1 00:00:04,310 --> 00:00:05,310 Hello. 2 00:00:06,930 --> 00:00:13,050 These days I spend more and more time in my Wiltshire home, and the pub I own, 3 00:00:13,190 --> 00:00:18,630 thinking about all the big problems in the world, and some smaller ones that 4 00:00:18,630 --> 00:00:19,630 annoy me. 5 00:00:20,970 --> 00:00:25,630 Luckily there's a place I can go to solve them all, or at least try. 6 00:00:26,970 --> 00:00:28,270 My shed. 7 00:00:28,950 --> 00:00:29,950 Right. 8 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:35,020 It's here that I have the tools. Let's just sort some wood up. The tea. 9 00:00:35,620 --> 00:00:39,240 And a couple of other highly competent blokes. 10 00:00:40,820 --> 00:00:41,699 Very good. 11 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:42,659 Brace yourself. 12 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:45,080 Who've agreed to help me rid the world of problems. 13 00:00:45,540 --> 00:00:46,540 Great. 14 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:48,660 And small. 15 00:00:50,830 --> 00:00:55,370 The cereal has gone soggy. I'll also have to take on other people's problems. 16 00:00:55,610 --> 00:00:56,690 What is wrong with Peter? 17 00:00:56,950 --> 00:01:01,890 He used to make a sound and now he doesn't. By which I mean the locals at 18 00:01:01,890 --> 00:01:03,950 who are always bringing me stuff to mend. 19 00:01:04,629 --> 00:01:06,210 Is it a train set? 20 00:01:07,670 --> 00:01:14,210 So join us and our excitable crew who will capture our endeavour. 21 00:01:14,230 --> 00:01:15,670 That was epic. 22 00:01:15,950 --> 00:01:19,190 As we create, make, 23 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:21,840 That feels like a terrible thing you've just done. 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:23,800 Repair so it's never worked. 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Not in my lifetime. 26 00:01:25,260 --> 00:01:27,940 And repurpose... Whoa! 27 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:35,220 In my shedload of ideas. What do you think? This is just brilliant. 28 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:47,520 Here in Wiltshire. 29 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:52,220 My mates and I spend a lot of time in my big shed solving problems. 30 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:56,420 Simmy lends us his engineering expertise. 31 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,200 Yes. While Tony chips in with his top -notch carpentry skills. 32 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:03,400 Huzzah! 33 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,660 And today we're taking our combined wisdom out of the workshop and into a 34 00:02:08,660 --> 00:02:12,240 particularly pretty cinema in nearby Salisbury. 35 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:14,960 Can I have a popcorn, please? 36 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:16,260 Oh, there we are. 37 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,299 Oh, fantastic. 38 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:18,300 Thank you. You're welcome. 39 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:23,980 With cinema attendance in the UK in decline, we think we might just be able 40 00:02:23,980 --> 00:02:27,100 eliminate one of the problems that could be putting people off. 41 00:02:27,620 --> 00:02:31,320 I will now demonstrate with these two and the crew. 42 00:02:32,620 --> 00:02:37,040 So here you are at the cinema with your mates. You're about to watch one of your 43 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,420 favourite films of all time. And then this happens. 44 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,980 I mean, that is exactly in the way of the screen. 45 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,160 And if that's bad for me, and I'm reasonably tall, imagine what it's like 46 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,900 these people entering the cinema now, if they sit behind us. 47 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,940 We've known about this for as long as we've had cinemas. In fact, as long as 48 00:03:05,940 --> 00:03:11,160 we've had theatres, which goes back to Nell Gwynn and people like that. And the 49 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,420 fact is, cinemas have a raked floor. 50 00:03:13,740 --> 00:03:15,540 Obviously, this has a very typical one. 51 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,620 It's about four degrees, but it's nothing like good enough. Because if we 52 00:03:20,620 --> 00:03:22,840 Ethan, if you wouldn't mind standing up. 53 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:26,860 Here's the tallest member of this crew. 54 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,920 And then we put him next to our smallest member, who is Lottie, here. 55 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,300 Look at the difference in height. It is interesting that all people, it doesn't 56 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:38,400 matter whether they are... 57 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:45,340 massive unit, massively overfed like Ethan, or lofty, undernourished and 58 00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:50,180 small, the distance between the centre of the eyes and the top of the head is 59 00:03:50,180 --> 00:03:53,720 always pretty much the same. If you wouldn't mind turning around, Ethan, you 60 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:59,000 will see, even on his enormous bonds, that distance is roughly the same. So 61 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,320 cinema seats ought to be arranged so that that distance is the distance that 62 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:05,800 next row's eyes... 63 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,480 above the head of the person in front. So why not simply say small people have 64 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,380 to sit at the front of the cinema and big people have to sit at the back? 65 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,279 That would make sense. Except, as Lottie points out, she's got a massive 66 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,680 boyfriend because she didn't have the decency to go out with someone her own 67 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,320 size. So we'd have to split them up. We'd have Lottie at the front and her 68 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,180 boyfriend right on the back row. And they can't have a snog like that, let's 69 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:33,020 honest. So I think there might be a more sophisticated solution to this. 70 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:34,520 And I think... 71 00:04:34,910 --> 00:04:36,350 We can probably come up with it. 72 00:04:37,730 --> 00:04:41,590 And in just the time it takes to watch Battle of Britain, the director's cut, 73 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:45,970 and get back to the shed, we have indeed come up with an idea for adjustable 74 00:04:45,970 --> 00:04:50,150 seats designed to equalise the cinema viewing experience. 75 00:04:53,970 --> 00:04:58,810 Now, obviously, the cinema seats have to go up and down. We have some old cinema 76 00:04:58,810 --> 00:04:59,810 seats. 77 00:05:00,010 --> 00:05:04,430 And we have these screw jacks of a type that you use to raise your car up before 78 00:05:04,430 --> 00:05:06,170 changing a wheel. What do we think? 79 00:05:07,170 --> 00:05:12,350 So I think all we need to do is we'll make up a little steel frame which we 80 00:05:12,350 --> 00:05:16,550 weld to this. This is our seat. Which will be on our frame like so. 81 00:05:16,790 --> 00:05:19,270 A couple of back supports coming up to here. 82 00:05:19,570 --> 00:05:20,570 How are we supporting them? 83 00:05:21,110 --> 00:05:26,190 So we've got a little steel frame that will go under here welded to the jack so 84 00:05:26,190 --> 00:05:27,189 it's solid. 85 00:05:27,190 --> 00:05:29,030 Come up to here and we'll pick up. 86 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:32,030 into the wood at the right angle in the right hike 87 00:05:32,030 --> 00:05:38,870 that seems like a very low 88 00:05:38,870 --> 00:05:44,190 seat that is but we could put riser blocks underneath well this is the 89 00:05:44,190 --> 00:05:50,790 so that should be our kind of set height so they'll have to be on riser blocks 90 00:05:50,790 --> 00:05:55,570 therefore we have to calculate how big a riser block we put underneath it 91 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:04,140 105mm. So if we know now that that is our height of our plinth... 92 00:06:04,140 --> 00:06:06,560 So riser blocks are 150. 93 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:09,320 That's not complicated. 94 00:06:09,660 --> 00:06:13,660 This is probably how the satin fibre was developed. Somebody wrote 150 on a 95 00:06:13,660 --> 00:06:17,740 bench and drew a box around it and then they knew, right, we've got it. So we 96 00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:22,580 need to make the plinth and we need to make the steel work at the same time, 97 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:23,600 ideally. 98 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:28,200 We now know the height our riser block needs to be for the jack to sit on to 99 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,500 bring the seat to its correct starting height. 100 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:36,620 First, Simi gets to work on the steel frame for the seat, while Tony and I 101 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:39,480 a box plinth which will act as the riser block. 102 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:41,340 That's near enough for government work. 103 00:06:42,020 --> 00:06:46,860 This involves a lot of measuring, sawing and 104 00:06:46,860 --> 00:06:49,300 screwing. 105 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:55,300 While Simi sets about welding the steel frame, which joins our old cinema seat 106 00:06:55,300 --> 00:07:01,520 to the jack, Tony and I do some more measuring, sawing, 107 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:07,580 than screwing to make the box plinth the jack will hit on. Now all we need to do 108 00:07:07,580 --> 00:07:11,040 is put it all together and we are ready to test our prototype seat. 109 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:12,760 It's quite heavy, that. 110 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:15,980 I hate that noise. 111 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,520 Right, rest. 112 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,560 To begin with, should we put somebody small? 113 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:27,540 We could put somebody small. Or light. 114 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,480 Light. So that's not you, not you. 115 00:07:30,780 --> 00:07:33,720 All right, all right. Who would like to be the first person to sit in the 116 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:34,880 elevating cinema seat? 117 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,080 When you say like, I mean, I will do it. 118 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,160 Well, you're the lightest. OK. 119 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:45,380 What do I hold on to? 120 00:07:45,740 --> 00:07:48,500 Well, you're not going to be launched. It's going to go up a bit. 121 00:07:48,860 --> 00:07:49,860 Don't be alarmed. 122 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,080 Yes! 123 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:56,720 Yeah, thanks. 124 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,780 What did you do at work today, darling? Well, I wound Lucy up and down. 125 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:07,920 I think that's too wobbly. 126 00:08:08,380 --> 00:08:11,160 Yeah, I mean, it's not comfortable. 127 00:08:12,580 --> 00:08:14,460 This isn't really very good, is it? 128 00:08:15,140 --> 00:08:16,720 Well, we might have to have a little rethink. 129 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:21,900 So the screw jacks are a lot wobblier than we realise when it doesn't have a 130 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:25,520 steadying it. But what if they were the hydraulic jacks instead? 131 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,460 Lower to pump up, but they'd be much more stable. 132 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:32,240 Yes. 133 00:08:32,860 --> 00:08:34,679 Do you mind stepping off a minute? 134 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:35,579 No, not at all. 135 00:08:35,580 --> 00:08:42,539 The other way is to make a mechanism that stays rigid and has the 136 00:08:42,539 --> 00:08:44,540 jack just as the lift. 137 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,140 Oh, that's... Yes. 138 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,140 It's just a lot of work. 139 00:08:48,340 --> 00:08:49,340 It is a lot of work. 140 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:54,620 While Timmy starts work designing the new hydraulic jack -powered box 141 00:08:54,620 --> 00:08:57,360 structures, Tony and I head to the pub. 142 00:08:57,660 --> 00:09:01,980 And as usual, and because of my reputation for mending things, we've 143 00:09:01,980 --> 00:09:06,640 there about five minutes when a local, in this case Peter, turns up with some 144 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:07,980 weird brown thing. 145 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:10,320 Hello. Hello, Peter. 146 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:11,680 Hello. 147 00:09:12,439 --> 00:09:15,540 James, how are you? Nice to meet you. Tony, nice to meet you. Have you brought 148 00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:18,740 cannon? It's not a cannon, it's actually... Oh, it's a telescope. 149 00:09:19,540 --> 00:09:21,160 Oh, it's a beauty, isn't it? 150 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,100 Where did that come from? 151 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,880 My wife bought it on eBay a few months ago, but it does come with a nice 152 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:28,880 backstory. 153 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:34,240 It was brought back from India on an around -the -world QE2 cruise in, I 154 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,260 believe, the late 70s, early 80s. Does that mean stolen? 155 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,300 Acquired. Acquired, yes, I like it. 156 00:09:40,970 --> 00:09:44,550 Quite heavy, isn't it? I suppose that's why it comes with a tripod. 157 00:09:45,390 --> 00:09:47,410 It doesn't seem to quite work. 158 00:09:47,830 --> 00:09:48,830 No. 159 00:09:49,650 --> 00:09:50,870 Has it ever worked? 160 00:09:51,410 --> 00:09:55,150 I don't know. It's basically like looking at the world without your specs 161 00:09:55,390 --> 00:09:59,750 Do you know, that could be a micro -focus, a micro -adjustment. So the 162 00:09:59,750 --> 00:10:02,530 does move out. Move your fingers further out, that bit. 163 00:10:02,910 --> 00:10:05,430 Ah. Does that move that slightly? 164 00:10:06,650 --> 00:10:07,650 Doesn't appear to. 165 00:10:08,070 --> 00:10:09,110 But should it? 166 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,240 So usually there's a gear mechanism now, like a rack of pinions. So my thoughts 167 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,260 are that inside the end there, there may be some sort of thread that connects to 168 00:10:18,260 --> 00:10:20,200 it or do it once upon a time. 169 00:10:20,660 --> 00:10:25,900 To try out Tony's theory, we mount Peter's telescope on its tripod and see 170 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:27,020 can focus on something. 171 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:28,640 Everything is still blurry. 172 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,880 That doesn't do anything. 173 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:35,040 Oh, wait. 174 00:10:35,540 --> 00:10:38,860 Close things are almost in focus. 175 00:10:39,610 --> 00:10:41,450 So all the optics seem to line up. 176 00:10:42,350 --> 00:10:45,050 Yes, I'm looking at that power cable. That's nice and crisp. 177 00:10:45,550 --> 00:10:51,770 The trees far away are blurry, so I think you're right, Tony, that rotating 178 00:10:51,770 --> 00:10:54,930 should gear that very precisely. 179 00:10:56,090 --> 00:10:57,090 Tools? 180 00:10:58,450 --> 00:11:01,250 A lot of old telescopes used to unscrew, didn't they? 181 00:11:01,610 --> 00:11:03,890 Oh. Have you done this before? 182 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:06,040 Right, now you're on to something. 183 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:11,300 So basically this has to move, but quite precisely, in order for what you're 184 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:14,500 looking at at a particular distance to be in focus. 185 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,460 But Peter has a concern which may scupper the whole project. 186 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:24,720 It could well be what's known as a furniture piece. 187 00:11:25,020 --> 00:11:26,900 A whaty? A furniture piece. 188 00:11:27,390 --> 00:11:28,670 Ah, a shell scope. 189 00:11:28,930 --> 00:11:33,030 This quite possibly was never intended to work as a telescope. It was just 190 00:11:33,030 --> 00:11:35,730 to look cool in your beachfront house. 191 00:11:36,050 --> 00:11:37,130 There is a possibility. 192 00:11:37,550 --> 00:11:39,430 Be careful there's not a pin in here. Exactly. 193 00:11:39,670 --> 00:11:43,290 Shall I take it off over this blotted table over the garden? Take it off over 194 00:11:43,290 --> 00:11:46,790 hand. So you can see inside there the thread. 195 00:11:47,350 --> 00:11:53,530 So when you rotate that, a pin that would locate in the thread would be 196 00:11:53,530 --> 00:11:55,130 one way or pushed the other way. 197 00:11:55,770 --> 00:11:59,570 and Tony has just found that whatever that pin was appears to have sheared 198 00:12:00,070 --> 00:12:01,430 Peter, this might be good news. 199 00:12:01,950 --> 00:12:06,610 I'm pleased to hear it. I think this does suggest that it's a bit more than 200 00:12:06,610 --> 00:12:10,210 ornamental, because someone's gone to the trouble of machining quite a 201 00:12:10,210 --> 00:12:13,590 sophisticated thread in there, which would suggest to me that this is, in 202 00:12:13,790 --> 00:12:15,470 meant to work. 203 00:12:15,850 --> 00:12:17,350 So how the hell does it come out? 204 00:12:18,490 --> 00:12:19,750 Does the eyepiece come off? 205 00:12:19,990 --> 00:12:23,090 Yeah, that bit unscrews. That was loose earlier. Then we pull it through the 206 00:12:23,090 --> 00:12:24,090 other way. 207 00:12:25,349 --> 00:12:26,850 No. It's here. Oh. 208 00:12:27,230 --> 00:12:28,230 Where? There. 209 00:12:28,530 --> 00:12:29,530 Oh. 210 00:12:29,770 --> 00:12:31,550 Got it. There you go. That's the culprit. 211 00:12:32,530 --> 00:12:33,530 That's what's broken. 212 00:12:34,170 --> 00:12:38,750 So in order to mend it, we will have to remake this piece. 213 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:44,060 with two countersunk holes to allow it to be screwed to the movable part of the 214 00:12:44,060 --> 00:12:47,840 eyepiece, and then with a pin, the exact dimensions of which we will have to 215 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,640 work out using a micrometer, that inserts in this hole and engages on the 216 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,980 of that. Put it all back together, mount it on the tripod, point it out to the 217 00:12:55,980 --> 00:12:58,620 sea, and say, I see no ships. 218 00:12:59,020 --> 00:13:04,300 Ladies and gentlemen, we have a lathe job. 219 00:13:05,580 --> 00:13:09,480 So, can Tony and I, and the lay, fix Peter's telescope? 220 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,220 Well, I for one can't wait to find out. 221 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,340 Welcome back to Wiltshire, where we've been entrusted with the task of 222 00:13:23,340 --> 00:13:25,060 Peter's busted telescope. 223 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,560 The problem we have identified is that this ring, which is now broken, as you 224 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:33,560 can see, 225 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:38,040 fits around the middle of this tube and has on it, or did have on it, a pin 226 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:44,560 which acts in an inverted worm gear inside there that you turn with that, 227 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:48,560 that makes the eyepiece move in and out and focuses it. So we've got to remake 228 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:52,360 this, which is the job for the lathe. Tony here. 229 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,860 has never used a metalworking lathe, or the engine lathe, as it's sometimes 230 00:13:56,860 --> 00:14:01,980 called. I have found this old flywheel that I accidentally made to completely 231 00:14:01,980 --> 00:14:04,300 the wrong dimensions many years ago. 232 00:14:04,540 --> 00:14:06,640 And we can, I believe... 233 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,720 fashion out of that, the new ring, the ratio dictated by the gear. Before Tony 234 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,960 can have a go, he has to have a lathe tutorial. 235 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:17,120 That is the paddle, which moves that way. 236 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,180 That is the cross slide, which moves that way. And this is called the 237 00:14:21,180 --> 00:14:24,040 slide. The way it's set up at the moment, it moves backwards and forwards, 238 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,900 fine feed version of that. But you can also set it at angles to do clever 239 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:28,900 like screw cutting. 240 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,500 Hope you got all that, Tony. 241 00:14:31,210 --> 00:14:35,050 There are no safety features. There isn't even an emergency stop on this. 242 00:14:35,050 --> 00:14:37,490 have to hit that with your knee. There's no chuck guard. 243 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:41,190 I missed then and hurt my knee, but that's what you do, OK? 244 00:14:42,530 --> 00:14:43,530 Ow! 245 00:14:44,590 --> 00:14:46,850 Are you going to hit it again, James? Not really, no. 246 00:14:48,810 --> 00:14:52,370 I'm not sure who's more nervous about this, Tony or me. 247 00:14:53,570 --> 00:14:54,590 Start lathe. 248 00:14:56,390 --> 00:14:58,430 Right, I'll now turn it to the 10 ,000. 249 00:14:58,730 --> 00:14:59,730 That's fair enough. 250 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:05,080 We will now bear witness to the genesis of the new inner ring for Peter's 251 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,680 telescope. A tiny bit more. 252 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,660 And Tony's love affair with the lathe. 253 00:15:13,380 --> 00:15:19,300 So, that's indoctrination over and a new brass ring well on the way. 254 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,120 Sarah, my other half says James has gone into his workshop to make a piece of 255 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,040 metal into a smaller piece of metal, because that's actually all you can do. 256 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,520 now it's an exquisite piece of metal. Exactly. 257 00:15:30,250 --> 00:15:31,250 Do you think you'll get one? 258 00:15:31,470 --> 00:15:32,470 Yeah, definitely. 259 00:15:32,590 --> 00:15:33,930 It's addictive already. 260 00:15:34,250 --> 00:15:34,829 It is. 261 00:15:34,830 --> 00:15:38,390 You either really get it, or you think it's the dullest thing in the world, 262 00:15:38,430 --> 00:15:39,870 which, to be honest, most of my mates do. 263 00:15:40,450 --> 00:15:41,950 But I don't care. 264 00:15:43,630 --> 00:15:48,470 With Tony now a card -carrying member of Lathe Club, I leave him to finish the 265 00:15:48,470 --> 00:15:52,270 ring and the pin for the telescope under the watchful eye of Simmy. 266 00:15:53,390 --> 00:15:56,790 We're going to put these holes in and they have to line up because these holes 267 00:15:56,790 --> 00:16:01,850 are pre -drilled and ready. We want to be able to put screws, these little tiny 268 00:16:01,850 --> 00:16:05,750 screws, back into those holes once we've drilled the new holes. 269 00:16:06,050 --> 00:16:08,850 To make the holes, they're using my milling machine. 270 00:16:11,730 --> 00:16:17,090 Two of the holes will attach the ring to the telescope tube and the other is for 271 00:16:17,090 --> 00:16:19,930 the pin that will move the eyepiece to control the focus. 272 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:23,300 Clearant holes with count thunks. Yep. 273 00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:28,820 Next, Tim taps the hole for the pin, which they make from an old screw. 274 00:16:29,340 --> 00:16:30,900 Do you want to just do it freehand? 275 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,820 Which, in turn, is turned on the lathe to get it to the right size. 276 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:38,940 That's got to be it, doesn't it? 277 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,860 And we'll find out if it all fits, and by we, I mean you and me, viewers, when 278 00:16:44,860 --> 00:16:47,220 Tony hands in his homework later on. 279 00:16:51,690 --> 00:16:56,930 Now, I've asked Tim to meet me at the pub, which is also a popular B andB. 280 00:16:57,170 --> 00:17:02,150 Less popular, though, is a problem facing me and my fellow B andB owners. 281 00:17:03,350 --> 00:17:08,250 And if you're one of the 87 % of adults who eat breakfast cereal every day, 282 00:17:08,430 --> 00:17:10,230 you'll have come across it too. 283 00:17:15,310 --> 00:17:19,970 Crunchy. Crunchy is nice. But by the time you're about halfway through the 284 00:17:19,970 --> 00:17:26,560 bowl... The cereal has gone soft and soggy, and we don't want that. So we 285 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:31,440 wondering, is there a way of eating breakfast cereal, a bowl of breakfast 286 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:37,800 cereal, in such a way or with such a device that means it is always crunchy 287 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:38,940 the way till the end? 288 00:17:39,820 --> 00:17:41,780 And Simi's had a bit of an idea. 289 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,840 Maybe we need to introduce the milk. 290 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,760 At the point of entry into your mouth. 291 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,040 To the workshop. 292 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:03,180 So, our aim is to solve soggy cereal and in so doing, reduce the amount we chuck 293 00:18:03,180 --> 00:18:05,680 away at the pub and in homes everywhere. 294 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:10,280 Fortunately, one of us has an idea about how we might do that. 295 00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:13,080 So I've got this plan. 296 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,000 So we put a spoon onto a straw. 297 00:18:18,090 --> 00:18:24,290 And we mould the straw to the underside of the spoon. You want to flatten the 298 00:18:24,290 --> 00:18:25,290 end a little bit. 299 00:18:25,870 --> 00:18:30,970 And then we have a flexible tube at this end going into your bottle of milk or 300 00:18:30,970 --> 00:18:33,990 your orange juice or whatever you fancy. 301 00:18:34,330 --> 00:18:35,289 Orange juice? 302 00:18:35,290 --> 00:18:37,530 Do people eat breakfast cereal with orange juice? Yes, indeed. 303 00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:38,890 Do they? In Norway. 304 00:18:39,190 --> 00:18:39,989 Do they? 305 00:18:39,990 --> 00:18:44,270 Yeah. I didn't know that. They think it's very weird. We bought pound juice. 306 00:18:45,610 --> 00:18:47,530 I've been to Norway quite a few times. 307 00:18:48,010 --> 00:18:50,870 I said you were a bit weird when I was there, and I was right. 308 00:18:52,390 --> 00:18:56,870 You'll be able to put this in your mouth and suck up the required amount of 309 00:18:56,870 --> 00:18:58,890 fluid that you require. 310 00:19:00,130 --> 00:19:01,810 Are we going to base it on this spoon? 311 00:19:02,690 --> 00:19:04,210 I think similar. 312 00:19:05,590 --> 00:19:08,930 Because it doesn't need to be dished as much as that, because it's not holding 313 00:19:08,930 --> 00:19:09,609 any liquid. 314 00:19:09,610 --> 00:19:11,410 Are you talking about making a spoon? 315 00:19:11,670 --> 00:19:12,950 Yeah. Oh. 316 00:19:13,930 --> 00:19:15,410 How are you going to make a spoon? 317 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:17,680 It's not something I've ever done. 318 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:19,240 It's not something I've ever done either. 319 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:22,740 So I think we should just mark out our ideal shape. 320 00:19:23,340 --> 00:19:24,620 It's a very thin bit of copper. 321 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,820 Yes. Which I think, at the end of the day, when this is soldered to it, it 322 00:19:28,820 --> 00:19:32,180 give it a nice bit of strength because it will be like a spine running down the 323 00:19:32,180 --> 00:19:35,400 whole thing. Yes. It will be very good. So I think we can mark it out. 324 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:36,880 Tin snips. 325 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,800 Yes. Bit of sanding. 326 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:44,460 We'll heat it up a little bit to anneal it. Yes, that means make it go softer. 327 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,000 It does make it go softer. 328 00:19:46,220 --> 00:19:47,400 And then we'll hammer it out. 329 00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:48,980 OK. 330 00:19:49,980 --> 00:19:54,800 Spoons are normally made out of stainless steel because it's rust 331 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:59,780 we're making our sauce spoon out of copper because it's soft and malleable, 332 00:19:59,860 --> 00:20:02,000 which will come in handy at the next stage. 333 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,560 That is like man's first spoon. 334 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,200 It's like the genesis of the spoon. They thought, this looks useful, I'm sure we 335 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:16,280 can improve it, maybe make it a bit dished and a bit more rigid, but I think 336 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:17,280 we're on to something. 337 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:23,020 Next, we hammer out the dished part of the spoon, easily done with malleable 338 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:25,060 copper. Here you go, James. 339 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:27,880 That is incredible. 340 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,600 So it doesn't look very impressive, but it's a long process. And what has 341 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,940 happened here is we've started off with a piece of soft copper, but the process 342 00:20:39,940 --> 00:20:44,640 of hammering it has hardened it because its work hardens, as the expression is. 343 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,260 It happens very quickly with copper. So the thing we have to do next is anneal 344 00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:50,119 it. 345 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:51,760 which is a way of saying soften it again. 346 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,080 We do that by heating it up and then allowing it to cool naturally, then it 347 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,680 be soft again. We'll probably have to do that several times before Sim arrives 348 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,960 at the final shape of the spoon, which, let's be honest, is a way off. 349 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:10,000 But not for long, as Sim heats, hammers, heats 350 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,260 again, hammers again, 351 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,300 and again. 352 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,600 until we're ready for stage two. 353 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:25,740 And next we're going to join to it the copper tube that will deliver the milk, 354 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,920 orange juice, whatever. 355 00:21:27,620 --> 00:21:32,840 So we need to work out its length and then shape it as close as possible to 356 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:37,260 spoon. Then we'll bind it with some fuse wire and solder it, and then we can 357 00:21:37,260 --> 00:21:38,260 test it. 358 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:43,700 So, after some cutting and shaping... 359 00:21:44,650 --> 00:21:50,010 It's time to bind the tube to the spoon using a small clamp and Timmy's expert 360 00:21:50,010 --> 00:21:51,010 soldering. 361 00:21:51,830 --> 00:21:55,370 I tend to bugger up soldering, so I'm just giving it to you to do. 362 00:22:01,450 --> 00:22:02,490 It's going to happen. 363 00:22:03,430 --> 00:22:05,710 We're going to warm the whole piece first. 364 00:22:09,710 --> 00:22:10,770 There she blows. 365 00:22:12,490 --> 00:22:13,550 I'm going to do spoon. 366 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,540 There you've got that bit. 367 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,800 I'm going to have to do a spoon in. 368 00:22:28,460 --> 00:22:29,460 Going. 369 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,160 Bit more in the front. That bit gone. 370 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:33,900 Grand. 371 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,340 Oh, that's filled that nicely. Look at that. 372 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,380 Well, that's the bit going in your mouth, so... In your mouth. 373 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:51,880 It's a spoon, and I think it's pretty good. 374 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,240 Shall I? 375 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:54,960 It's going to work. 376 00:22:55,240 --> 00:23:00,500 Is it? It tastes absolutely horrible. I'm not so sure baker's fluid is that 377 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:01,500 good. Oh, God. 378 00:23:02,380 --> 00:23:03,380 Oh. 379 00:23:04,020 --> 00:23:06,420 Ignore her. Hardly corrosive, so it's partly acidic. 380 00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:08,580 It might be worse for your mouth. 381 00:23:10,460 --> 00:23:11,460 Oh. 382 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,500 Is it just water? 383 00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:17,000 That's how it is. It's just water. 384 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,320 Thank you. And rinse, don't swallow. 385 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:39,400 Welcome back to Wiltshire and my pub, where we've been tackling the previously 386 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:46,080 insurmountable problem of soggy cereal by inventing... ..the sauce 387 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,920 spoon. It's inaugural. 388 00:23:49,770 --> 00:23:55,030 outing let's see if it works i have here the other vital component the food safe 389 00:23:55,030 --> 00:24:01,030 plastic tubing which goes into my milk like so 390 00:24:01,030 --> 00:24:06,850 is everybody ready i'm going in oh that's a good start 391 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,560 is that? 392 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,100 It only works. 393 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:25,880 Wow. 394 00:24:26,420 --> 00:24:28,220 That's got to be the best thing I've ever seen. 395 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,660 There's nothing else I can say about that. 396 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:34,960 It works exactly as intended and it's perfect. 397 00:24:35,660 --> 00:24:37,580 Every mouthful is like the first one. 398 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:39,660 Do you want to try it? 399 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,280 I'll wipe it off for you. 400 00:24:41,740 --> 00:24:43,840 I'm intrigued. 401 00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:46,620 Genuinely, it works. 402 00:24:59,820 --> 00:25:01,200 That is genuinely the best thing. 403 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,480 It's fantastic. 404 00:25:03,660 --> 00:25:07,620 What's surprising is how little milk you use. 405 00:25:08,660 --> 00:25:11,300 It's truly brilliant on every level. 406 00:25:11,780 --> 00:25:18,720 It saves weight, improves the breakfast -dining experience, it keeps 407 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:19,980 your cereal crunchy. 408 00:25:21,140 --> 00:25:27,720 There is an elephant in the room, though, which is the 409 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:28,720 Norwegian way. 410 00:25:29,310 --> 00:25:30,970 You brought it up. 411 00:25:31,170 --> 00:25:32,350 I'll do it. 412 00:25:35,610 --> 00:25:36,890 This is for Norway. 413 00:25:51,790 --> 00:25:52,930 That's really stupid. 414 00:25:54,490 --> 00:25:55,490 Honestly. 415 00:25:56,730 --> 00:25:57,910 Norwegians, come on. 416 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,440 Get a grip. 417 00:25:59,660 --> 00:26:01,740 Do you want to try that? That feels wrong. 418 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:03,680 Really wrong. 419 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:06,300 Barbaric. 420 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,760 It's a bit weird. 421 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:12,560 So I know a lot of you think that we fake things for television and ham it 422 00:26:12,620 --> 00:26:19,280 but I promise you that that simple idea, the sauce spoon, works, and it works 423 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:25,180 brilliantly. That will become an essential component of the British 424 00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:26,640 along with cereal. 425 00:26:27,390 --> 00:26:28,390 And this. 426 00:26:29,370 --> 00:26:30,370 Cheers. 427 00:26:36,170 --> 00:26:38,850 It's what the Victorians did and everybody admires them. 428 00:26:39,470 --> 00:26:43,230 And look at this, we started this scene just a few minutes ago, Simi's 429 00:26:43,230 --> 00:26:48,810 cornflakes, where he put the milk on straight away, they are now... Mush. 430 00:26:48,830 --> 00:26:55,120 that is mush, isn't it? Whereas mine, my crispy rice things... are still 431 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:58,620 perfectly dry and crunchy and could even go back in the box if I decided I'd had 432 00:26:58,620 --> 00:27:01,520 enough. Absolutely zero waste. 433 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,920 Soggy cereal solved. 434 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:13,140 I head back to the shed to wait for Tony, who's hopefully been as successful 435 00:27:13,140 --> 00:27:16,180 finishing off the new inner ring for Peter's telescope. 436 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,900 James, I have the ring. 437 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,340 Oh, three holes. 438 00:27:24,490 --> 00:27:27,690 in perfect position, tapped and countersunk. 439 00:27:28,510 --> 00:27:32,110 That's a fabulous bit of finishing off work there, Tony. Now, we know it fits 440 00:27:32,110 --> 00:27:35,730 the tube because, well, because frankly, I turned the inside diameter. 441 00:27:39,070 --> 00:27:41,110 Oh, that's very satisfying. 442 00:27:41,830 --> 00:27:46,630 When we give this telescope to Peter and he rotates the sleeve and focuses it, 443 00:27:46,730 --> 00:27:49,110 he'll say, oh, great, thanks. He'll have no idea. 444 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,920 Ah, yeah. How much head -scratching and hard work went into this, because it 445 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,920 will never be seen, because it's inside. But we will know, and so will God. 446 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,360 This is self -satisfying, my first bit of lathing work. 447 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,600 But will Tony's first bit of lathe work pass muster? This is the other way 448 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,600 round, isn't it? 449 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,340 We've got to get this the right way round. 450 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:19,240 Time to find out as we reassemble the telescope. 451 00:28:19,930 --> 00:28:22,050 This is quite exciting, isn't it? Very exciting. 452 00:28:23,250 --> 00:28:24,250 Ah. 453 00:28:26,110 --> 00:28:27,110 Poetry. 454 00:28:28,430 --> 00:28:29,670 That's pretty good, isn't it? 455 00:28:29,930 --> 00:28:30,869 It's very good. 456 00:28:30,870 --> 00:28:32,830 I think you've done an excellent job there, Tony. 457 00:28:33,730 --> 00:28:34,850 Well done, you. 458 00:28:35,250 --> 00:28:36,630 Have the rest of the day off. 459 00:28:38,590 --> 00:28:39,670 Proper team effort. 460 00:28:40,930 --> 00:28:45,790 Tony can't actually have the day off, as now the telescope's optical tube is 461 00:28:45,790 --> 00:28:47,410 fully rotating and expanding. 462 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,420 It's time to set sail to the pub and hand it back to the captain of the ship. 463 00:28:52,860 --> 00:28:54,720 Hello, Peter. Hello, hello, hello. 464 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,240 Please have a seat. Thank you very much. Wow. 465 00:28:57,940 --> 00:28:59,200 Here is your telescope. 466 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:05,060 It's in one piece. It's in one piece. Only just. It doesn't look very 467 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:12,280 We did consider polishing it, but then we decided we liked the patina of use 468 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,040 also Tony couldn't be... So... 469 00:29:15,580 --> 00:29:18,320 We have, however, mended it. Would you like to know what we've done? I would 470 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,179 love to know. 471 00:29:19,180 --> 00:29:20,220 Are you sitting comfortably? 472 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:21,480 I certainly am. 473 00:29:21,740 --> 00:29:25,840 When we took it apart in front of you, when you first brought it to the pub, we 474 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,040 revealed this broken inner ring. 475 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,000 I made the ring on the lathe. 476 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:36,020 You then calculated the position of the... Nothing is symmetrical on this 477 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,760 No, it's all completely on the clock. Every ring, the screw holes are in 478 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:40,980 different positions. Of course. 479 00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:42,180 Are you ready? 480 00:29:42,490 --> 00:29:43,650 Would you like to do it yourself? 481 00:29:44,030 --> 00:29:50,310 I'd love to. Just wind the collar and... And this comes out. 482 00:29:50,510 --> 00:29:54,030 Yes. Wow. Smooth as well. 483 00:29:54,470 --> 00:29:55,449 Very smooth. 484 00:29:55,450 --> 00:29:56,990 Thank you very much. What can I say? 485 00:29:57,290 --> 00:29:58,490 Let's try it. OK. 486 00:29:59,850 --> 00:30:05,990 Right, if you position it there... Yep. Yep, mine's in. 487 00:30:06,810 --> 00:30:07,890 Sir. OK. 488 00:30:09,250 --> 00:30:10,250 Is it in focus? 489 00:30:10,530 --> 00:30:11,530 Getting there. 490 00:30:11,660 --> 00:30:12,680 There we go. That's in focus. 491 00:30:13,420 --> 00:30:14,580 Might as well have a look. Yeah. 492 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,260 I was on the tower at the top. 493 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:21,440 Good God. 494 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:23,480 It's a telescope. 495 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:25,140 Look at that. It works. 496 00:30:28,540 --> 00:30:29,540 It's good, isn't it? 497 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,500 I hope you enjoyed working on it. We did enjoy working it out. 498 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:34,519 Right, sir. 499 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,120 It's yours to take away. 500 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,680 Thank you very much indeed. 501 00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:42,459 Absolute pleasure. 502 00:30:42,460 --> 00:30:45,860 OK. I hope your wife enjoys it. Of course she will. Thank you. 503 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,300 Well... Pint? 504 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:49,920 Yeah, let's have a pint. 505 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:58,720 Tony and I might be able to relax with a pint, but over at the workshop, Simi is 506 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,660 still busy grappling with the prototype for the adjustable cinema seat. 507 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,540 Action. Replacing our wobbly jack contraption with a new design that 508 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:15,060 box inside a box, he starts by building both the internal and external boxes 509 00:31:15,060 --> 00:31:16,060 from plywood. 510 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:22,100 Next, he installs a more compact RAM that can be controlled remotely. 511 00:31:25,420 --> 00:31:30,440 Then he cuts out a little space for the wires before screwing on the lid that 512 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,900 the seat will attach to and allow the jack to push up that internal box. 513 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:40,520 Now all that remains is to find out if we've managed to put an end to cinema 514 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,360 -going misery for the ages. 515 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,760 We've returned to Salisbury, where we're back at the cinema. 516 00:31:54,170 --> 00:31:58,090 installing our height -adjustable seats to see if we can improve the visual 517 00:31:58,090 --> 00:32:01,750 experience for our audience, also known as the crew. 518 00:32:03,570 --> 00:32:07,790 They are still on jacks, but they now run in boxes for stability. 519 00:32:08,230 --> 00:32:13,930 They are powered up and down by electrical motors, and I have here a 520 00:32:13,930 --> 00:32:17,630 remote controls for adjusting them. Now, in the final version, this is a 521 00:32:17,630 --> 00:32:18,630 prototype, of course. 522 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:23,780 This job will be done by computers and a laser, but for the moment it's done 523 00:32:23,780 --> 00:32:25,060 with a folding ruler. 524 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:29,580 I would like to invite tonight's audience to come into the cinema and 525 00:32:29,580 --> 00:32:30,580 places, please. 526 00:32:31,780 --> 00:32:36,080 Wherever you'd like to sit, it doesn't matter. All the seats are currently set 527 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,100 at their midway point. They can go up and down. 528 00:32:42,820 --> 00:32:45,120 Who can currently see the screen? 529 00:32:45,660 --> 00:32:47,460 Obviously, yes, you can. 530 00:32:48,649 --> 00:32:49,649 Simmy? Tony? 531 00:32:49,770 --> 00:32:55,750 No. Right, OK. So, I'm going to suggest that Ethan, because you're very tall, 532 00:32:55,930 --> 00:32:59,030 you, sir, have to go down. And here you go. 533 00:33:07,070 --> 00:33:08,710 How's about that, then? 534 00:33:11,690 --> 00:33:13,590 You are now at the lowest setting, sir. 535 00:33:13,970 --> 00:33:16,690 And just to show you that this can all be... 536 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,780 consistent and really quite scientific. If I consider Tony's face, it's a 537 00:33:22,780 --> 00:33:27,980 horrible prospect, I know, but his eyes are not quite high enough by, ooh, what 538 00:33:27,980 --> 00:33:29,240 would we call that, two inches? 539 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:34,460 He needs to go up two inches in order to see over Ethan, so I will now do that. 540 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,520 So you, Tony, are going up, sir. 541 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:41,560 Oh, yeah. Tell me when you can see. 542 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,120 Yep. Okay. 543 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,380 Shula, I'm assuming you can't see over Tony. 544 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,560 This makes a fantastic noise, doesn't it? 545 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,200 It adds to the tension and excitement of going to the cinema. 546 00:33:58,940 --> 00:33:59,940 You can see? 547 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:03,260 So now it's Simmy, but I'm going to give you an extra inch. 548 00:34:07,180 --> 00:34:08,260 Will, can you see? 549 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,860 No, for once I actually can't see anything because he's been raised up. 550 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,960 he's been raised up so that he can see, but it's okay because I can raise you up 551 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:16,960 too. 552 00:34:23,659 --> 00:34:25,420 Can everybody see? 553 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:31,420 Yes. The seats are all at different heights, but each row of people is at 554 00:34:31,420 --> 00:34:34,840 same height and they are higher than the row in front. 555 00:34:35,310 --> 00:34:39,949 by the typical distance between the top of a person's head and his or her eyes. 556 00:34:40,110 --> 00:34:41,110 It's fantastic. 557 00:34:41,150 --> 00:34:46,550 We have solved it. Well done, everybody involved. We can now finally sit down, 558 00:34:46,690 --> 00:34:51,929 relax, and enjoy one of the greatest films ever made. 559 00:34:53,790 --> 00:34:55,310 Roll it, projectionist. 560 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,280 After all that hard work, we head home for some rest and relaxation. 561 00:35:21,460 --> 00:35:26,680 But we're not ones to waste money on expensive spas and beauty products. Oh, 562 00:35:27,620 --> 00:35:30,840 We have everything we need right here in the shed. 563 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:37,640 As men, there are places where we shouldn't go. 564 00:35:38,110 --> 00:35:41,490 One of those is a woman's handbag. If you've been bitten by a poisonous snake 565 00:35:41,490 --> 00:35:45,490 and the antidote is in a woman's handbag, you still can't go in there and 566 00:35:45,490 --> 00:35:48,370 it. You have to ask them to get it. That's just the rules. 567 00:35:48,570 --> 00:35:52,550 The other one is a beauty spa. We do know that women go there for something 568 00:35:52,550 --> 00:35:53,630 called a facial. 569 00:35:54,490 --> 00:35:57,630 And we're suffering for not having facials because, as you can see, we're 570 00:35:57,630 --> 00:36:01,710 haggard. We haven't cared for our complexion. So after consulting some 571 00:36:01,730 --> 00:36:05,930 I've learned that a facial consists of four essential stages. It is cleanse, 572 00:36:06,110 --> 00:36:07,370 tone... 573 00:36:09,759 --> 00:36:10,759 exfoliate, moisturize. 574 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:15,660 And there are special potions and things, very expensive, for doing this. 575 00:36:15,660 --> 00:36:19,200 occurred to us that there are things in the workshop that could achieve the same 576 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,260 thing for us, things that we use every day but that we never use for a facial. 577 00:36:23,420 --> 00:36:30,380 So I think we are ready to perform the man's workshop facial. Are you up 578 00:36:30,380 --> 00:36:30,919 for that? 579 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:31,920 Yeah, absolutely. 580 00:36:32,420 --> 00:36:34,580 First, we need to protect our hair. 581 00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:36,300 Well, you don't need it, Tony. 582 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,040 Soz, Tony. 583 00:36:39,140 --> 00:36:40,740 Apparently we've got to wear these goggles. 584 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:44,720 This is a safety requirement from our insurers because they believe we're 585 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:48,580 somehow going to shove alcohol and hand cleaners straight in our eyeballs. 586 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,360 I wouldn't put it past us. 587 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:54,700 Right. There we are. Ready. First is cleanse. 588 00:36:55,160 --> 00:37:01,380 This will remove grease, oil, deeply embedded dirt from your hands when 589 00:37:01,380 --> 00:37:03,640 been working on your car or your motorcycle. 590 00:37:04,060 --> 00:37:05,360 Have a bit of cleanser. 591 00:37:07,530 --> 00:37:08,570 Oh, it's refreshing. 592 00:37:11,890 --> 00:37:13,270 Oh, I feel better already. 593 00:37:13,650 --> 00:37:15,210 Oh, it feels really nice. 594 00:37:15,530 --> 00:37:16,570 It tastes awful. 595 00:37:16,890 --> 00:37:22,230 Why are you eating it? I was just liberally applying it and accidentally 596 00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:23,230 luscious lips. 597 00:37:27,830 --> 00:37:29,470 I don't want to admit to that. 598 00:37:29,770 --> 00:37:31,030 Oh, what is that? 599 00:37:31,290 --> 00:37:34,590 Good God, you're covered in filth, man. Thank you. 600 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,120 Why are you so clean, James? 601 00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:39,900 Because it doesn't do any work. 602 00:37:40,420 --> 00:37:43,260 There's a bit of gunk come off there, off my cheeks. 603 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:44,720 Yeah, it's always the cheap. 604 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,320 Now we are cleansed, we must be toned. 605 00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:56,000 Our toner is 99 .9 % pure isopropyl alcohol, which we use in the workshop 606 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,620 a lot for cleaning electrical items, toy trains that we mend, record players and 607 00:38:01,620 --> 00:38:05,420 so on. Don't put this in your mouth now, Tony, otherwise you'll be completely... 608 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:12,200 clattered this is called toning i don't know what it actually does stinks 609 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:19,160 getting high whoa don't breathe so what 610 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:25,760 is normal toner i don't know oh you go do you want to know what toner is yeah 611 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,920 astringent liquid applied to the skin to reduce oiliness and improve its 612 00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,910 condition well that's exactly what this is yeah Alcohol removes oiliness. That's 613 00:38:33,910 --> 00:38:35,190 why we use it in soldering. 614 00:38:36,750 --> 00:38:38,950 My face feels really tight. 615 00:38:40,110 --> 00:38:41,110 Right. 616 00:38:42,110 --> 00:38:47,390 So we've cleansed. We've toned. Now we're going to exfoliate. So we're going 617 00:38:47,390 --> 00:38:49,750 remove the layer of dead skin. 618 00:38:52,070 --> 00:38:57,550 Our exfoliant is basically a white glue which has rubber in it. 619 00:39:00,410 --> 00:39:01,470 Spread it about. 620 00:39:02,090 --> 00:39:07,850 and let it dry and then you have the unrivaled pleasure of peeling it off oh 621 00:39:07,850 --> 00:39:14,210 this stinks oh it stinks of fish it's absolutely 622 00:39:14,210 --> 00:39:21,030 minging this at this point i think in a in a proper 623 00:39:21,030 --> 00:39:27,990 spa you would you would lie down and they'd probably give you some ginger tea 624 00:39:27,990 --> 00:39:30,290 or something really left wing like that 625 00:39:31,690 --> 00:39:35,870 We can sit back and we can relax and, you know, talk about stuff. 626 00:39:36,870 --> 00:39:38,150 What about a little wax? 627 00:39:38,950 --> 00:39:43,810 I hesitate to ask this, Tony, but which bit of you do you think needed waxing? 628 00:39:44,530 --> 00:39:45,530 What about a leg? 629 00:39:46,150 --> 00:39:49,470 You want a leg wax? A nice little smooth leg. 630 00:39:49,790 --> 00:39:51,730 Are you sure about this, Tony? Yeah. 631 00:39:54,170 --> 00:39:59,210 While we don't have the fancy hot wax machines used in spas and salons, we do 632 00:39:59,210 --> 00:40:00,590 have the next best thing. 633 00:40:01,180 --> 00:40:02,180 It's gassity. 634 00:40:04,380 --> 00:40:05,820 Feet up. Your leg up. 635 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:12,620 When you use wax strips, there's a direction, isn't there? Should you tear 636 00:40:12,620 --> 00:40:13,820 down? I'm tearing down. 637 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:16,660 Oh, I was going to go up. Well, then we'll experiment. 638 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,040 Oh, great. 639 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,020 Right, are we ready, everybody? 640 00:40:22,180 --> 00:40:26,200 Tony, is there anything you need to say to your family or...? Tell my children I 641 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,840 love them. OK, do well. 642 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,160 Three, two, one. 643 00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:32,860 Oh, that wasn't that bad. 644 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:34,960 That was rubbish. But it did work. 645 00:40:35,620 --> 00:40:36,860 A bit. Look. 646 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:41,460 I've got two tiny little hairs. Ladies, stop wasting your money. 647 00:40:41,980 --> 00:40:43,700 About £3 .50. 648 00:40:45,460 --> 00:40:46,540 We can help you. 649 00:40:46,860 --> 00:40:48,260 No, actually, that sounds really weird. 650 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,580 Right, moving swiftly on, it's time to see how much of our faces the glue has 651 00:40:55,580 --> 00:40:56,580 removed. 652 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,540 Shall we take our goggles off? There's no... 653 00:41:00,430 --> 00:41:02,750 I know. They suddenly come back into colour. 654 00:41:03,070 --> 00:41:05,090 I've glued my goggles to my face. 655 00:41:08,190 --> 00:41:09,550 Oh, it makes a great noise. 656 00:41:09,830 --> 00:41:10,830 Listen to that. 657 00:41:12,810 --> 00:41:14,850 Ow! That actually hurts. 658 00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:20,790 That's a massive snot, don't you know? 659 00:41:21,570 --> 00:41:23,330 It's like pulling your face off. 660 00:41:25,010 --> 00:41:26,450 Look at this. Look at this. It's huge. 661 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,800 It's what it would feel like to be a brand -new refrigerator. 662 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:42,080 This is removing a microscopically thin layer of... 663 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,080 Epidermis. ..of a dead you. 664 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,660 Your appearance has changed, Simi. You look about 15. 665 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,840 Is anybody else sort of tingling in quite a satisfying way? 666 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,860 This is the final stage of the facial. 667 00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,720 the moisturizing phase for which we're using the beeswax which normally we put 668 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:05,220 on wood so i'm going to start with my forehead this is what it's like being a 669 00:42:05,220 --> 00:42:11,160 piece of 19th century furniture does smell nice so 670 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:17,920 i think now if we take the headbands off Go back to normal. 671 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,460 We can get a verdict from the crew, who have watched the entire process and are 672 00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:24,580 very familiar with our faces, because obviously they film us all the time, 673 00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:28,600 unfortunately for them. And here we are, post -facial. 674 00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:36,840 You actually look much better. Yeah, you do look really glowy. 675 00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:38,140 Well, yeah, tomorrow. 676 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,140 Your foil costume. 677 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,920 Yes. You don't tell us what tomorrow, we'll know it's gone wrong, but you 678 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:44,920 actually look very good. 679 00:42:45,020 --> 00:42:46,200 So I now have to... 680 00:42:46,650 --> 00:42:49,670 Point out to the viewers, I'm sure you're going to notice it, there are 681 00:42:49,670 --> 00:42:53,170 be some continuity issues because, to be honest, we don't necessarily film this 682 00:42:53,170 --> 00:42:57,090 series in sequence. We don't know until the edit exactly how we're going to 683 00:42:57,090 --> 00:43:00,310 order the stories. So you might see it and think, God, those blokes are looking 684 00:43:00,310 --> 00:43:04,510 old. And then in the next scene, you'll think, wow, look at those 15 -year -old 685 00:43:04,510 --> 00:43:05,510 boys. 686 00:43:05,590 --> 00:43:06,850 And it's because of this. 687 00:43:07,590 --> 00:43:08,990 OK, so sorry about that. 688 00:43:10,710 --> 00:43:12,910 Don't do any of this at home. Don't use any of these things. They're not 689 00:43:12,910 --> 00:43:13,950 designed as part of a... 690 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:15,820 facial cleansing program. 691 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,080 Nevertheless, it works. 692 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:24,460 And we'll see you next time, if you can recognize us, now that we look ten years 693 00:43:24,460 --> 00:43:25,460 younger.