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00:00Up next on American Restoration.
00:03This is a 1920 gramophone.
00:05That's cool.
00:06Do you know what happened there?
00:07I used to race pigeons.
00:09What that is, is pigeon droppings.
00:13Pigeon poop.
00:14I want to make Tyler shop foreman.
00:16Now that means I get a different level of respect.
00:18So he's going to be trying to tell you what to do.
00:22What is that?
00:23That is a gunite gun.
00:25So this is basically a cement gun.
00:27Yes.
00:27And I would like it to work.
00:29If that mixing unit is full of cement,
00:33it's like a plumber's nightmare.
00:34Yeah.
00:35Remember back in the day when things were made by hand
00:38and people took pride in their work?
00:41My name's Rick Dale, and I bring these things back to life.
00:45Every restoration has its own set of challenges.
00:49There's no owner's manual for what we do,
00:52but there's no job we can't handle.
01:10Hey, how are you?
01:11Morning.
01:12I'm Rick.
01:12Pete Blatt.
01:13Pete, good to meet you.
01:14Yes, sir.
01:15I came to Rick's restorations this morning
01:17to get my 1920s gramophone restored and operational.
01:22So why don't you tell me a little bit about this thing?
01:24This is a 1920 Alba gramophone.
01:29Great.
01:29Crank it up, put the needle down.
01:32Lay it away, right?
01:33Yes, sir.
01:33This was the beginning of entertainment in your house.
01:36This was before radio, it was before TVs,
01:38before all that stuff, you had music boxes.
01:40I personally have had this 30, 40 years.
01:42So it's been in your family for, like, generations?
01:44Oh, yeah.
01:45That's cool.
01:46Nobody got themselves a new iPod and threw it out.
01:49In the early 1870s, Edison came out with a phonograph,
01:53and his phonograph was done in cylinders,
01:55and that's how the music played, was through that cylinder
01:57and notches and little things that touched it.
01:59And then the gramophone came out,
02:01and they ended up doing it differently.
02:04They ended up having a horn, they had a crank,
02:06and they had the stylus.
02:08It's sort of simple, the way these things worked,
02:10where the, you know, you got a needle.
02:12When you scratched on the needle, there was your sound.
02:16Came right through here.
02:17It amplifies itself out.
02:19Boom.
02:20All the way out.
02:20The coolest thing is that the first disc
02:23that they made music on was actually glass.
02:26Really?
02:26It was about seven inches around.
02:27Yeah, you can see it's got this fade paint job going on here.
02:31I mean, what?
02:32Do you know what happened there?
02:33I used to race pigeons,
02:34and this was in the pigeon loft for a while.
02:37What that is is pigeon droppings.
02:40Pigeon poop.
02:41You know what the pigeons eat?
02:42It's very acidic, so it just literally takes the paint off.
02:45That's why on a car or anything like that,
02:46if you get a bird dropping on there,
02:48you better get it off pretty quick.
02:49It'll give you a nice little spot.
02:51If you just have a couple more pigeons,
02:52we can go ahead and strip the whole thing.
02:54Yeah.
02:56Let's cut to the chase.
02:57What do you think, Price?
02:59All right.
03:00Well, quite honestly,
03:01there's a lot more work than you actually think.
03:03We'll have to take the mechanical part of it,
03:05the arm, the stylus itself, take it all apart,
03:08send it out to get nickel-plated.
03:09That'll cost some money there.
03:11We're going to have to pound this all out and straighten it
03:13and get the body guy to get that thing as straight as possible.
03:16You know, he's probably going to be five, six hours
03:18on getting that totally straight.
03:20I mean, we've got the woodwork going through the motor,
03:22the decal.
03:23The paint job is going to be probably the hardest thing to try to match.
03:26With everything on there, I'm looking right on 1800.
03:32We spend the 18 here.
03:34Ten years from now, we'll still have this.
03:36All right.
03:37We got a deal.
03:37You want to do that?
03:39Sounds fair.
03:40Awesome.
03:41With his knowledge and the people's expertise around here,
03:45when he gets done, we should be able to bring a record
03:48and play it.
03:57I need you to order the globes and the decals
03:59for the visible pump we're building right now.
04:01All right.
04:02All right.
04:02You know, T, you've been doing a pretty good job.
04:05Pretty good.
04:05Yeah.
04:06Yeah, yeah.
04:06I think you're doing a great job, actually.
04:08Tyler's been busting his ass around the shop for a while now.
04:11I'm really proud of him, and I think it's time for him
04:14to take it to the next level.
04:16I've sort of been thinking, do you want to take on the role
04:17of a foreman, Chef Foreman?
04:21It sounds cool, but I mean, it sounds like a lot of responsibility.
04:25What you're basically doing is you're dealing with each one of the employees,
04:28trying to make sure that the customer gets their machine on time.
04:32Yeah.
04:33And then it's the next phase for you.
04:35It's the next phase.
04:36Okay?
04:38You think you're up for that?
04:39I've put a lot of hard work into the business,
04:41and I know that eventually, one day, it'll be all mine.
04:44And I'm actually kind of shocked that my dad noticed,
04:46because he's been so busy.
04:47If you're up for the job, I definitely think you're ready for it.
04:50What do you think?
04:52Yeah?
04:52I'm pretty sure I can do it.
04:53I can handle it.
04:54Yeah.
04:54All right, well, if that's going to be the case,
04:56then it looks like I need a desk.
04:58A desk?
04:59What, you think I'm going to stand and do this?
05:00Well, you know, Tyler, why don't you just build yourself one right next to mine?
05:04Okay?
05:04You'll be close to me.
05:05All right?
05:06Awesome.
05:07All right, cool.
05:08I'll have a team meeting in a bit to let everybody know.
05:10I guess I'm pretty excited about being shop foreman,
05:12because now that means I get a different level of respect.
05:15If I'm the foreman, I shouldn't have to build one.
05:21That means I get a raise, right?
05:28That's nice.
05:29Okay, Kyle, what you got here?
05:31Looks like an old gramophone.
05:32Yes, sir, it is.
05:33You remember these when you were a kid, huh?
05:35Yeah, a kid.
05:36Shoot, it was just a few years ago.
05:37Earlier, our customer brought in an old gramophone.
05:40This thing is really neat, because it doesn't need any electricity to play records.
05:45I've got Kyle and Robert tearing it down to get this restoration started.
05:49Nice cloth.
05:50Yeah, that's all brass, huh?
05:52Probably want to get that thing off.
05:56It's a little baby screws.
05:58There we go.
06:00Excellent.
06:02You get this thing spinning, it just keeps spinning.
06:04Yeah, it has a heavy-duty flywheel in there
06:06that keeps the energy going until gravity eventually pulls it down.
06:10Then you just, you know, get on the crank again and crank it back up.
06:13There we go.
06:15And there's the mechanism.
06:17Ooh, years and years of dust and cred and cred and stuff.
06:21We need to get this soaked up.
06:23Okay, yeah, glued up, cleaned up.
06:25Well, there's some wood for you.
06:26I'll take the wood over to my bench and we'll go from there.
06:30You're welcome.
06:37Come on, guys.
06:38Want to have a meeting?
06:39Earlier I told Tyler that I think he's ready to take on the challenge of being the shop foreman.
06:44And now I'm bringing everybody together for a meeting to talk about it as a group.
06:48All right, I've been thinking, Tyler, you know, you've turned 18 years old.
06:53You just got out of school.
06:55I think you're ready for some more responsibility.
06:57So what I really want to do is I want to make Tyler shop foreman, basically.
07:02Whoop, whoop!
07:03So that basically means that he's going to be trying to tell you what to do instead of
07:08me, okay?
07:09He'll come to me directly.
07:10You'll have an issue.
07:11You go to him directly.
07:12It looks like he wants to take over this business.
07:15So I think he's ready.
07:16I think he's ready to take on the management part of it, of managing the guys.
07:21That's what the management part is.
07:22It's not managing the business.
07:24It's managing the guys.
07:25I want you guys to understand you need to give him respect.
07:29He, at the same time, it's like anything, everybody earns respect, okay?
07:32Get on up here, Tyler.
07:33So when my dad told everybody that I was foreman, I mean, the guys kind of just pretty
07:37much laughed at me.
07:38I don't think they think I can do it, but I'll show them I can.
07:41I feel like it'll take some getting used to being foreman.
07:43It's not just something that's going to happen overnight.
07:44But I know it's hard to listen to somebody that's half your age.
07:47I ain't giving Tyler no respect.
07:49He don't deserve any.
07:5018 is too young to be foreman.
07:52He can't even drink a beer yet.
07:54Tyler's smart.
07:55He knows what he's doing.
07:56And within time, he's going to run this place just as good as Rick does.
08:00All right, we can go.
08:00I'll get back to work.
08:01This break's over.
08:04Proud of you.
08:05Proud of you.
08:10Hey, babe.
08:12What's up?
08:12Hey, Mark from the Railroad Museum is here.
08:14What?
08:14He's in the boneyard.
08:16Mark's a repeat customer of ours.
08:18Oh, wow.
08:19It's cool, huh?
08:21Yes.
08:21He runs the Nevada Northern Railroad Museum up in Ely.
08:24He's always bringing in really old and really complicated pieces for us to restore.
08:29So I'm a little worried what he's got for us today.
08:32Hey, Mark.
08:32How you been?
08:33Good.
08:33Yourself?
08:34Good.
08:34Good to see you.
08:35Yes.
08:36Dang.
08:37Yes.
08:38What is that?
08:39That is a gunite gun.
08:41So this is basically a cement gun?
08:43Correct.
08:43Like gnarly.
08:44That is just gnarly.
08:45I came down to Rick's today to see if he's willing to restore the museum's gunite gun.
08:51And we have liftoff.
08:52I believe the gun was used from about 1918 to the 1940s.
08:59You know, the gunite machine is made to actually take the concrete and blast it.
09:04It's not like a cement mixer.
09:05So you point the nozzle at the wall and you paint the wall with concrete.
09:10Cool.
09:11So what does it have to do with trains?
09:13Well, we have tunnels we get rock fall from.
09:17You know, if you're sticking your head out the cabin and a chunk of rock hits you, bad day.
09:21And so what they would do is they use this gun to spray a cement lining in the tunnel,
09:27so the rocks wouldn't fall on top of the train.
09:30That's cool stuff.
09:31So how are you picturing this?
09:34As it just rolled onto the railroad in 1915.
09:37Okay.
09:37I mean, just looking at that thing, that is the weirdest, wildest machine I've ever seen in my life.
09:42Yeah.
09:42And this thing cemented together.
09:44That concrete is not going to be easy to get off.
09:48Are you wanting this thing to work?
09:49If we can make this work at, quote, a reasonable price.
09:53Okay.
09:54Then yes, I would like it to work.
09:56The only problem I foresee is if that hopper and that mixing unit is full of cement.
10:03Right.
10:03What are we talking about money-wise?
10:05In my business, repeat customers are gold.
10:09But Mark's always bringing me stuff that I don't know how to quote.
10:12If I go too low, I won't make any money.
10:14But if I go too high, I may never see Mark again.
10:18Um, you know, I can tell you right now, I mean, we've got some serious amount of dismantling on this
10:24thing.
10:24But let's say it's clean and all we've got to do is fix everything and work all the motors in
10:28there, the gears or whatever's inside there.
10:30We're probably looking about 45.
10:37You know, Rick, let's make it work.
10:40All right.
10:41Awesome.
10:41Awesome.
10:41Awesome.
10:42That's killer.
10:43I'm excited.
10:43Thanks for bringing it in.
10:45You're very welcome, Rick.
10:46Let's go in the office and you and Kelly can hash it out, all right?
10:50Cool.
10:50All right.
10:59That thing's in rough shape.
11:01Yeah.
11:02Robert and Cowboy are working on the wood from this gramophone.
11:05We want to keep as much wood as possible original.
11:08So instead of building an entirely new box, we're going to preserve the original wood by gluing the broken pieces
11:15back together.
11:16And I should do it.
11:19Well, frick and frack are fixing the wood.
11:20I'm cleaning up the flywheel that makes this mechanism spin.
11:23Once the old grease is gone, I'll lube it up and make sure everything is working like clockwork.
11:34Cowboy.
11:34Robert.
11:35What?
11:36Okay.
11:36So my dad made me foreman, right?
11:38So I need a desk is the point.
11:40I ain't building you .
11:41Earlier today, my dad promoted me to shop foreman.
11:44As the new shop foreman, I'm going to need a proper desk to work at, obviously.
11:48And I know just the guys to build one for me.
11:51It needs to be about this wide and this deep, and I need to be able to sit at it.
11:55So I got to fit a chair under it so I can roll in and out.
11:57A couple weeks.
11:58A couple weeks?
11:59At least.
11:59I've been working here since this kid's been in diapers.
12:03Dale Jr. is going to be barking orders and having me make a desk.
12:06It's going to be uglier than a featherless bird.
12:09I'm going to go make some more coffee.
12:10If you guys can build me a desk, that'd be awesome.
12:12Okay?
12:13Break.
12:13Go team.
12:14Go team.
12:15Oh, let me get the door for you, Mr. Foreman.
12:17Dale Jr. is a one man, not a foreman.
12:26We're getting started on this cement mixer.
12:29This thing was so caked up with 100-year-old cement, we actually had to sandblast it before
12:35we could start tearing it apart.
12:37And now that you can actually see the nuts and bolts, I'm going to have Kyle and Cowboy
12:41start tearing it apart.
12:42All right.
12:43Well, this is the deal.
12:44Take all the plumbing off first.
12:45My fear is it's full of concrete.
12:47All right?
12:48Let's get started on that.
12:49ASAP.
12:52Jeez!
12:55That's a back breaker.
12:57I wonder what we're going to find inside.
13:05That's hard concrete right there.
13:08Ah, .
13:09This cement mixer is one big pain in the ass.
13:12Not only are these bolts rusted on, but the pipes are full of concrete.
13:16Hopefully, it's just the pipes full of concrete and not the body.
13:19There's just one way to find out.
13:21Let's put some heat on you, son of a bitch.
13:29There it be.
13:31Well, here we go.
13:32The moment we've all been waiting for.
13:34There it goes.
13:35Ah.
13:38Oh, my God.
13:39Ah.
13:41Ooh.
13:42It's awful nasty in there.
13:44I ain't digging in that .
13:45I ain't digging in it either.
13:47Brantley!
13:56The horn on the 1920s gramophone has seen its share of dents, dings, and pigeon poop over the years.
14:04Once it's been bead blasted, Phil has to get it back into shape before we can paint it.
14:10A lot of horns during this era were polished brass, but this one looks like it had a custom fade
14:15paint job on it, which is what we're going to try to recreate.
14:19Custom fades transition from one color paint to another without any lines.
14:22It's a nice gradual dissolve.
14:24As the horn spins around, we airbrush a nice coat of black around the base.
14:29As you airbrush up the horn, you use a progressively thinner coat of paint, which allows the background color to
14:34show through and gives it a really nice fade effect.
14:40.
14:50Earlier, my dad promoted me to shop foreman, and one of my jobs is to make sure we have all
14:54the parts we need for the restoration.
14:57For this gramophone, we have all the parts, but we need a record so we can really blow this customer
15:02away.
15:03Well, this isn't the taco shop I thought we were going to.
15:07Nope, or at least sometimes we have to work.
15:10Damn, that's quite a collection.
15:13So, what are we looking for?
15:15Something from the 1920s?
15:16I don't know how to tell what was when.
15:19Um, probably by the hairdos.
15:22Oh, dude, this is a good band. This is like my kind of music.
15:26We can't put your kind of music in there.
15:27I mean, this looks old. Let's just get it.
15:30Let's go.
15:30Yeah, let's go.
15:37Hey, Pete, how you been?
15:38Good, Rick. How you been?
15:40Good, good. Good to see you.
15:41That ain't what I heard.
15:43I came to Rick's restoration today to pick up an Alba gramophone.
15:48What do you think?
15:49There it is.
15:50Wow!
15:52How's it look?
15:53How cool was that?
15:54That is amazing.
15:56Came out nice, huh?
15:57That is amazing.
15:57Compared to what it used to look like?
15:59It's spectacular.
16:01And that color, the horn, it's just amazing.
16:05It was in such rough shape, but this is...
16:07You like it?
16:08This is good. I like this.
16:09Good.
16:10You know, it had some dings in it.
16:12You don't really notice those until you get cleaning up on stuff.
16:14It was very thin.
16:16Both sides have to be done.
16:17So we ended up pounding those all out.
16:19The paint job on it is all a fade.
16:22It goes from black to dark blue to a lighter blue and then into the cream.
16:25That will definitely be a magnet in any room we set this in.
16:30Yeah, yeah.
16:30When you walk in, you actually see that.
16:32Absolutely.
16:32Yeah, it came out nice.
16:35This all got re-nickled.
16:37Yeah, that's great.
16:38The stylus, the arm, and then the speed control has been nickel-plated.
16:42The wood was really, you know, it was rough and damaged, especially around the edge.
16:46We ended up sanding it, filling it, and then we put a real nice stain all the way across
16:50it, you know, to match, get that walnut look.
16:53And then on the top, when we were sanding it, they found some kind of a pattern on here.
16:57So they went and did the same pattern over top of it.
17:00Well, it looks great.
17:03Does it work?
17:04Yeah.
17:04I want to hear it.
17:05All right, well, let's test her out, all right?
17:07All right.
17:08Yeah, you wind it up like that.
17:10We're going to undo the brake.
17:12Okay.
17:12Okay.
17:14Bring the stylus over.
17:21This thing actually works, Rick.
17:23This is better than the CDs, guys.
17:25I couldn't believe it could do that, but it sounds good.
17:28It works good, huh?
17:30I'm impressed.
17:31So you like it?
17:31I love it, Rick.
17:32Good.
17:33You did a great job.
17:34I don't think you're going to put it in the pigeon loft, are you?
17:36I don't think so, no.
17:39Yeah, I'm really excited to get this thing home and people that come over to the house,
17:43they're going to be blown away.
17:51Ready?
17:53We've been working on an old cement gun for the railroad museum.
17:57We finally got all the pipes clear of any calcium builder.
18:01And now, Kyle and I are putting this thing back together before Mark shows up.
18:05Okay.
18:13Hey.
18:14Hey.
18:14Mark's here.
18:15Hey, Mark.
18:16Hey, Rick.
18:17How are you?
18:17Good, how you been?
18:18I came to Rick's today to pick up our 1915 cement gun.
18:22So, did you work your magic?
18:24Been working magic.
18:25You're working a lot of magic.
18:26You ready?
18:27I'm ready.
18:27I'm ready.
18:28Show it to me.
18:28All right, you got to stay here.
18:30Because I'm going to move.
18:31All right.
18:32Give me a minute.
18:32I'll wait.
18:33When I dropped it off, it hadn't been working in years.
18:36And so, I'm kind of curious to see what Rick actually was able to do with it.
18:41Here we go.
18:42All right.
18:42One.
18:43Two.
18:44Three.
18:45Oh, my God.
18:47Is that the same piece?
18:49That is the same.
18:50Well, it had a lot of concrete on it.
18:53This is just amazing.
18:55When Rick revealed the cement gun, I mean, it was just utterly incredible.
19:00I was not expecting it to look like that.
19:03So, what do you think of it?
19:04You're a magician.
19:05You are a magician.
19:07You know, I'm just really blown away by the, uh, these are brass valves?
19:11Yeah.
19:12Wow.
19:12Those are all original brass valves.
19:14Cowboy went to town on those.
19:15Oh, he really did a beautiful job.
19:17So, Rick, does it work?
19:19Yeah.
19:20Well, we're going to find out.
19:21We're going to find out.
19:22Hey, Fonz!
19:23What we want to do up at the museum is we would like it in operational order so we can
19:29tell
19:29the story of how the gun was used.
19:31I'm very curious to see if Rick was able to get it to work.
19:35All right.
19:35I, um, I need something to shoot.
19:38Eh.
19:39Heh.
19:40Bradley!
19:41Ron!
19:43Come here for a second.
19:44I need a hand.
19:44It's hot, though.
19:46As tempting as it was, I didn't want to risk putting cement in this thing right when we got
19:50it looking pretty.
19:51So, instead, I filled it with a non-harmful material used for insulation.
19:56This will be good enough to show Mark that it works without actually turning someone into
20:00stone.
20:01I just need you guys to go over by those hoses, those moves.
20:06Go right here.
20:07Yeah.
20:07All right.
20:08I'm going to see if I can hit this box.
20:10Fonz, you ready?
20:11Ready.
20:14Yeah.
20:15Oh, you're slow.
20:18Oh!
20:19Oh!
20:20Oh!
20:22Oh!
20:24Oh!
20:24Oh!
20:25Oh!
20:25Rick's demonstration of the gun working was interesting.
20:31What do you think?
20:35Well, you and your crew are just incredible.
20:38This is just great.
20:40Wow.
20:40Rick, thank you.
20:41Thank you very much, Mark.
20:42Oh, thank you.
20:43I really appreciate you bringing it in.
20:44It's just cool stuff.
20:46That's beautiful.
20:49Hey, Dad.
20:49What's up?
20:50Hey, how you doing?
20:53What is that?
20:54That's your new desk.
20:55How do you like it?
20:57Wow.
20:57It's like a purple cow.
21:01Well, that's interesting.
21:04Welcome to being the new boss.
21:06What is this?
21:07Look at a drawer.
21:08It says drawer.
21:09It's not even a chair.
21:10What do I...
21:10I think I can use this.
21:15Is it straight?
21:19All right.
21:20I guess I can work with this.
21:23Life as a foreman.
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