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00:00Let's go!
00:02Wow!
00:04I did it!
00:06Thank you!
00:08Kazumi Imai has repaired 30,000 appliances so far.
00:16With knowledge and technology he learned by himself since elementary school,
00:21he can revive old electrical appliances that even manufacturers can't accept.
00:28Imai is the last one to repair appliances.
00:34Oh, it's here!
00:36It's here!
00:38I'm glad to hear that.
00:41He went to Katashina Village in Gunma Prefecture, where he usually works,
00:46to repair appliances at the end of the year.
00:49He revived many electrical appliances and it seemed to be a great success.
00:54But thanks to the broadcast,
00:57actually...
00:59This is the most difficult task I've ever done.
01:02It's as difficult as the highest level.
01:04What?
01:05Unexpected things happened.
01:08What happened?
01:10He looks serious.
01:11Let's watch the video again.
01:16He came close to a poor appliance repairman.
01:20This is Mr. Kuwa, who finished the repair of appliances in Katashina Village.
01:25He looks excited.
01:27I posted a video of me coming here on Facebook this morning.
01:31I said, I'm here to shoot a video in Katashina Village.
01:34Then...
01:35There was a man named Shirai who watched my video.
01:39He is a friend of mine who I went to play with in my teens and early twenties.
01:47He has a pension in a ski resort near here.
01:50He has something he wants me to fix.
01:53Let's try it.
01:56He has been a friend of mine for about 40 years.
02:00Suddenly, he got a call from a repairman.
02:03I remember it well.
02:04He came to the pension where he works to help Mr. Imai.
02:10It's an interesting development.
02:13He arrived at the pension.
02:16It's a nice pension.
02:19It's a place I've longed for for a long time.
02:23Hello.
02:25You are Mr. Kuwa.
02:27You watched my video on Facebook.
02:30I thought you were nearby.
02:32I came to repair appliances in Katashina Village.
02:35I didn't know you had a pension in such a nice place.
02:39This is Mr. Shirai Hiroaki, a friend of Mr. Imai's in his forties.
02:45How did you meet Mr. Imai?
02:49We met at an amateur radio station.
02:52We happened to be in the same frequency.
02:56We talked to each other.
02:59We were invited to go to the southern island.
03:04I thought it would cost a lot of money to go to the southern island.
03:07We went to the southern island together.
03:11If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be in this business.
03:14It was fun to go there once.
03:16Then we decided to go skiing.
03:19We stayed at various pensions.
03:22I thought it would be nice to have a pension business.
03:26That's why I'm doing this.
03:29He met his current wife at the pension where he stayed with Mr. Imai.
03:35They got married.
03:38For Mr. Shirai, Mr. Imai is an important person who changed his life.
03:44You repaired my life.
03:48What does Mr. Shirai want Mr. Imai to repair this time?
03:54It's an open reel tape recorder.
03:58I think my grandfather's voice is recorded here.
04:03I wanted to hear it.
04:08Mr. Shirai asked Mr. Imai to repair it.
04:12It's an open reel tape recorder that was manufactured about 60 years ago.
04:18In the 1950s, it became an innovative audio device that replaced a record player.
04:27My grandfather liked new things, so he bought it.
04:31He showed it to me first.
04:34I remember talking and recording with my grandfather.
04:38It was a long time ago.
04:41Maybe the tape records the voice of a kind grandfather who went to heaven when he was 9 years old.
04:51However, the tape recorder is no longer working.
04:58I want to hear it.
05:04Will Mr. Imai be able to revive his grandfather's request for 40 years?
05:11Let's check it out.
05:14Let's look at the battery.
05:19It's a battery.
05:22The battery is not working.
05:32It's a terrible thing.
05:35This is terrible.
05:37Look at this.
05:39What is this?
05:41When I opened the battery case, the battery, which was thought to have been put in about 50 years ago, leaked.
05:51The battery was hard as it was.
05:55This is what happens.
05:57First of all, I will clean the battery case.
06:04I've never seen anything like this.
06:06It's like someone who's cleaning a dinosaur's bone.
06:12Then...
06:15It's a mess.
06:20This spring is broken, so I have to get a battery case.
06:25I'll take it apart again and use only the spring here.
06:29The spring is already rotten.
06:32A battery case that can no longer be used.
06:36A replacement battery case is needed.
06:40However, there is no way that he has conveniently brought the battery case from the workshop of Mr. Imai.
06:47I don't think it's going to heal right away.
06:51But let's do our best.
06:56It's a long-distance repair with limited tools.
06:59In addition, the condition is at the top level.
07:04This is a terminal that transmits electricity.
07:09It's a mess.
07:13It's gone.
07:16This is quite difficult.
07:20It's a mess from the start.
07:24Even so, it takes an hour to clean up.
07:29I've cleaned it up.
07:33I'm going to take the rotten spring out of the battery case and transplant it here.
07:42It is necessary to replace the parts later, but for the time being, the cleaning of the battery box is over.
07:53Next, disassemble the machine and check the condition inside.
08:10Then...
08:12The belt is already stretched.
08:15It's not a belt anymore.
08:19It won't turn like this.
08:23Next, we need a round belt.
08:27A rubber belt that is necessary when winding or rewinding the reproduced tape.
08:34This part also needs to be replaced.
08:38Of course, this time, the parts of the Imai stock that have been stored for many years cannot be used for maintenance repairs.
08:46I can see the whole picture.
08:51Imai has found that there are not one or two defective parts.
08:56He will further disassemble the parts to find out if there are any other defects.
09:02There is a defective part.
09:05I'm going to check where it's going to break and prepare the parts.
09:09Oh, the switch is working.
09:12The switch is alive. Congratulations.
09:15It's amazing that it's alive.
09:17And I don't know if I have to put batteries in the electronic circuit to make it work.
09:24Well, it's pretty old, so I think there are a lot of condensers.
09:31If you replace all of these, it will be difficult to go on a business trip.
09:38As a result of the disassembly, the battery case, rubber belt, and most of the condensers were broken.
09:46Imai decided that replacement was necessary.
09:50This is the most difficult level I've ever done.
09:55Let's do something for our friends.
09:59So the repair of the switch is over here.
10:04Thank you very much.
10:08Take care.
10:10It's nice to have a man's friendship.
10:13The recorder is taken home and the rest of the work is done by Imai.
10:21Akihabara has changed a lot.
10:24I came to Akihabara.
10:25The next day, before returning to Mie Prefecture, he went to Akihabara to procure parts.
10:33He usually orders parts online from the workshop.
10:38This time, he wanted to get back to work as soon as possible, so he carried it himself.
10:45This is good.
10:47It's similar.
10:50You can process it with this.
10:53You can do it with this.
10:54First, he purchased a battery case and several types of rubber belts for replacement parts.
11:01He has everything he needs.
11:04Will he be able to revive the repair product?
11:13I came back to Mie Prefecture from Akihabara to procure parts.
11:19The first thing Imai, who returned to Mie Prefecture, takes on is replacing the spring of the battery case, which had been damaged by the earthquake.
11:29Let's take it apart.
11:31I want this spring, so I'll break it.
11:35First, remove the spring from the new battery case.
11:40Like this.
11:42Transfer it to the repair product battery case and solder it.
11:51It's fine.
11:53Like this.
11:57The soldering of the spring of the battery case was completed in no time.
12:02And then...
12:06That's the plating.
12:09I'm going to apply the plating to the rusty part.
12:14What Imai took out was a machine to apply plating to metal to prevent rust.
12:20The metal sticks to the surface, which improves the rust.
12:26Plating the plated spring makes it easier for electricity to pass through and prevents future rust.
12:37I hope it doesn't rust.
12:41The plating of the terminal, which transmits electricity to the machine, is also completed.
12:47The replacement of parts of the battery case is now complete.
12:53It's rare to see someone so happy to fix a battery case.
13:00Now, let's change the capacitor.
13:05It's a little bumpy, isn't it?
13:07This has also aged and the aluminum around it has melted.
13:12If the capacitor has aged this much, it's a life-or-death situation.
13:16Let's go home.
13:18After a difficult repair of the battery case,
13:21he replaces the capacitor, which is expected to deteriorate over time.
13:30I'm going to take out 200 pieces.
13:43This one is done.
13:46This repair has been about 60 years since it was manufactured.
13:52The structure is complicated because it is a fairly old machine.
13:57However, this is the first request from an old friend who has returned after 40 years.
14:03I definitely want to fix it and deliver it to him.
14:07He continues to work without taking a break for an hour and a half.
14:14I'm going to replace about 15 capacitors.
14:20The replacement of 15 capacitors, which were placed in a complicated manner 60 years ago, is also completed.
14:27Finally, he attaches the rubber he bought in Akihabara.
14:33Here it is.
14:36He can finally test it.
14:39Now that he can supply power,
14:43he puts the battery case in the machine and finally checks the operation.
14:49What will happen?
14:55Oh, it's working!
14:57It's working!
15:00The motor is fine.
15:02That's great.
15:05Furthermore,
15:07Oh, it's working!
15:09It's working!
15:11The sound is coming out!
15:13That's great!
15:15It's working!
15:17That's great!
15:19It's working!
15:21It's working!
15:23It's working!
15:25It's working!
15:27When the power is turned on, the motor rotates.
15:31In addition, the reel to rotate the tape that connects to the motor also moves.
15:37He found that the machine inside is working almost normally.
15:43Finally, he reads the signal from the tape and checks if the speaker makes a sound.
15:50It's okay from the volume to the speaker.
15:53Oh, it's a tone.
15:55He seems to be able to play the sound from the tape.
16:00And finally, he checks the machine to see if there are any other problems.
16:09It worked somehow.
16:12Now all repairs are complete.
16:16He sets the tape and finally checks the operation.
16:21Will the tape recorder make a sound?
16:26Let's see.
16:28Yes, let's go.
16:31Oh, it's working.
16:34It's working!
16:36It's fixed!
16:38It's fixed suddenly.
16:41It's fixed.
16:44It's fixed.
16:48If it was a faster tempo music, it would have been fun.
16:55It's fixed.
16:57It's fixed.
16:59As expected of Mr. Imai.
17:01The tape recorder from about 60 years ago has been restored.
17:08But what's inside the tape?
17:14It was a doll.
17:17What should I do?
17:19It can't be helped if it's just this.
17:23The contents of the tape were not the voice of the grandfather that Shirai wanted to hear.
17:30It was a doll.
17:32But after this, there was an unexpected development in this tape.
17:39The next day, Mr. Imai delivered the request himself.
17:44He went to Gunma Prefecture, where Mr. Shirai was waiting for him.
17:51It's amazing.
17:53I'll open it.
17:56He turned on the tape recorder and asked Mr. Shirai if he could hear the recorded sound.
18:11It's amazing.
18:13The sound is coming out.
18:17It's fixed.
18:20Then...
18:23The grandfather was playing the shamisen.
18:26That's why the grandfather took it.
18:29I see.
18:31The tape that was left was the shamisen played by Mr. Shirai's grandmother, Chiyo.
18:37It was recorded by his grandfather, Kyozo.
18:42Do you remember your grandmother playing the shamisen?
18:45Yes, I do.
18:47I often saw the shamisen.
18:50Now that I think about it, I bought this portable shamisen to do this.
18:57I think this is the one.
18:59And...
19:01That's my grandfather.
19:06A moment later, a man's laughter came out of the recorded tape.
19:13That's my grandfather.
19:17That's right. He was playing the shamisen here.
19:20I see.
19:22It's my grandfather's tape recorder, so I'm sure he took it with him.
19:28The grandfather's voice that he could hear unexpectedly.
19:35My grandfather died early.
19:38So I didn't talk much about this tape recorder with my grandmother.
19:43I didn't play the shamisen after my grandfather died, so I didn't have a chance to ask my grandmother.
19:50If I had found this earlier, I would have asked my grandmother.
19:57Thank you very much.
20:00I'm glad it was useful.
20:01Thank you very much.
20:04I'm glad you fixed it.
20:07You fixed it with a smile.
20:09I'm happy.
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