Season 32 · Episode 13 — Peaked Caps, Custom Water Heaters, Electric Boats, Fencing Foils
Wool, foam, lining, plastic stiffeners and decorative fittings are carefully sewn together to produce uniform peaked caps. Copper or stainless-steel tanks are formed around internal heating coils and pressure-tested, fibreglass hulls receive batteries and electric propulsion systems, and flexible steel bars are forged, heat-treated, wired and fitted with pressure-sensitive tips to become fencing foils.
Season 32 episodes
E1lexible films are layered with microscopic electronic components and electronic ink to create thin electrophoretic displays. Porcelain-coat…
E2Wooden blocks are copied from precisely fitted models, hollowed, divided and hinged to create custom shoe trees. The episode also follows p…
E3Digital dental scans produce models around which wires and acrylic are shaped into orthodontic retainers. Fresh oranges are washed, inspect…
E4Aluminum and engineered wood are pressed together, coated and mounted on folding steel frames to produce outdoor table-tennis tables. Detai…
E5Heated steel is forged, punched, ground and heat-treated before a shaped hickory handle completes a traditional hammer. Nutritional mixture…
E6Thousands of turns of fine copper wire are wound around a bobbin, combined with magnets and sealed to produce a guitar pickup. Heating cabl…
E7Steel wire is formed into coils and combined with layers of cotton, polyester and upholstered fabric to build innerspring mattresses. Fibre…
E8Carefully inspected cowhide is cut into strips, bevelled, dyed, decorated and fitted with buckles to produce leather belts. Precision compo…
E9Computer-controlled machinery coils and shapes steel wire into compression and extension springs before heat treatment and finishing. Carbi…
E10Steel mesh is pressed, welded and padded to create protective fencing masks, while metal type, folded signatures, thread and handcrafted co…
E11Stamped tinplate is rolled into a tapered tube, soldered, painted and fitted with a wooden mouthpiece before each whistle is tuned. Cattle…
E12Stamped brass frames, laminated glass lenses and padded leather surrounds are assembled into traditional motorcycle goggles. Curved wooden…
E13Wool, foam, lining, plastic stiffeners and decorative fittings are carefully sewn together to produce uniform peaked caps. Copper or stainl…