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Help! Does anybody remember this programme?

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SamQ aka Ah! Q!

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"Salvage Hunters, The Restorers" - which episode please?

The insufferable D.P. presents Alex Webster (a.k.a. The Amiable Bodger) with a pedestal table that magically extends to seat forty...Orright, I exaggerate, but A.W. did make about four extra leaves for it, beacuse D.P. couldn't find the missing bits.

I've searched for about an hour. No Boolean Logic string I can come up can gratify me with a description or an image, leading to an i.d. of the series and episode number. Please, pretty please, if you recognise this, can you let me know? I've temporarily got The South American Female Warriors - in their Prime (like Miss Jean Brodie?) - so I can download it.

I "wouldn't give 2d" for the woodworking(??) espoused, but I have an pressing commission for a mechanism like wot the table had in the first place, before A.W. did wot A.W. does...an' I therefore need to "get an unnerstaundin', Hi, of thon foncy undercarriage, Like".

[Inhabitants of BT4 may recognise their signature patois].

I hope some fellow insommniac, desperately seeking the most soporific broadcasting items, may have remained concious long enough to note my desperately-sought information. Answers on a forum post please, at the usual URL.

Cheers, Sam.

P.S. I also vaguely remember F.W.W. doing a piece on this railed, extending, mechanism; possibly by Michael Fortune, but again, digital detection defied me.
 
Yes, Thank You Bob; I've tried three separate versions of that lisT, but you come up against bland statements like this for multiple programmes:

"Skilled craftspeople are bringing Drew Pritchard's finds back to life. With demanding customers and high turnover, their hard work turns trash to treasure."
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Well, No!! Really?? I'd never have guessed, Mr Lazy Compiler...

This is why I am hoping some fellow forumite may have a clearer recollection or - in a perfect world - an URL to share.
 
Not a program I've ever had any interest in Sam, dipped into it a couple of times and can't get past the fact I dislike the main character. I don't know anyone else who watches it and might remember so can't help much but I'll look as well.
 
And we have a winner!!

"William IV split pedestal extending table"

For example: https://www.wickersleyantiques.co.uk/so ... -seats-14/

The one in the program was much tattier than this superb beauty. But, the discerning feature was that split pedestal.

Unbelievably, I sat at a similar, but conventional four-legged one, for nearly 30 years (during Pastoral Staff meetings) but never thought to look underneath... :oops:
 
No help I’m sorry, but we had a table in the library at school which extended by turning a big cranked handle at one end, must have had a long threaded bar, but how it worked is lost to me, it was a VERY long time ago!
Ian
 
Cabinetman":1kpati28 said:
No help I’m sorry, but we had a table in the library at school which extended by turning a big cranked handle at one end, must have had a long threaded bar, but how it worked is lost to me, it was a VERY long time ago!
Ian
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I looked into these. The mechanics are simple. It is just like a bench vice and winds one side to a fixed side. I found someone who made the screw and mechanism. I struggled with finding an appropriate handle
 
SamQ aka Ah! Q!":25axssoq said:
Unbelievably, I sat at a similar, but conventional four-legged one, for nearly 30 years (during Pastoral Staff meetings) but never thought to look underneath... :oops:
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Yebbut in that situation you're more likely to be looking to Heaven than down to Hell Sam ;)
 
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