04x03 - Doll's House

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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 kind
of 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 him!

Sounds like teamwork.

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

Look at that! I'm liking
what I see. Yes.

It's 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 me!

..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.

Oh, look at that!
Oh, thank you so much.

I can't see it,
because of the tears in my eyes!

This is a very emotional job to do
but incredibly worthwhile.

THEY CHEER

In The Repair Shop today,
Suzie hits a bum note trying

to save an endangered rhino...

This is so undignified.

..while Steve impresses with some
sterling work on a little racer.

That is, in my eyes, a work of art.

Thank you very much. You're more
than welcome, sir. I'm in awe of

you, mate. I'm in awe.

First to arrive at The Repair Shop,
church trustee Brian MacPhee and

friends. Hi, guy. How are you
doing? Hi, I'm Dom.

They have travelled from Gosport
in Hampshire in search of a man

who knows his metal.

Nice to meet you.
Eleanor, lovely to meet you.

What have you brought for us?

Wow. That! Well, let's try and get
it in the barn. Leave the curtains.

Dominic Chinea is the expert
now in charge of this rusty relic,

a century-old weather vane.

This is amazing.
It is absolutely brilliant.

I thought you'd just tell us to
leave it in the boot and go home.

I get on the edge of that, yes.
No, never. Never.

Tell me all about it.

Well, it was on top of the Gosport
Methodist Church spire

for approximately 98 years.

Wow. Has it come down recently,
or...? No, it came down in 2002.

We were having problems
with pigeons. Right.

And so we got a steeplejack in
to stop the pigeons from roosting.

OK. We said to him, "While you're up
there, can you have a look at the

"weather vane?" So he put his
ladders up, went up, and he came

back down and he says, "I think
you need to have it down."

So we said, "When?"
He said, "Yesterday."

He said, "Cos if you don't,
it's in fear of falling." Causing

some damage. Causing a lot of
damage. It is very rusty.

It needs an awful lot of work.
So it's going to be a very big job.

There's one of the letters
missing, as you can see.

Yes. I think that's
the least of the worries.

THEY ALL LAUGH

And everything inside there
is seized up, so it won't swing

with the wind. This green part
should be free to rotate.

Should be free to spin round. It
never moved all the time that I was

there, and I joined the church
in 1975.

Wow. I mean, I think I'd be
weathered like that if I'd have been

on top of a 90-foot spire
for 100 years.

At least we've got all the bits.

Most of the bits.
Well, yes!

Yeah. So I'm not making any
promises, but if we can save it or

at least get it into
a bit better shape,

what do you plan to do
with it afterwards?

Well, what we would like to do
is put it into the church garden.

Brilliant. You know, at least
it'll be on show, then. As it's part

of the heritage of the church,

I think that's why it's important
that we try and get it restored,

and people can actually
see it again.

Well, I'll do the best I can.
It is a big job.

That's all that one can ask for.
We'll do what we can.

But mind your fingers -
there's some sharp edges. Yeah!

Thank you all so much
for bringing it in.

It's been a pleasure meeting you.
Been a pleasure. Thank you.

Thank you. Good luck.
Thank you. Goodbye.

Hopefully, he can get it looking
as if somebody cares for it.

That's what we'd like to see.

I think there'll be a lot of
interest if we can get the weather

vane put back in the garden.

It's quite overwhelming at the
moment how rusty it actually is,

probably one of the rustiest things
I've worked on and also one

of the most fragile,
even though it's so heavy.

The most obvious thing here
is I'm missing

an E, which is really unfortunate.

So we're going to have to remake
that. The top pointer part

of the weather vane is, well,
a vital part of the whole

reason why it's up there,
to tell which direction

the wind's facing.
That needs to spin freely.

The next thing I'd probably tackle
would be these scrolls,

just do some very small-as-possible
little repairs. But it's pretty

much on every single one.

So there's quite a lot to do
to do that!

I think I'm going to have to
take the whole thing apart.

Working on something like this
creates a few sort of moral dilemmas

of - how far do you go?

It would be very easy
to almost over-restore it.

I just want to try and
save as much as I can.

Next into The Repair Shop,
Claire Short and her husband

Tom from Leicestershire,

with a gift that marked
a milestone birthday.

Wow! Now, that is cute.
I do like that.

I'm Jay. Nice to meet you, Jay.
I'm Claire. All right, Claire?

I'm Tom. All right, Tom?
So, what have we got here, then?

This is my leather rhinoceros
footstool. Cool. Suzie?

Wold you mind joining me?
Look at this.

Suzie Fletcher is a master saddler
with 40 years' experience

of working with leather.

What do we have here?
So, tell us about the rhino.

Well, this is Ralph.

He was made on the street
where I lived, in a sort

of craft workshop.

And when I was a little girl
on my way to school, you could look

through a small gap in the fence,
and they were getting the leather

ready and they were
stretching it out,

and they made gorillas
and pigs and hippos...

But obviously, the most beautiful
of all was the rhinoceros.

Obviously! Of course!

So every day, I used to go by
and look, and I'd say to my mum,

"I really want one of those,"
and she'd say it was too expensive,

"We can't afford it."

And then, when I was 18, on my 18th
birthday, there he was. He was all

wrapped up in paper, but as soon
as I saw him, I knew

what he was, because
you could kind of tell!

Oh, I think he's fabulous.
I really like him.

I'm glad you like him,
because he was one of the last

gifts my mother gave me.

Not long after that, my mother died,
because the treatment for breast

cancer in the 1980s was not
as good as it is today.

And so, unfortunately, she didn't
live, and she died at 49.

So Ralph has got
great sentimental value,

and I want to keep him for
my children, who love him, but also

I want to keep him as a memory
of my mum. Mm-hm. OK.

So, what would you like us
to do with Ralph?

I'd like you to make him like he
used to be when I first got him,

really. Both of his eyes
were actually intact,

and his bum had a tail in it. Right!

He's not had the best life,

unfortunately. He has been quite
damaged by my children, who rode him

two at a time and dragged him
around the house by his tail. OK!

THEY ALL LAUGH

And then my son's cat
scratched him quite badly. So, yeah,

he's been quite badly damaged.
Oh, look at this.

- He's been loved to death.
- Yeah.

Well, thank you for bringing him.
Lovely. Thank you, Jay.

We'll leave him with you. Thank you.
And take good care of him.

We will. It's going to be
a pleasure. Bye. Bye-bye.

Aw! He's wonderful,
absolutely wonderful.

I'm feeling a bit weird about
leaving Ralph here in the barn.

Feels a bit empty-handed,
coming out without him.

I feel a bit sad, really,
that he's in such a poor state,

because he can be a very beautiful,
proud rhinoceros. He's been with

Claire longer than I've been with
Claire, so he's a member of the

family. Now we're just hoping
he gets a second chance.

We just want Ralph
to be proud again. Yeah.

Ralph, like all the other items
that we get in here, have such

emotional attachment for people,
and it's so nice that we can be part

of that kind of history to just
keep things going. Oh, definitely.

I think that's why we get
so excited about these items.

And for Claire, clearly
she loves this rhino. Yeah.

Ralph was designed by Dimitri
Omersa, a political refugee

from former Yugoslavia.

Dimitri moved to England in 1955
and found work in the leather trade.

His creations included leather
elephants, donkeys and rhinos,

and they are still being produced
and sold today.

Unfortunately, Ralph has
some pretty extensive damage.

These wounds are quite deep.

That cat just went to town
on his hide. And we know

that he's missing his tail.

But thankfully, we have the tail,
so I just need to have a look

at his tummy.
Looks like all the seams...

..are intact. It doesn't look like
any of the threads underneath have

come undone, which is great.

He's just a little bit baggy
under here.

Stuffed animals aren't Suzie's
usual fare, but with a workshop

full of conservators,

help is at hand from the teddy bear
ladies, experts in baggy bottoms

and saggy tongues.

Julie? Can we borrow you
a minute, please?

This is Ralph. Hi, Ralph! I've got
a bit of a dilemma here, because...

..Ralph has got a very flabby tummy.
OK.

And I don't really know if I can
get in here to plump him up a bit.

If he was a bear,
we would use the closing seam.

And he's coming apart here.

OK, well, that's because
that's his closing seam.

OK. You see, the tail would've been
the last thing that went in...

Yeah.
..as they were closing him. Mm-hm.

So I think... And he's...
Excuse me, Ralph.

Sorry. He's stuffed with wood wool.
Yeah.

So it's probably just broken down,
hasn't it? Yeah.

He's not lost any of it. Right.
Do you want to use my gubbins?

I'd love to use your gubbins!
Whatever they are. OK.

So, duffing stick.

Have I got to put that...in here?

I'm trying to be a professional
here! I'm sorry.

You'd think they could have put
the closing seams somewhere else!

Like, in his belly.
OK, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Let's get on. Yeah.

All right, Ralph. I'm so sorry.
This will hurt just a little bit.

Oh, dear. This is so undignified.

Well, there's things crunching,
so that's good.

That'll be the wood wool. That'll be
the wood wool. But you need to...

A twisty action. I'll just have
a root around. Yeah.

Have fun. I will!

See you later. If I get stuck,
I'll call you back. OK.

All right. Bye, then. Thanks.

In all my years of training
and becoming a master saddler,

this is certainly...not a job
I ever expected to be doing.

Grab his horn.

I'm wedging.

Metalworker Dom is also
wrestling with his project.

He's been in the metal workshop
for hours, deconstructing

the rust-ridden weather vane.

How we doing, Mr Metal?
You all right?

It's a tricky one. A tricky one?
Yeah, it's a lot of work, this.

It's...worse than I expected.

OK. Sounds like you're on the ropes
there a bit. Yeah, it's just the

more bits I touch, the more bits
keep falling off.

We were already missing the E,
but then, look, just now, the end's

now come off. North has gone.
And we need north.

We need north. It's kind of
essential. It's all going south.

No, it's all going east, because

we've lost east.
We've lost east, yeah.

All the ends of the scrolls
have just rotted away.

I'm making templates
and measurements whilst I've got

the information here. OK. Right.

But basically, I need to hand-make
all of these, just the ends

of these scrolls,
and just weld them back in. OK.

But there's a lot of them.
Well, what I want to do for you is,

I want to make this easy,
so tell me what we need to do.

This is a little template
I've been starting to just get here.

It would basically just help to go
to the forge, because we can heat

this up and there's all the proper
tooling over there to shape

it and bend it around. All right,
we're going to get making, then.

Let's go. This is heavy, innit?
Yeah! Wow!

It's off to The Repair Shop forge,
a workshop specialising in the

craft of bending and shaping metal.

The blacksmith in charge
is Nick Wedlock.

How we doing, Nick? OK. You all
right? Yeah, not so bad.

This is what I was telling you

about. All right if I put it
on the bench? Please do!

So, I've made this as a kind of
template, so hopefully that makes

sense as to what that does.

Yeah, it does. I can use that
as a pattern. Right...

I always like a bit of free labour!

I'm glad somebody noticed!
Doing a good job, Jay. Yeah.

The basic principles of
the blacksmith's trade have remained

virtually unchanged
for over 3,000 years.

The steel is heated to over 1,000
degrees Celsius, then shaped

against the anvil by
exact strikes of the hammer.

Let's have a look at that, compare
it. Let me put that down there.

That is pretty much there, isn't
it, don't you think? Yeah. Yeah,

that'll be the first one done, then.

If they all come out
as good as that,

I'll be really pleased.
I'll be over the moon, yeah.

So, how many do we need of these?
We need, like, ten, fifteen.

Fifteen of these?
Maybe more. Yeah.

So we've got loads more to make,
then. Loads more. Come on, then.

Yeah. I'm pumping away here. I've
got a piece here ready. Good, good.

Next to bless The Repair Shop
with a visit, Reverend Mike Kinner.

He's here to see The Repair Shop's
authority in all things

clockwork, Steve Fletcher.

Hello there! I'm Steve.
Hi, Steve. I'm Mike. Hi, Mike.

What have you brought in?

Well, I've got my Jaguar.

But it's in my pocket.
Oh! Oh, my goodness!

Pop it on here,
let's have a look at it.

That's very smart.
It's nice, isn't it? Yeah.

It's heavier than I thought. It is,
yes. It's quite a solid lump.

Where does this come from?

Well, my father, when I was about
11 or 12, was sent to America.

He brought it back as a present.

This must have been
quite an expensive gift

when it was new, I'd imagine.

I guess it was.

We weren't a well-off family.
My father was an engineer,

and he was sent to America for
just three weeks, I think it was.

Right. And my sister and I had
a Post Office savings account each,

and he borrowed £10 off us each
to buy a new suit to go. Oh, my

goodness. So, you see, it was...
To buy something like that...

Heaven knows what it cost,
but, I mean, it was a big deal.

That was a lot.
Yeah. Yeah.

So I played with it
and played with it.

It will do... When it works, it will
do circles or you can steer it, you

know, yourself, with this lever
here, and it's got three forward

gears and reverse, which you
operated from that lever there.

But I'm afraid,
like all children...

..I played with it.
Well done.

It hasn't worked for 50 years.
For 50 years. Got to be,

yeah. OK. Yeah. OK. And have you got
the key for it?

I'm sorry, I haven't
got the key, no. OK.

It's a beautifully made piece.
It is, isn't it?

If I can get it going, what sort
of memories will it bring

back to you?

Well, it'll bring back memories
of childhood, obviously, memories

of Father. My father's been deceased
now for 18 years, so it'd be nice

to... Well, there's a link
back again, and I can hand

it on to either my son
or my grandson one day, provided

I don't play with it too much!

THEY LAUGH

I look forward to playing
with it, myself. Yes, do!

Thank you very much.
Bye-bye now. Bye-bye.

The Jaguar has been an ornament.

It's not been a toy any more,
but it's been something

to look at and something to dream
about, that I might have the real

thing one day. But having taken holy
orders, I don't think there's much

chance of that.

I'm not worried about it
being in pristine condition,

but I would like it mechanically

working, so that it could be
used again.

This little beauty was produced
by the German firm Prameta,

which first manufactured
toy cars in 1948.

These models' big selling point
was that an adult could stand

on the toy and it wouldn't break,
and Steve's hoping this one

has proved just as durable.
Just having the first

look at the car.

This is the time where I find out
whether it's absolutely falling

apart in there or whether there's
just some small repairs that need

doing, and some of the screws
will be holding some

of the mechanism.

I don't want to take the wrong
screw out and hear a whiz-bang

where everything comes loose!

I think the reason
I like working on these

clockwork toys is that they are
so different to clocks

and they're a real challenge.

There is an issue with the teeth,
and they are damaged slightly

on the tips, and it is because
the bearing that this is supposed

to be running in to
is completely missing.

And so instead of the teeth
nicely engaging...

..they've been just hitting
on the tips like that and damaging

the tips or even running
through, as well. To get the teeth

back in alignment,

Steve must repair the wobble
by stabilising the mechanism.

I think what I might do
is I might just make up...

..a bush for this bearing, and...

..I'm pretty sure
that's all it needs in there.

I'm not saying that that's the only
thing that's wrong with it,

but it's looking quite positive.

Over at her workbench,
Suzie has plumped Ralph the rhino

and re-stitched his bottom.

Ralph now has his tail back on,

which is looking
really rather lovely.

Good. Happy with that.

But Ralph's hide is still
bearing the scars

of a tangle with the family cat.

Just mixed up some PVA
with a bit of water.

I want it to be quite liquid, this,

so that I can get it down

in where those holes are.

I don't want to saturate it.

I just want enough on there
so it's going to reattach.

Whilst it looks quite extreme,
the damage,

and actually there is
a fair amount here to do,

the good news is that
this leather is such good quality

and it's got some thickness to it,

it's going to repair very nicely.

If it had been a thinner leather,

this would have torn
all the way through.

This is going to come out
really quite nice.

It's just going to take
a little bit of time gluing

all these little bits back.

Now I think it's time for...

..Ralph to be given...

..a bit of food.

His hide has got very, very dry.

It is a bit dull.

Leather, when it's tanned,
has oils and fats

put into the hide

to help keep it supple.

And the feeding replaces the oils
and the greases

that the leather can lose just
by being out in the atmosphere.

I find looking after leather
incredibly therapeutic, myself,

because you just see it
coming back to life.

Steve's striving for a revival of
his own.

And although parts of the
mini-Jaguar fix feel very familiar

to a clock repairer,

other elements are proving tricky.

The simple...

..bush that I thought I was
going to make and push in...

..isn't simple at all.

It's more complex.

I've got to make a bearing
to slide over that,

but that bearing that slides
over that

has got to coincide

with this unit here...

..for speeding up
and slowing it down.

So this pushes it up
and pushes it down.

So I've done this diagram

to actually help me get
all the measurements right

and design the shape, etc.

So it's not just a straight step.

It's got to have
a slight rounded bit on it.

Otherwise, it'll lock into this unit
too much.

So there's so many variables.

I've just got to make one,
to see whether it works or not.

Steve has to create the ring-shaped
bush from a solid piece of brass.

So I'm just going to put
a hole through

for the pivot.

See if that actually fits in now.

Pushing the lever side to side

pushes the wheel up and down now.

I think it's working...

..as it should do.

So it pushes through to being off

and then goes across
to the other side

to be in reverse.

Just...

..wind it up.

It's the moment of truth
for Steve's handiwork.

The car's mechanism hasn't
worked for 50 years.

WHEELS RATTLE

It's working, isn't it?

I think with a few more
little tweaks,

I think this is going to work
absolutely spot on.

Very pleased with that.

Oh, this sounds promising.

What do you reckon?
Are we nearly there?

Yeah.

That's quite cool. And...

Goes... Reversing!

So now you've got this working
for Mike...

Yeah. ..it would be nice, I think...

I've done a bit of research
and found out that these guys used

to have a special key, shaped as a
policeman with his arm like that,

and he's got the other arm
sticking out there... Right.

..and then you wind it up
and it'll be off.

Because you were just going
to give him that, weren't you?

Not that one, but I was going
to give him one similar.

All right, here you go. Cool.

Oh, my word. There you are. See?

Can you do that?

I'll make something similar.

He's going to be well-chuffed,
because you've got this fixed

and you're going to make him
one of those.

Crikey.

I'll leave it with you.

I've worked out from a picture
the scale of the key here

and worked out the actual size
from measuring the car

that I've got.

And I've found a couple
of old pieces of brass

and I'm about to start
cutting them up

and joining the various bits
together until...

..I get to that.

Steve's plan is to use
six pieces of brass

and shape and solder them
into a working 3D policeman key.

It's quite a nice project, really,

to do something
completely different.

I don't usually get to fabricate
anything like this

and do any carving and filing
of brass to make it into a shape.

I'm just about to turn up the head
for the Jaguar key.

Once I've done that,
I'll then shape it.

Then I've got to drill it, pin it
and then put it in the main body,

which is coming on quite well.

Everything is just pinned
together at the moment.

Once I've got everything finished,

then I've got to
hard-solder it all,

then clean it up, polish it,
and should be all done then.

Outside, Dom is planning
his next steps in the renovation

of the church weather vane.

I'm finding all sorts of clues
and little hints as to what it would

have originally looked like,
which is really interesting.

You can see this really nice
sort of deep forest green.

More exciting than that -

I keep finding tiny little hints
of gold leaf, which is amazing.

I can't wait. I really hope that

we're going to be able
to re-gild this thing.

It's going to look beautiful,
with little gold accents

on that green paint.

I do actually enjoy
little bits like this.

It's just trying to keep it
as accurate as we can.

Just uncovering all this history.

Next, Dom's attention turns to the
currently non-turning pointer

on top of the vane.

Are you nervous?

But a century of weather exposure
means it's a tough nut to crack.

Wow.

It's great news that this is off.
I'm so pleased.

Actually, a lot of the mechanics
of this pivot point's going

to be able to be reused,
which is really great news.

I'm really pleased with that.

Dom can now begin
rebuilding the weather vane...

..welding on
his newly forged scrolls.

With the steel sections now intact,

Dom can begin cleaning up the
copper elements of the vane,

hidden under 100 years of tarnish.

They've got this beautiful patina
with all this verdigris on it,

which is like an oxidisation,
which is a natural thing

that occurs with copper
when it's exposed to the elements.

But having the copper letters
gleaming and shipshape

means a certain lack of direction
is all the more obvious.

Dom needs to recreate an E

that will look A-OK alongside
the other three markers.

Luckily, my degree is
in graphic design,

so I've actually spent a good few
years working with typefaces

and typography.

So, I'm taking as much information
as I can from the existing letters

to recreate a matching E.

That's fantastic.

I think that sits really nicely
alongside

the original letters.

I've now just got to give that
a quick polish

so the sheen level matches
what I've done to the originals,

file around the edges.
But other than that

I think it's going to look great.
It's almost time to fit it.

But having all four directions
is pointless without a pointer.

With the copper arrow also now
gleaming, it can be soldered back

onto the central shaft.

But with his area of expertise

lying more in the welding
of steel and iron,

Dom has called upon Steve...

Hey, Steve.

..who is more used to the delicate
soldering of precious metals.

Right, let's get it all into
position.

This is a fairly critical point.

If the pieces are not perfectly
aligned,

the newly soldered joins
will break

when the wedges
and clamps are removed.

You're a bit low.

This is a bit of a fiddly job.

I'm glad you're here to help.

Oh. Stay.

Again. Oh, that's...

Mm. Mm.

Does that mean spot-on?

No. It means almost!

OK.

Happy if you are. Yeah.

So, let's give it a whirl.

Not the easiest of
soldering jobs, no.

I'm glad I didn't attempt on my own.
Thank you. That's great.

All right. Leave it with you.
Thanks so much, Steve.

Back inside the barn,

Suzie has polished and buffed
Ralph the leather rhino

to near perfection.

There's just one job left,

and for that she's calling
on furniture upholsterer Jay.

His eyes are a bit loose.

Yeah. They slide from side to side.

Yeah. Now, my question to you is,

because you do this... Yeah.
..with buttoning...

Yeah, yeah.

..now, how do I best tie this off?

I would have done it slightly
different than this.

Cos I'm understand...
How would you do it, then?

I would have fed this one,
then come through. Yeah.

And then tie kind of like
a slip knot on there, pull it,

and then that draws that one in,
pulls that one in,

and then you cut it off. I have no
idea what you're talking about.

OK. Let me take all this out.

So the needle goes through there.
That's it. Yeah.

So it creates a kind of loop.
I got you.

And then you feed that one
through there.

And then you pull it.

As soon as that's tight now... Yeah.

..what you then do is go around
the eye... Yes.

..because it's like a button. Yes.

And then you tie a knot.

Oh, it's good string as well.
I do like it.

Yeah, it is.

So all we do then
is we cut them off. Yeah.

Make sure it's nice
and tight, which it is.

And then those just get poked
into there.

That's the simplest way
that I know of doing the buttons.

That is really good. Tie a knot.

Yeah. Pull 'em tight and then
the eyes get dragged in.

I wasn't sure how I was going
to draw them together. Yeah.

With his eyes secure, Ralph is ready

to be reunited
with his owner Claire.

I'm really excited and nervous

about being reunited with Ralph.

I'm looking forward to seeing him,
because I've really missed him.

I'm hoping that Suzie has been
able to make Ralph look handsome

and proud

and that we can all enjoy him.

Hello. Hello, Claire. Hi, Jay.
How lovely to see you again.

Lovely to see you, Claire.
Lovely to see you.

Lovely to see you.

Ready?

I'm really excited.
I can see he's here.

He is here. He is here.
Very much here.

He looks a bit like how he was
wrapped up for my birthday

on my 18th.

Come on, Suzie.
All right, let's do the honours.

OK. One, two, three.

SHE GASPS

Oh, he looks brand-new.
Oh, he's lovely!

Oh!

Thanks.

How lovely. Thank you.

Oh... Thank you so much!

I don't know how you've done it.

Oh, just... You know.

A little bit of work.

There's absolutely nothing
on him that isn't perfect.

His bottom, I've not seen yet!
Have a look at his bottom.

His bum looks great!

Oh, gosh. He's got his tail back.

He looks the day...like the day
my mother gave him to me

and she laughed at me.

She laughed. It was such a big
joke. "I got you a rhinoceros."

THEY LAUGH

"Happy 18th. Have a rhinoceros."

How did you do that?
He is... He's amazing.

It was a great joke between us,

and I like to keep that alive,

like to keep the fun memories
that we had. Absolutely.

Can I show you the other side,
because this was where...?

He really had
all of his scratching, didn't he?

Where is it?

You can't... You can't see
any of that.

And his little eyes... Look, you can
see... Oh, his eyes are back.

JAY: His eyes are back in.

He had a bit of a saggy tummy. He
did have a saggy tummy, didn't he?

So... It's gone. It needed
to plumped up a little bit.

So it feels like he's been
to the gym now.

Yeah. He's got a six-pack!

He must have been a challenge
but I am incredibly grateful.

I'm really grateful. We're stunned.

Well, I'm going to be very, very
sorry to see him go, but...

JAY: I think we all are.
He's mine!

THEY LAUGH

He is yours. But I have to say...

..if ever he needs a new home...
please ask me first.

Oh, we do rhino-sitting now, don't
we? Oh, yes. I will absolutely...

I will absolutely do rhino-sitting!

You're a genius. That's all I can
say. You are absolutely brilliant.

An absolute genius. He's fantastic.

Well, thank you. Thank you very
much.

It's been my pleasure. Thank you
very much. It's been great.

Thank you, Jay. See you later.

I'm going to miss him.

Aw... Well done, you.

Yeah. Eh? That was fun.

On to the next one now, girl.

Aw... Look at him. He's beautiful.

I'm really thrilled.

He's more beautiful
than I imagined.

He looks absolutely perfect.

They've really struck a fine
balance with keeping the history

but making Ralph proud again.

It's nice to remember
that I was 18 once,

and that I had a fantastic birthday
with my mum and my whole family.

And Ralph is a memory
of that 18th birthday.

Something to keep for ever.

Despite the owner of the miniature
Jaguar being due back any moment

to collect it,

there's an air of calm
over on Steve's workbench.

Steve, I thought you was making
the key.

How's that?

Say what? I tell you what, you're
going to get something special.

This doesn't happen very often.

This isn't a wind-up?

Sir, thank you.

That is unbelievable!

In my eyes, that's a work of art.
Thank you very much.

You're more than welcome, sir.
I'm in awe of you, mate.

I'm in awe. Bless you, bless you.

I know Michael's going to be
made up cos his Jaguar's working.

Yeah. And he's got a policeman
telling him,

"Take that corner, turn down there."

Well, he's here in a minute.
Let's get it wrapped up. OK. Yeah.

Thank you, Steve. Cheers.

Owner Mike has returned to collect
his beloved childhood toy,

which has lain stationary
on a shelf for half a century.

I'm feeling excited, apprehensive.

I'm hoping that it will work
and that it will remind me of the

times that I played with it
when I was a child

and bring back
those good memories

when I first had it and it was
brought back to me by my father.

How are you doing, Mike? Hi, Jay.
Good to see you. Likewise.

Come to get your car?
Yes, please. Yeah?

All right. Steve.

Hi, Mike. Steve, good to see you
again. How are you?

I am all right, thanks. How are you?
Yeah. Good. Any success?

HE MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY

THEY LAUGH

That's why I brought it in.

Funnily enough,

there we go.

There she is. Yes. Yeah.

JAY CHUCKLES

Well done, you. Does it work?

I think you'll need a key.

Well, that's something
that was missing.

What was the key like?

I can't remember.

But you know it came brand-new
with a key. With a key in a box.

In the box. Yeah.

I'm just wondering whether, because
you can't remember the key...

No, I can't.
..what shape it is or was...

No. I can't. ..whether this
will bring back any memories.

Do you know? It does.

Right. It does.

Have you made that?
I've made that, yeah.

You are a star.

Look at that.

Isn't that super?

How did you know that?

A bit of research.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, well, well, that's a work
of art in itself. It is, isn't it?

Would you like to wind it up?
I will.

Are you ready for this? Yeah.

THEY LAUGH

It will go in reverse as well.
Oh, it will reverse? Yeah.

Well, thank you very much.

That's a stunner, that is.

Thank you.
It's been an ornament for 50 years.

THEY LAUGH
I can play again!

You can play again. Keep it out of
the way of grandchildren, I think.

For the time being!

That's really super.

Thank you very much indeed.

I'm chuffed with both of those,
because I just think

that's a bit of genius
to get that going,

but this is craftsmanship.

It was a pleasure to work on.
Was it? So thank you very much

for bringing it in to us. That's
nice. It's been really enjoyable.

Good. Thank you, Mike.
Thank you, Jay. Good to meet you.

Likewise. And, Steve, thank you
for your skill.

Bye, then. Bye-bye, now. Bye-bye.

Well done, man. That's a great one.
Yeah. I know you could do it.

Thank you very much.
Another challenge on its way.

It's quite emotional really,
cos it's been stationary

for so many years.

Mending the actual mechanism in
the car was wonderful.

But the key is a real work of art
and something to behold.

The key, for me, is
the icing on the cake.

With the toy car speeding its way
back home,

there's just the weather vane
left to complete.

Dom's poured hours of hard work
into the renovation.

A huge item, and one of the most
damaged pieces he's ever faced.

He's painted the newly intact
structure

to replicate the original shade

and he's now gilding accents
with gold leaf.

So, I'm aware the weather vane
is going back outside

once it gets back to the church.

For that reason, I've decided
to use 23-carat gold,

which won't tarnish, basically.

Anything less, 18-carat,
or any...any silvers and coppers,

would all tarnish
with the weather.

Working on projects like this,

I spend so long thinking
and planning and researching,

I really do become
quite attached to them.

And I just think it's really worth
just going this extra mile,

just putting the gold leaf on.

It's really going to do it justice.

Dom's set a course to the coastal
town of Gosport in Hampshire,

to deliver the weather vane
back to the community.

It's been a very long road
working on this weather vane.

It's been a lot of hours and hours
of quite difficult work.

It was a lot worse than I originally
thought it was going to be.

So I'm feeling really anxious.
Excited but really anxious to see

Brian's face when
he sees the weather vane.

It looks so different
to when he brought it down to us.

I don't know how
he's going to react to it.

What are you hoping to see?

Even if you've only put another
letter on

and given it a coat of paint,
you know, so it looks respectable,

you know, that, that's all
we would ask for.

I want to show it you outside.

I can't wait for you to see it
outside.

I know there's a lot of people
outside waiting to see it.

Can we get it mounted?
You're itching to show them.

I'm itching to get it out
on the plinth. I bet. I bet. Yeah.

Yeah, let's get it outside
and get it mounted.

I've been on about it for weeks
and weeks and weeks,

and now I think
people were getting a bit fed up.

"When's it coming?
When's it coming?"

So now it's here, I think now
that they'll be only too pleased

to come out.

Very, very excited.

All right, Joan?

Are you all excited to see it?

Cos I am.

ALL: Yes.

Right. Let's go.

Oh, my goodness me!

Wow.

Oh, goodness.

Oh! Look at that!

It's moving! Amazing.

HE LAUGHS

That was seized solid when we...

APPLAUSE
Oh!

Now we know which way
the wind is blowing!

Absolutely fantastic.

Dom's done a marvellous job with it.

I really can't believe how it's
turned out. It really is wonderful.

That to us now...

..will be cherished for years
and years and years to come.

I don't know how you've done it.

I honestly don't.

And look at the letters.

We've even got an E!

It's a treat for me
to see it again...

..after all these years.

Goes back a long way.

I am absolutely gobsmacked.

You know, he's done a brilliant,
brilliant job on it

and he deserves all the praise
that he can get for doing it.

Join us next time, for more
miraculous transformations...

..in The Repair Shop.