Toy Bear Fixing Christchurch

I’ll put the kettle on. How do you have your tea?

Before I arrived, he had been fixing, of all things, a battery-operated toy bear that walks and smokes a pipe at the same time.

This lady’s father went to a trade show in Germany when she was a kid and brought this home with him and it hasn’t worked in 30 years he explains.

Now watch this. When he turns the toy bear on it matches across the bench, and actually smokes its pipe, with a puff of real smoke coming out of its mouth!

Isn’t that just the funniest thing? he says.

Turns out there was some corrosion and Phil had to solder some wires back together to fix it.

As we talk, half a dozen repaired clocks tick away in the background.