The Repair Shop - Season 14 Episode 24 - Full HD - video Dailymotion

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00:00a workshop full of wonders I heard the word watch home to experts and time

00:07honored crafts hopefully we've got this in the nick of time together repairing

00:13treasured pieces of the past oh no wow look at that wow look at that

00:20quite a prayer about that and unlocking their stories I'm completely blown away

00:26by this oh dear bringing the broken oh I'm desperate to take a look back to life

00:37oh fantastic

00:39welcome to the repair shop

00:56how are you this morning Jules I tell you what I'm fantastic I've had me coffee

01:00excellent

01:01first to arrive at the barn from Ledbury history enthusiast Mary with a piece of

01:15clothing that tells of service to the nation at a turning point in time it's

01:21destined for experts in all things leather Susie Fletcher

01:27hello hello hi there hi welcome to the bar thank you

01:32what's this this is a 1941 Auxiliary Territorial Service jerking goodness the

01:42Auxiliary Territorial Service was the ladies branch of the army so this would

01:48have been worn in World War two then in World War two yes I can show you the

01:52label there it's really nice on the inside isn't it it's lovely it's wall so

01:57it'd be warm so it says here November 1941 yes yes

02:04in the Second World War over 250,000 women served in the British Auxiliary

02:10Territorial Service to free up men for combat driving army vehicles was one of

02:18many roles taken on by women as was delivering urgent military messages on

02:24motorbikes it would have been worn by drivers motorcycle dispatch riders this was

02:32one of the things they would have been issued with what is it about the ATS

02:35that resonates with you for the first time women were able to step up and show

02:40that they could do the jobs that the men had done and for a lot of them it gave

02:45them their first taste of freedom so being a little bit of a rebel and pushing

02:50boundaries myself I felt that connection with those sort of ladies this is quite

02:57an interesting garments to own I mean has this been passed down through family or no

03:02my sister writes in a classic motorcycle magazine and said if anyone's got any

03:08stories or history about ladies in the ATS we'd love to hear and somebody wrote in

03:13and said I've got this jacket if you think it's of any use you can have it and by

03:19doing events and wearing things like this we're able to keep it in people's

03:24memories what events would those be these would be World War two reenactment

03:28events my role is the female dispatch rider I'd been doing other types of

03:34reenactment and it suddenly clicked together that I could do all those things

03:40the motorcycling the reenactment and promoting women all in one job when I

03:47first got it I wore it whenever I could but that was when I began to realize that I

03:52was perhaps doing damage to it I don't actually wear it much now as you can see

03:59the leather itself has been rubbed away I believe that somebody's put it on over

04:05quite a lot of layers yeah ripped some of the arms and then if we look at the

04:09back I'm not sure what's happened there so really if you could do something that

04:16means I can wear it without worrying right it is very precious to me and I just

04:23want to share my enthusiasm for all of this with everybody I that's that's sort

04:30of my goal in life really thank you so much for taking it on thank you we'll see

04:36you soon the leather condition itself over time has weakened and it's beginning to

05:05flake away the damage around the armpit here we've got an actual tear so I have

05:14to figure out how I can repair that in an authentic way so it doesn't look out of

05:19place when I look at the the back the hole in the shoulder here is is quite

05:28extensive but the first thing I need to start with is applying a gel that's going

05:33to help to stabilize all of those loose fibers and hopefully stick some of that

05:40surface back down

05:49the barn's next project has already got will and electronics expert mark fired up

05:56now this looks really interesting yeah look at that not made of words are not for me no it's

06:01definitely for me for husband and wife Steven and Chris from Southampton it holds the key to hidden

06:10memories of a life long gone hello hello how are you nice to see you see you do come sit down oh hello

06:21this is Gemma Gemma hello Gemma what do we have here oh it's projector which was owned from a good

06:29friend of ours called Frank how did you meet Frank we're both carpenters in when he came out the Navy he

06:35did a training course to become a carpenter and I was working on some particular houses and Frank was

06:42was networking next door and Christmas came and I said to Chris he's very lonely which he was and I said

06:51could we invite for Christmas dinner he came up and that was it and he just became part of the family it was

06:58like a father to us wasn't he really the best friend and best friend yeah what sort of person was Frank very

07:05caring I have suffered many years disease which is a disease of the inner ear and he's been there so

07:12many times for me it was a great friendship yeah so what's on the reels they're all the films of which

07:18Frank actually took while he was in the Royal Navy he started his normal seaman and he carried on getting

07:25promoted to become chief petty officer we saw a snippet about 40 years ago of what one of the films and

07:31and then the projector gave up the ghost oh right and that was the last time that was the last time

07:36it's been used yes wow hidden memories yeah hidden memories yeah so when were these being filmed originally

07:42probably from about 1958 he used to film various places he went to all over the world Frank passed

07:51last November and um and uh he always wanted us to have them because you know sorry our children show

08:02such interest in them but uh sorry no not at all I tried so many times to get it repaired yeah places

08:09didn't want to take a chance of repairing it because it looks in pretty good condition for something so

08:13well but that's obviously because it hasn't been used to know work as you can see it's it's got some

08:19broken pieces here which unfortunately I don't know where they go how will it feel to have this

08:26working it would just mean so much wouldn't it to be able to see Frank it will be very powerful I'm

08:34emotional now I'm trying to hold it in just thinking about it no pressure then well it's been lovely to

08:41meet you both actually to meet all three of you leave it with us and we'll see you very soon thank you

08:45Frank did leave a legacy behind not just this projector but also these remarkable films there's a

09:08few little bits missing which should be in here so let's just take the rear panel off now the first

09:15thing I can see in here there is definitely a belt missing that belt takes up the film after it's gone

09:21through the projector so it wraps it back around the spool and that is very specific to the machine

09:26so that's going to be a bit more fun but what the real big concern to me is when I'm rotating the

09:33the shutter itself and this suddenly jams and it goes really tight which would imply it's some like

09:40gearing oh that's interesting someone's tried to glue it and that cog is broken whoops is now

09:50someone's tried to glue that back on and it didn't work so that's why it's jamming so what I'm going to

09:57need to do now is go and source a belt and a gear and then after that I can put power to it and we'll

10:04see what other issues I may have in this projector

10:11what do you do close your eyes just so good it's fun yeah right okay

10:27stop it you're ruining my son

10:32having secured the flaking leather of the woman's second world war jerkin

10:41Susie can now start making her subtle repairs to the tears and holes

10:46this extensive damage at the shoulder area here I'm going to tackle this from the inside

10:55I need I need to unpick this seam here to get reinforcing leather in there I can make sure

11:08that there's a match in the color of the patch underneath and it will also give it more strength

11:15once I've got it in the right position I will glue it in place I've got a very small area here of the

11:26original and then I've got the the seam underneath and this is the area I'm going to start gluing into

11:35position first to try and get a really good lock on an area that could so easily pull apart as I'm

11:42working on that feel a little bit like a surgeon

11:48so I'm very very happy with where that leather is positioned it's butted up to that seam beautifully

12:11once that's all fixed I'll go ahead and tackle the rest of this loose area of leather

12:19next Holly from Derbyshire with a scientific text that's all a jumble for the attention of bookbinder

12:37chris shaw holly hi hi okay i'm good thank you what have you brought in for us um i've brought in a very poorly book

12:45it certainly looks like an old book

12:47it is it's from 1879 it's a book about physiology which is the subject that i specialize in

12:54and it was written by a very very famous french physiologist called Claude Bernard who was the pretty

13:00much the father of modern sort of scientific exploration in medicine and physiology

13:06sounds like this is quite an important book then

13:08it is absolutely and it was my father's book who was also a physiologist

13:13what is physiology well most people have heard of anatomy

13:16yes which is what things look like which is the structure of an organism and physiology

13:22is what it does and how it works so there's physiology of plants physiology of animals and

13:27then there's human physiology and i'm a human physiologist like my dad as your father was yeah

13:33and as his colleague who gifted him the book my dad was an amazing scientist and very well published and

13:38really renowned all around the world and uncle frank was sort of the north american equivalent of my dad

13:43and they became great friends and colleagues and to me he was just uncle frank hence why this is

13:49almost the most important bit there's this really terribly fragile falling apart piece of paper and

13:55it's got the inscription from my uncle frank and it says to tim scratchard which is my dad with affection

14:00to a fellow experimentalist frank p brooks and so do you think your love of the subject was through

14:06your father completely i was so lucky that i had a passion for science when i was a little girl

14:11and that there was somebody at home that could teach me crazy experiments when i was a little

14:15girl growing up oh he'd be helping me build things in the garage so he was an amazing person to grow up

14:21with so the book how come you've ended up with it i had no idea of its existence until my graduation day

14:28so um my father passed away when i was at university so he didn't see me graduate and i think my brother

14:35must have found it and kept it to present to me on my graduation day so it's incredibly important to

14:41me but it's it's never been in a condition where i can really appreciate it and enjoy it and every

14:47time i've kind of thought about it and got out and had a look another little bit falls off the front's

14:51not attached the back's not attached the spine's half missing it's very very sorry and i'd love to be

14:57able to enjoy it because i mean if i can gently open some of it it's got illustrations showing sort of

15:03the anatomy and structures i guess this is a a very direct link to to dad absolutely it's the only

15:09thing in the fire i'd grab yeah it has been an absolute pleasure speaking to you thank you

15:14for trusting us with your beautiful book no thank you thank you holly see you later then cheers bye

15:31well what an amazing book really special it's obviously french it's absolutely beautiful the

15:39lovely tight face and the illustration has been hand colored but there is an awful lot wrong with it

15:46the all-important dedication is beautiful they've used spanish wave on the inside and spanish wave came in

15:54towards the end of the 19th century so this would have been at that point height of fashion but you

16:01can see over the years it is detached and torn that needs sorting it's got to be solid copy that she can

16:08read first thing i'm gonna do is clean the original lining off to see whether i need to resew it or not

16:14because it's animal based glues adding a bit of moisture it's going to react and then lift the paper

16:32paste's all on now i just need to leave it to soak in and i can see if the lining comes off in about an

16:37hour or so replacing the belt that drives the projector has proved a problem for electronics

16:54expert mark i've managed to source a gear and i've managed to fit that just now which is good

17:00but drive belt can't source one anywhere and i've looked

17:04to create a replacement using a length of stretchy rubber he's called on toy restorer and expert in

17:11plastics charlotte to provide an extra pair of hands this is going to be really fiddly i put this in this

17:19position where it should go and stretch it and then if you could mark it with that felt tip pen yeah that's

17:25it great right now what i need to do is cut that and then i'm going to put these two pieces together

17:32heat that up so it's red hot yep then the blade's going to go in between there without burning you

17:38yeah preferably

17:42the result should be a near perfect seal okay

17:50put it there am i in the middle i just slightly off

17:54what i've got to do now is just let it cool down and then i can give it a trim

18:01and we'll see how it goes okay no problem thanks so much

18:04i like that that is really good look at you little beauty let's put some light on the subject for a second

18:26what i'm seeing at the moment is some slight flickering to the image

18:33i'd expect it not to be so flickery so i need to check that

18:38the only way to get around that is allow it to run for a considerable amount of time

18:42this has been asleep for many decades the pieces need to get lubricated and run smoothly and just like

18:48me it needs to be woken up get those joints going and over a period of time we should then work

18:54fluently and be back to normal

19:07continuing her quest to make the women's jerkin wearable again for second world war reenactments

19:14tackling the ripped armhole is susie's next task i've just stained some leather

19:20to match the surface of the jerkin because i need some some strips to create some trim that i'm

19:28going to sew on the front of the armpits here what's happened over the years is where there's been a

19:35lot of stress it's actually tore the leather so i'm just going to clip the trim

19:44in place

19:46so that i can hand sew it the beauty of hand sewing is that you feel

19:54any sense of weakness and you can compensate for that

19:58okay so i've got that that first stitch in

20:07it's really nice because as i pulled up the thread it drew everything together and it's made this

20:15this seam where it was breaking apart close up and it's really strong again so i'm very pleased with

20:23that and now i can just get on and concentrate on this stitch line

20:39it's looking and it's feeling so much stronger i now need to focus my attention on

20:49recoloring so i've got a coloring cream just to get a really nice shine

20:55it's going to take me quite a while to do i think by the end of it it's going to look really really

21:08beautiful

21:17the glue's done its job releasing the paper on the spine of the physiology book

21:28so chris can assess the state of the stitching underneath

21:32oh chris it's actually all the way along the sewing's damaged that's not good that's not what a book

21:43should do but it's it's split in two spots so that's an automatic into the naughty corner it needs

21:51to re-sew so so i need to dismantle this book and then i've got a mountain of sewing to do later

22:05i've been running the projector now for some while everything's working relating to the belt no flicker

22:10which is very rewarding to see however there is one little problem i'll turn the projector off

22:18there was a couple of items which were outside the projector which was always a little bit worrying

22:23and i've been looking at it and i can see exactly where they come from it's actually part of the

22:28the take-up spool for the film if you can imagine that this goes on here

22:34like that you have the film here and it goes through the machine and then gets picked up

22:39to this side and it goes in there and just tighten it up

22:43yes that's all good now that's in place i'll put power on

22:53now it seems okay the film will be picked up by the take-up spool

22:58like that

23:06leather restorer susie's got one more job to do before the women's army jerkin is fully restored

23:13well this jerkin is looking so much healthier so i'm gonna give the exterior a bit of a break

23:20and just focus on what's going on with the lining the only thing i think it needs is a little bit of

23:26a refresh so i'm just going to use a variety of different cloths and brushes here just to remove

23:34any of the surface dirt i really appreciate all the effort that mary is putting into

23:44keeping those stories important stories alive

23:52part of the uniform worn by women supporting the army during the second world war this tattered and

23:59torn jerkin had a brief rebirth during historical reenactments

24:07hoping she can wear it again to spread the word about the war's female daredevils

24:12history and motorbike enthusiast mary mary that's incredible it's my bike it's beautiful

24:29you look wonderful to see you to see and you're smiling oh come in the bar thank you

24:34oh gosh this is exciting look at you this is what they would wear as a dispatch rider i'm so

24:44impressed you can see why i want the extra last little bit so are you ready to see it i have every

24:52faith in you well let's see

25:04oh wow

25:07i mean straight off the color and the condition of the leather just hits me i don't know if i

25:12dare touch it i'm shaking now oh bless you oh look at where those splits were and these seams

25:22and the big hole wow wow um that is amazing you are brilliant thank you oh dear um yeah i've got watery eyes now how silly

25:42would you would you like to try it on yes please dokie

25:50manage that here we go oh look at that it's sort of a bit like an old friend coming back as well

26:00that looks absolutely amazing it just feels complete it just feels complete thank you it's just

26:09wonderful carry on the good work thank you all right take care bye bye

26:19the whole jerking just gleamed and glowed it's lovely it symbolizes all those women who were determined

26:28to do their bit for the war and it gives me more inspiration to talk to people about the women who wore

26:39these jerkins and these items the way of sort of honoring every one of them

26:59next a tired out traditional instrument that's known countless pairs of hands

27:05this is a harmonium yeah it looks like an indian harmonium okay that that must be the most worn i've

27:14ever seen one relying on organ restorer david burville to bring it back to life sheminda from watford

27:22hi there hello hello this must be yours yes yes it belongs to the family it's about 55 to 60 years old i mean it looks slightly older than that at the moment

27:36it looks well used it's very well used my father was a passionate musician and he brought it for

27:44my mum to learn on my mum would practice on it on the dining table and i played a lot on it myself for

27:52years and years and also my dad played on it he was very interested in indian classical music and his

27:59students also used to play on it and my dad had thousands of students across the uk what's your

28:04dad's name dumid singh verdi he used to teach the tabla which is the indian drum oh yeah and that's

28:10what he was a specialist in and so when they came to learn tabla at home because he had classes at home

28:16the lounge would be packed with drummers basically this harmonium was always there with the tabla always

28:23open and then one of them would play a tune and everyone would jam yeah so would you play the

28:28harmonium and sing at the same time yes definitely it's used within the sikh culture on a daily basis

28:35all the singing will be conducted with this this will be on the stage in the sikh temple the gurdwara

28:41and we sing sikh hymns from the scriptures it gives you a really like nice background sound my dad he

28:50played with a fluttering motion he was creative he'd create tunes and then teach them to me

28:56what was your dad like my dad was just incredible he was full of life and vitality and we really grew

29:02up under his bright sunny personality and it was infectious he was amazingly popular and everyone

29:10wanted to be his friend but he was just a really good teacher i mean his legacy is continuing you know

29:16past his death and i just think fixing this harmonium would just be incredible how does this

29:23work i've got no idea it's actually a wind instrument so you have bellows at the back yeah here so you pump

29:29it probably 100 you play with the other yeah oh so you don't play with both hands no you can't yeah the

29:34european ones were foot pedaled so you could play both hands but these were always hand operated yeah it's

29:41in pretty bad condition because the some of the keys have actually broken and dropped these knobs

29:49are not originals the original knobs looked like this it's an amazing family heirloom because it has

29:56these really fond memories yeah yeah it's really special yeah i can't wait to hear this working no

30:04neither can i neither can i but we'll see you very soon thank you very much bye-bye bye

30:20this has been very very well loved in its life what a fantastic piece of history but there's a lot of

30:36wear and tear which you'd expect on something which has been used as much as this has so i'm gonna have

30:42to make some stop knobs on the front the keyboard is really poorly the keys are actually covered in

30:49an early form of plastic which is called celluloid really i want to retain as much of the original

30:57key coverings as possible so i think i've got an idea of what i can do with the key coverings so that's

31:05a work in progress as i get inside the harmonium i can see that the reeds there are some which have

31:13bent so already i've got lots to do i'm going to get further down into the machine and um and see

31:19what else we've got to to find it's going to be really nice to get this back singing properly again

31:35to re-sew the physiology books in our pages chris is preparing to use an age-old method

31:43this is originally how the book was sewn back in 1870s i still use this method today

31:49so this is sunken cord method and it's sewn on cords which is hemp and you use a sewing frame

31:56to support the hemp these are the cords that i'm going to sew around which are going to be pulled into

32:01the pages these little grooves and you can see as i pull it tight it goes nice and flush into that little

32:08groove and it's a continuous strand of thread that i'm using so straight away it's linked here

32:17and then i'm going around the cord and then you just get a gentle pull and they lock together

32:26i do really love this time with a book you have sort of quiet time with it and you can get to know it

32:33and just pick out little snippets

32:47i've never heard vacuuming be so melodical before that's so funny i don't think i

33:11could play a tune on it but it's uh definitely interesting do it again

33:23so all the pages now have been mended reattached and now i'm just preparing the new leather to go

33:28onto the spine to prepare it you have to pare it down you just have to get it so it's flexible

33:34not too thick and will open beautifully i'm just wetting leather so it becomes super stretchy

33:42and on the side that's going to be touching the book i'm going to be using some paste

33:48so i'm all happy with that i'm going to start now putting the spine on

33:55when i pare it the leather stretches and then as it dries it sort of like shrinks back i'm just pushing

34:01the leather right in and then i'll turn in top and bottom so that's a new spine on now i just need to

34:21leave to dry and then i can start remounting the original back down on it

34:31and then i'm going to be able to do it and i'm going to be able to do it and i'm going to be able

34:35now that david's taken the indian harmonium apart he can begin his repairs in earnest

34:41my first port of call is the reeds these really are fundamental to the whole instrument this is

34:49what produces the sound of the harmonium so what i've been doing is making sure that there's no

34:55dirt that could stop the reeds from working

34:58i've come across one or two which are actually quite badly bent this is one of the bent ones

35:05and this will not make a sound

35:10literally air is just passing through now i'm hoping that i can actually bend them back into shape so

35:20i'm using this tool and i can just very gently push the reed down back to its original position

35:28the worry here is there's a line which is almost near the the bend mark and i don't know whether

35:35that's a fracture line or a scratch on the metal even a scratch on the metal if you're bending it too

35:41far that can actually cause a fracture just teasing it just a fraction more i think

35:51that's actually looking quite nice

36:01brilliant that was quite nerve-wracking for that to be working is a major plus point um so wouldn't want

36:09too many of those

36:19having equal challenges with the projector

36:22come on you little devil mark's attempting to take off the all-important lens so he can service it

36:30but the moment i'm trying to undo this screw only one minor problem it won't let me take it out because

36:35it hasn't been removed for literally a long long time it's still holding on so what we're going to

36:41have to do is use some heat so i'm going to put the soldiering iron onto the screw head that will

36:47create some heat against the threads and cause it to expand and often that will then break the lock

36:54a little bit like that just let it cool for a second

36:57look at that straight away it's amazing what heat can do comes off as easy as that

37:08got it there we go the only way you can examine a lens properly is look at it and they've got

37:13quite a few little bits of debris hairs and if you don't remove that you'll see it magnified onto

37:20the screen as well the last thing you want to see on frank's films is little bits of hairs trying

37:25to get into the action

37:43putting the wood turning machine through some unusual paces david's trying to shape some plastic

37:49into replacements for the main set of stop knobs missing from the harmonium

37:59so i'm just seeing how this plastic material turns up and it's actually turning really nicely

38:06unfortunately i haven't even got one of the original knobs to go by so i've got no reference for size i've

38:14got the original drone read stop knobs and these are quite a bit smaller than the main knobs would have

38:24been but they are a good reference so what i'm doing is just trying to copy the profile but scaled up that

38:35little bit so i'm just trying to go by what i think looks as right as can possibly be you're trying to recreate

38:53somebody's memory that's what you're trying to do and it's very very difficult but i'm hoping that this

39:01will be something something akin to what was on it

39:13that looks good and it fits nicely

39:16in the hand so i think that's going to be ideal getting them all consistent is going to be a little

39:21bit tricky and i'm going to have to spray these the correct color but um it's always fun i find it

39:29quite relaxing actually doing this sort of work

39:44before chris can continue with the outside of the physiology book another important job awaits within

39:52i love a dedication in a book but it's all shattered around the corner and all these little chunks of

39:59paper which have come out so i'm going to start mending it and fill in these gaps using some sort of vintage

40:06spanish marble paper so i just want to make sure that all the details marry up and the important thing is

40:13the streaks where the spanish marble has lines come along so i'm marrying up this line here with the line

40:20underneath but now i just need to cut around it and then i can see if it fits

40:27so that's going to slot in there

40:32once it's all trimmed off after i've secured it into place

40:36you're barely going to see it and once all the jigsaw pieces are cut i can then start sticking them

40:43together

40:55mark's preparing to put the projector through its test run with frank's old cinefilm

41:02i'm now just threading the film which has to be a little bit careful

41:10look at that

41:13frank certainly went to some places i can see a naval officer that's obviously promising amazing

41:20and i'm privileged to be one of the first to see it before even stephen sees it

41:25as good as the day they were shot after this projector gave up the ghost it was left to gather

41:35dust along with priceless footage of many an adventure at sea stephen and wife chris have

41:43returned to find out if they can see their dearest friend frank and the memories he captured during navy

41:50life hello how are you hello nice to see you have a seat

41:59so how have you been well apprehensive obviously i've had butterflies all morning i remember you

42:05were telling me before about frank and his memories relating to that now what do you hope you might see

42:11he's told us so many stories right of his life in the navy but it'd be lovely to see them in picture

42:17yeah so are you ready to see it oh yes please yes definitely

42:25oh wow

42:29oh it's lovely

42:33we've not seen it like that no very long time no so mark the big question is is it working

42:40well there's only one way to find out let me put that over there okay are you ready for this yes

42:53oh wow

42:56that's fantastic

42:57he told us they want you to play games on board ludo and lotto oh really on deck yeah

43:08they were allowed to take their uniforms off and just have free time oh

43:13see frank would have been on the little boat there because um he was one of the only ones as a chief

43:18petty officer yeah who could drive the small boats when they left the ship

43:24i could sit here all day

43:25there he is is that him that's frank

43:37oh oh my goodness he looked so young i just can't believe it honestly

43:43now we can see his previous life

43:55mark i can't thank you enough it's been a real pleasure

44:01so what would frank make of all this he'd be over the moon yeah he'd just be so happy that we can

44:08watch it now yeah i wish frank was here to say thank you because i know he would been a great

44:14pleasure you take care thank you bye bye

44:21absolutely amazing i never thought we'd get to this day oh it's been such a dream come true really

44:28and for mark to be able to do that for us it's so lovely to see frank stood there it was

44:36something that i'll cherish forever i think this and we're just going to enjoy them

44:51organ restorer david has thought of an ingenious way to make good the broken ivories of the indian

44:58harmonium unfortunately all of these keys have

45:05lost the tips of the celluloid and there's quite a few of them that have lost the celluloid completely

45:13i'm going to take all of the old original key coverings off and replace these broken parts

45:23and then i'm going to save some of the original celluloid and put that on the tips of the keys

45:31i really am so keen to keep the connection between gurmi his wife and everybody that's going to touch and

45:41play this instrument in the future

45:46i've got some nice matching celluloid and i'm going to stick

45:52the keys onto the material this is a sticky backed material so i can just line everything up

46:03and then i can get a nice tight clean cut between each key

46:16so that's the majority of those i think i'm going to cut one out and just see what it looks like i'm intrigued

46:24well that looks that looks really nice right i'll carry on cutting them out

46:41i'm now onto the fun bit of actually incorporating the original material onto the tip of the keys

46:53i'm adding just a little tiny strip of black celluloid i just wanted to highlight the fact that the old key covering

47:04is still there but the new key covering has actually given years more life

47:11i think that with this tip linked to the past is is still there

47:26chris's repair of the physiology book is nearing its conclusion

47:31i'm at last putting all the jigsaw puzzle back together this is the last bit of the original book

47:38that i'm now remounting onto my new spine so it fits like a dream now to make sure it's stuck

47:48i have to mummify it with some tape because obviously it's on a bend so the cotton tape goes

47:56around it what i'm trying not to do is tug otherwise the spine's going to move so my first wrap is just

48:03to hold it in place and then gradually as i put more layers on i can get slightly tighter and you

48:10can just feel the very edge of the spine is getting stuck down so that it'll just dry and set in the

48:17perfect position

48:28i'm now unwrapping the spine it's a bit like christmas and i hope it's going to be a nice surprise

48:37beautiful it's on it's stuck it's firm it looks the business i have just got a few more bits of

48:50sort of blending in the spine retooling this panel and then it's ready to go back to holly

48:58a gift from one scientist to another this important tone from the 1870s had begun to disintegrate

49:07chris you're supposed to be fixing it not reading it it's the last look that's looking brilliant

49:15thank you we should get this covered up physiologist holly has returned to be reunited with the book

49:23that links her to her dad and their lifelong shared passion holly welcome back to the barn thank you

49:30it's lovely to have you back it's lovely to be here are you excited i've been thinking about it ever

49:36since i dropped it off so um and kind of can't imagine how there was anything to be done with

49:41it because it was such a sorry state what are you hoping to see today then oh functional just in one

49:46piece and and with the the the inscription from my from my uncle frank to my dad in in the front

49:52actually not as a separate piece of paper hanging away well you ready to take a look

49:57yeah yeah yeah go on there chris

50:02wow

50:17oh that's astonishing seriously

50:24oh honestly

50:25i don't have the superlatives chris honestly how is that in one piece

50:40no

50:43look at that oh it's absolutely beautiful

50:47it wasn't even attached and it was all ragged and got bits missing and yeah it's whole again

50:55yeah i don't know what to say it is absolutely exquisite i mean i'd say you're a magician

51:01but but that would be doing you a disservice because that wouldn't recognize all your skill

51:06it's unbelievable honestly

51:09extraordinary extraordinary it's always a real fine line knowing what to do how much to do because you've

51:14got to preserve the past yeah but it's got to have the future with you holly yeah i will treasure

51:19it as will my family thank you can i give you a hug yeah you can thank you thank you chris

51:25cheers honestly amazing work mate thank you thank you i hope you enjoy the book i absolutely will

51:31thank you thank you yeah bye

51:37this book is like a thread running through my family and the fact that it's gone through so many hands

51:43before coming to mind including those of my father it's a link to the past but it's a reminder that

51:49this is sort of what my family does so yeah it's a real treasure and i'm going to really enjoy going

51:54through it cover to cover without doing any damage

51:59nearing the end of the line with the harmonium's restoration david's improvising with tools

52:18again in order to balance the keys sheminda said that her dad used to flutter his hands over the keys

52:28so i've got to recreate that super light touch this one it just thumps straight down so that indicates that

52:36the the the spring pressure is too light so i've used just a a simple little tool holder to give me the

52:46perfect weight then i just turn the spring and i just wait for the key to just start to bob up

52:56so that is yeah that's nice so that now feels exactly the same as all the previous keys it really

53:09has been a pleasure working on this yeah i'm i'm i'm really i'm really interested to hear it now

53:21this worn out indian instrument helped master of sikh music

53:25meet singh verdi teach hundreds of students including his own wife and daughter with her aunt

53:33manjeet and son godane shemindis returned to see if the treasured family heirloom has been restored

53:42hi there can you know lovely to see you again well thanks for coming down how have you been very good

53:49waiting for this moment in anticipation yeah i'm so excited the thing with this harmonium is

53:57it was always used and now it can come back into active use again and that's going to be just

54:02fabulous this is going to be super special yeah right well are you ready to see something very special

54:07yes okay here we go

54:09that is so beautiful

54:21that's amazing so good i can't believe it yeah it's just an amazing piece of work you've done david

54:28thank you amazing incredible really and the knobs are also they're exactly like they used to be

54:35you're very very welcome and it looks authentic still with the wear showing as well it was important

54:44for me to keep some of the keys original that that's that new section yeah and then the old

54:54yeah and the history is captured within every key it's just it's lovely incredible it's just incredible

55:00well i feel extra honored that you've left this in my hands and i've been able to hopefully do you

55:06justice and uh and uh get it get it playing again so you've done more than justice david oh thank you

55:14it's amazing this really respects where the instruments come from can't wait to do a proper sing

55:19song on it really really exciting would you play something for us yes sure yeah i'd be delighted to

55:26yeah thank you yeah thank you over to you i've got to do a hymn so i can cover my hair

55:49a lot of

55:54so

55:56oh

55:59yeah

56:02oh

56:03yeah

56:05yeah

56:07yeah

56:09yeah

56:11yeah

56:13That was incredible, that was amazing, well done, that was incredible, that was incredible.

56:30I could really remember, you know, when I was little and I used to play it, I could really remember it.

56:38It's been an absolute privilege and it's been such a privilege to hear you all play.

56:42It's been a joy to play it, yeah, it's been a joy.

56:45You can take it back home and get the rest of the family involved now.

56:48I know, yeah, yeah.

56:50A real heartfelt thank you to all of you.

56:52You're very welcome, you're very welcome. Take care, safe journey back.

56:55Thank you, bye-bye everyone, bye.

56:59Dad inspires thousands across the UK and for this to be resurrected is just fantastic, you know, honour to him.

57:12If you have a treasured possession that's seen better days and you think the team can help, please get in touch at bbc.co.uk slash techpar and join us in The Repair Show.

57:28We'll see you next time.

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