05x26 - 1940s Toy Gyroscope

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Welcome to The Repair Shop,

where precious
but faded treasures...

It's in a bit of a sorry state.

..are restored
to their former glory.

Only another 40 parts to go.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

Now that... It's good, isn't it?

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

to just keep things going.

..and a dream team
of expert craftspeople...

Tiny piece. Oh, amazing!
That's the edge.

You really start to see the thought
that went into making it.

..come together
to work their magic.

Welcome to the 21st century.

Yes.

Employing heritage craft skills

passed down the generations...

It's my duty to make sure

that this all goes back
in working order.

..preserving irreplaceable
heirlooms...

We're all going to go now!
THEY LAUGH

There we go.

BELL RINGS

SHE LAUGHS

..the team will restore the items...

SHE GASPS

..the memories...

Very good!

..and unlock
the stories that they hold.

SHE GASPS

It's touched my heart.

It's amazing.

In The Repair Shop today,

the restoration of a prized
possession

puts Kirsten on edge.

If I'm honest, I'm genuinely feeling
quite anxious about this.

It's quite a lot of weight
to hang on this glass,

and fingers crossed, it will stay.

A delicate piece
of family history...

Here goes.

..leaves Steve with his hands full.

Right, this is
the really tricky bit now.

I need to drop this inside

and then hold it there with a stick.

It's one of those times when
you need about half a dozen hands.

That's the one
that we need to try and get off.

Oh, I see.

First to arrive are
Theresa Southcott

and her sister-in-law, Jane,
from Leicester.

Theresa. Hey, Theresa. I'm Dom.
Theresa. Nice to see you.

Hello. Jane. Dom.

WILL: You got something for us
in your car? I have. Lovely.

Right, let's get it into the barn.

They're hoping metal and wood
experts Dominic Chinea

and Will Kirk can restore
a family heirloom,

which unpacks a fascinating story.

So, what is this?

THEY LAUGH
This is my grandmother's trunk.

Right. And the history of it is

the family were exiled from Poland
by the Russians in 1940.

Oh, goodness. They were sent
to a labour camp in Siberia,

where they stayed
for 18 months, two years.

They couldn't go home
because home no longer existed,

because it was taken over
by the Russians.

So they ended up going
as refugees to Mexico...

OK. ..where my mother lived,
so, yeah. Wow.

And this is where this turned up.

This was acquired in Mexico.

But, from Mexico,

my mother and her mother
and her sister

actually came over to the UK
on the Windrush,

the ship that brought the first
influx of immigrants

from the West Indies.

What a story. Yeah.

A well-travelled trunk, isn't it?
Yeah, it's not really known.

And what people
really aren't aware of

is that there was a group
of 66 Polish refugees

and they also travelled on
the Windrush. And that was your mum?

That was my mum... With this.

With this. No! Yeah.

..with my grandmother
and her sister.

My... That's incredible.

My grandparents came over to the UK
in the Windrush.

Oh, did they? Yeah, so they came
over from the West Indies.

Yeah. Wow.

Whilst the family were in Mexico,

they were apart
from her dad and her brother

because they were fighting
with the Allies in the w*r.

So my grandfather,
he had this photo collage

made up of all of the family,

and he sent it to Mexico

with a note, saying,

"Although we can't be together
as a family,

"we can be together
on...on the photograph." Aw.

How sweet. I know.
That's really nice.

I can see why your mum, now...

..and your nan kept hold
of things like this. Yeah.

I remember my grandmother
having this chest

in her bedroom at home, but it was
in a lot better condition...

THEY LAUGH

..at that time.

And she's written her name
on the trunk, hasn't she?

Yeah. Yeah.
You can just see there...

Yeah. It's...
It's got her name on it.

How long has this chest been
in this...? In this condition?

Well, I know that it's been
in a shed for 40-odd years.

I seem to remember it sort
of being like a varnished

mid-brown colour.

Erm, but, yeah,
it didn't look like this.

I think the varnish has long
since left the surface of this.

THEY LAUGH
Yeah.

It's definitely seen
better days, I think.

Why have you decided
to have this repaired now?

Well, my mother died recently

and she often said that she was
going to get this trunk repaired.

And I would just
really, really like to do that.

And just to keep
a bit of family history alive.

Thank you so much for explaining
all of that to us

and for trusting us with it.

Well, I'm sure you'll do
a brilliant job.

Honestly, we will do our best,
won't we? Yeah, we'll do our best.

We will. Lovely to meet you.
Thank you.

Thank you for coming.
Yeah, lovely to meet you.

Thank you, thank you very much.
Thanks. See you later. Bye. Bye now.

My mum would just be
absolutely amazed

to see this chest restored

because I know it was her wish.

Unfortunately, it's too late for her
to see it now,

but she would just be absolutely
thrilled to bits.

So...yeah.
SHE CHUCKLES

So much history in one chest.

Very cool. I think we've got
to be careful with this.

My concern is the fact that,
you know,

there's so much potential in this
wood. It could look lovely.

Yeah. But I'd be really careful
with the writing on the back

and on the front.
That's the worry. Yeah. OK.

It's super rusty.

I mean, I don't really want
to touch this too much. No.

I know. Well, I'll tell you what,

I take it first, clean it
and then bring it back into you

so you can give the wood
a little tickle.

Sounds good to me. I'll give you
a hand to your bench. Thank you.

I'm just getting my head
round Theresa's trunk

that I've got here on the bench.

It's obviously
a well-travelled trunk.

The metalwork is what I'm going
to be focusing on.

I'm basically going to try
and remove all the rust.

That's my main goal here.

This trim looks so fragile,

so I think I'm going to leave
these in place

and just clean them in situ.

But the bits that I can take off,

like the latches and the brackets
and handles and the hinges,

I'm going to remove all of those,
have a look at the best way

to treat each piece.

Wow, look at that.

Cor, that is how shiny these
latches would have been

when they were new.

Right, I need to try and get
these looking somewhere near that.

That's going to be some job.

Next to test The Repair Shop's
knowledge and expertise,

Gil and Sue Duffy from Malvern,
in Worcestershire.

They're carrying a precious parcel

for the attention of ceramics
expert Kirsten Ramsay.

Hello. Hello. Hello.

Hi, I'm Jay. I'm Sue.
This is my wife. Hi, Sue.

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

Hello. So, what have we got
in the box?

Well, it's a trophy.

And it's two bits, yeah?
It's in two bits, yes.

We commissioned this trophy
as a memorial to our daughter,

Krissy, and she had two passions,

horses and cars.

So the trophy is designed
to sort of reflect both of those.

So tell us about Krissy.

She loved horses.

I mean, at five, she insisted

we took her to the local riding
school and she learned to ride.

At five years old?
At five years old. Wow.

She competed at...in pony club
and in national eventing.

But she also liked to follow
her father in racing.

I've always raced
classic sports cars

and Krissy decided
she wanted to do that.

She was always opening up cars
and having a look

to see how they could be made
to go faster or better.

For a number of years,

Krissy and I worked on the cars,

raced all over the country.

She was very competitive.

You must have lots of very happy
memories.

Absolutely, yes. Great times.
Wonderful. Aw.

So, what happened to Krissy?

One weekend,
she came over to stay with us

and she was really, really down.

And that was, you know,
not like her at all.

She was depressed.

She underwent all sorts
of treatments and tablets and so on.

But, really,
it didn't get much better. Yeah.

One morning in 2001,

we woke up
and she'd taken her own life.

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

She just ran out of hope.

And, you know, it was...it was
terrible.

You can't imagine
what it was like.

But then, at the funeral
there were, like, over 200 people.

We then realised
that she'd touched so many people.

She'd made such an impact
on the world.

You know, it really was
a very special life.

She sounds like a really remarkable
young woman. Absolutely.

The drivers in the championship
really missed her.

And so we thought we would
commission the trophy

to keep her memory alive, really,

and her spirit alive.

For the last 17 years,
we've been presenting it each year

at Donington Park.
Donington was her favourite circuit.

OK. So, whoever wins that race,
we present for the year.

Wonderful. Yeah.

The guy that won it last year was
unable to come to the prize giving,

so he parcelled it up very
carefully, put it in the post,

we'd opened it...
And this is how it was.

Ooh. It was broken.

Gosh, that must have been
absolutely heartbreaking.

Yes. Just, like, a great
big hole opened up somehow.

I mean, OK, it's...it's glass
and wood, but it's...

..it's much more than that.
Of course. Yeah, it is.

And when we inquired about repairs

and nobody seemed to be able
to do anything,

that was horrendous.

We'd love you to be able
to mend it for us

so that we could carry on
presenting it to people.

This is a lovely way to celebrate
Krissy's life.

It's just beautiful.

We just hope you're able
to mend it for her.

I will do everything I can
to get it right, of course.

Fantastic. Thank you so much.

Thank you for bringing it.
Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. You take care now.

Thank you.

The trophy really is
a tangible reminder of Krissy.

We were so disappointed
when we found it was broken.

It would be absolutely super
to have it back in one piece again.

It's a true tribute, this is.
It's like, wow.

It's a really nice thing to do,
isn't it? Absolutely. I'm...

Yeah, I'm a bit blown away by that,
really. Yeah.

So, how do you fix glass, then?

With great difficulty.
It is really, really tricky.

But I have my ways. Yeah? Yeah. OK.

So, besides fixing the glass,
what else are you going to do?

Well, obviously, I'm going
to re-attach the horse

onto the back of the trophy.

And, really, I just want
to make it look beautiful.

It's such a moving story
and I would like

to give this back in the best
possible condition. Yeah.

It would be nice. Yeah, absolutely.

All right,
let's get this over to your area.

I'm feeling the weight
of responsibility with this piece.

I quite often
don't take on glass items

just because you don't get

a completely invisible repair,
generally.

I guess I'm wondering
about possibly replacing

this section of glass.

But there's a lot of adhesive here,

so I think the glass has probably
been dropped in and glued in.

So I think to try and remove it

would just cause damage to the wood.

I'm therefore going to try

and re-bond this glass.

All in all, it's going to be

quite a tricky challenge.

And I'm going to start
with cleaning the glass.

This is industrial
methylated spirits,

basically pure alcohol.

It's absolutely vital
that this is crystal clear

before I actually start bonding.

So it's a very slow process.

But, having said that,
I'm really hoping

that I can get this
looking its best again.

On the other side of the barn,
Dom has begun tackling

the rusty metal trim of the trunk

that sailed to England aboard
the Windrush

with an intrepid family
of Polish refugees.

Although this does look
very aggressive,

using my big angle grinder with this
big, twisted, knotted wire wheel,

I am being very, very careful.

I'm just skimming the surface with
this and just removing the rust,

leaving me
with this beautiful shiny finish.

So far, this is going really well.

For the more robust hinges
and handles,

Dom's got another trick
up his sleeve.

So, this is
my home-made electrolysis tank.

It's basically
a 12-volt car battery charger

connected to these terminals.

It's just normal water
and I'm just dissolving in

some sodium carbonate,

which is like a cleaning powder,
really.

That is going to make
the water conduct electricity.

And that movement of electricity
between the two terminals

is going to, hopefully,

remove the rust from the catches
on the trunk,

even from pieces that are deep
inside there that I can't see.

I don't actually know
how this is going to go.

It may not remove all of the rust.

Just have to try it to see.

Already that is fizzing away,

so that is a really good sign.

So I'm just going to leave
that now to sit.

Keep everything crossed that that's
going to remove all that rust.

HE SIGHS
OK. Bath time's over.

Let's have a look
at what's happened in here.

Turn it off. Safety first.

I don't want to get
an electric shock.

Just a case of fishing them out.

Oh, man, look at that.

Oh, that's brilliant.

From a rusty latch to beautiful...

Look, it's just showing up
all the detail.

That is incredible.

I am over the moon with this.

Little bit of a clean-up
with some wire wool,

and then these, along with the rest
of the pieces for the trunk,

will be ready to give back to Will.
Brilliant.

With the metal work starting
to look shipshape again,

the wooden trunk can make the short
journey to Will's bench.

Watch your fingers.

Lovely. It's nice, isn't it?

So, what are you going to do?

Make it look nice.
THEY LAUGH

That would be nice. It's...

It's really tricky because
there's paint splatters on there.

Yeah. Woodworm holes.

But I think if I can get it right,
should look good.

I've got every faith in you.

I know you're going to get it right.
Good luck.

Sometimes the first thing
that you think of is - sand it back.

But I think with this it would be
a massive mistake.

There's writing on the top

and on the side as well.

It'd be a real shame to lose that.

I think what I'll do is I might

clean this back with some hot water
and a cloth.

I'm not going to soak this wood,

because if you put too much water
on there,

the wood could absorb the water,
and then it could swell.

I think it might be made
out of camphor wood.

Lots of old trunks like this would
have been made of camphor wood.

It's quite light wood.

And I think when I clean this back

it should bring out that nice wood
and the nice colour back.

We can see how dirty this water
is here,

but it is coming off,
which is great,

and it's taking
that white paint off too.

The next thing I need to do now
is to start getting

a sealant coat of polish
to the rest of the trunk.

Next, Martin and Richard Scott
from Louth, in Lincolnshire,

hope that under the watchful eye
of clockwork guru Steve Fletcher,

a childhood toy
will be ready to roll again.

Hello. Hello. I'm Steve.

Hello, Steve. Richard.
Hi, Richard.

This is my dad, Martin.
Hello, Martin.

Hello, Steve, pleased to meet you.

What have we got in the box?

Well, we've got
a box in the box... Right.

HE CHUCKLES
..that's got a little cycle in it.

Oh, my goodness.

So, tell me about it.

Well, it was given to me
by my Auntie Doris and Uncle Eric.

This was just after the w*r.

I think I would be about six,
six years old.

And when it worked,
it was great fun.

It's a gyro on the front.

And you put a string
onto this pulley.

Yes. Pull it off,

and it'll ride along here
quite happily.

Pedal, as well, and steer...

..until it actually slows down,

and then it's as if somebody's drunk
falling all over the place.

HE CHUCKLES
This makes everybody laugh.

So, happy memories.

But, unfortunately, sometimes we let
it go off the end of the table.

And that's why it's got
in the state it's in.

It's not designed to do that.
THEY LAUGH

Was it a favourite toy of yours?

It was, because during the w*r
there weren't any toys made.

And after the w*r,
there weren't any toys... Yeah.

..because they weren't the priority.
Yeah.

So it was kind of special.

When I was little, my dad's
mum and dad were still alive,

and all the toys that he had from
that era were all home-made.

This was the only thing that he had
that wasn't, like, a home-made...

Oh, yeah, yeah. ..home-made horse
or a home-made pull cart.

As well as the mechanics
of this toy,

are there any other bits and pieces
that are wrong with it?

So, I've had a...
I've had a look round it,

and the front wheel...the front
wheel is loose.

Oh, right, OK.
And that little bit of the plastic

is all... Oh, it has...
..disintegrated.

It has disintegrated, yeah.
It's just on that side,

but I imagine both sides need
strengthening a little bit.

And the arms look as if...
Yeah, so, they're not too bad.

But you can see that

they're supposed to actually be
permanently connected on like that.

Yeah. Well, I've never, ever seen
anything like this before.

What will this mean to you
If I can get this working?

It will mean a lot, because it was
the best toy I ever had, you know.

Yeah.

For me, what I'd love to do is I'd
love to see it working with my dad

and my daughter... Yeah. ..and have
that shared experience of it.

Yeah. Three generations.

Three generations
of the same family. Yeah.

That'd be lovely.
I'm absolutely fascinated by this.

Thank you so much
for bringing this along.

I'm going to have such fun
trying to repair this

and I'm keeping my fingers crossed
that I can.

Good luck, Steve. Thank you.

All right. Thank you.
Right, bye-bye now. Bye.

It's 70 years
since I've seen it going.

So, yeah, I'm looking forward
to seeing it.

And hopefully we'll get it going.

It's the only surviving toy
we've got from Dad's era now,

and it would be great to see
it working as a family

and have a chuckle around it
ourselves. Yeah, exactly.

This is a really interesting toy.

As a child,
I always liked gyroscopes.

And when this bike goes along,

it's supposed to turn this pulley,

which in turn is supposed
to turn this pulley.

And it's not... It's not working.

So, if it was working, his legs

would pedal like that

as if he's actually cycling
the bike.

The actual wheelwork
is all falling apart.

There's just nothing there
to hold it.

So I'm going to have to make up

a complete new unit

to actually hold this wheel.

I think I'm going to take
the main body off now

to get it out of the way,

because it's actually cracked

and I've got to be careful
not to damage it any more.

I'm going to use this tool.

It's actually a clock hand puller.

But I can use it for this as well.

It just pulls the little shafts

out of their place there.

There we go.

Where the shaft actually
goes through the body,

there's just no hole at all now.

It's just all ripped out.

I need to strengthen all this up.

HE SIGHS
Er...

It's actually a lot to do on this.

At his workbench, Will is nearing
the end of his restoration venture

on a trunk that holds
the remarkable story

of a family of Polish refugees.

I'm going to use some soft wire wool
to work the wax into the surface.

You might think that the wire wool
is an abrasive, which it is,

but this is super fine wire wool

and it just works the wax
into the body.

And once that hardens,

you can buff up
to a really nice sheen.

That's a nice even coat of wax
on the surface.

The last thing I've got to do is

finish off putting on the metalwork,

and I can get it back to Theresa.

After 40 years in a shed,

this family trunk,
which made the voyage to Britain

aboard the Windrush in 1948,

had seen better days.

It was hardly fit to continue
telling its unique story.

Owner Theresa,
with sister-in-law Jane,

has returned to the barn

hoping her precious family heirloom
has been rescued.

The trunk is priceless because
it's the only thing

that I have got now that connects
my mum and my grandmother

and her sister.

So it's...

Yeah, it is...it's special.

Hello. Hi. Hi.

Hi, nice to see you again.
Nice to see you. Lovely to see you.

How are you both?
Yeah, we're very good, thank you.

How are you feeling?
Nervous. I'm a bit nervous.

Yeah? Excited. Yeah.
It was in a bit of a sorry state

when you brought it in to us.
It was very, very sorry.

Would you like to have a look?
Yes, please! Shall we do it?

Shall we have a look?
Yeah! OK. Come on, then.

Oh, my goodness. Oh! Wo...

Oh, my goodness me!

Oh, my goodness.

Wow.

SHE CHUCKLES

Just... Wow.
It looks like a treasure chest.

Oh, my goodness.

The metal -
that looks like it was the original.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Ah! You kept the original metal?

Gosh. Wow. This looks incredible.

Absolutely incredible.
It looks beautiful.

Thank you. You're so welcome.

I'm on tenterhooks about
whether you've managed to keep

any of the writing on the trunk.

Well, we have.

I think here's a street name.

That's a street name, yeah.

"Warner Street, Derby." "Derby."

Oh, my goodness.
Yeah, where they used to live.

Oh, yes. I can just see it now
in the light. "Derby."

It's so much clearer now. Wow.

And what about the signature?

Go on.

THEY GASP
Right on the back there.

How did you do that?!
A lot of patience.

But between myself and Tom
we managed to keep pretty much

everything that was original.
Oh, thank you so much for that.

Wow. This trunk is the only link

that I have got that links my mum
and the rest of the family together.

That's... That's...
That's all we have, so... Oh, bless.

Yeah. Thank you. Good.

Glad you're going
to get to enjoy it now.

Yeah. Thank you. Good. Thank you.
Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks very much.
It's been lovely meeting you.

You too. And you too. Lovely to meet
you. We'll give you a hand out.

I just really wasn't expecting it
to look so beautiful.

And I'm really happy to see it
restored like that.

It just brought back memories
of my grandmother,

so, yeah,
I'm just really, really pleased.

It's just absolutely perfect
and I'm overwhelmed.

Across the barn,
Kirsten is at a crucial stage

of her restoration project -

a trophy honouring a young woman
who died at just 31 years old.

So, having cleaned this really,
really thoroughly,

I'm now onto the next stage,
which is putting

the two sections together

and then introducing
the adhesive into the crack.

It's very, very difficult with glass

to get rid of the line completely.

It's a little bit of luck, really.

The adhesive that I'm going to use

is a specialist epoxy resin

and it's very, very slow curing.

And you have to measure out
the quantities very, very precisely.

Spot-on.

And now start
introducing the adhesive.

I can see it very slowly

sort of creeping in to that break.

And you just have
to be really patient

because what
you don't want happening

is any air bubbles occurring.

I'm now going to remove the tape

from the trophy
and, fingers crossed,

this adhesive on here
has bonded really well.

So, working on glass is actually
quite a challenge,

and I would say somewhat
frustrating as well.

It's quite difficult to get
a really satisfactory finish.

But, having said that,
I'm really hoping

that I can get this
looking its best again...

..so that it can be used
for commemorating Krissy.

I'm actually really pleased
with the way

that those two pieces
have gone together.

I'm not seeing any air bubbles,

so I'm ready
to move on to the next stage.

I've got these areas where
there are actual chips

in the edge of the break.

The adhesive
won't have filled those.

So that's something
that I need to do.

And I've got some chips here
on these horse heads.

These are made of resin, I think,

so I'm going to fill the small chips

just with a polyester filler.

It goes off quite quickly,
so I have to work speedily.

So, that's that one filled,

and I'm just going
to pop a fill in there, too.

Will, hi. Hello. Hello.
How can I help?

I am wondering if you might
be able to help me with this.

This is
a very precious memorial trophy,

which sadly got quite badly
damaged in transit.

I've been putting it back together

and just had this idea
that if we could... "We", you...

Yeah, go on. ..could perhaps make
some kind of a travel case,

because I would absolutely
hate for something

to happen to this again.
What do you think?

Yeah, that's a really good idea.
Yeah?

I will order some materials. Mm-hm.

You'd better take that away because
it looks quite fragile. Will do.

Thank you so much.
That's all right.

I really appreciate that.
No worries.

While Will sets about crafting
a bespoke travel case...

..Kirsten can turn to
the make-or-break element

of the repair.

The exciting bit is to offer this up

on to the reverse of the glass
and bond it in place.

If I'm honest, I'm genuinely feeling
quite anxious about this.

It's actually really quite heavy.

It's quite a lot of weight
to hang on this glass.

So I'm going to give it a go,

and fingers crossed, it will stay.

I've got the original screws here,
which I can use.

I'm almost hanging it on these,

but I've got to get
the right position.

And I need to check from this side
as well that it's aligned.

It seems to be hanging
in place quite well.

Yeah, I'm happy with that.

It's really now just a case
of letting the adhesive do its job.

I'm going to leave that
for a little while

and come back to it when it's cured.

Will is making a travelling case
for Krissy's memorial,

and he's asked me
to make a handle to go on the top,

so that all the recipients
of the trophy

will have a proper case
with a proper handle,

and it will be strong enough
for all...

..all the "travellings" that
it would be doing in the future.

On the other side of the workshop,

Steve is spinning through his toy
restoration,

dismantling the vintage gyro cycle

that came to a standstill
70 years ago.

Now he's inspecting
the damaged mechanism

so that he can get
those wheels turning again.

The old pivot is very, very gnarled

and worn and it just doesn't
work at all.

So I thought,
"let's start again, make a new one,

"and then it'll help it
work better."

So I need to just turn a area now

that will actually sit
through the hole in the wheel.

Good.

That should go into the forks there.

That moves very, very freely now.

Once I've riveted that in,

that will be absolutely perfect.

With the bike's pedal power
restored,

Steve can now get that
injured cyclist back on his bike.

This needs to go
through the whole body

and then go
through the saddle there.

So I think what I've decided to do

is to make some metal bearings up

and I'm going to glue this
into place to start with.

And then, once it's set -
with some superglue -

I'm then going to fibreglass
over the top of it.

And hopefully that fibreglass
is going to actually hold

all the plastic together.

So, here goes.

This is the really tricky bit now.

I need to drop this inside,
try and get it into position,

and then hold it there with
a...with a stick whilst I glue it.

I thought this was a good plan,
but I'm not sure now.

It's one of those times when
you need about half a dozen hands.

Right.

HE CHUCKLES

This is...
This is like doing keyhole surgery.

It's a good job I'm not a surgeon.

HE LAUGHS

Ooh, there we go.

I've got it in position now.

I'm just going to superglue it
while I'm holding it.

Just got to hold it there
for a little while

until that goes off.

So, that's going to go
through there nicely, yeah.

Our cyclist might be able to balance
on his bike,

but he's having trouble
gripping the handlebars.

This is one of the hands here.

It fits over the handlebar

and then the actual sleeve

fits over it like this,

so that when the handlebar's
turning, it can sort of move.

Problem is...is that this one
has completely rotted away,

so I've got to replicate
one of these now.

So I'm using this very, very sharp
scalpel, at the moment,

very, very, very carefully,

because I don't want it
to suddenly snag.

Good. That looks great.

I think that's going to work
a treat.

Elsewhere in the barn,

it's a team effort
to get the memorial racing trophy

and its bespoke travel case
across the finish line.

That seems really nice
and secure now.

So I'm going to take the opportunity

to retouch this fill that I've
made up here on the horse's head.

Hello.
SHE GASPS

Oh, my goodness.

That looks amazing.

You've matched the...
Look, you've matched...

Matched the colour of the base.

And Suzie has made a lovely
handle there as well.

Look at that! That's beautiful.

Will, you are an absolute genius.

We don't want that breaking again.
No.

You've done a great job too.
Thank you.

So it'd really nice for it
to forever stay in one piece.

Absolutely.

Gil and Sue have returned to
collect the trophy,

hoping its repair has restored
the racing spirit

of their late daughter, Krissy.

Here she is. Hello, Sue. Hi.
How are you doing? Fine, thank you.

Hi, Gil. Hello.

Hi, Gil. Hi. So how are you feeling?

Oh, excited. Apprehensive.

Yeah? Can we have a look?

You want to have a look? Yes,
please. Of course you can.

Do the honours. OK. Yeah.

THEY GASP
Oh, wow. Wow!

Spot-on. Fantastic. Yeah.

Oh, thank you so much.

Everything that was chipped.
Yeah, it was all chipped. Yeah.

Incredible. Oh, golly.

Well, that's great.
Thank you so much.

You seem relieved.

Can't believe it.

It can keep her memory going.
Yes, definitely.

Krissy was very much
at the forefront of my mind,

obviously, working on this. Yeah.

She sounded like quite
an extraordinary woman. Yes. Yes.

We're just glad that we could be
part of your daughter's legacy.

Well, absolutely. Yes. Yes.

Cos now it can continue for many
more years. Well, hopefully. Yes.

So we've now got to start filling
the back up.

There's plenty of room,
isn't there, for some more winners.

So, this got damaged in transit.
Yes. And we thought,

we'll get you a box made so you can
transport it safely. Oh, wow.

So it was a true team effort. Wow.

We've got Suzie and Will...
Ooh, wow.

Gosh. ..made this.

Oh, wow.
It would just sit inside there.

Oh... That's fantastic.
Is that all right?

Yes, I thought I was going
to hug it all the way home.

THEY LAUGH
Well, you can hug it if you want.

Thank you so much.
It's been an absolute pleasure.

Lovely to see you. Thank you.

Take care now. Bye. Bye-bye.

The trophy's unbelievable.

When we saw it in pieces,
you'd have never believed

it would have
gone back together again.

I was just absolutely amazed
at how well they'd done it.

And how lovely it will look
for somebody receiving it

when they've won it again.

And it sort of keeps
the whole thing going.

It keeps Krissy's memory alive,

so it's really amazing.

Thanks to Steve,

the gyroscopic bike
is almost ready to embark

on what he hopes will be its first
successful spin in 70 years.

Right, I think I've got
all the components repaired now.

I just need to get it
all back together again

and then test it.

And that's the bit
I can't wait to do.

I'm really pleased with the repair
that I've done on there,

and all the repairs I've filled

and painted with a fairly good
matching paint as well.

So that all fits very well now.

I need to just put the arms back on

and just put the new one
over there...there. Right.

HE LAUGHS

Right, so that's how it works.

Very happy with that.

Martin and his son, Richard,

have returned to the barn,

eager to see
if their family's plucky cyclist

is back in the saddle.

Hello.

How we doing, Martin? I'm fine.

Are you well? Nice to see you.
Hi, Steve.

So, how are you both feeling?
Excited.

Are you? Yeah.

I haven't seen it work for 70 years,
so...

Shall we show them, Steve? Yeah.

That's good.

It's amazing.

Can I pick it up?
Yeah, of course you can.

That's wonderful.

Oh, you've even repaired
the body as well,

which I didn't think
you could do.

That's brilliant.

I can't wait to see it working.
Well, he's waited 70 years, innit?

Yeah. Good. Right.

Let's, er, give it a whirl.

I'll get ready in the slip...
Yeah, you have to get ready.

..just to make sure it doesn't...
Absolutely.

We don't want it to drop off
the table. No.

You're responsible for that side.
I'm this side.

And you two have got that side.
Yeah.

Right. Are you ready?

Yeah, we're ready.

Oh, wow.

THEY LAUGH

There we go. That's a good one.

Oh, oh...
THEY CHUCKLE

Oh, h*, h*.
THEY LAUGH

A bit of practice, I think.
Oh, without a doubt, yeah, yeah.

We'll have a practice with it.
That's super. Cool.

And you can imagine what kids
have fun with this, can't you?

Yeah. Oh, yes.
But everybody wanted a go with it.

Yeah. That was the trouble.

That's how it got damaged.

And, er, that's quite amazing.

Just to think that my granddaughter
can play with this now.

And it'll be nice, because of
the connection with Dad and myself

and us all seeing it working
together. Yeah, it's wonderful.

Suppose you want to get it home
now, don't you? I'd love to.

There we are.

Well, thank you very much, lads.
You're very welcome.

Thank you. Thank you.

Very nice meeting you.

Thanks for your efforts.
Cheers, Steve.

I'm glad you took good care of it,
as we asked.

Oh, you're more than welcome.
Thank you very much. All right.

Great. That was good fun.
Yeah, that was good fun.

Steve's done a wonderful job.
I was thrilled to bits.

70 years since I've seen it working.

I have no other toys
from that age at all.

So, yeah, it's something special.

Can't wait to see my little
granddaughter having a go with it.

When we get it home,

we'll get him cycling around
the hard floor in the lounge

and keep him away from height.

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