05x25 - Air-Powered Toy Car

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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

Here we go!

BICYCLE BELL DINGS

..the team will restore the items...

SHE GASPS

..the memories...

CHEERING AND LAUGHTER
Very good!

..and unlock the stories
that they hold.

SHE GASPS

It's touched my heart.

It's amazing.

In the Repair Shop today...

Steve makes his maiden voyage

with a vintage rarity
that's run out of puff.

I've never heard of an air-powered
car, let alone work on one,

so this is new for me.

And the heat is on for Dom...

Phew!

Right, there is no way I can cut
through that with an angle grinder -

I'll be here for a week trying
to cut through it. It is so thick!

..as he grapples with
a stubborn nautical relic.

It's just teasing us.
It's like a...

Oh, look, look, look, look..!
It's going to come!

It's like a wobbly tooth, isn't it?

The first arrivals at the barn,
from Merseyside,

are Linda Atkinson...

Hello. Hello, how you doing?

..and twin sister Pauline Murphy.

They're hoping Will Kirk and
Jay Blades can bring

a treasured piece of national
history back to its regal state.

Thank you. OK.

So this is a royal chair, isn't it?
Mm-hm.

And I believe this
is Prince of Wales feathers,

it's his royal crest.

How have you got this?

The chair belongs to me mum.

They were used for the investiture
of Prince Charles.

All the guests were sat on them.

And that's the ceremony
where he gets...?

Crowned Prince of Wales.
Prince of Wales.

How did your mum get this chair?
Was she a guest there, then?

There was 4,000 chairs made.
4,000? Yeah.

After the ceremony, the chairs went
on sale to the public,

and Mum sent away for one.

So is your mother quite
a patriotic lady, then? Yes, very.

Yeah. Because this is...

..this is not the sort of
average thing that you buy.

It's not at all, is it? No.

And what did Mum do with it?

Once she bought this,
what did she do with it?

It took pride of place in the house.

No-one was allowed to sit on it.
We couldn't sit on it, no.

LAUGHS: OK, right!

How has it got into such a state?

Dad never really liked the chair.

It was in the house
for about 20 years. Yes, yeah.

Then it was relegated to the garage.

So Dad put it in the garage, then?
Yeah.

Didn't want it in the house? No.

Mum loved it cos it was red,
and red's her favourite colour.

What's Mum's name, then? Nancy.

Nancy. Nancy. Yeah.

What would you like us
to do to this, then?

Mum's 93 this year,

and we just thought it would
be lovely for her

to see it as it was.

So was it, like, a vibrant red,
then?

Cos it looks like it's faded a bit
on the arms and stuff like that.

So you want it kind of repainted,
like, you want it red again?

As it was, yes. OK.

We have to think about
the upholstery and the fabric,

cos that feels like foam in there,

but that foam is
seriously deteriorated, that's gone.

So it was a tweed that was on
there - a vibrant red, did you say?

Yes. Yeah.

It was all red, then?
All red.

And then that was
the only different colour?

Gold crest, yeah. OK.

So if we're able to restore this,

what do you think Mum's
going to think?

She'd be overjoyed, wouldn't she?
Over the moon, yeah.

We've got do this for Nancy,
haven't we?

We've got do this for Nancy. OK.

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

All right. No problem.
Thank you. Good luck!

Thank you very much. Cheers

Thanks. Bye. Bye-bye.

We're feeling confident about
leaving the chair behind.

We're really looking forward to it
being restored for Mum, aren't we?

Yeah. Cos she just loves the chair
so much

and it would be lovely to see it
nice and bright and red and shiny.

I think if Will can fix the chair,

we'll be allowed to sit on it,
won't we? Yeah.

THEY CHUCKLE

It's a nice chair, innit?
Lovely chair.

Got a bit of history to it. Yeah.

Right, what have we got to do
on this one?

Structurally, it doesn't seem
too, too bad.

Foam needs to be replaced.

So it needs to be reupholstered,
recovered.

And then the paint?

Someone has painted over
the original colour. OK.

It's reacted badly - it needs to be
stripped and sanded off.

Well, I'll get some swatches, and
let's see if we can match that up.

Yeah. We've got to get it stripped,
really, first and foremost.

And then you can deal with the wood
and I'll take the upholstery off.

Yeah. Is that a deal? Deal.

All right, no problem.
Top man. Cool.

There you go.

So what happens with foam,

once it's been used
and sat on quite a few times,

it just starts to turn to dust.

All of that is quite toxic.

If it gets into your lungs,
it's not good for you,

so what I'm going to need is a dust
mask and start to take that apart.

So what I'm trying to do is get
the staples out

so I don't actually mess up
the wood that's underneath there.

So, the material, a bit like the
foam, is just dry.

Look at that.

But the colour on the inside there

is exactly the colour we want
to see,

cos then I can get a reference
for what colour it should be on top.

Phew! And that's all done.

All I've got to do is just give it
back to Will,

then he can work his magic on it.

Next to arrive at the barn
is Pam Carter from Cumbria,

who's brought along an unusual and
much-cherished vintage item.

She's hoping mechanical expert
Steve Fletcher could put it firmly

on the road to recovery.

Hello. Hi. I'm Steve.

How do you do, Steve?
I'm Pam. Hi, Pam.

So what have we got here?

Well, this is my dad's
Phantom Mark II racing car.

It was made in the 1950s,

and I suppose it's the first one
that was ever made

like remote control
because it's powered by air.

Whoa!

It's a long time
since I've seen it work.

If I can take the top off
and show you.

You press the pump... Yeah.
AIR HISSES

..the air goes into
this chamber here... Yeah.

..pushes something -
I don't know what. Yeah.

But that pulls the lever out. OK.

But that's all I can tell you,
really.

I mean, there's no batteries,
there's no electricity.

This is fascinating.

I've never seen anything like that.
I've not seen one since.

Can you remember it working?

I can, and I must have only been
about four years old,

so I can't remember a lot about it.

I can remember it going.

Was your father always
into mechanical things?

Well, yes. He worked in
the steelworks in Sheffield.

He was a borer and turner.

He liked taking clocks to pieces
and... OK.

..fixing them back together again.

Were you very close to your father?

Oh, yes, yeah.
I was a bit of a tomboy.

I was always with him, helping him
make things, take things to pieces,

put them back together again.

And I was in the garden with him
digging up worms

and putting them in my pockets
for my mum to find,

and things like that.

He was game for anything,
was my dad.

The bodywork looks in
quite good condition.

Yeah, it's just the rubber bits
that have perished.

And you see that wheel's
rather wobbly? Yeah.

It comes off. Right, OK.

My dad did try to repair it,

and I think that this balloon
was to try and seal that there.

He tried it, it didn't work -
it went back in the box.

It was beyond my dad.

And the thing is that he...

..before he died,
he asked me two things.

One was that I would be with him
when he died,

which, unfortunately, I wasn't.

He didn't want to die alone.

And the other one was, "Please
try and get my car repaired."

And if I could just fulfil

one of the promises
that I've made to me dad...

As I say, I couldn't fulfil
the other one,

which I'll deeply regret
for the rest of my life,

but at least I'll be able
to fulfil one.

I really hope I can,

for you and for your promise
to your dad.

Thank you for bringing it in.

I will do my best for you.

OK. Thank you, Steve.
OK. Thank you very much.

Bye-bye. All right. Bye-bye now.

If Steve could get the car to work
for us, it would mean so much.

I know my dad's looking down,
I believe that he is there.

It was his dream,
when he was alive,

to see that car functioning again.

I'm just hoping upon hope that I can
fulfil this one promise for him.

This is quite
a fascinating mechanism, actually.

I've never, ever heard of
an air-powered car,

let alone work on one,

so this is new for me.

I'm just going to go in feet first
and start taking it apart.

Going to take the cylinder off now.

Right, OK.

So...you've got this...plastic unit
that's in there.

So that would've gone over that.

Right...

Now I understand.

So the action of pumping this
pushes...

..air into here,

which in turn pushes this plunger

one way.

So, the action of letting go

actually sucks the air back out.

So if you keep on pressing,

letting go,

it makes this plunger do that.

And actually then drives the wheel.

This makes so much more sense now.

I see now why someone's actually
tried to repair this with a balloon.

This balloon's actually gone rotten.

So what I need to do now is find
some form of rubber or silicone

to take the place of this
to make up the diaphragms.

And this is wrong,
because this has got a one-way valve

and it should be sealed.

So I also need to find a puffer.

These wheels, I need to sort out.

They're just all soggy and
they're just going to fall apart.

So I've got to devise a way
of actually making them

so they're quite firm.

Dismantling of this has been
so, so good

because, actually, now
I understand it.

Firing on all cylinders are
Jay and Will

with the chair that once seated
a guest

at the investiture
of the Prince of Wales.

While Will strips off the paint
from its 50-year-old frame,

Jay is ready to start his
restoration of the cushioned seat.

Basically, what I've got do
with this is upholster it,

so I've got the foam,
I've got the fabric.

And what I'm going to do,
first of all, is measure this.

45 and 43.

So all I've got to do
is just mark it out.

Now, that is perfect.

And then wrapping
this material over,

so when I wrap over the fabric,
it'll be nice and soft,

because here, that edge
is quite harsh.

So now all I've got to do is use
that as a template on my new fabric

that matches up to this colour,
cut it all out, sew it together,

put it on and tuck it all along,

and then we put the chair
back together.

Hello, Will. Hey, buddy.

You all right? Very good.
How are you?

After a favour.

I'm about to pick the legs. OK.

And if I have this near
where I'm painting,

it will help me make sure
I get to the right colour.

They'll match up. No problem.
Cheers, buddy. OK.

This is all sanded back, nice and
smooth now, ready to be painted.

The top has a lot more
grain definition there,

and I'm worried that if I just
paint this base here red,

it's going to look a lot brighter
and not so much of a figure to it

as the top.

I'm going to put some stain
on the bottom leg here,

and then I'll put
some paints going over

both the stain and
the natural wood.

That way, I'll be able to find out
if I need to stain the whole thing,

or if I can just go on
straight with the paint.

You can already see that
it's bringing out the pattern

in the grain a lot more, and that's
exactly what I'm looking for.

It's a really thin coat of paint

that I'm applying here
with this rag,

but it should be enough
to give an idea

of what it's going to look like.

I'm going to leave that to dry.

Once it has, then I can offer
it up next to the top,

and then see what option
I'm going to go with.

I've got to get all the thread off.
I don't want this to rip.

I need it to be measurable.

So that's how fragile it is.

As you pull it, it's breaking away.

And the thread is almost
the same colour as the fabric,

so my eyes are really being tested.

Here, try these.

You heard me talking,
didn't you, sir?

Put 'em on first.
These on first? Yeah.

Wow.

All right.

Can you see it now?
Now I can see it.

Oh, wow.

Thank you.

Wow. That's brilliant.

This is why I love being
in the workshop,

cos you've got team-mates
that just help you out.

It's perfect.

Absolutely brilliant.

Right, let's have a look.

The bottom, where
I put the stain onto,

shows up more of the grain.

It's a lot closer to the top,
which is great.

I think if I stain
the whole of the chair

and add maybe two coats of red,

I think we should have
a perfect match.

Now that...

..is perfect.

I'm really happy with that.

Now, that's one side.

I've got three more sides to do.

Job's a good'un.

The barn's next arrivals are
Martin Brockman and Elaine Trethowen

from Penlee in Cornwall.

They're hoping metal expert
Dominic Chinea

can restore a nautical item
that's been keeping a charity afloat

for over a century.

Hello. Hi. How we doing? Hi there.
Pleased to meet you.

I'm Jay. I'm Elaine.
All right, Elaine?

Martin. All right, Martin.

Martin, hi. Dom. Nice to see you.
Hi, Dom. Pleased to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

So this...looks like
a postbox to me,

but it's probably not a postbox,
is it? No. It's not. OK.

What is this? This is
the collection box.

It collects money for the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution. OK.

So we don't know where
this box has been.

A lifeboat enthusiast actually saw

that this box was
coming up for auction.

Our heritage team bid
for it and bought it.

We don't know when
it was last open.

Hold on a minute. Hold on.
THEY LAUGH

You're trying to tell me you
haven't been able to open this.

No, we've never opened it. So you
don't know what's inside, then?

No. No idea.

I bet you're dying to see. We are.

It's an archive item.

It looks like someone's
tried to repair it maybe.

It's had some previous damage by
the looks of it. Oh, right. OK.

It looks like someone's closed it
up... OK. ..and welded is shut at
some point.

So collection towards the charity,
is it important?

Absolutely. It's all voluntary
contributions from the public.

Legacy's left to us to keep
the institution running, really.

I didn't realise that. The whole of
the RNLI is all donation voluntary,

and... We have full-time
staff on the station,

which is our coxswain and mechanic,

but the rest of the crew
are all volunteers.

They've all got day jobs, so
they could be out all night,

come in, they have
a bit of cup of tea,

debrief, then they go to work.

That is unbelievable dedication,
that is.

Martin and I come from
a lifeboat background. OK.

His dad and my dad, they served
on the lifeboat together for...

Probably about 20 years. Yeah.

Unfortunately, my dad was
one of the crew

that was lost in the Penlee
lifeboat disaster in 1981.

A vessel called the Union
Star was in difficulty. Yeah.

So the lifeboat was summoned.

It was blowing hurricane force 12,

and, unfortunately, they were
just too close to the rocks.

All 16 people lost,

eight from the lifeboat
and eight from the Union Star.

Yeah, sorry to hear that, man.

That's why preserving our history
is really, really important.

I mean, this is a great...
It's great.

What would you like us
to do to this, then?

Make it look a bit prettier
if you could.

Open it if you could.

Yeah. Find out what's inside.

In its prime, what was the
colour that it would be?

Blue. Right.

And then on the top here,

there was a knotted fan
that went on the top.

I think it needs a door as well,

so you can actually get
the donations out.

It would be handy
to get the money out.

When you think about it,
for over 150 years,

people have been putting money
in that slot. Yeah.

It's kept our lifeboats
at sea, saving lives,

and that's what will happen
when it comes back to Penlee,

so, if you can restore it,
it'll be fantastic.

Thank you for bringing this down and
telling us that wonderful history.

You're most welcome. Thank you.

Thank you so much. And you.

All right, you take care now.
Bye. Thank you. See you later. Bye.

Wow.

I'm really sad to see
that the collection box

is in the state it's in now.

It's a really important
part of our history.

It would be amazing to have
the collection box

back at our station, collecting
money to save lives at sea.

This is incredible, isn't it?
It's awesome.

I just want to see what's in there.
You just want to cut that door open.

We'll cut this off. Right.

Get inside. Find all your treasure.

Yes, please.

THEY LAUGH

Then the whole thing
needs to be sort of...

Needs to go off and be
sandblasted. Right.

Just strip the whole thing
back to the bare steel.

Then, I'm not sure how, but we're
going to have to make a new door.

Then you've got to paint it.

Then we can repaint it in
that nice original colour.

This is brilliant, isn't it?

I can't wait to get started on this.

Well, I've got a pallet truck
over there. Oh, nice.

That'll be perfect.

Bit more.

OK. You got it? Yeah, we're off.

Before Dom can even start making
the donation box fit for purpose,

he needs to summon
his inner safe-cr*cker.

First things first, I need
to cut this hole in the back

so I can see what's inside.

Phwoar.

Right, there is no way I can cut
through that with an angle grinder.

I'd be here for a week trying
to cut through it. It is so thick.

Plan B, I'm going to try my plasma
cutter and see what that does.

What, you ain't got it open yet?
Ah, don't, honestly.

This has been such a job
to get this...

Look how thick the steel is.
That is proper thick.

Yeah. They obviously didn't want
anyone to get in here. Yeah.

That's warm as well.

Yeah, it's cos I've been out
here trying to cut through it.

We could try now. I've got
a little hole there.

It's just teasing us. It's like
a... Oh, look, look, look, look!

It's going to come.
..a wobbly tooth, isn't it?

Oh, look. Yeah, yeah.

That's it. It's going to go.
It's just your top corner. Yeah.

Oh.

Look, look, look!

No way.

JAY LAUGHS
What's that, a penny?

A farthing. That's a farthing.

One penny. 1939.

That's not going to keep
the lifeboats afloat, is it?

We need more than that.
There must be something else.

There we go. Oh, there's
loads in there.

All right. What's this one?

I've never seen one like that. I've
never seen that before. That's tiny.

1896, Queen Victoria.
That is proper old.

Oh, that sounded like gold.

Earlier on, I did find some gold.

Look round here.

Look at that. Oh-h*!
Literally gold.

Yeah, that's gold leaf. Yeah.
That would have looked quality,

and stood out as well.
Wouldn't it? Yeah.

We're going to have to strip
all of this off and repaint it.

And lifeboat written
on the side in gold.

How nice. All around.

Yeah, every face is like that.
That's got gold. That's got gold.

Yeah. OK. It's going to look
absolutely fantastic.

I can see it already.
So what you've got to do now

is get the door off so I can get it
down to sandblast it. Exactly.

All right. I'll leave you to it.
Thanks, Jay.

Steve may have also struck gold
with the air-powered toy car

that a daughter pledged to her late
dad that she'd have repaired.

I've at long last been able
to find a puffer

that I think is just
the right strength.

The one that Pam brought in,
I think that's just too hard.

So this one, I think, is just right.

Hopefully.

But I won't know until
I get the diaphragm in,

and that's the thing that actually
makes the car go along.

I have actually got a nitrile glove.

It's like a silicon glove,
but it's quite tough.

It's also, you know, really durable,

because this has got to go on
for a long, long time.

So I'm just going to cut off
the long finger,

and I'm going to pop it over this
just to see whether it will inflate.

What actually happens
when you squeeze the puffer,

it actually inflates this,

which pushes the piston
one way, so like this.

It's sort of that action there,

and that's what actually
drives the car.

Hopefully, hopefully
this is going to work.

So this goes into that hole there.

Push that into place there.

Right. This is the big moment
of truth, really.

Actually, that is working so well.

That is really good news.
Really, really good news.

Good.

I need to just sort out the wheels,

because they are pretty
sort of floppy.

So what I'm going to do
is set a washer into place,

then a piece of brass for
the axel to go through.

And then hopefully
it'll be nice and strong.

On Jay's workbench, the guest
chair for a royal ceremony

is almost back to its stately self.

It is a big relief that
the fabric matches up,

and I think Linda and Pauline are
going to be over the moon with this.

All I've got to do now
is to finish off the front

and then over to Will.

How you doing, Will? Hey.

Let's pop it back to where it sits.

Well done. Oh. Happy days.

Fit for a prince.
It looks brilliant.

So I'm going to let Linda
and Pauline know

that they can come pick this up.

Nice bit of teamwork.
As always. Put it there.

Cheers, Jay. OK.

Of 4,000 made specially
for the occasion,

the chair was acquired as a memento
of Prince Charles' investiture

by a devoted royal fan,

but it had deteriorated so badly

it had been consigned to the garage.

Nancy's twin daughters,
Linda and Pauline,

hope their 93-year-old patriotic mum

will be able to have it proudly
on display once again.

Hey. Hello. Hello again. How you
doing? Nice to see you again.

Lovely to see you again. Oh, oh!
Lovely to see you again.

Nice to see you.

So how you feeling? All ready.

Ah, you're ready? Excited, yeah.

What you hoping to see, then?
Nice, new chair.

THEY LAUGH
OK.

We're excited for you guys
to see this now.

Bless you. You're just looking
down at the blanket, aren't you?

Do you want to see it? Yep.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

SHE GASPS

Doesn't look like
the same chair. No.

God, that's fabulous, isn't it?
I know. Isn't it?

Look at the seat.
My mum'll be thrilled.

Think even my dad would
like it now. Yeah.

Oh, it's wonderful.
Can't believe it. Yeah.

You've done a lovely job.
Well, Jay upholstered this.

Did you? Oh, did you?
Yeah, I got on the tools.

Because it has the royal connection,

I thought I might as well
get on my tools. It's nice.

That's lovely. That's
the perfect colour, isn't it?

Like an orange-y red, that, yeah.

Normally we would get you
to sit on the chair,

but as Mum has said that you're kind
of not allowed to sit in the chair.

Well, actually...

Is that for me? Yep.

"I hereby give permission
for my two daughters

"to sit in the investiture chair.

"Thank you very much.
Signed, Nancy. Mum." Mum.

THEY LAUGH

You're sitting on it first?
Yes, please. OK.

No problem. I don't want
any fighting now.

Oh, it's lovely. Yep. Lovely.

Thank you. My turn. Perfect.

Let's see. Yep, very nice.
Thank you.

OK.

Do you like the chair?
I love the chair. Do you? Yeah.

I would love to have
one of these. Really?

As upholsterers, we don't sit in
a chair until someone's invited us,

but you had a letter.
I don't have a letter from Mum.

We'll give you permission to sit
in the chair. Thank you. Go on.

I've been waiting to do this.
Have you? Yes.

Oh. Now that is nice.

That's very nice. Thank you
for letting me sit in it.

It's a nice thing you guys
have done for Mum.

Aw. Really, really special.

Aw, she'll be really made up. Yeah.

Thank you for bringing it in.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thanks so much. It's fabulous.
Thank you.

When we get the chair back
and show my mum,

she'll be speechless.

Just looked how it used to look.
Yeah. Perfect.

I think we're going
to have a problem

getting my ma out of
the chair actually.

Once she sits in it, she'll
probably want to stay in it.

Yeah, thinking she's royal. Yeah.

In the outdoor workshop,
there's still some distance for Dom

to navigate with the lifeboat
collection box.

The sealed-up door that was once
used to retrieve valuable donations

was no longer fit for purpose.

I've actually managed to salvage
the original hinge,

which is great that
I've actually got this.

This is really, really helpful.
It's a beautiful hinge.

Bad news is this one is
beyond repair, and I need two.

So I've got more than enough
on my plate already,

trying to make this door and
the other pieces that I need to do

to get this donation box finished.

So I'm going to run over
and see Brenton.

Hopefully he can help me
make this hinge.

Hey, Brenton. Hiya. All right?
Yeah, I'm good.

Quiet stressed. OK. I'm hoping,
you with your lathe in here,

would you mind helping me just make
that top pivot part of the hinge?

Well, two. This will be
the biggest hinge I've ever made.

Yeah, I can do that. Is it OK?
Yeah. Thank you so much, Brenton.

I'm used to making
tiny silver hinges.

It's the same principle.

It's little tubes welded
alternately on either side

of the thing that you want
a hinge to be on,

and then you put a pin
down the middle.

I'm quite handy with a lathe.

I don't see any reason why I can't
make this gigantic hinge for him.

So when I'm making a silver hinge,
I buy the tube.

You can buy all
different sizes of tube

for whatever size hinge
you want to make.

But these bespoke hinges
we're making for the box,

I'm having to make my own tube
by drilling some round bar down.

That's great. That's one done.

I've just got five more to do,
and then I can take them out to Dom.

Hi, Dom. Hello, Brenton. You OK?

Yeah, it's going really well.
This is the new door...

That is amazing.
..for the donation box.

Nobody's going to break in that.
I know. Look how thick it is.

Wow. Well, I've made
your little knuckles.

See if they fit.
Oh, Brenton. Fantastic.

I mean, that, next to the original
one... That's not far off, is it?

It's going to look smart, isn't it?
It really is. Oh, God, I can't wait.

It's so exciting, isn't it?

Shall we try and weld this on?
Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Definitely.

This is fun!

Little bit different to your usual
tiny little bits of silver.

Your hinge pin's usually that thin,
instead of... That's it.

That's looking really good.

All of a sudden, we've got a hinge.
That's great!

My work here is done, then.

OK, before you go... Oh.

So this is the fan that
would have been on top

of the donation box originally.
OK. Yeah, I want to replicate that.

I'd like that to be brass.
I think that would have been brass.

OK, I can do that.

And we've got to make this rope bit,
haven't we? Yeah, exactly.

So what are we doing?
So, look, I've got this steel bar.

It's twisted, so basically now, we
just need to bend that around there.

OK.

I can see it taking shape already,
can't you? Yeah, it's good.

Right. That's fantastic, Brenton.
Look at that.

That is great, isn't it?
Oh, that's fantastic. Great job.

So we've just got to cut
this shape out in brass.

Yeah. And then we can try
that in there,

and it'll be...good to fit
on the donation box.

Yeah. Amazing. OK.

With the replacement fan in hand...

So that's the brass cut-out.

I just need to take that to Jay,
and he can get it engraved for us.

..and the collection box now safely
back from the sandblasters,

home shores are within sight.

While in Steve's corner of the barn,

the air-powered toy car
is almost ready to roll,

thanks to its new souped-up hubcaps.

Good.

Now I just need to glue
this in place,

and then hopefully it'll
be nice and strong.

Just going to use this rubber glue.

It's really, really sticky,

and I don't really want to get it
on my fingers at all,

but it should stick this
really, really well.

Good. That fits nicely.

Just going to put the wheel on now,
and then I can test drive this car.

I can't wait to test drive it.

Good. That's nice and tight now.

Fingers crossed.

Whoa!

That works really well.

HE SIGHS
Phew.

I'm really, really
pleased about that.

It hasn't worked for so many years,

and I'm sure Pam's going
to be so pleased with it.

Pam was entrusted by her dad
just before he died

to get his beloved toy car repaired.

I'm feeling apprehensive.

Excited.

It's such a long time since
I've seen the car working,

and I'm just hoping that Steve's
been able to do that for me.

Hi, Pam. How very nice
to see you again. Hi.

How are you? Yeah. I'm so nervous.

Oh, are you? Yeah.

I know it's only small... Yeah.

..but it just reminds me of my dad
and the times that we had together.

Yeah, of course.

I promised my dad I would
try to get it fixed.

I couldn't fulfil other promises
that I made to him, but...

I don't know whether I've
even fulfilled it today.

I don't know whether
it's working or not, Steve.

Put me out of my misery.

OK. I'll do that for you.

It's been fun and games.
I can imagine.

But...you'll be pleased
to know that it's working.

Yeah.

Do you want me to demonstrate
it for you? Yes, please. OK.

Oh, that's incredible.

Whoops. It's amazing, isn't it?

I just feel like a kid again.

Oh, it's brilliant.

Really is.

This in a way says thank you, Dad,

for all those years
that you gave me.

Yeah. Yeah.

Even as an adult,
he was my best friend.

And I thank you very much.

It's been an honour.

Right. We'll put it back in its box.

There we are. Can I come
and give you a hug?

Is that all right? Yes.

Thank you. Bless you. Aw.

Enjoy it. Thank you, Steve.

You're very welcome.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye now.

To see it going, you know,
it's amazing.

Very emotional.

It just feels like my dad's with me.

I know he'd be so proud
if he was here

to see that it was repaired.

It's amazing what Steve's done.

Things are also going well
in the outdoor workshop.

How we doing, guys?
Hello, Jay. You OK?

Look what I just got back from
the engravers. Ah, amazing.

That looks fantastic. Perfect.
That's nice, innit? Yeah.

This is going to look amazing, cos
the work that you guys have done,

just going to set
this off, isn't it?

That's going to sit on top
of the donation box. Ooh.

Beautiful. Fantastic,
isn't it? Yeah.

After its long rescue operation,

the lifeboat charity
collection box

is finally ready for
Dom's golden touch.

Now the door is in place,
that is all looking fantastic.

Now on to the fun bit that I've been
looking forward to the most -

replacing that gold lettering.

I've painted back on
the text with gold size,

which is basically
an adhesive for gold leaf,

and now I'm ready to apply the leaf.

Even though it looks nice now,
once these gold letters are on

and it's all shining,
it's going to look beautiful.

So I'm just offering up
the leaf here.

So a lot of what I do
is I end up filthy.

It's grubby, it's dirty work.

So it's actually really nice
to finally be doing

some delicate work like this.

I really hope that this gold
leaf, the lettering,

it really transforms this
from just a lump of cast iron

into something special.

I hope it's a fitting
tribute, really,

for the work that they put
in on the lifeboats.

This is hopefully going
to do them justice.

After decades exposed
to the elements,

the donation box was rusting away.

Mysteriously sealed up, it was
unable to help fund the heroic work

of the lifeboatmen and women.

It's now come home to Penlee
on the Cornish coast.

Martin, Elaine and a host
of the charity's volunteers

are eager to see it.

How we feeling? Are we excited?
Yes! Good.

Ready? Three, two, one.

Wow! Woo!
APPLAUSE

Aw, look at that.

Wow.

The collection box is
absolutely fantastic.

Better than I could ever
have dreamed of.

Go on. Pull it open.

It's been so beautifully restored,

and it's come home at last.

Absolutely thrilled and delighted.

They've done a fabulous job on it.

Oh, there's coins in here.

Look! You wouldn't have seen
coins like that, would you?

No. How cool is that? Wow.

I think it looks really pretty,
and it's very nice to see it here.

It says, "Saving lives in
Mount's Bay since 1803.

"Thank you."

It's already started making money.

Hopefully we'll carry on
for hundreds of years to come.

Fantastic. Really over the moon.

Join us next time, as our devoted
team of craftspeople...

One down. Out with the old,
in with the new.

..transform precious belongings...

Oh, isn't it lovely?! Yeah.
Oh, I'm shaking. Ah.

It's beautiful.

..in The Repair Shop.