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00:00Hello.
00:05These days I spend more and more time in my Wiltshire home.
00:11And the pub I own.
00:13Thinking about all the big problems in the world.
00:17And some smaller ones that annoy me.
00:21Luckily there's a place I can go to solve them all.
00:25Or at least try.
00:27My shed.
00:29Right.
00:31It's here that I have the tools.
00:33Let's just saw some wood up.
00:35The tea.
00:37And a couple of other highly competent blokes.
00:41Very good. Brace yourself.
00:43Who've agreed to help me rid the world of problems.
00:46Is she getting the ticket out?
00:47Great.
00:48Dirty flight at us.
00:49And small.
00:51The cereal has gone soggy.
00:53I'll also have to take on other people's problems.
00:56What is wrong with Peter?
00:57He used to make a sound.
00:59And now he doesn't.
01:00By which I mean the locals at my pub are always bringing me stuff to mend.
01:05Is it a train set?
01:07So join us and our excitable crew.
01:13Who will capture our endeavours.
01:15That was epic.
01:17As we create.
01:19Make.
01:20That feels like a terrible thing we've just done.
01:22Repair.
01:23So it's never worked.
01:24Not in my lifetime.
01:25And repurpose.
01:26Whoa!
01:27In my shed load of ideas.
01:28What do you think?
01:29This is just brilliant.
01:30You might think that sitting on this bench in Wiltshire is very relaxing.
01:37And so it should be unless your mind is filled with concern for all the problems of the world and how to solve them.
01:45Right now I'm keen to take on one of the most persistent problems that affects the whole planet.
02:00And that's plastic waste.
02:07In Britain we discard 1.7 billion pieces of the stuff every week.
02:14And while we do recycle nearly half of it, that comes with its own set of problems.
02:20Back in the olden days when I was a lad, the business of rubbish was very simple.
02:26You produce some rubbish, this bottle for example, and you put it in the bin.
02:31And that was the end of that.
02:32We didn't know what happened to it.
02:34We didn't care.
02:35We were blissfully ignorant.
02:37Now of course we have recycling and recycling is a wonderful thing.
02:40I think the key to human happiness is infinite recyclability and abundant renewable energy.
02:46Because then we can indulge our desires to produce and consume, but without filling the world with our tat.
02:53It does come with a few problems though.
02:55I mean, this is the brown bin.
02:56Is that glass?
02:58Or is that plastic?
02:59Or is it cardboard?
03:00No, maybe cardboard goes in the greenwood, but that depends which authority you're living under.
03:04There are 39 different recycling regimes across the UK alone.
03:09Do you take the tops off bottles?
03:11Do you leave them on?
03:12Are you supposed to rinse them out?
03:13Are you supposed to take the labels off?
03:15Are you supposed to put green glass separate from clear glass?
03:18Does that go out on Thursday afternoon or is it the blue bin?
03:20And it goes out on Wednesday morning.
03:22People are very annoyed about recycling because it's too complicated.
03:25Apparently 82% of British households put something wrong in the recycling bin.
03:32What if you could recycle your plastics, for example, yourself?
03:36What if you could cut all this out, all this frustration, all this annoyance, and at home simply turn all those old bottles and what have you into something beautiful and enduring?
03:48Let's try.
03:49In case that wasn't clear, I want to reduce plastic waste and make something useful.
03:54So I consult my team of recycling enthusiasts.
03:57My inventive engineer, Simi.
03:59We're now set at two bar.
04:01And my up for anything carpenter, Tony the Tool.
04:04Aww.
04:05And not forgetting our crew, who have been busy collecting and shredding plastic for our great recycling experiment.
04:13We are planning to make a board game for the pub, so Tony Sim and I prepare our garden smithy.
04:21Right, situation report viewers.
04:23We've shredded all our plastic.
04:25We are going to melt it.
04:27We're going to use this little oven and this toasted sandwich maker.
04:30We're looking for a temperature of around 150 degrees, at which it will become very plastic but not liquid.
04:36Simi has this attractive pair of silicone gloves.
04:38When we have made our plastic into a plastic state, one of us is going to need it until we've got enough to put in our mould to make a rectangular section.
04:49To melt plastic safely, it must have a number two on its recycling symbol, which tells us it's non-toxic.
04:56This can be found in milk bottles and without giving the game away, so to speak,
05:01plastic lids are perfect for our counters and board of different colours.
05:06To begin with, we're going to do white and we're going to do it in the oven.
05:12The aim of our back garden experiment is to find out if this process actually works.
05:17By running different heating appliances all at the same time, we're hoping to generate enough plastic to build our game.
05:24Put a sheet of baking paper on there in the hope that it won't stick.
05:28Shall we start with that?
05:30Yeah, let's put that in and then let's do the same thing with the toasted sandwich maker.
05:34We will do a different colour. We'll do the top. Shall we do blue?
05:37Once heated, the plastic must be malleable enough for us to reshape it.
05:42It's burning.
05:43After five to ten minutes, the plastic has melted.
05:46So if we get that on there...
05:48OK, so now let's get some more in here.
05:50We can reuse that. It's getting hard and breaking apart.
05:53Put that on there.
05:59We want to create a marbling effect, but quickly discover it's not really that simple.
06:04I'm not sure the colours are going to combine very effectively.
06:07It's going to collapse.
06:08The table is going to collapse.
06:10Polymer thermoplastics melt easily, but once off the heat, they cool and harden within seconds.
06:16It's going to take about three days at this rate. That's already gone too hard now.
06:23Work it, work it.
06:27I'm just going to shove that in there for a minute just to see if I can get any shape to this whatsoever.
06:34At least it's taking on a rough shape.
06:36We've made nougat!
06:39That's not even a quarter of what we need.
06:41Situation update, viewers, that is what we have created so far.
06:46It's very difficult to get it into a properly plastic state.
06:49It doesn't mix together very well.
06:51It doesn't form very well.
06:53It sets fire to greaseproof paper.
06:55It burns Tony's hands.
06:57Would you like to know, viewers, what it was that we were hoping to make for the pub?
07:01And then you can gauge how successful we've been so far.
07:06It was, is, a chessboard and a set of draughts.
07:14The artists amongst you, like Rodan looking at a block of stone and being able to see the finished work within it,
07:19will look at that and say, yes, yes, a set of draughts and a board.
07:28Oh, God, what are we going to do?
07:31I've done all that stuff about bins and recycling and how annoying it is.
07:39But Simi thinks he may have the answer.
07:45I don't know if it's the answer.
07:46Well...
07:47I think it's worth trying.
07:49We're running out of options, son.
07:52We leave Simi with the burden of solving our plastic problem.
07:57I find, I think, better over a pint.
07:59So Tony and I head to the pub.
08:02We're also meeting a local dude who would like us to repair his 19th century family heirloom.
08:08No pressure, then.
08:10You're Peter.
08:11Yes.
08:12James.
08:13How are you?
08:14Hello.
08:15This is Tony.
08:16Hello, Tony.
08:17What is that?
08:18A Compendium of Games.
08:19Ooh.
08:20That's the book.
08:21Now, the reason it's wrapped up in cellophane is because this tray is all broken.
08:27I had the utmost difficulty in getting it out because it all sort of fell apart.
08:31So I put it in the bag so I could lift it.
08:34And it's Victorian, you say?
08:36Yes.
08:37But the Book of Instructions gives us some clue.
08:40So it's before bridge, even auction bridge.
08:42So when is that?
08:43Late 19th century?
08:44Yes.
08:45The Victorians could be quite verbose.
08:47Yes.
08:48And it also always amazes me when I see anything Victorian that the type is so tiny.
08:52Yes.
08:53And yet they had to read it with candles most of the time because they didn't have electricity either.
08:57As chess stands pre-eminently and without question at the head of all the games detailed hitherto,
09:07so does the game of whist occupy the position of honour amongst all the multitudinous games of cards.
09:14It is THE game.
09:16There's several pages of this before it actually tells you how to play it.
09:19Where did you get this from?
09:21My parents gave it to me when I was about 11.
09:24You weren't 11 in 1875.
09:26No.
09:27So it was already an antique?
09:28Oh, yes.
09:29All the screws perfectly aligned.
09:31There's a lot of work gone into that.
09:35Before my fascination with the Victorian gaming world takes hold, we need to find out how we can help.
09:41The main problem is this tray here.
09:44That is a picture of it.
09:46Oh.
09:47And you see there's that tray which sits in there.
09:49To lift it out, there should be a ring at each end.
09:52Ah.
09:53So that's what snapped?
09:54Yes.
09:55Now, you can see the holes there.
09:57Now, unfortunately, one of the rings has got lost.
10:00Whether you can get your hands on another one.
10:02We can make one.
10:03You can make one on the leaf.
10:04You can make one, yes.
10:05Let's not forget, Tony, that when this was made, there were very few distractions.
10:09There was no internet, obviously, no electricity, no television, no radio.
10:13Just good, wholesome family fun.
10:15Yep.
10:16You can make one on the leaf, played by little children in massive knickerbockers and their parents who were dying of consumption.
10:23But had at least that afternoon enjoyed the public hanging at Newgate.
10:27Ah, the good old days.
10:29So, I've got all these bits together.
10:32But where do these belong?
10:35Da-da-da.
10:36Something is missing from down here.
10:38We can reinstate that, I think, with a bit of careful gluing and clamping and then one sober with a very finely set plane.
10:48This is actually rather nice, isn't it, Tony?
10:51It's beautiful.
10:52Even though it was probably made in great numbers, what's your ambition for this?
10:58To put it in a state, really, when the grandchildren can play with it again.
11:03Peter, we shall tidy up the box, replace that bit that's peeled off.
11:09Yeah, make another loop and blend it in as seamlessly as possible.
11:14Yes, leave it with us, Peter.
11:15We will be in touch and you will be astonished and you'll look at it and think,
11:19that's great, and then go back to your iPhone.
11:21Thank you very much.
11:22This might be a relatively small repair, but it will involve some intricate carpentry.
11:27and some light metal work.
11:30But the weight of history will add extra pressure as we attempt to get Peter's compendium of games back to full working order.
11:40Here in Wiltshire, we're trying to tackle the big issue of plastic waste by seeing if it's possible to skip the bins altogether
11:51and recycle our plastics at home in our DIY recycling centre.
11:55Smirking. It's burning.
11:57Our idea was to make a draught set for the pub out of milk bottles, but so far our efforts have proved fruitless.
12:05It looks terrible. Oh God, what are we going to do?
12:09But we may just have hit upon a solution.
12:13So we need to melt in small quantities.
12:16I think so. And a smaller mould.
12:19I was wondering if, just as an experiment, we put a little bit of material in there.
12:26It's a piece of his vacuum cleaner from his van.
12:29See, the thing is ideally you'd put it into a hot mould, heat the tube itself with the torch, let it cool, dunk it in some water.
12:38Hopefully it will shrink a bit and a nice round section pellet of recycled plastic will pop out.
12:45Are you ready? Yep!
12:51That's so exciting! Keep going, keep going.
13:00Oh, man!
13:04Look at that! Ta-da!
13:05Hey!
13:06What a breakthrough!
13:07I'm so happy!
13:08I'm so happy, given everything we've been through today.
13:12It's good! It is good!
13:14I love it!
13:16Yeah!
13:17We've just got to refine it.
13:18Yeah.
13:19We've just got to make decent moulds.
13:20Yep.
13:21We put the ball in the middle of it, and we put a lever on something that goes in it, and then we just ram it down.
13:28A proper mould will speed up this whole process, so we waste no time in getting back to the shed.
13:35While Tony makes the start melting more plastic, Sim and I craft the smaller moulds using my new milling machine.
13:43I'm going to bore it on the Rishten.
13:46Which is a lovely machine.
13:47Isn't it lovely?
13:48Isn't it lovely?
13:49Lucy wants to give it a name.
13:50It's a Rishten.
13:51It is a vertical mill, so you could call it...
13:54You like alliterative names.
13:57Victoria the vertical mill.
13:59Nice.
14:00Vincent the vertical mill, or Ricky Rishten.
14:03I think it's a girl.
14:04I think it's a girl.
14:05Why is it a girl?
14:06Well, you've made the lathe a man, so...
14:08I haven't made the lathe a man.
14:10You did.
14:11The lathe is a lathe.
14:13I think the milling machine should be a girl called Millie.
14:17I'll make a little sticky label.
14:19Update, viewers, number eight or nine or ten, we're not quite sure.
14:23We think we can see an end to the recycled plastic conundrum, and it involves making some very, very simple moulds,
14:30which we're going to do here on Millie the milling machine and Doris the drill.
14:42Ignition.
14:44Millie is milling.
14:46Bet you £100 it snatches.
14:48Down.
14:58So, this is basically our mould, and we're going to put our plastic in it, and we're going to press out counters.
15:05Using it as a press, this redundant old pillar drill, which will ensure consistency, which is the key to mass production.
15:14Does the pillar drill have a name?
15:15No, nothing has a name.
15:18The mill doesn't.
15:19The little mill doesn't.
15:20The pillar drill doesn't.
15:21The little lathe doesn't.
15:22The big lathe doesn't.
15:23The bench doesn't.
15:24My mini doesn't.
15:25The only things that have names here are Simi and James.
15:30This piece of aluminium is not called Alan the aluminium.
15:33It's just a piece of aluminium.
15:35Now we've cleared that up, we can get back to making Malcolm the mould and Peter Piston,
15:39which we need for pressing the counters for our draught set.
15:42Where would you keep your G-clamps?
15:46Do you want to use the G-clamp that I made as a 15-year-old?
15:49Yes.
15:50If it still works.
15:51I believe it does.
15:52It's a bit rusty and...
15:56That's rather...
15:58That is rather good.
15:59Did you cast all that?
16:00Yeah.
16:01So you made a wooden pattern?
16:03Yep.
16:04Sand casted?
16:05Yes.
16:06Used the horizontal mill on those faces, I think.
16:09And then turned everything else and...
16:13That was that.
16:15That would be marvellous.
16:18Now I quickly turn a piston on the lathe.
16:21This will be used to press into the mould to create the counters.
16:24Into this churk.
16:31Done.
16:32All we need now is a bit of molten plastic to go in there.
16:34Job done.
16:35Beautiful.
16:36Where is Tony?
16:38He's in the kitchen, melting a small quantity of plastic for us to press into our newly made mould.
16:45Here's Tony!
16:48Anybody order green balls?
16:49Hopefully, this time, it will work.
16:51He's got hands of asbestos.
16:54Right, James, would you like to do the honours?
16:56Just...
16:57Let's try.
16:58Where do I stop?
16:59Just keep going.
17:03Hey.
17:05Can we have another one?
17:07It's a bit rough.
17:10Surface finish on the outside is not that great.
17:12It's still very hot as well.
17:13I think the alley is probably just sucking all the heat out of it very quickly.
17:20I'll shoot off the heat.
17:21It's getting better.
17:22That one is better.
17:23That was much better.
17:24I would say we have cracked the counters.
17:26Yes, sir.
17:27Agreed.
17:29All we need to do is repeat the process 23 more times and build a draughts board.
17:34So, we will now shift to something more interesting than this, if that's possible.
17:39Once our game is completed, I'll be bringing it to the pub for everyone to enjoy.
17:48This will give the locals another reason to drop by.
17:50It's not easy running a pub, you know, what with business rates, the cost of thatching, spiralling wage costs, people making off with the cutlery.
17:59And on top of all that, I have to think about choosing the right flavour of crisps.
18:05Which got me thinking.
18:07Perhaps it's time to revolutionise the nation's favourite pub snack.
18:12We love crisps, but we have identified a problem.
18:18Which is that you buy a bag of crisps, here's a blue packet, which is cheese and onion, and you think,
18:23Oh, excellent.
18:25Mm, mm, mm.
18:26They are absolutely delicious.
18:28Peak cuisine.
18:29But what if you get half it down the bag and then you suddenly think,
18:32Do you know what? I fancy salt and vinegar.
18:33So we were thinking, what if all crisps were plain?
18:38And then, let's say we're in my pub and you have, rather than a packet of crisps, a bowl of completely plain crisps,
18:46and then a series of flavours, perhaps in atomiser bottles, that you added to the crisps.
18:54So you picked a crisp up and you think, I think I'll have salt and vinegar for this one.
18:57Munch.
18:58And then the next crisps, you think, no, I enjoyed the salt and vinegar, but this time I'm going to have cheese and onion.
19:06To eat.
19:08Every crisp could be different.
19:11Let me talk to you a bit about some of the flavours I was imagining.
19:15Spam, anchovies, or even combine them in a new flavour, spam and anchovies.
19:22Oh, that'd be minging.
19:23No, I think it'd be quite nice, wouldn't it?
19:24Spam and anchovies.
19:25Spam and anchovies.
19:26Spam and anchovies. It rolls off the tongue. A bag of spam and anchovies, please.
19:29OK, what if we...
19:30Cook it up.
19:31Pour them in there.
19:32Yeah, cook it up.
19:34With the spam.
19:35With some spam.
19:37This is where everybody's going, get the spam out, make a hole in the bottom of the tin.
19:42Have you ever met somebody who speaks like that?
19:43Yes.
19:44People who give you advice on the internet.
19:47Oh.
19:51They're right, though.
19:52They're right.
19:55Oh, this is a nice-looking block of spam.
19:58When was the last time you had spam?
20:01About three days ago.
20:04I had spam and beans when I was left on my own at home the other day.
20:09Right, there's the cubed spam.
20:11You've added some more oil into there, yeah?
20:13I have, yes.
20:15OK, that can go on the cooker with a wooden spoon.
20:18While we wait for our flavours to blend, I think I've spotted another opportunity to enhance the pub snack experience.
20:27Mmm.
20:29What if?
20:31Spam on a cheese and onion, Chris. Here you go.
20:37Cheers.
20:38OK, ready? Cheers.
20:39Three, two, one.
20:42Mmm. Oh, yeah.
20:43Mmm.
20:45God, that's good.
20:46That's really good.
20:48Mmm.
20:51Does anybody from the crew want to try a...?
20:54I'll try one.
20:55This is the hand of Will Fisher coming in.
20:58What do you think?
20:59Oh, that's excellent.
21:00That's for Andy.
21:05It's good, isn't it?
21:07How are we just going to spend the rest of this eating...
21:10Well, it's just...
21:12Right, back to the task in hand, which is trying to make atomised flavour
21:15for crisps.
21:16This needs to be heated up.
21:17Do you mind doing that, Sammy?
21:18No, no.
21:19Because you're nearest and you're experts at cooking.
21:21Is it worth sprinkling a little bit of salt in as well to...?
21:24Oh, yes!
21:26Within a matter of moments, our Spam Chibi mix, you're welcome, is ready.
21:30Pass me a piece of fun, I can make funnel.
21:36What?
21:37As Tony fashions a funnel out of foil and pours the infusion into the sprayer,
21:42I'm already convinced this will be a hit in the pub.
21:46I am genuinely quite excited about this.
21:49This could be a world-changing moment.
21:52Spam and anchovy crisp for the first time in the history of humanity.
21:56Oh, it works!
21:58It tastes of Spam and anchovy, that's amazing!
22:00Step aside, cheese and onion, stand down salt and vinegar.
22:18A new flavour combination has arrived.
22:20You have to eat them quickly, obviously, otherwise they go soggy.
22:23But you do eat crisp quickly, don't you?
22:24You don't sit and...
22:26Mmm!
22:27Sometimes you get a note of anchovy,
22:29and then sometimes you get the Spam first,
22:31so it's a bit of a surprise as well.
22:32Yeah.
22:33The basic idea of that works.
22:36You can have a bowl of plain crisp,
22:39and then add any flavour that the pub can conceive.
22:43There'll be a great big rack of them, colour-coded,
22:45with little signs that say Spam and anchovy,
22:48spice paste, the regulars,
22:50salt and vinegar, cheese and onion,
22:52prawn cocktail.
22:54It's fantastic!
22:55That has completely revolutionised crisp.
22:57They've been trapped for...
22:59When were crisps invented?
23:01Probably the 1920s, I don't know.
23:03They've been locked into this small-minded idea
23:06that the same flavour has to run through the whole bag,
23:08and it doesn't.
23:10God, we're good.
23:11You saw it here first.
23:13The crisp spray atomiser,
23:15coming soon to a pub near me.
23:22Welcome back to Wiltshire,
23:24where, as well as tackling some of the world's biggest problems,
23:28we're also often busy mending personal effects
23:31brought into the pub by the locals.
23:33So, Tony and I are back in the workshop
23:36to get started on the business of mending.
23:38Peter came to the pub,
23:41and he brought us his Victorian Games box.
23:45These bits are broken,
23:47and Tony is an expert on gluing things together,
23:51cos that's the sort of thing he does.
23:53There's a lot in here, actually.
23:54It's rather cleverly done.
23:56This appears more broken than when we got it.
23:58It does, actually.
24:00The lid, Tony, is coming apart at the back
24:03and needs gluing and clamping.
24:06He doesn't want it restored,
24:08but he doesn't want it to fall apart any further.
24:10So there should be a little ring in each end
24:13for lifting it out.
24:15One of them is long lost,
24:17but it's OK, because I have some brass rod
24:20of an appropriate diameter to make another.
24:23Do you want to make two and make them match?
24:25I mean, that's the original ring.
24:28Victorian fingers went through that.
24:31We won't get rid of that, but I think they should match.
24:34While I reacquaint myself with my ancient soldering kit...
24:38It has some solder paste, various solders,
24:41two tins of flux that I've had for, I'm afraid to say, 40 years.
24:45Tony begins the delicate job of gluing the tray inside the box.
24:50Is it sticking together?
24:52Yeah, it's just fiddly.
24:55And there's so many little bits,
24:57I think I'm just going to use masking tape to clamp it,
24:59because it doesn't need a lot of pressure.
25:01No.
25:03Heating the rod makes the metal easier to bend.
25:06I have to do this without setting the fire to the Victorian Games box,
25:10because that would make the job a lot more complicated.
25:14Right, leave that to cool naturally,
25:16and then it will be more malleable.
25:17This bit at the back is going to need some quite hefty clamping
25:22and probably leaving overnight.
25:24That is now much easier to bend,
25:26because it's been annealed,
25:27which is a sort of posh metal worker's way of saying,
25:30made a bit softer.
25:32Man in heaven. Virtually perfect.
25:35See, that annoys me.
25:36That one's not in the same direction in the head as all the others.
25:40That's properly weird, Tony.
25:42Don't you line them up?
25:43No.
25:44On your light switches?
25:45On your plug sockets?
25:46No.
25:47They've got to be in the same direction.
25:49That's disgusting.
25:50They've got to be at the right tension,
25:51which may not be with the slot in the right direction.
25:54You can't compromise integrity for lining your slots up.
25:59Well, I think visual aesthetics are better than safety.
26:02I quite like a certain amount of randomness.
26:03I like the odd picture in my house to be slightly on the hook.
26:06No, look.
26:07Whoever did this originally has lined them up horizontally.
26:09That's probably why that one came undone.
26:14Next, we focus on the lid repairs.
26:17It's not split, it's merely come away.
26:19It's slightly warped,
26:21so we need to get some glue into the gap,
26:23but Tony's taping the inside so that any glue that goes all the way through it
26:28doesn't run down and spoil the inside of the lid.
26:31Very wise.
26:33Oh, that's nice. The glue is squidging out, which is a good sign.
26:36I would leave that overnight.
26:38Wouldn't you?
26:39Yeah.
26:40With the lid of the box clamped and secure,
26:42I can return to crafting two identical brass rings,
26:45which act as handles for the tray.
26:48Beautiful curve.
26:50But somehow there, I've...
26:52Maybe it was when I squeezed the pliers on
26:53I might have twisted it slightly in my hand.
26:56It appears that I may not be bothered
26:57about screws and light switches being aligned,
27:00but I do like my rings to be perfectly circular.
27:04I have improved it a bit, look.
27:05That's not bad.
27:06It's not bad, but it's not good, is it?
27:09Here's a little jewellery mending tip
27:11you probably never thought you'd be getting from me.
27:14The mistake people make,
27:15I want to demonstrate,
27:16you take a ring, say, from your necklace
27:18and you think,
27:19I need to open that one up to put another one in,
27:21or whatever,
27:22and you open it by doing that and pulling it apart.
27:24You will never get it back together.
27:25Always open it by doing it that way,
27:28because then you can squash it minutely
27:33in that plane,
27:34and then when you push it back together,
27:37the ends will be tight against each other
27:39and you can solder it.
27:40So it clumps itself.
27:41Yeah.
27:42Do you not look ringy enough to you?
27:44It's perfect.
27:45So you are a bit of a perfectionist, aren't you?
27:47Not really, but people are watching.
27:50Well, at least I hope they are,
27:51because next is the incredible science of soldering.
27:56The way I always do this,
27:57because it's very easy to put too much on,
28:01clip a tiny bit of the solder off.
28:03I put a bit of fluxite on there,
28:07and then if you put your little scrap of solder...
28:11How will it stay in place?
28:13You can simply heat it up
28:14and then that little bit will run into the joint.
28:17The trick with soldering is to heat up the metal
28:19near the joint rather than the joint itself.
28:24Oh, wow.
28:26That's impressive.
28:29Get in!
28:30That's very impressive.
28:32Right, you can glue your box back together now, Tone.
28:34Excellent.
28:36That was very satisfying.
28:38I'm not good at chess.
28:39I sort of know the rules.
28:40Are you any good at chess?
28:41I joined a chess club for a laugh,
28:42because I thought it would be exciting and it wasn't.
28:44You thought it would be exciting?
28:46Yeah, I don't know what got into it.
28:47What was the alternative?
28:50It was a Rubik's Cube club.
28:51That was quite new.
28:52I wasn't a member of any clubs.
28:54We had gangs and, you know,
28:56a few people were interested in making stuff out of wood
28:59and building bicycles.
29:00Some others were interested in photography and that.
29:03So you just...
29:04You sort of formed natural clubs,
29:05but they weren't formalised.
29:08Because if they were formalised,
29:09they'd involve a grown-up and that would spoil it.
29:11We've got a sort of club here.
29:14We have.
29:15We don't really acknowledge it, do we?
29:17But it is a club.
29:19You're just going to hold it together with some tape.
29:21Yeah.
29:22See, that's already a massive improvement.
29:24How are my rings?
29:26Rings are lush.
29:27You've got the nicest rings I've ever seen.
29:29The trick is to do that
29:30and then get a bit of tension around the corners, isn't it?
29:32Yeah.
29:33So all that's really left to do
29:34is for you to assemble and glue...
29:36Is that the Domino's tray?
29:38Yeah.
29:39This is for the Domino's.
29:40Ssemble and glue the Domino's tray,
29:41give it a bit of a wipe down,
29:43check the gluey marks
29:44and then give it back to Peter and...
29:47This is so nice.
29:48...enjoy his astonishment.
29:50This is quite zen, isn't it?
29:52This mending the old Victorian box.
29:54I would leave that overnight, wouldn't you?
29:57Yeah.
30:00Now all that's needed is a good night's sleep,
30:02but that's not always possible.
30:04Here's a fact I recently discovered.
30:07Four out of ten couples are not sharing a duvet fairly,
30:11leading to a lot of bedroom drama and ruined sleep.
30:15But I think I could put an end to all that here and now.
30:21Here is a problem that has plagued couples
30:23ever since the invention of the duvet,
30:25which was sometime in the mid-1970s.
30:27The double duvet is, by its nature,
30:30something to be shared equally.
30:32But it isn't, is it?
30:33Even with a modern, same-sex, mixed-race,
30:37gender-fluid couple like this one,
30:39you will get problems when one of them rolls over in the night
30:42and steals part of it from the other.
30:44For example, Simi, if you imagine you're asleep
30:46and you roll over and you steal, there you go.
30:49You see?
30:50And now Tony thinks, hang on a minute.
30:52There is, I'm afraid, no happy ending to this scene,
31:00but I've had an idea.
31:04What I reckon, you two, is...
31:07Yes.
31:08What if...
31:09This is very simple.
31:11I've got some bungees.
31:13What if we bungeed each corner to the floor
31:16so that you have a sort of self-centering duvet?
31:19Ooh, that's nice, yeah.
31:21And it's sort of almost like a floating duvet.
31:24We really need one of those eyelet-punching things.
31:26Or a cable tie.
31:28Oh, a cable tie's a good idea.
31:31Do you want to double them up so they're longer?
31:34Well, possibly.
31:35Cos then they'll...
31:36Yes, I think you're right.
31:38That'll do.
31:41Hogging the duvet is big news in Britain,
31:44outranking the age-old problem of snoring
31:46as the main reason for night-time squabbles.
31:49If this works, no more.
31:53My idea is the bungees,
31:56which will be under equal tension on all four corners,
32:00will centre the duvet.
32:03If somebody pulls it one way,
32:04obviously it will spring back the other.
32:06Well, this will be unknown to them,
32:09because they'll be asleep.
32:11But the duvet will always be in the middle.
32:14Makes a change, him doing all the work, doesn't it?
32:16Yeah.
32:17Makes a change, us doing nothing.
32:20Ooh!
32:21It's moving!
32:23Hey, there might be something in this.
32:25Also, if you had a height-adjustable bungee anchoring point,
32:29you could make more of a hovering duvet for very hot days,
32:33such as today.
32:35Ooh!
32:37Ooh!
32:38That's a nice draft.
32:39It is.
32:42Clear sleep.
32:43This is a serious experiment.
32:45Obviously, in the final version of this, it will be adjustable.
32:48There.
32:49Now imagine one of you rolls over and grabs some duvet.
32:53Oh, well, you...
32:55Oh!
32:59James, I think you've cracked it.
33:01It's not bad, is it?
33:02It's not bad at all.
33:03It's very good.
33:04Do a bit of tussling now.
33:05It's the middle of the night.
33:06Just mind your eyes.
33:08Yeah, if the bungees become unhooked for some reason...
33:12Look at that!
33:15Automatically centred duvet.
33:18The end of the argument.
33:20We've solved it.
33:26There's your happy ending.
33:33You join us once again in Wiltshire,
33:35still working away recycling our own plastic
33:38to create a game for the pub.
33:40But we also like workshop games,
33:42so we've invented one that tests our basic knowledge of physics
33:46and makes use of eggs past their sell-by date.
33:52It's called the yolks on us,
33:54and that's the last egg pun that there will be in this sequence,
33:57but it does involve an egg.
33:59We've got a box of eggs that have gone way past their sell-by date.
34:02There are two indentations in our simple rig that hold the egg.
34:06Eggs are famously very strong in that direction.
34:09Supposedly you can drive a tractor over them and all sorts of things.
34:12But the winner is the person who gets the most weight on there
34:17without breaking the egg.
34:19How are we going to balance everything?
34:20It'll be like buckaroo.
34:21Well, that's why it's interesting.
34:23Oh, OK.
34:24I'm going to start with this hammer.
34:27Which weighs?
34:28876 grams.
34:32So I'm going to put it there.
34:34Sim, it's your go.
34:35Anything.
34:36Anything at all.
34:37Anywhere beyond that line.
34:39Oh, Sim.
34:40Oh, bold.
34:41Oh, that's going to be...
34:43It's 13,000 grams.
34:45Jeez.
34:47But you've written it in, a bit premature,
34:49because you might break the egg.
34:52You might break the wood at this rate.
34:54I'm just getting it beyond the line.
35:04It's funny, what the egg was thinking,
35:05I've got this, I've got this.
35:12This game is great,
35:14but because Tony didn't get to demonstrate his engineering prowess,
35:17it's only fair we play best of three.
35:21Yes.
35:224,100.
35:25But let's be clear...
35:27Oh, he's got right there.
35:28At this point, we're all in it to win it.
35:321,990.
35:331,990.
35:341,990.
35:35I'm not feeling that...
35:38Oh.
35:42You've played a very tactical game, Tony.
35:43Yeah.
35:44Half to win.
35:45There's a little bit of water in it.
35:47The average egg can withstand a surprising amount of weight,
35:50up to 35 kilograms when pressure is applied evenly.
35:55So I'm going to add 1,231.
36:00And I can't put it any further back than that.
36:03Simi.
36:04I'm finding this genuinely tense.
36:07445.
36:08Whoa.
36:09Whoa.
36:10Whoa.
36:11Whoa.
36:12Whoa.
36:13Whoa.
36:15That was you.
36:17Whoa, that's good.
36:19If this game wasn't exciting enough,
36:21for the final round, we decide to add more drama.
36:25There's a minimum weight limit of 500 grams.
36:29Simi.
36:30The Pro-Hex head screws.
36:34He's just...
36:35He's ballsy.
36:36Not looking to see...
36:37Oh!
36:44That's so breaking.
36:45Whoa!
36:47It's never taken this much weight.
36:49Oh!
36:51Ha-ha!
36:52Winner!
36:54Oh!
36:55So I got a lose,
36:56so I'm down to noughts,
36:57and you had the most.
36:58So, yes, it's an absolute draw.
37:00It's zero.
37:01Yay!
37:03Everybody has zero point.
37:05Well, you can play it at home,
37:06if you've got some eggs that are well past their sell-by date,
37:09and some pieces of wood and some screws
37:10and a piece of plywood to protect your kitchen table,
37:12even though you've made some screw holes in it,
37:14or you need some scales as well.
37:17And that's an exit.
37:19Ah!
37:20Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
37:25But it's not all fun and games, you know.
37:27We have also been working hard to reduce plastic waste.
37:32Our goal was to recycle some ourselves
37:34and transform it into something exquisite and enduring.
37:38A game fit for the pub.
37:41Have we been victorious?
37:44So, viewers, we are ready to show you our draft set for the pub
37:48made out of recycled plastic,
37:50not just recycled plastic,
37:52plastic that we have recycled ourselves.
37:54This is such a big moment.
37:57Because we're blasé about the idea of recycling,
38:00we say, oh, yes, I recycle everything,
38:01and what you really mean is you put it in a different coloured bin bag.
38:05You haven't done anything different from what you were doing in the 1970s,
38:08i.e. throwing things away.
38:10It's just now you put it in something with a colour,
38:12so you think, oh, I'm saving the environment.
38:15Rubbish.
38:16The way you save it is to not recycle it in the first place.
38:19You take it and you turn it into something else.
38:22That's what we've done.
38:24Ignore this box.
38:25We've just put it in this old chess set box
38:27so that we can do what, in TV, is called a reveal.
38:32Is everybody ready?
38:33It's possibly a bit smaller than you were expecting
38:45from the amount of angst and energy that was involved.
38:49I think the word is homespun.
38:51It's brilliant. It's exquisite.
38:54It is exquisite, and it shall endure.
38:57Here is the board.
38:59You might look at this and say, that's very small.
39:01I say, it's convenient and travel size.
39:04It's quite amazing how much plastic it took to make that small set.
39:09That's a very good point,
39:10because we had a massive heap of milk bottles and milk bottle tops.
39:14OK, would you two like to play?
39:16Yeah.
39:19In the interests of entertainment,
39:21for this game, we will be playing speed drafts.
39:25Although I must point out, Simi is at a slight disadvantage
39:28He is colour blind, and red and green look the same to him,
39:32which is something we didn't consider rather stupidly
39:35when we made the set.
39:36That's red, though.
39:37Yes.
39:38OK, that's all right.
39:39Plus, I wondered why you didn't do that earlier.
39:41Well, because I couldn't see it!
39:43That's because you couldn't see it!
39:44You're playing a man who can't tell the difference between the two sets.
39:47I take the wins where I can.
39:48Oh, massive error!
39:50Oh, I forgot you could go backwards.
39:52You can if you're taking people.
39:54I forgot.
39:55Bit shafted, aren't you?
39:56I am.
39:57That's Tony, that's you.
39:59Why is that there, then?
40:01Because Tony's popped it up.
40:03There you go, the first ever victory
40:05on the Royal Oak Homemade Recycled Plastics draft board
40:09was won by a man who can't see it.
40:14So, there you have it.
40:15We drank the milk, collected the bottles and tops
40:17and turned them into something useful.
40:20Something that may well outlive us all.
40:24Now, that is the true definition of recycling.
40:31Before Tony demands a rematch, we must move to another part of the pub
40:34to meet Peter and return his Victorian games box,
40:38which has been fixed for the first time in 150 years.
40:44There wasn't really a great deal wrong with it,
40:45but it was coming apart at the seams here and there.
40:48There was a loop missing.
40:50It was a bit broken off.
40:51Because I did tell him I'd make it look like a repair.
40:53I think that's fine, though,
40:55because I really struggled with making it look like new,
40:57and I think every little mark tells a story.
41:00Every bit has got a story behind it.
41:03I think you're right.
41:04Personality and character.
41:05Hello. Here is Peter.
41:06Hello.
41:07Nice to see you again.
41:08Good evening.
41:10So, your Victorian games box, Peter.
41:12We spent quite a bit of time on it.
41:14We haven't restored it because you asked us not to.
41:16Yes.
41:17Various joints around here have been re-glued along the front.
41:21You remember this piece had sheared off,
41:24and this piece was missing.
41:25Yes.
41:26I've made you a new one,
41:27but did promise that I would make it look like a repair
41:29so that it was part of the story.
41:30Yes.
41:31And so it is.
41:32And now, if we open it up,
41:34da-da-da-da...
41:38..and remove the very wordy instruction book,
41:40you will see, sir, two loops...
41:43..where there was only one.
41:45Those have been freshly made by us,
41:47and Tony has reassembled this entire tray.
41:54And it was almost impossible to get it out.
41:56Yes.
41:57And if you tried it, it fell apart, literally.
42:00Well...
42:01Because all these pieces were loose.
42:02There's no rhyme or reason to why it's made the way it is.
42:05Yes.
42:06When it came apart, literally every piece of it fell apart.
42:09Yes.
42:10And there's lots of little pieces.
42:11But we haven't spoiled the very extensive pattern and story
42:17that is within the wood.
42:18Yes.
42:19I think that's the important thing,
42:20because every mark's got a story behind it.
42:22Yes.
42:23Oh, yes.
42:24And we had this dilemma, didn't we,
42:25about whether we'd clean this up and make it look brand new.
42:27Yes.
42:28But I think it would ruin it.
42:29Yeah, a big part of us...
42:30Yeah, we did want to plane it all down.
42:32Yes.
42:33But we fought that urge.
42:35Do you think anyone will ever play any of these games again?
42:37Or is this...
42:38Well, I think they will.
42:39We used to play a little bit with my children when they were small.
42:43But now, the next generation have come along
42:46and hopefully the grandchildren will enjoy it.
42:49And that is for you.
42:52Right.
42:53Well, thank you very much indeed.
42:54I'm glad I brought it along.
42:56Absolute pleasure.
42:57We were fascinated by it.
42:58Don't sell it.
42:59It's tremendous.
43:00No, don't sell it.
43:01Certainly not.
43:02Don't drop it.
43:03It will disintegrate.
43:04It will do many generations yet.
43:06Excellent.
43:08Goodbye.
43:09Thank you for coming.
43:10Bye.
43:11Bye.
43:12Ooh, that's another satisfied customer.
43:15Bye.
43:45You
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