05x14 - Smuggler's Telescope

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Welcome to The Repair Shop, where
precious but faded treasures...

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..are restored to their
former glory.

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of that history

to just keep things going.

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..come together to work
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Yes!

Beautiful.

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passed down the generations.

Phew.

It's my duty to make sure that this
all goes back in working order.

Preserving irreplaceable earns...

It's absolutely amazing.
It really is.

It's like keeping a bit of our
family history alive.

..the team will restore the items...

SHE GASPS

..the memories...

Yes! Yes!

..and unlock the stories
that they hold.

APPLAUSE

Oh!

It's touched my heart.

It's amazing.

In The Repair Shop today....

..Will leads a team effort
to refurbish

a multi-purpose antique chair...

You pull that up and then it goes
back down, but...

Victorian Transformers.

It is Victorian Transformers.

..and Richard's concerned that
a telescope with a dodgy past

could have an uncertain future.

Hope it's not damaged. Hope it's
not cracked.

Because if it is, there are
no replacements.

First into The Repair Shop is
Morag Croll from Somerset.

She has a 19th-century heirloom
with the classiest of pedigrees

and hopes Brenton West...

Hello. Hello.

..can preserve it for posterity.

What have we got here, then?

This stick belonged to
King George V.

King George V? Yes.

Really? A very, very long time ago.
Are you royalty, then?

QUIETLY: No. OK. All right.

It's been in the family for years,

and it's got a little secret inside.

Ooh. Ooh.

What's this for, then? I know what
that's for.

That's for his whiskey. No way.

Yes. That is really cool.

So, they would fill this up
with whiskey... Uh-huh.

And do they drink out of that?
No, no, no, no.

There's another secret.

There used to be a glass in there.
OK. So, if there was a lady,

you might want to offer her a glass.
That's nice.

So, the glass would sit in there?
Uh-huh. Very small glass.

That's a very small glass. Amazing,
isn't it? I love it. I do.

How did you get this, then?

My great-grandfather was
Thomas Rennie.

He was a master baker, and he used
to work for King George V

up in Scotland. OK. And so, when
they used to come up for their hols

and go off into the hills
and everything... Yeah, yeah.

..he would do all the posh cakes
that they liked in those days.

And when he retired, the King
and Queen Mary gave gifts

and this was one of them. Oh.
And I'm the custodian.

So, your great-grandfather must have
built up quite a relationship

with the royals, then.

He and King George V became
quite friendly... Yeah.

..and so did the whole family.

My great-aunt Annie, who brought
my father up,

she was the eldest of all my
great-grandparents' children

and she used to tell me the stories
of when they played

with the King and Queen's children
in the grounds.

You had a good relationship
with your auntie?

Absolutely amazing. I idolised her.

And it broke my heart when we lost
her, so, yeah.

She was such a giggle. Yeah.

And she was a real character.

So, what's wrong with the stick and
what would you like us to do to it?

Sadly, with it being so,
so very old,

it comes in several parts...

..and this part is the most
dangerous part

because it's really sharp. Oh, yeah.
Watch out.

Yeah, it'll slice you no problem.
OK. So...

So, that would normally screw into
this bit here? Yeah, uh-huh.

And, of course, that would protect
the... Of course.

..whiskey vial. And then obviously,
there would have been

the lid for the... The cork or
whatever went in there. Yeah.

It just worries me so much,
that piece of glass.

It's... How old is this?

This is... 150 years old. And it's
still going strong.

Yeah. So, if we're able to repair it
and get it back to working order,

what are you going to do with it?

I would love to use it myself.

Would you? Yeah.

It means an awful lot to me,

and I'm just thinking of how many
hands this has passed through

and it's history. And hopefully,
one day it will go on to my son

and the story will keep going.

Oh, bless. Well, listen, thank you
for bringing it in.

Thank you very much. It's a
pleasure. That's lovely.

OK. OK, thanks. Bye-bye.
You take care now.

Bye-bye.

The good thing about this one is
I get to test it.

LAUGHTER

I'm ecstatic, because I really want
to get the stick mended,

keep the memory alive of the whole
Rennie family.

That's a nice story, isn't it?
It is.

I do like this. So good, isn't it?
It is so good.

So, what are you going to do?

Well, we've got the obvious
missing cork.

Yeah. This bit of copper has...

I don't know if someone maybe bent
the stick or whether it's worn out,

but that bit of copper is... Yeah,
it's proper sharp. ..really sharp,

so we're going to have to look at
repairing that

so it can screw back onto there.

And finally, Morag said there was
a glass missing out of there.

You any good at making glass?

Well, I'm going to make a silver
one for it,

because it's royal and that's what
I do. You're going to make

a silver one? A little silver to go
in there.

That's nice. Yeah. Also, I need
some whiskey...

You need some whiskey? ..to put in
that. I'll tell you what,

you've got to fix it first and then
you'll get some whiskey.

It's going to have to be a big
bottle, OK? Fix it first,

then you'll get some whiskey.
All right. Is that fair?

All right, let's get it over to
your bench.

I've got Morag's tippling
stick here,

and this cane has to have a good
joint here, because if this

gets moved like that, it can,
or will - not can -

it WILL break this really, really
thin glass vial inside.

And I would've thought that might
be irreplaceable.

This thread here is a pressed copper
thread, and has a very sharp edge

and that has been damaged.

So, I'm hoping that if I cut this
nasty bit of copper off here

that this thread might go far enough
onto here to lock.

So, moment of truth.

It's screwed up nice and tight
on there.

I'm happy with that.

Outside the barn, wood restoration
expert Will Kirk is all set

for his next assignment.

Hello, there. Hello...

Christine Day has brought
a Victorian heirloom...

My word.

..that's helped raise generations
of her family.

All right.

So, what do we have here?

We've got a Victorian high chair
which actually changes

into different heights.

So, if we lift this lever here...
So, I pull that up?

Pull that up... Oh.
CHAIR CLICKS

..and that will drop right down...

..and it becomes a rocking chair.

Isn't that cool? Isn't it brilliant?
That's great.

So ingenious.

So, how did this come to be in
your possession?

I inherited it from my grandmother.

I know it was my father's
high chair in 1924,

but I don't know its exact age.

So, it's been in the family for
a long time. A long time.

A very long time. Several
generations. So, it really is

a family piece. Why now? Why have
you brought it in to me?

I've now got three granddaughters,
who are four, two and five months,

and they didn't know my dad.

He died before they were born.

It just seems the ideal moment to
make that link back

through the generations to my dad.

So, it'd be nice to see one of
your grandchildren in this.

It would be lovely to see them.

And I have a two-year-old
granddaughter who would think

this rocking chair was wonderful.

When was this last used?

Because I think something's missing
back here. I think something's
missing.

There's a huge hole in the middle
there, so... Yes. Yes.

I inherited it in this state.

It had been in my gran's
attic for a while. OK.

So, my dad would have been the last
one to use it in the late '20s.

Gosh. So, I've no idea what it
would've looked like.

What would you like me to do
to this?

I would really love there to be
a seat.

And if you could fashion some sort
of back on it,

that would be just lovely.

The spring here is looking
fairly ropey.

And if you were able to make
the mechanism

a little less cranky, that would
be good. OK.

I will do my very best.
I'm really grateful.

Really nice to meet you. Thank you
so much. Thank you. See you soon.

Bye-bye. Bye.

It's so sad to see the high
chair broken.

I've had it for so long and haven't
known how to get started

with getting it repaired, so I'm
really thrilled.

My dad loved children. He was always
soft as anything with my kids.

He'd be just delighted to see his
great-grandchildren in his chair.

I'm just having a first look at
Chris's high chair.

I can already see there's going to
be a bit of

collaborative effort here to get
this looking the way

that it should do again. I know that
I need to replace

this top rail here. You can't have
a baby sitting on there

at the moment, because it'll fall
out the back.

Once I've done that, I can get this
over to Suzie.

She can look at the leather work
that needs to be replaced

and then, hopefully, over to Dom
and he can sort out the metalwork.

I found some pictures of a very
similar high chair

and this is the pattern that
I'm going to use

from the top of the chair.

It looks like the crest rail,
that's missing,

was quite intricate. Probably
the most intricate part

of the entire piece.

So, I'm quite nervous about having
to replace it.

It's the first time that I've made
something like this.

It can be really tricky to cut
and to shape,

but I'm up for the challenge.

On the other side of the barn,

silversmith Brenton's working on
the tippling stick

with the royal pedigree.

Having sorted out its defective
screw fixture,

he can move on to some
bespoke designing.

This is a mandrel and it's used
for forming rings.

So, I'm going to use it to make
a tapered drinking cup.

I'm going to put this in the handle
where the cup would go.

I'm going to draw a line around
the mandrel,

and I know that's as wide as the top
of the cup can be.

I then need to wrap some
paper around this.

I could cut this, and that is
the shape of the piece

of silver that I'll need.

So, now, I can close this up
and solder them together.

Right, that's good.

So, I just need to let that cool
down now, then I can hammer it
round,

ready to put the base on.

While the silver cools, Brenton
enlists Will to lend

his restoration expertise to
the wooden components.

I've got a tippling stick. A what?

Tippling stick. A tippling stick.

So, this carries a little bottle
inside with whiskey in it.

Now you're talking my language. But
I've taken the bottle out, so...

OK. You're not talking my language.

The wood's a bit beaten up
and there's some sort of

staining going on here. Oh, yeah.

Could you please make it look
lovely again?

I will be more than happy to.
OK. All right, then. Thanks.

Cheers, matey.

Brenton's next task is to
add a base to

his miniature silver drinking cup
before giving it

its finishing touches.

Right, so, I'm going to polish my
little tumbler now

on a cotton mop that spins
very fast.

That buffs the surface of the metal.

So, what I'm going to do is just
give this a really light rub

with soft steel wool, and that's
just going to take off

any dirt on the surface.

I'm not rubbing too hard,

because I don't want to risk
removing detail.

Now, I've taken off that surface
dirt, I'm going to apply

some of this lovely furniture wax.

Polish has done what it's meant
to do.

I'm really happy with that.

And time for a test, I think.

Yep, go and put some whiskey in it.

I've buffed that to a really nice
sheen now.

I think that's just ready to go
back to Brenton.

Hey, mate. Oh, hello.
That's good timing.

All done. Lovely.

That's really nice, because that was
rough before.

It's beautiful. Thank you very much.
No worries. Cheers.

So, now I need to see if this cup
that I've made fits in the stick.

I'll just drop that in there.

Make sure the lid goes on.

Wow, that's amazing.

I'm really pleased. That's just what
I wanted it to be like.

That fits in there really,
really well.

I've left it so that it can't fall
into the stick.

It's sticking out so Morag can get
access to it,

and looks like it's been
in there forever.

Perfect.

Next into The Repair Shop is
12-year-old William,

his granny Christine and her
brother Keith.

They have a nearly 200-year-old
heirloom that needs

optics expert Richard Biggs to
cast his eye over.

Hello, how are we doing? I'm Jay.

Nice to meet you. I'm William.
William. Hello, Jay.

I'm Christine. Christine.
Hello, Jay. Keith. Keith.

So, what have we got in
the box, then?

We have my great-great-great
grandfather's telescope.

He was a smuggler in Essex
in the 1860s, we think.

So, he was a smuggler? Yeah.

He was an old sea captain.
Right, yeah.

Um, no-one, I don't think, would
confess to being a smuggler

or a pirate, so he had a legitimate
business as well as this sideline.

Sideline, OK!
LAUGHTER

Can I have a look at it? Yes.
Thank you, William.

So, this has been passed down
through the male line of the family?

Through the male line of the family
from my father's grandfather,

which is six generations.
Six generations. Wow.

Do you know how old this is?

If I go back generation by
generation and assume

that everybody received it at
the age of about 30,

that would make it about 1850,

so it all seems to add up
to that era.

Yeah. What's wrong with it, then?

You can't see through it.
It's just blurry.

Has it ever worked when you've
had it? Since I received it,

it's never been working. Have you
seen it working?

I'm sure I have, but as a young kid,
it was too heavy

and difficult for me to hold
it to my eye clearly.

Yeah. And I think it possibly might
have been me that broke it.

There is a dent there, isn't there?

Yes, there is. Just there.

And that's probably when it
hit my head.

Who hit your head with it, then?

My brother. Bless him.

Bless him, eh? All right.

You've been given a busted present!

LAUGHTER

Were you interested in seeing
ships and stuff?

What are you going to use this for?

I want to go back to where my great
great-great-grandfather was.

OK. And see what he saw through
the telescope

when he was looking out to sea.

I'd love to be able to do what my
great-great-great-grandfather did.

Take up smuggling! Yeah!

So, what would you like Richard
to do to it?

I'd love him to fix the lens
so I can see through it,

and to fix the end,
which is not sliding. Yeah.

Thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you. All right.

Nice to meet you. Thank you all.
Thank you. Bye-bye.

It will be lovely to be able to hold
it in the way that our forefathers

have held it in the past.
And look through it.

And look through it, yeah. You're
going to enjoy that, aren't you?

Yeah, I am. Standing on the marshes,
looking out to sea.

It's going to be amazing to do
what he did. Yeah.

So, this is quite cool, isn't it?
A smuggler's telescope. Yeah.

So, what have we go to do? So,
the thing that William pointed out,

that front slide solder,
that's gone. Right.

So, that's got to be stripped off.

OK. Then that little spring
secured to that.

I can ask Steve to help me on that.

The next thing is there's
a slight rattle in there.

OK.
Which means there's a lens loose,

which is why it won't focus.
So, that's got to be reset.

Let's get it over to your bench.
And if there's anything you need

especially to do with
that welding at the bottom there,

just let me know.

So, first, we've got to get it apart
to see what that lens is doing.

Hope it's not damaged.
Hope it's not cracked.

Because if it is,
there are no replacements.

So, this is the lens
that is rattling.

It's not damaged. That's good.

It means that once it's in place,
it will focus.

But the metal that holds
it has gone.

That should be in there
and the metal should then fold over

and hold it in place.

I shall have to work out a way
of securing it so it doesn't rattle.

So, that's what we've got to do.

Wood expert Will has fashioned
a curved piece of oak to replace

the missing back rest
of the Victorian high chair.

The challenge ahead
is some intricate carving.

I've drawn out the templates.

And that's what it's going to look
like when it's all cut out.

That's all the woodwork finished.
Let's see if it fits.

There we are,
looks pretty good to me.

One thing that does stand out now
is that this is incredibly light

and everything else is a lot darker.

So, I need to stain this to match.

Well, that's all the woodwork
polishing and staining done.

I'm really pleased
with the results there.

It's a really good match.

With his woodwork duty fulfilled,
Will can now pass the baton

to metal expert Dominic Chinea.

Hey, mate. What on Earth
have you got there?

Look at that. This is a high chair.

Yeah. That turns into a rocking
chair. Nice. That's really cool.

Yeah. There's a mechanism at the
back that should work a lot better

than it currently does. Oh, OK.

So, when you pull that up, these
pins pop out of there. Oh, yeah. OK.

You see what I mean? OK.

And then that goes
into a high chair position.

You pull it again,
and then it goes back down.

But... It's Victorian Transformers!
It is Victorian Transformers.

But it's really rusty.

And it's not working as well
as it should do.

That's no problem.
I can clean all that up.

Suzie is going to re-leather
the seat and the back.

So, this is leather? Yeah.
Oh, perfect. So, whilst I've got it
in pieces, I'll give that to Suzie.

That'd be amazing. Top man.
Leave it with us. Thanks, Dom.

Yeah, thanks, mate.

It's a brilliant little thing.

Unfortunately, it needs a little bit
of help. The mechanism,

the main problem
is the spring's broken.

So, I'm going to take this
out of the way and then

get stuck into the mechanism.

That's the first bit off,
which is good.

Hopefully the rest
comes apart that easily.

That's the main rod out.

There we go.

There's my spring.
Just a crumbled mess.

The four wheels
are the last things to come off.

Then it's over to the third
specialist onboard this project,

leather expert Suzie Fletcher.

What do you have planned?
I'm intrigued to see

what you're going to do.
So, I've just got to make

a padded seat and I'm going to cover
it with leather. Yeah.

Got to do the same on the back
here. OK. Sounds good. Good luck!

Thanks so much. See you soon.

Before Susie can make the leather
seat pads, she must build

the underlying structure.

Started marking out where the seat
and back's going to be

on this chair. I'm ready to put some
webbing on and this is going to give

the support that we need.

A lot of my saddle-making skills are
very similar to an upholsterer's.

I have had many conversations
with Jay and other upholsters

and it's surprising how similar
a lot of the techniques are.

OK, so, that's the foam.

Now what I need to do is start
glueing it all together.

Just going to pop this in the area
there.

Just going to flip it over.

And then I'm just going
to work around the edges.

Now I've got all of the steel
components stripped down,

all the rust removed.

Just going to put a quick coat
of primer,

then on with a nice satin
black paint.

Just putting the finishing touches
to the decorative binding here.

I've glued it on so that it covers
all the nails and the tacks

that are holding the leather
and the cushion in place.

And I think it looks really nice.

What I need to do now is get
this over to Dom and he can finish

putting the metalwork on it.

Hey, Dom. Hey, how's it going?
Got a present for you.

Thank you very much.

Look at that! I love this edging.
Well done, I'm impressed!

Thanks, Dom. Thanks, Suzie.
Well done.

With Susie's newly upholstered
sections back alongside

Dom's revived metalwork,
it's time for the big rebuild.

I've got all my components for it
laid out here, greased up,

ready to go. So, hopefully
this all should go back together

with the replacement spring
and we'll see if it works.

I need to be really careful now.
I've got my painted parts

and all Will's lovely woodwork.
I don't want to risk...

I don't want to damage anything
and scratch anything.

So, it's a bit fiddly.

It's just a bit...it's a bit
awkward getting it now.

So, I'm just trying to
be as careful as I can

not to ruin everyone else's work.

That's there. That's there.

That's the all-important
spring now in place.

Awesome.

That's a real nice,
definite sound there.

And then if I pull this up,
this should drop.

Brilliant.

Look at that.

Fantastic. So, that's it.
That's the mechanism working.

I'm very, very happy with that.

Now, I just need to attach the tray
and then I'll hand it back to Will.

Hey, Will. Hey, mate.
A present for you.

Oh, my gosh, look at that!
Here it is.

Suzie's done a great job, hasn't
she? Very, very good. Yeah.

Now, with the springs back
in place...

Just like that!
..it clips back in position.

Yeah. Done. Fantastic job.
Thanks, mate. All right. No worries.

Thanks for your help.

At his bench, Richard is starting
work on the nearly 200-year-old

smuggler's telescope.

So, the first bit is to actually get
the lenses out of this section,

clean them, put them back together
and then a little bit later,

to put that loose lens
back into place,

so the whole thing
has got a chance of focusing.

So, the lenses are in this
aft section. Here we go.

So, now using a little bit
of methylated spirits,

it's just a question of getting
the years of accumulated grease

and dust off.

They're actually all looking
in good condition.

Yeah, that's looking good.
It was always a little bit

fingers-crossed that
when it opens up,

it would actually be able
to be cleaned.

They've all come up perfectly.

So, the only one left now
is this front lens,

which is in two parts.

The two parts are two different
types of glass,

so that the colour fringing
is actually reduced a great deal.

Colour fringing means that
if you're looking at something

bright against the sky,
you get a yellow fringe one side

and a slightly blue the other.

Putting two lenses of different
glass together reduces that

significantly.

As well as dealing with the lenses,
Richard needs to enlist the help

of a skilled solderer to fix
the protecting mechanism

on the front of the telescope.

That is the front.

It's like a lens cap,
but it's a slide on the telescope.

All right. OK. Yes, I understand.
Cuts all the muck out.

Yeah, yeah. That spring
is supposed to add

a little bit of tension so that it
doesn't keep flopping around.

Right. And it needs fixing on the
plate. OK. What's that pin for?

That's so you can get
your fingernail in it

to draw the slide open. Ah, right,
OK. Open the lens so you can see

through the telescope.
Yeah, I'm with you.

I'll solder this on properly,
because that's a horrible,

rough old repair. Yeah, that's got
to come off. Yeah.

OK, leave that with me
and we'll see how we get on.

Thank you. OK.

Brenton has reached the final stage
in repairing the tippling stick,

creating a cork for the mini
whisky flask inside.

Jay has a contribution to make too.

Are you going to pour that in?
Yes. Shall I hold it steady,

and you pour in in? OK. OK.
Don't spill it!

Not at all.

Oh, wow! That's it. That's it.

Lovely.

Get the cork.

Shall we see if the cork works?
Have you not tested it?!

You must have tested it!

Look at that! Yeah, it does work.

Not leaking, is it? No, that's cool.

And have you made a little cup
for the top?

I made a little cup that goes
in the top. I really do like that.

Do you?
You've surpassed yourself again.

You always do this.

You make something
and then you just slide by it.

But that is a work of art, mate,
well done. Thank you.

And it fits in the top, more
importantly! I expect nothing less!

OK. Thank you very much. Cheers.

During one of his holidays
in Scotland, King George V

gave the tippling stick
to Master Baker Thomas Rennie.

Now Thomas's
great-great-granddaughter Morag

is at the Repair Shop to collect it.

I'm feeling extremely nervous,
but extremely proud that, I'm hoping

with the help of the Repair Shop,
that history will live on

for a good few hundred years more.

Hello! Hello!

How are you? Lovely to see you
again. Hi, Morag. All right?

I like that smile!

Yes. Are you excited? Yes. Sorry.
Don't be sorry.

So, what are you excited to see,
then?

I'm excited to see bringing
the history back to life of the
Rennie family.

And it just makes me feel
like they're still alive.

OK. Yeah. And looking down on us.

Well, let's hope we've done
the Rennie family proud! Yeah!

OK, no pressure! I'm sure! Yes.
Shall we let her see it?

OK. Go for it.

Ooh! Oh, wow.

Go on, I know you want to!

Thank you! I didn't know
whether I was allowed to or not!

It's your stick. Oh, wow.

See?

Oh, gosh. Well done, you.

Oooh! You rascals!

Oh, wow!

Oh, thank you so much.

Oh, gosh, doesn't that...
It smells good, doesn't it?

Oh, gosh, yeah. Oh, smell that.

Mmm! May I?

Well, what I recommend is open up
the top. The top of the stick.

Oh, I see!

Well done, you!

You clever... He is clever,
isn't he?! Oh, wonderful!

Oh, righty-h*.
There you go. Right-oh.

We've got to be civilised, haven't
we?! We most certainly have!

To the Rennies, to Aunt Annie,
and to the Repair Shop.

Well done, everybody. Slainte.
Slainte.

Oh, that's good. That's lovely.

I can't believe you got the cork
as well! Well done, you.

I can't believe it.
It doesn't look like...

He's clever, isn't he? Yeah,
you really have got a gift.

Thank you so much.
Thank you for bringing it in.

Take care, now. Bye-bye. Bless her.

She was made up, wasn't she?
No, it was very good.

You've done a blinding job on that.
Look what I've got!

"Look what I've got!"

I'm just bursting, bursting with...
I'm overwhelmed, really.

And I'm thinking my
great-grandfather, my father,

my uncles, my cousins
and my Great Aunt Annie

would just be over the moon
to see that the Rennie name

is being kept alive forever.

Thank you!

At his bench, Steve is getting to
work on one of the defective parts

of the old smuggler's telescope.

I've got this shutter device
that someone's had a go at repairing

and they put a blob of solder
on there, and obviously

they've been very unsuccessful
at it.

So, I'm going to clean off
all of the soft solder

and I'm going to hard solder it on
just at the very edge.

I still need a bit of spring in it.

And that stops the shutter
from just being loose.

This actually acts on another piece
so that it slides nice and steady

like that and will stay
in place once it's pulled out.

The first job is to clean
the part thoroughly.

I have to be careful that I actually
get every single bit off,

otherwise the hard solder
won't take at all.

I'm just putting one piece there.

Hopefully that one piece
will be enough.

It's melting now.

Good.

I just need to let that cool down,
I'll clean it all up

and give it back to Richard.
Fantastic.

And Richard's ready to tackle
the reassembly of all the other

components of the telescope.

Every lens has got to go back
into its correct position

in the right order.

The loose lens, the one
that was worrying me to start with,

because it came in rattling,
that has now got to be

put into its ring.

The metal that used to hold
it is missing.

So, I've got to use a little amount
of epoxy glue just round the edge

very, very gently so it doesn't come
into the lens area and everything

should go back together
and focus nicely.

This last lens now is being secured
as a nice clear ring, so that glue's

not encroached on the lens.
That pops into that bit.

Click and it's in. Nice and tight.

That won't come undone.
And there it goes.

That's working. That's working.
And that's working.

It's also been a team effort
to restore a Victorian high
chair-c*m-rocking chair.

Dom and Suzie have worked
their respective crafts on it

and now the finishing touches
are down to Will.

I'm at the part I like the best.

I'm using some dark wax now
to bring out the grain of the wood,

that gives this high chair
the protection that it needs.

Once it's dried I can buff it up
and get it back to Chris.

With the chair restored,
Christina's back to collect

the heirloom her father
used as a small boy,

nearly 100 years ago.

Dad's chair was missing
both its seat and its back,

and the whole mechanism
was jammed with rust.

I'm hoping that the high chair
will be at least useful

as a rocking chair
for my grandchildren

to make a link back to my father.

Hello. Hello, Will.
Nice to have you back.

Lovely to see you again.

And I'm so excited about this.
Are you?

Yeah. Just wondering what magic
you've actually managed to do on it.

Well, shall we have a look? Please!

Oh, that's brilliant!

Oh, that really is good!
Oh, it's so clean and shiny!

That is gorgeous. Oh, and look at
all this on the back.

You've made such a wonderful job
of that.

I don't know what to say,
Will, just brilliant.

Oh, fantastic.
It's been a real team effort.

Suzie did all the lovely
leather work on the upholstery.

Gorgeous. Dom looked
at the metalwork in the back,

so we can actually pop it back down.
Nice and smooth! Oh, look!

And so smooth!

That is fabulous.

Then pull it again.

Straight back up! Fantastic.

Oh, I can't wait to show
my grandchildren!

So, this is going to be used?
Oh, yes. Yes, absolutely.

And it's such a link to my dad.

I mean, for me, it's all about my
dad, because he was the last baby

to sit in that. Oh, yeah.
So, that is a real link to the past.

Thank you, Will.

I'm glad that it's going to stay
in the family for years to come.

Oh, yes. Thank you so much, Will.
It's a pleasure.

I'm absolutely thrilled with
what Will has done to the chair.

He's brought it back to life,
which for me, in a way,

brings my dad back to life.
So, absolutely delighted.

I think he'd be chuffed
that something from his past

had survived and was going down
the generations.

I wouldn't have believed
it was possible,

but it looks beautiful.

Inside the barn, Steve's
finished soldering the slider

on the telescope lens cap.

All right, there we go.
Well done. That looks nice.

So, it's all working.

The other thing I did, I just popped
a screw in there instead of the pin,

because I thought you can't put it
in once the pin's on. Yeah.

So, I've got to undo the screw,
slide that in, put the screw in?
Yeah.

Thank you very much.
You're very welcome.

With Steve's modification
a success...

Now this little thing has to go
in there...

..all that's left for Richard
is to refit the sliding lens cap

and check out the view.

All done and dusted!

I can read the paint pots
at the other end of the workshop!

That's surprising for a 200-year-old
instrument.

Yeah, good one. That's done!

And just in time, as William,
Christine and Keith are back

to retrieve their historic
family treasure.

I'm really excited to see
the telescope.

It will be wonderful if it's fixed.

This hopefully now will be a usable
item for William to pursue

the hobbies that his ancestors
pursued all those years ago.

Hello again, William. Hello.
Hi, Christine. Hello, Richard.

Hi, Keith. Hello, Richard.

Are you looking forward to this?
Very much so. Yes.

Are we ready for this? We are.

Oh, look at that!
Wow, it's shining! It is shining!

The sliders work. Oh, they do, yeah.

Look at this end. Wow.
Is that the same piece? Yes.

Is it? Yes. Wow.

It extends.

And again. And again and again!
There we go.

Look at that! It's amazing.

So, the piece that went across...
Is underneath.

Is it? If you look under there.
I see.

With a spring on it to give it
the tension. It looks new!

It's incredible.

It's cleaned up nicely too.

Yeah, not too much. Didn't want
to make it look new.

It still looks how it should.
Yeah. Yeah.

I can see through all it.

Not too well, because it's
so incredibly close to the wall.

That's right. Yeah.

I can see the details of the wall
through it. It does work.

It does! Thank goodness!
To get the real use of it,

we need to go outside so you can
look all the way down to the ducks

on the pond,
really see how it works.

So, let's go out and have a look.
Yes.

I need to focus it a bit. Yeah.

Twist and push a bit, if you like.
Push. Yeah.

There we go.

Yeah, I can make out all the leaves
all the way back there.

And a brick building. Oh, right.

That's 100 metres away! Yeah.

And it would focus beyond that.
In fact, it would focus on the Moon.

Yeah? Yeah, yeah. So, you could
actually see the Moon with it?

Absolutely. Oh, yeah, you'll see
the craters. I'll have to do that.

That's brilliant. Want to have
a go? Thank you. Oh, yeah.

Now, the Moon's not up there now!

No, I'm focusing on what I think
is Batman!

Nice meeting you, William.
Have fun with that.

Thank you. Thank you very much
indeed. Thank you, Richard.

You're welcome. All the best.
Thanks for doing that for us.

Bye-bye, Richard, thank you.

I'm so happy that we've got
the telescope back.

It was great looking through it,

knowing that my
great-great-grandfather looked
through it!

Knowing that it was the same thing
that he did and how it's passed

down through generations. Safely!
It's got here now to you. Yes.

With Richard's help. It's hard
to comprehend, really, isn't it?

Hopefully for another 170 years.
Yeah! Well, if you look after it

and pass it down.

Join us again as our craft
experts pull out the stops...

I've got to get it working!
I know you do!

..to save precious memories...

That is unbelievable.

..In the Repair Shop.