result.

Sounds like teamwork.

..bring their talents to bear on
beloved pieces of family history...

Look at that.

I'm liking what I see. Yes.

Is this working?

You beauty.

..utilising expertise
passed down the generations...

I'm going to teach you how to do it
the old-fashioned way.

..transforming priceless pieces
of family history.

Oh, my goodness.

The Repair Shop team
will resurrect the items...

Oh, gosh.

..the memories...

I'm going to have to hug you.

..and the stories behind them.

Look at that.

Thank you so much.

I can't see it
because there's tears in my eyes.

This is a very emotional job to do,

but incredibly worthwhile.

THEY CHEER

In the Repair Shop today...

..metal magic
as Brenton uses electricity

to restore the shine
on a precious trophy...

If you stop at any time
and you're not concentrating,

you can stain the metal.

..and the A to Z of
typewriter renovation.

U, I have to come from upwards
to clean the corners and the J,

from the left side
to the right side.

First into the Repair Shop,
accompanied by his wife Trish,

is Alan Fraser
from Oxfordshire.

He's come to see mechanical maestro
Steve Fletcher

on behalf of a friend,
who's unable to speak for himself.

Hello. Hi. I'm Steve.

Hello, I'm Trish. Hi, Trish.

Alan. Alan.

Come on over here.

Show me what you've got
in your suitcase.

Well, inside this suitcase...

..is my ventriloquist dummy.

Right, OK.

He's called George. Right.

I've never worked on
a ventriloquist dummy before.

He's 50 years old... OK.

..this year and I bought him, new,
from Davenports Magic Shop.

OK. He's called
a cheeky boy dummy.

THEY CHUCKLE

So, what did you use it for?

Well, I was a teenage ventriloquist.
Oh, right, OK.

Yeah, I used to do magic shows
when I was a kid

and magic and ventriloquism were
kind of close neighbours.

And did it take you long
to master using it?

No, not at all really.

You know, it's not that complicated.
I mean...

..you hold him through the shirt...

..and there's his mouth.
"Hello, how are you?"

THEY CHUCKLE

And then the eyes... Yeah.

..and then the top lip. Oh, I see.
Right, OK.

What would you like me to do to him?

Well, the mechanism inside
needs to be adjusted and restored

where it's gone wrong. For example,
his eyes are no longer...

I think he probably needs
new springs.

And he's made from papier mache
and there's quite a lot

of restoration work here
that needs doing and repainting.

His hair has gone completely

and I just want to see him
as perfect as he can possibly be.

OK, brilliant. Yeah.

So, why do you want him
restored now?

Well, we've got four grandchildren

and they've all fallen in love
with him.

They absolutely love him,

and Alan now does magic
for their birthday parties

and that's how
he's going to be used.

I should think they'll love it.

This is a great project
for me to look at.

You might discover a new talent.

You never know.

I don't think so.

THEY LAUGH

Thank you very much
for bringing him along.

Nice to meet you. You too.

Thanks a lot.
Bye-bye now.

Bye. Bye, George.

I haven't left George behind
for a long time,

but I know he's in safe hands.

I'm very excited about
getting him back.

My granddaughters are
going to absolutely love it.

They're going to be all over him,
I just know they are.

And, of course, it takes care of
children's parties

for years to come.

How did I know you'd be over here
having fun?

Eh? Look at you.

"Hello."

"What you up to then?"

Not much. I've come to see Steve,
but he's not here, is he?

"He's looking for his glasses."

THEY LAUGH

Oh, seriously.

We've never had a dummy before,
have we?

Well...

Speak for yourself.

I'm going to get Steve to fix
what's inside you and then Kirsten's

going to have a look at your head

and hopefully, we'll send you to
the hairdressers.

Will that be all right with you?
"Fantastic."

Just taking the hinge piece off

to take a bit of George's skull off
so I can get to the mechanism.

And I'm just having a look to see
why it's not working correctly.

The eyeball is absolutely
smothered with glue.

The eyeball has actually been glued
in the incorrect place,

so that will be the reason why

George's eyes
aren't working correctly.

In fact, you can see some of
the glue on his eyeball,

so I need to clean that off as well.

I've never actually done
any brain surgery before.

As Steve gets hands-on with George's
cranium, outside, a new arrival.

Valerie Boucher has brought
along a much-cherished piece

for the expert attention
of silversmith Brenton West.

Hello there. Hello. I'm Valerie.

Hi, I'm Brenton. Nice to meet you.

What have you got?

I've brought a small trophy
called the China Cup.

It was awarded to my father in 1937.

He was a sprinter and he ran
for the Herne Hill Harriers.

The Herne Hill Harriers? Yeah, yeah.
I think I might have heard of them.

Yeah, yeah.

He was born in 1917 in New Cross
in south London,

the youngest of eight children.

He was named Albert Edward Henry,
but everybody knew him as Tommy,

and the reason he was called Tommy
was because when he was a small boy,

he loved tomatoes, so his family
called him Tommyatoes

and it got shortened to Tom,
or Tommy. That's nice. Yeah.

That's really nice. Yeah.

He said where he lived
was a bit of a tough area.

You had to learn to
look after yourself.

He said you learned either to box
or to run, and he learned to run.

At the commencement of
the Second World w*r,

at the time of the Blitz,
Dad was coming home one night

and there was a sudden air raid
and he took shelter under the hedge

of a house he was passing.

Sadly, it was a direct hit on
the house, and he was buried alive.

They rescued him
and took him to hospital,

but he was really badly injured.

But Tommy's injuries
weren't his only misfortune,

as his own family home
was also hit during an air raid.

Sadly, while he was in hospital
recovering from his injuries,

their home, which had been bombed,
was looted. No.

And he lost all of his possessions,
including his running gear.

The only thing that he had
was this little cup,

and, as you can see, it's really
rather battered. Is that all that's
left? Yeah. That's all that's left.

Nothing at all.
This is very, very important.

It is, yeah. Sorry.

It's OK.

The...

The cup was attached to the base

and I don't know
how they became separated.

It was also silver-plated.

There is engraving there that says,
"1937 China Cup."

It is a bit lopsided.

And then if it's possible to have it
resilvered, that would be lovely.

Thank you for bringing it in, and
I'll be in touch when it's done.

OK, thanks very much, Brent.

Cheerio. Thank you. Bye-bye.

I'm looking forward to seeing what's
done to it and how it turns out.

Perhaps see it something as it
looked when it was presented

to my father in 1937.

I always feel cleaning something
and polishing something

before the repairs are done
is a good thing.

You get to know an item by going
into all the little corners.

This is making me smile already
because Valerie said that

the silver plate had all been
polished off, but in fact...

..the silver plate's
absolutely fine on there.

It's just really badly tarnished,

so I can just touch up the bits
that need doing.

I can almost see the smile on
Valerie's face when she sees this.

That looks really nice already.

Over on Dr Steve's workbench,
surgery is underway to remove

the wonky eyeball
from the ventriloquist dummy.

I'm hoping it's going to just be
a case of getting the old glue off.

Yes.

That's a lot easier than I thought.

There we go.

I've now got to straighten up
a lot of the wires

that are inside that have been bent.

This is really very tricky
because the...

I can't get my hands in there
and I'm having to do it all

with forceps and other tools

and I'm trying to get to a position
where I can actually

twist some wires around
that were bent the wrong way.

It's really not easy at all.

I've managed to straighten up
all the wires now

and I'll just drop the eyeball
into the side, then.

I've just got to position the eye
in the right place.

OK. Good. It's ready to glue.

Now he can see straight...

Yeah, that's working really well.

..George's crumbling 50-year-old
head can be attended to -

a job for Kirsten, the Repair Shop's
ceramics restorer.

"Hello." Hello, George.

"So, do you think you can
sort out my face, then?"

KIRSTEN LAUGHS

Yeah. Goodness me.

He's looking pretty sorry
for himself, isn't he? He is.

Is it all right if I actually
try and remove some of this

and smooth it?

I think it's actually going to help
a lot because the top lip

is quite hard to move.

So, if you were to remove
some of that,

I'm sure it'll make it
more flexible. Free it up.

OK, all right. Yeah, that's great.
Thank you, Steve.

OK. Leave him with me. Good luck.

Yeah, thank you.

Poor old George.
He's in the most awful state.

I've got a plan, though.

I'm going to consolidate
George's flaking face here.

I'm going to give him
some cosmetic surgery

and hopefully make him look
a few years younger.

Ventriloquist dummies are now
usually made of rubber or resin,

but 50-year-old George's head was
made from the more traditional

hand-painted papier-mache.

I'm using an adhesive that's
actually been diluted with acetone

and that actually is
absorbed into the material

and then as it dries, it hardens and
therefore makes it solid and secure.

That's going to stabilise
the papier-mache,

but also it goes underneath
the paint flakes

and helps to hold those safely
and securely in place.

Holes and cracks filled,

Kirsten can start making
George's face stage-worthy again.

I'm going to now try with some
acrylic paints just to blend in

these fills and give him
a little bit of a makeover.

Let's have a look.

He's looking slightly pinky.

That's much closer, but better to
actually start off too light

and work darker
than the opposite way round.

He's starting to look better
already.

I'm feeling more like
a make-up artist right now

than a ceramic restorer.

Hey. Right.
Oh, doesn't he look better?

He does, doesn't he?
He looks so much better.

He looks quite healthy
and hearty now.

He looks as if he's been
on holiday or something.

I think he might need
something doing with his hair.

I shall leave that up to you, Steve.
Yes.

OK. All right. Thank you. OK.

The Repair Shop is home to a vast
array of talented craftspeople

and, as luck would have it, among
them is a former hairdresser.

"Hello." Hello.

"Hello." Hello.

Oh, hello.

I've got a bit of a hair problem.

OK. I'm saying nothing.

I'm wondering if
you can help me out.

So, George here... Yeah. Yep.

..needs a bit more hair.

OK. Can I get you to do that?

Oh.

THEY LAUGH

Thank you. Bye, Steve.

Amanda and toy restoration partner
Julie need to tidy up George's

balding pate before they can give
him a new head of crepe hair.

You should be in your element here.

Didn't you used to do this
for a living? Yes.

I don't think I've ever
pulled it out quite like that.

I hope not.

I'm going to cut lengths
a bit longer than I need

because we can always
trim some off afterwards,

so if we cut a piece like this,
tease it apart like so.

I think his hair
would have been a bit unruly.

Do you? Yeah.
What gives you that idea?

I think he looks
an unruly kind of chap.

Meanwhile, another hopeful visitor.

Artist and writer Clare Dales
has brought a family heirloom

for the attention of restoration
experts Walid and JouJou Saad.

Hi, there. Hello.
I'm Will. Clare.

Hello, nice to meet you.
Hello, nice to meet you, Clare.

Walid. Hi. I'm JouJou.
Hello, nice to meet you.

WILL: What do we have here?

It's actually a portable typewriter.

So it comes out of the box
and then it actually...

This is one of the bits
that doesn't quite work.

BELL TINKLES
..it unfolds.

That's a nice sound.
That wasn't working before.

THEY LAUGH

So this has been in your family
for how many generations?

Well, three. It was my grandma's.
It was your grandma's?

So, just about 100 years. Gosh.

How did it come into your
grandma's possession?

My grandad gave it to her.

She was given it in 1920,
we believe,

and she used it for work and at home
for writing her notes and such.

So, this case, which is its carrier
case, made it actually portable,

so you could fold it up
and put it in there.

It weighs the same as a laptop.

So it's as portable as that.
It's like the laptop of its day.

Totally, totally.

Yeah, and a really beautiful thing.

JOUJOU: It is,
and it's very special.

Yes.

WILL: Have either of you seen
anything like this before?

Yes. It's a Corona 3.
It's a three-bank typewriter.

One of the best manufactured
of this model.

JOUJOU: It was one of the most
successful typewriters of that time.

WILL: Do you use it?
Can it be used?

Is it completely broken?
No, that's the trouble.

The keys jam. They go up
and they stick.

The space-bar doesn't really work.
Nothing really moves.

Yeah, this doesn't drop down.

The other thing that's not there
is the writing.

You can see it very faintly there,
the "Corona".

I don't know quite
what's happened.

So there are some more cosmetic
things. JOUJOU: Yeah.

It's just unusable,
so it's so sad.

So it's just sitting in its box.

It's a special and delicate machine.

It's not easy to
take good care of it.

It certainly deserves
good attention.

It certainly deserves
very good attention

and hopefully we're going to
be able to make it type again.

Thank you. That would be lovely.

WILL: So what has spurred you on
to having this fixed now?

I'd like it working because
I'm writing another book

and I want to write on this.

JOUJOU: That would be very,
very special.

WILL: That'd be really special.

I think my grandma would love it.

I think she was quite creative.
I never met her, but I'm sure

she'd love to know
it's being used for...

It will add a piece of her to
your book. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I hope so. That'd be great.

Knowing what I do of her, through
my dad, I think she was

quite a emancipated, creative woman
and I would like to think

I could channel some of that into
my book. That'd be amazing.

That's a nice story.

WILL: Well, leave that with us
and we'll see what we can do.

Thank you so much.
Thank you for coming down.

Thank you. Thank you.

JOUJOU: Thank you. Nice meeting you.

Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye-bye.

There's nothing sadder than
a typewriter that can't fulfil

its destiny in writing words

and who knows what else, books
or letters, in the future.

But I'm looking forward to seeing
what they do

and hopefully seeing it
working again.

Corona Typewriters was founded
in 1909 in New York.

Their small, light early models
were especially popular,

their portability meaning
they were a particular favourite

of journalists on the front line
during World w*r I.

This is nice. Yeah,
it's a nice machine, a special one.

I think it's even called
The Special Machine.

Is it? It's a Corona special.

To be honest,
there's a lot of grease inside.

That's why the keys
are not striking well.

Well, how about I have a look at
the box? That will do me.

And you both get started
on the typewriter?

Perfect. Thank you. Perfect. Lovely.

OK, thank you. Let's get to work.

As the couple set about
dismantling the vintage machine,

over on his workbench, Brenton is
starting to get the Blitz-battered

running trophy back into shape.

I've got the cup cleaned up now.

This hide mallet fits in it
really nicely.

I'm going to use that to support the
cup while I bend the stem straight.

I need to get the angle
just right and hopefully...

..it will go straight.

The danger is I could
snap this off of here

and then I'm going to have to
resolder it.

It certainly looks a lot better.

Next, Brenton must address
the myriad of dinks and dents

that mark the surface
of the trophy...

..before moving to
the outdoor workshop

for some magic metal alchemy.

From where I've been attacking
the dents, I've just gone through

the silver plate a little bit
so I'm now just going to replate

that with my brush plating kit.

Silver plating uses electricity
to bond a thin layer of silver

onto less precious metals, like
the nickel this cup is made from.

It's important when there's silver
plating to keep this moving.

If you stop at any time it literally
burns the silver onto the metal

and it makes a black stain.

I certainly don't want to be
doing that to this.

I've finished plating the cup.

Valerie has asked me if this can be
attached to the cup again.

I've made a new threaded bar,
which I'm going to now

solder in here.

I'm just going to cut some bits of
solder up to drop in,

little lumps just...

..makes it easier for me
to get those in the hole.

Lots in there, so it's good and
secure, we'll just drop those in.

So you will see those little bits
disappear in a minute.

OK, I'm happy
that's all melted in there.

Well, that's gone really well.

Just need to get this
in the right place.

And then I'll just leave that
in the middle...

..to cool down and harden.

With the surface of the trophy
restored,

attention now turns
to the inscription,

which is showing its 80 years.

Brendan is calling upon
the expertise

of engraver James Neville.

Yes? This is Valerie's running cup.
Mm-hm.

It's been a bit over-polished
and the "1937" and the "China cup"

have become rather faded. OK.

She's also asked if we could put
her dad's signature underneath.

Now, I've got a copy of her dad's
signature in her old school report.

Yeah, no problem.
Excellent, thank you very much.

I'll give them to you
and let you get on with it.

Thanks. Great, OK, bye.
Thanks. Bye.

Make sure it's sharp...

To go over people's work
it's actually more difficult

than starting afresh because
you've... One, you've got to...

..go underneath the original
engraving

so you're not going to slip,

and also you've got to copy the way
they've cut, and every engraver

will have a different way
to cut a letter.

So...

I'll be copying
what this previous person did.

Amanda and Julia are also recreating
the past, having nearly finished

sprucing up George,

the 1960s cheeky-boy dummy.

"What are you doing?!"
Neatening up your hair, George!

"It tickles!"

He'll soon be ready to return
to former ventriloquist

and grandfather-of-four Alan.

Got a new friend for you.

Cor blimey, that's really good.

Fantastic.
You like it? Yeah.

You want us to do some for you?

George looks nice, doesn't he?

Yeah, fantastic.
"Thank you very much!"

You know, Alan's going to have such
a good time with his grandchildren

with this. Yeah. Yeah.

CHILDREN GIGGLE

We're very excited to
see George again.

I'm hoping he'll be
as I remember him,

when I was 16 and he was brand-new.

In particular,

I can't wait to see the girls
see him,

because I know they're going
to be delighted.

They love him.

I'm hoping that he's all shiny
and new.

And he's not broken any more.

Here we go! Wow!

Let's have a look at this.

Ready?

THEY GASP

Oh, my goodness!

THEY EXCLAIM
Look at that!

Hello, George!

Wonderful! What do you think, girls?

Doesn't he look gorgeous! Yes!

It's as good as we could have
hoped it to be.

This is...
They've done an amazing job.

They HAVE done an amazing job.

All the cracks have been filled in
and he's been beautifully painted,

and he's got this amazing
new hairstyle and matching eyebrows.

I LOVE his nose!

Do you? Isn't he wonderful?

Look at that. He looks like
he's got lipstick on!

Shall I see if I can get him
to talk? Yeah.

OK, George, it's been a long time.

Hello, everyone!

Hello, George!

Do you know who I am?!

Yes! George.

And where have I been?

Repair Shop!

At the Repair Shop!
That's right!

And, look, they've made me
as good as... New. New.

As good as new!

Hurray!
THEY CHEER

I think what the Repair Shop
has done has just been marvellous

because he really is wonderful.

Working him again,
like I have done today,

it kind of like reignited
the things that I used to do

when I was a teenager.

He's got stick-up hair, fluffy hair.

And he's also new and shiny.

And it looks like
he's just come from a shop.

I think I shall be doing lots of
parties for the granddaughters

because there's no way they're not
going to want me to get him out.

I have very fat eyebrows!

There's plenty of birthdays
coming up soon,

so we should see a lot of George.
Going to be in demand.

I think so.

Back at the Repair Shop, Walid
and Joujou have taken

the 1920s typewriter apart and Walid
has begun a meticulous clean

of the grease-clogged components.
Now I'm cleaning the rails.

These are one of the most
important parts of the machine.

If they are sticky or greasy,

don't expect the carriage
to move properly.

Using grease on a typewriter
is actually not necessary.

It's more like a myth.
If it's functioning well,

it should work without any need
of any grease or oil.

As a married couple,
we've been together for 11 years,

but as work partners
it's been three years, three years

and couple of months. Yeah.

It's actually very fun to work
together, but there are of course

certain times where we disagree
on a repairing way.

That's when we argue a little bit,
but then eventually it works out.

Because we always have our
differences, which makes us perfect.

Yin and yang -

that's what they call us.
Two minds for one typewriter.

Before he removes the key arms,
it's a good opportunity for Walid

to clean the raised letters,
or slugs. Easiest done in situ.

Every letter has a certain direction
to clean at because, for example,

the U, I have to come from upwards
to clean the corners,

and the M, down upwards,

the J from the left side

to the right side.

So, Joujou, I need your blessings!

I did the key heads - all OK?

After we polish them,
it's going to be fine.

One of your best jobs!

Once the slugs are ink-free,

Walid continues to strip down
the machine

by removing every single key arm.
Joujou's going to be cleaning

and polishing the keys,
starting with number 28.

Yeah. 27, and going to number 1,

hopefully everything is going
to be smooth enough.

But getting 28 keys squeezed back
into the diminutive machine

is a delicate task.

So we're struggling a little bit
in getting the keys back together,

just because it's too tight.

It all is looking
nice and clean.

And we need to put the carriage on
to make sure that the keys

are striking properly.

It's like we're in surgery!

I'm passing the tools.

Hammer.

With the mechanism rebuilt
and functioning, efforts can now

be focused on getting this iconic
machine looking its best again.

Perfect. Will is fulfilling
his half of the bargain.

Structurally, the box seems quite
sound, apart from that flap

on the front, and because that flap
has that clip on the front of it,

it's really important
that I glue some leather -

that means that flap on the front

will stay where it should be,

everything clips back in place,

and our typewriter's
going to be safe and sound.

That should flap up.

There.

Lovely! Job done.

I need to give it a wax over,
it looks really quite dry.

It should give it extra protection

and give it a bit more richness to
the cover of the box as well.

Meanwhile Joujou is recreating
historically accurate

gold Corona logos to replace those
missing from the typewriter.

In order for me to add the golden
foil, I have to allow it to

go through the laminator and then
the heat will actually transfer

the golden part to the print-out.

On the neighbouring bench,

James the engraver is busy creating
some lettering of his own

on special request
from owner Valerie.

He's using her old school reports to
carve the signature of her father,

Tommy, upon the 80-year-old
running trophy.

The method I'm using at the moment
is just...

..tracing literally
with tracing paper and pencil,

and we'll transfer that
onto the cup itself.

And now I'm just going over,
so with a scribe, it has to be

a very, very fine line
for me to copy.

The thicknesses and the fluidity
and the flair

will come through the tool,
which I'll add.

So we've finished, and I'm pleased.

And all in all,
I think it is looking good.

It just needs putting back together
and it's complete.

How you getting on?
Great. Yeah. All done.

Looking good. That's brilliant.
It's really nice.

Thank you so much for doing that.
You're welcome.

It's a pleasure. All the best.

Returning to the Repair Shop
to reclaim the cherished trophy

is Valerie, accompanied
by her younger brother, Victor.

The cup is the only memory
that we've got

from my dad's athletics career

because all the rest that he won
were lost in the Blitz,

when his house was bombed.

He's had on it, engraved,
"The China Cup 1937."

It will be nice to see if that is
really standing out now.

Yes, I'm really looking forward
to seeing that part of it.

Hello.
Hi, Valerie.

Nice to see you again.
How are you?

Can I introduce my brother, Vic?
Hi, Vic. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. All right?

Looking forward to this. Are you?
Yes. So am I.

So, when was the last time
YOU saw it?

Oh, gosh.

Must be 25 years ago.

Do you want to see what I've managed
to do - or we've managed to do?

Please. Yes, please.

VALERIE GASPS
Wow!

Oh, it's beautiful.

That's brilliant.
Oh, that's Dad's signature.

Oh, wow! Isn't that lovely?

That's really good.

It is, isn't it?

You know, Brenton, you asked me
what that meant to me.

And I said at the time that it
represented Dad's athletic career.

But it means much more than that
to me now.

My father died at the age of 53,
in 1970.

Because Dad's so young,

we weren't able to indulge our
father as we had our mother.

But now, what you've done to
that cup, it makes me feel

that we've done something for Dad
as well.

That's good. Yeah.

And it's...

Thank you.

It's been a pleasure doing it.

It's been a real pleasure doing it.

Thank you so much.

You'll never know what
that really does mean to us all,

really, that something's been done
for Dad.

His sporting...

I always looked up to it,
always looked up to him.

It's absolutely beautiful,
it really is.

I will let you take your lovely cup
away with you, then.

Thank you so much. OK.
Thank you.

Thank you so much. It's brilliant.

Let me present you that!

Thank you. OK.
Thank you very much.

Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

I'm just totally moved...

..that someone
should take such care and...

..and treat it with such respect.

I really can't thank Brenton enough

for what he's done for it.

To see his signature on there
is such...

It's just like the finishing touch,
that has just...

..just done it for us, hasn't it?
Yes.

It's history, it's HIS history that
we...we're just so proud of him.

Typewriter restoration experts Walid
and Joujou have been overhauling

a 1920s typewriter.

While Walid fits a new ribbon,
Joujou's recreated the gold decals

to replace those
lost over its lifetime,

and is preparing to apply them.

I have to make sure
that I don't touch the ink.

I just need to quickly position it
in the right position

that I'm going to...

..leave it in.

So I have to carefully squeeze out
the excess of the glue

and the water from under the decal.

MACHINE WHIRS

Final testing.

Hey there. Hi.

"The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog."

I'll tell you who HASN'T been
a lazy dog.

Me! I've finished doing your box
here.

Looks great. There you go.
Thank you, Will.

That flaps open...

Perfect. Looks nice.

And I've given it a wax-over, so
it's given it a bit more protection

on there and blends it all in.
Brilliant. Yes.

Thank you so much.
No worries. Thank you.

As Walid and Joujou reunite the
machine with the rejuvenated case,

Claire has arrived
to collect the typewriter

her grandfather gave her grandmother
over 90 years ago.

Since I haven't had
the writing machine at home,

there's been a sort of a gap
on the table where I've had it.

So I can't wait to get it back,
really, so that it's back in my home

and I can use it and channel
a bit of Grandma while I'm doing so.

Hello. Hello.

Hi, nice to meet you. Hi.
Likewise.

Hello. Nice to see you again.

I just can't wait to see
what you've done, really.

So what are you expecting to see?

Cos last time, when you dropped it
off, it was not in a good state.

No. That's right.
Nothing really worked.

So ideally, a typewriter that works,

and if it looks peaceful,
that's a bonus.

OK, so you want it to work
because you want to use it.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah? Yes. OK.

Shall we show her?
Go on, then, let her see.

Oh, my word!

Oh, it's amazing!

That looks so beautiful.
Does that look a bit better?

Yeah. It's lovely.
Yeah, it's gorgeous.

Yeah? Yeah.
I just want to have a go.

So, what are you going to do
with it now?

I think the first thing I might do
is write a thank-you letter.

Aww!

That's nice.

Now you see how beautiful it
looks... Yeah.

..do you want to have a go?

I can't wait to have a go. We've got
some paper there, haven't we? Yes.

Thank you.

That's very good.

BELL TINGS
Ah! I was hoping it would ping!

It's a different feeling, right?

Yeah, it feels amazing.

Yeah, it's amazing.
Thank you so much.

It's absolutely beautiful,
absolutely beautiful.

Will be put to good use.
We enjoyed working on it. Good.

So I'm sure you want to get this
home and start writing.

Absolutely. Yeah.

Okey dokey.

It's all yours.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for fixing it
for me.

You're very welcome. Thank you very
much. OK. Bye. Take care, now.

Happy typing! Thank you. Bye.

I'm overwhelmed, really.
It's just so beautiful,

what they've done with the machine,
it's working,

it looks gorgeous.

What was an unusable

collection of bits of typewriter

is now a fully working,
beautiful thing

that will be used
for, well, forever.

If it's lasted 100 years,

there's no reason why
it can't last another 100.

Join us next time for more
miraculous transformations...

Oh, my goodness!
..in The Repair Shop.