How It's Made · SEASON 23

Racing Leathers, Evaporative Cooling Towers, Wood Rocking Chairs, Wire Wheels

Episode 12 · 2014-06-26

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Episode overview

Leather panels are cut, reinforced and sewn into protective racing suits. Fans, water-distribution systems and heat-transfer materials are assembled into evaporative cooling towers; shaped wooden components are joined and finished as rocking chairs; and spokes are individually fitted, tensioned and aligned to create wire wheels.

21 minutes

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