[light music]
[tools whirring]
‐ Only the French would make a fire hat
that is freaking cool‐looking.
‐ That looks like a police helmet.
What makes it a fire helmet? ‐ Where are you?
‐ What makes it a fire hat? ‐ Richard?
‐ I'm right here.
‐ So instead of having a yellow hat,
like our fire department... ‐ Uh‐huh.
‐ They think reflecting's better,
and then they have these, so you can see through the flame.
‐ Oh, yeah. ‐ Yeah, baby, huh?
‐ It's nice, yeah.
Where did you get that? ‐ France.
‐ You went to France and saw that?
‐ It's the only place you can get them.
‐ How'd you get it through customs?
‐ I wore it. ‐ [laughs]
‐ Here we go.
[saw whirring]
‐ Yeah, baby! [laughs]
Hi, I'm Tim Allen.
If there's one thing I love, it's people who build things.
And hanging out with 'em.
All right, that's two things.
So I invited three incredible makers
to compete from their own shops.
♪ ♪
They'll be creating mind‐blowing builds
from cool stuff that I send them,
all for a cash prize.
‐ I'm coming for you!
‐ I've asked my ride‐or‐die Richard Karn
and our resident expert April Wilkerson
to have fun with me,
as these makers design, build, compete,
and of course, add more power. [chuckles]
What could go wrong?
Oh, whoa, whoa! ‐ Whoa!
‐ Except for maybe that. ‐ Whoa!
‐ This is "Assembly Required"
[dynamic rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ I'm excited to get going. ‐ Good.
Let's get this game going.
‐ I have my game face on. I am ready.
‐ No, no, no. You have a badminton face on.
That's not a game.
That's a kind of a weird activity, like golf.
All right, let's see what we got.
‐ Let's go to the videotape.
‐ Hi, my name is Reuben Alex Copeland. @
I am originally from Argentina.
I was in the marines.
I left the military life and came to America.
I love to do mechanical animations, renderings.
What can I say?
I'm real excited for this great opportunity.
‐ Little frightening when he was hiding
in the bushes painted all green.
‐ He's a marine.
‐ He's got 1,000 ways to kill somebody with one of these!
‐ [laughs]
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, that's cool.
‐ My name's Jesse Jennings, and I'm from Billings, Montana.
♪ ♪
I'm a jack of all trades
and pretty dang good at a little bit of everything.
I build custom one‐off pieces.
I work with steel, wood, epoxy.
Anything people can dream of, I make it happen.
I belong in this competition
because I've been training for this my whole life.
‐ I like that, you know, at the beginning, he said,
"I'm pretty good at this. I'm pretty good at that."
You know, putting metal with wood
with epoxies and things like that.
‐ That's all Frank Lloyd Wright stuff.
Different materials merge together.
Frank Lloyd‐‐it was metal and concrete and wood.
All those three.
‐ Right. ‐ You and me.
Two different materials. Lot of friction.
‐ [laughs]
‐ Who else we got?
‐ Hello. Sean T. French.
[laid‐back rock music]
I spend my days in my home studio.
I really love doing metal sculpting that borrows
from ancient armoring style and technique.
I belong in this competition to make sure
that the assembly works,
but also that it looks good.
‐ Very interesting.
It's like if Salvador Dali created armor.
‐ It's brilliantly cool. ‐ Let's go live.
[rock music]
Makers, can you hear us? ‐ Yes.
‐ Breaker three yes.
‐ Hey, guys.
‐ Welcome to "Assembly Required."
I'm Richard Karn.
‐ And of course, I'm Tim Allen,
your worst freaking nightmare.
‐ [laughs] ‐ Let's have some fun, guys.
‐ You are some of the best makers in the country,
and we are giving you the chance to prove it
by building some amazing things from scratch.
You three will compete from your own workshops.
The winner walks away with a cash prize,
and even better yet, bragging rights.
"I won! I won!"
You can yell that from the rafters.
‐ You're just so dramatic.
Anyway, now remember,
nothing you've done in your life, so far,
has really mattered, up until now.
This will define you as men.
This is the pinnacle of your life.
‐ Yeah, who's dramatic?
‐ [chuckles]
‐ Okay, everyone, first up is the Make or Break challenge.
We have sent you a mystery crate of items
that will test your skills as America's best builders.
You will have 90 minutes
to build an item of your choosing
using any or all of the items we've shipped
and the resources in your own shop.
Use your ingenuity.
Some of these items work better than others,
but it's up to you to figure that out.
When the time is up, we'll inspect your work,
and we'll put it to the test.
You'll be judged on three criteria:
quality, design, and functionality.
[leisurely rock music]
We will be watching every step of the way,
and you will be able to hear us
only when we want you to.
‐ Okay, first up, Richard,
I want you to build a Class A fire extinguisher.
‐ That's right, a Class A fire extinguisher.
You've always been told not to play with those things,
but today, you have carte blanche
to build a fire extinguisher that will snuff out a flame
with a stream of water from 10 feet away.
Oh, and you'll also have to build a backpack to carry it.
‐ Yeah, and not just one of those silly fanny packs.
Remember, your friends will be watching this, right?
Don't embarrass yourselves.
‐ Only two of you guys will be moving on.
Makers, your shipments have arrived.
Your time starts... ‐ Now.
[energetic rock music]
‐ All right, a Class A fire extinguisher.
‐ All right.
♪ ♪
‐ Check out all the cool stuff we sent them.
The trick here is figuring out
which parts will work best with each other
or stuff they have laying around the shop.
Look, 90 minutes isn't a lot of time
to do what we've asked them to do.
Look out.
♪ ♪
both: Alex. ‐ Very neat.
You've got everything organized.
No camo, though.
It'd be great if you put on a flak jacket and some camo.
That'd be great. Have camouflage for your shop.
You glue tools all over your chest.
How are you moving along? What are you doing?
‐ Uh‐huh.
‐ And then make sure the liquid or the water,
whatever we're gonna use in order to put out the fire,
comes out with pressure out of this line or this gun.
‐ All right, don't hurt yourself,
or if you do, make sure we get it on camera.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ Sean, you still working on that box?
‐ I am, yes. I'm down to the bottom here.
‐ Like, all over the shop.
Good luck finding the pieces, Sean.
Hey, maybe if you run a brush through your hair,
you could see something.
‐ Oh, no. That would be cheating.
‐ Yeah, it sure would be.
‐ [laughs]
♪ ♪
‐ Well, Jesse, what do you think?
‐ Huh? ‐ Spooky or what?
‐ A little bit, but I'll get it figured out.
‐ Set up, baby. Set up.
‐ It's all about the set up. ‐ Set up.
‐ Yeah, what else we got here?
♪ ♪
Yeah, looks like we've got some options
for what nozzle and stuff we're gonna use.
‐ Check out Jesse. Going with a bigger nozzle.
Interesting.
‐ Bigger isn't always better, Tim.
‐ Yep. I'm not touching that one.
‐ I'ma cut this hose.
Clamp it onto my regulator.
I want the regulator, so I can kind of keep track
of how much air, so when we're testing it,
I can just see what seems to make it do the best.
‐ I mean, it seems like
Jesse's head is in the right spot.
The candle's gonna be, what, 10 feet away?
♪ ♪
‐ Now, gotta focus on how we're gonna get the water out.
♪ ♪
‐ So what we're gonna try to do
is hook our outgoing line of water
to this one that goes all the way down.
And then a pneumatic hookup with a Schrader valve
that will let us fill the top of this with some air pressure.
‐ Looks like Sean is feeling the pressure.
‐ That was bad, Tim. That was really bad.
‐ We have to now figure out how to get our air side i.
I'm just gonna drill a hole
and then put that Schrader valve, like,
right here.
‐ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What the hell is he doin?
‐ Oop.
Committed now.
‐ Good Lord.
‐ Sean. ‐ Um...
‐ So, by creating a new hole, you've created a problem.
‐ Yes.
[lively rock music]
‐ I'm so oblivious to this fire extinguisher thing,
'cause mine was always a blanket.
[both laugh]
‐ Well, a blanket takes the oxygen away from the air.
‐ Does it?
‐ That's what it's supposed to do.
‐ Or it catches the blanket on fire,
which is usually what happened to me.
‐ Start a fire.
‐ I start fires. I know how to start 'em.
I don't know how to put 'em out.
I do not understand fire extinguishers.
‐ Apparently.
‐ Let's bother April. Where is she?
‐ Let's bring in April. April?
‐ We've got a welder, a carpenter,
and someone who can field dress a backhoe
like nobody's business.
‐ No fear, gentlemen. I have brought a visual aid.
‐ You've got a visual aid. All right.
‐ Ladies and gentlemen, April Wilkerson.
‐ With my fire extinguisher.
‐ Listen, I got problems all the way through this.
‐ I've been watching. I know you have questions.
There's different classifications of fires
and fire extinguishers.
The fire extinguisher was invented in 1810,
and it started off as this where the main component‐‐
the main agent was water.
And then, of course, since then it's progresse,
and there's been a big evolution
that transcended into dry powder, foam, and even CO2.
‐ This is the one our builders are making right now,
so what's inside there? ‐ That's what I'm saying.
So we're having them make a class A.
‐ What's inside this? ‐ Yes.
If you understand the concept of how it works,
then you can implement it to B, and C, or D,
or whatever one you wanna come up with next, Tim.
‐ You know, fire trucks are just...
‐ Large water guns. ‐ Imagine it's like
a double‐barrel turbo or something.
So you're gonna have your tank,
which is gonna have your agent in it.
Right now it's just air.
‐ Water. But water.
‐ Yes, they're gonna put water in it, and then‐‐
‐ And you have a big straw.
‐ Well, then they also need the propellant.
In this case, it's gonna be compressed air,
so we can fill 3/4 of it with water‐‐
or half of it,
and then the rest of it with compressed air.
The compressed air is gonna be the propellant.
‐ It's always impressive with you.
‐ I do have one last question, though.
How long do they need this to be running?
‐ You have to have a nice flow to your water.
Something Tim hasn't had in, like, five years.
‐ I think that's my cue to leave.
See you next time. ‐ [bleep].
‐ [laughs]
‐ Fire extinguisher with a bad prostate.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
Committed now.
‐ It looks like Sean is still in trouble,
and I'm not talking about his hair.
Looks to me like he's drilling that hole so he can add
his own air from his own compressor.
‐ By creating a new hole,
you've created a possible problem.
‐ Yes.
‐ Try the simple solution first.
That's what my dad told me, and I tell my kids.
‐ We're gonna try to seal it from the inside.
My hope is that I'll be able to, you know, seal this better.
‐ Our hope is your hope. ‐ Yeah.
‐ Good luck.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
Alex, walk us through what you're doing.
‐ Okay, now I'm doing my [indistinct]
in order to feed air into the main tank.
So from one tank feeding air pressure to the next tank.
‐ You're gonna use the yellow tank gas as a propellant?
‐ Exactly, yes. ‐ Perfect, perfect.
All right, keep at it, buddy. We'll stay out of your way.
[air hissing]
‐ He's pumping. ‐ I know.
That's me and the plunger in the bathroom in my kids' room.
I don't know what she puts down there.
Oh, gosh darn it, honey.
‐ Too many kebabs.
‐ [laughs]
♪ ♪
He's having a little problem with his air.
Something's wrong.
‐ I think he's having a hard time
holding the air pressure in.
♪ ♪
Tim, it's‐‐man, it's nearly impossible
to be anywhere near perfect in only 90 minutes.
It's gonna come down to the wire
to get their extinguishers done.
‐ And a backpack.
♪ ♪
15 minutes, people. That's one‐five minuto.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ My sprayer is good to go. ‐ Jesse.
‐ Your build is looking very good.
‐ Moving on to the backpack.
‐ Stick with it.
♪ ♪
That looks pretty comfortable, Jesse.
‐ It is. ‐ Hold on.
Let me call my chiropractor.
♪ ♪
What are you, Rocket Man? What the hell's going on?
‐ No, that's, like, Styrofoam, so that the straps don't‐‐
‐ I know what it is.
♪ ♪
both: Six, five,
four, three, two, one.
‐ Okay, step away from the fire extinguishers.
‐ Drop your hammers.
‐ Step away, very good. ‐ Oh, Sean just threw it down.
Buddy, come on. ‐ Oh, you guys.
All right, congratulations! ‐ All right.
‐ Great job on your builds, makers.
Now, it's time to test the extinguishers.
This is gonna be a blast, but you guys only get one sht
to put out that flame.
And only two of you are going to move on.
Do you feel lucky?
Please light the candle,
and get ready to use your extinguisher.
[flame whooshes]
‐ [laughs]
‐ Gotta like how you light a candle.
‐ Yeah. ‐ Right away, I like you, Sean.
‐ All right, makers.
You have all set your candles to 10 feet.
Sean, we're gonna see you first.
Fire at ten paces.
♪ ♪
‐ Boom. ‐ Boom.
Good job. Good job.
‐ All right.
All right, Jess. You're up, buddy.
[dramatic rock music]
‐ Ready? ‐ We are ready.
♪ ♪
All right, it's almost there!
♪ ♪
There you go, there you go. ‐ Yeah!
‐ Excellent job. ‐ Oh, boy.
♪ ♪
You got that look, Alex, man. ‐ That's right, Alex.
Is your candle lit? ‐ Yes, sir.
‐ And‐‐go.
♪ ♪
‐ Whoa‐‐hey! ‐ Whoa.
‐ Oh, wow, very good. ‐ Oh, yeah, baby.
‐ And I still have pressure.
‐ And you still have pressure. ‐ Yeah, baby!
‐ Okay. Excellent job.
We just want you to know that Tim and I
are now going to talk this over.
We're gonna talk about your design,
the functionality, all that, and we will get back to you.
[rock music]
Okay, well, who do you wanna talk about first?
‐ Sean.
‐ Well, he drilled his own holes.
‐ That's‐‐build quality is up there, high.
‐ He was thinking‐‐ great pressure.
‐ Boom, functionality. Top of my list.
Alex‐‐well, Alex's design‐‐ it just was simple and direct.
Backpack worked, once he got it on there.
It looked like a joke when he was holding it.
‐ Fastening the straps. Everything was great.
‐ Yeah, it was all good.
Jesse. ‐ All right.
Well, he used the larger nozzle,
which expelled a lot of wate, but he didn't have that‐‐
‐ He ran out of gas quick.
It just‐‐unfortunately, it's always gotta be
one out of the three. ‐ One guy.
Okay.
All right, makers, we are back.
‐ Sean, your thought process was unbelievable.
I still wanna send you a hairbrush.
For the love of God, put a comb through that.
So you, my friend, are moving on.
You're gonna move on to the next round.
‐ Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Alex, great job.
I mean, you used the smaller nozzle.
You pinpointed that flame right away.
‐ Thank you.
Thank you so much. ‐ All right, Jesse.
You decided to take the larger nozzle,
which dispelled a lot of water right away,
and you kind of lost your water pressure, at first.
And then you got back onto it.
[light tense rock music]
With that being said...
♪ ♪
We're gonna have to go with Alex.
He had a better design. He had a better flow to it.
‐ Thank you! Whoo!
‐ We're sorry, Jesse,
because it just didn't work out.
You had a couple of things that were tough to overcome.
‐ You bet. Thank you, guys.
♪ ♪
I'm feeling pretty bummed out.
Of all the challenges that could have been picked for me,
this was probably the worst, for things I've done.
It is what it is.
It's been fun all the way through.
‐ Alex, Sean, congratulations.
You're moving on to the second round.
‐ All right.
‐ We call it the Run with It challenge.
Tim, tell 'em what they're gonna build.
‐ All right.
Well, let's first talk about an invention
that's even better than sliced bread:
the mighty leaf blower.
That loud, abrasive droning noise
on an early Saturday morning‐‐ music to my ears.
The real problem is the leaf blower is no match
for ice and snow, is it?
So like Richard,
it just gathers cobwebs throughout the winter.
[music stops]
‐ [laughs]
‐ Two of you will attempt to build a machine
that maintains your property in any season.
It's gotta blow leaves. It's gotta blow dirt.
It's gotta melt ice.
Inside your crate are materials needed to build
a custom all‐season leaf blower and ice melter.
‐ Each of you have been given an intact leaf blower.
You can disassemble it. You can upgrade it.
And repurpose some of that fire extinguisher
from round one.
You thought we were gonna have you throw it away, right?
Get creative, guys.
There has to be something in there you can use.
When you complete your build, after five days,
it'll be shipped back to me and Richard
where they will be tested on three criteria:
quality, design,
and functionality.
Keep those cameras rolling.
Make sure you don't sleep, eat, or even talk to your families.
You wanna win, right?
‐ Your crates will arrive tomorrow morning.
‐ We'll be watching you guys every step of the way,
but you'll only be able to hear us when we want you to.
And remember, guys. Add more power, if you want.
This isn't just an assembly challenge.
‐ Good luck.
[light music]
♪ ♪
‐ Hey, April.
We have a little bit of fun in store for the guys, righ?
You did something to the leaf blower, didn't you?
‐ This one might be a little bit of a trick‐u.
So, in every single motor has a spark plug,
and the spark plug is not gapped properly.
‐ Oh. ‐ Oh.
‐ So what they need to do
is first to check that the spark plug
is firing incorrectly,
and that should be the first thing that they go to.
What they're gonna have to do is gap it properly.
‐ Right, right, right.
I've had spark plugs in a lot of my cars here that‐
and sometimes it's random.
They kind of just go out. You just need‐‐
you've used them up. ‐ Probably 'cause it's yours.
‐ [chuckles] ‐ Ha, ha, ha.
♪ ♪
‐ All right.
I had no idea this thing would be so big.
♪ ♪
‐ Cool. [laughs]
♪ ♪
‐ Okay, people, for round two,
we've given them even more cool stuff.
And the makers can use anything
that they have in their shops,
but we can't make it too easy for these guys,
so I had April create a secret challenge.
They're gonna have to be fixers as well as makers,
otherwise, they'll be dead in the water.
[snickers]
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, iFixit. That's pretty cool, okay.
Tools. I like it.
Cool. Okay.
I started testing all the parts
that I have in there that I can actually test.
All of them work fine.
The only one I didn't test is the leaf blower.
No gas. That's the reason.
So tomorrow I gotta go and purchase gas.
‐ So we've got one guy not testing.
‐ Look at those boots.
‐ You know, I've seen you wear shoes
that look just like that, Richard.
‐ Fuel to test this.
[light tense rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ [imitates motor grinding] Son of a‐‐
‐ Uh, it's not starting.
Hmm.
‐ [chuckles]
‐ I'm starting to think this might be a broken item.
♪ ♪
Doesn't feel like something that's been messed with.
One thing, it looks like that gap might be pressed,
which would not light a spark.
Very hard to see.
The gap is right there, and that looks too small to me.
Maybe it's just a simple knife.
♪ ♪
[motor rattles] There it is.
♪ ♪
[sighs] Try it again.
[motor roaring]
‐ It seems to be working. It actually moved Sean's hair.
[motor revving]
We got an artist that's an engineer.
‐ Lost a bunch of time, so I need to get to it.
My plan is to get this torch piece together
from what I already have
and make it even better than it was before.
Next, I'll get it attached to the leaf blower
and have the tank hanging off the back
using some brass fittings.
This propane torch.
It's relatively small.
This is something I had around the shop,
which is gonna have a larger nozzle.
‐ Look at that, he's swapping the torch for a bigger one.
That's real smart. It's a smart way to do that.
‐ This is from my first build. Little bit cooler look.
Kind of gets my hand into a different position.
‐ Look at that.
‐ You know what that means.
More power, more fire, if it works.
‐ Let's go try this with our external ignition system.
♪ ♪
Let's give this a shot.
♪ ♪
[exciting rock music]
‐ Oh, wow. ‐ [chuckles]
♪ ♪
Now, you know the neighbors
are calling the police right now.
"The guy's got a flamethrower, dude."
‐ I know.
You can take out an army of walking zombies.
‐ This is gonna end up being the backbone,
sort of the skeleton of everything.
You won't see this, by the time it's done.
♪ ♪
[imitates flame whooshing]
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ I'm thinking about‐‐
has to be portable, that's for sure.
♪ ♪
World War II airplanes are one of my passions,
so I'm going to use a P‐51D Mustang
as the inspiration for my build.
I'm going to make it have the same muscular look
as the fuselage of the plane.
♪ ♪
‐ Wow. That's gonna be a huge barrl
for a leaf blower flame thrower.
♪ ♪
‐ This part over here reminds me of airplane engines.
[chuckles] Check out the tubes coming in.
‐ This reminds him of an airplane?
‐ Yeah.
‐ I‐‐I think we gotta do an intervention.
‐ [laughs]
Have some faith, Tim. Have some faith.
‐ It looks cool to me. It's gonna look cooler later.
♪ ♪
[laid‐back rock music]
‐ Hey, Google.
Start nine‐hour timer.
‐ Sure, nine hours, and we're starting now.
‐ Today is day three of five.
I wanna make sure I've got my functionality nailed.
It's not nailed. We're getting there.
When I first tested the torc,
I didn't have the ignition system installed.
There was an off‐the‐shelf choice in the crate,
but I'm building my own.
This amplifies voltage,
so what we're gonna do is turn this
into our sparker with a 9‐volt battery.
This makes me think of Tesla, that sound, you know.
That‐‐you know, Frankenstein.
‐ It's alive! ‐ Plus, it looks cool.
‐ Yeah, you gotta go with the "looks cool."
‐ And that's just from a 9‐volt.
‐ I get it.
[lively rock music]
Alex is making an airplane, evidently.
‐ Well, you know, just, it reminds him.
‐ My overall goal for day three
is make sure everything works.
♪ ♪
I gotta check a couple of times,
over, and over, and over.
[upbeat rock music]
Hey, Google.
Who invented leaf blower?
‐ The leaf blower was invented by Dom Quinto.
‐ 1950s. Wow.
They've been around for a long time.
I have all my build ready to go.
Finally, I got the gas.
Well, I'm excited.
[light tense rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ [laughs]
‐ Surprise, surprise.
Tim, look, someone found April's secret challenge.
‐ The switch worked before.
These are connected.
‐ This is why you can't get complacent.
You get five days.
[motor grinding]
♪ ♪
‐ [sighs]
[light tense rock music]
‐ [laughs]
‐ I have all my build ready to go,
and I'm trying to start the engine.
It didn't do anything.
‐ Think, think, think, think. Use your knowledge.
What could be wrong? Dude's a marine.
Should be able to figure this out.
‐ Let me clean the spark plug.
It's...
♪ ♪
[chuckles] The gap is hollow in ther.
‐ [laughs] ‐ Whoo!
‐ Just a minor hiccup.
[laughter]
Yeah, baby. There you go, there you go.
‐ I hope this does the trick. Let's see how it goes.
Got it primed.
[motor roaring]
Voila. There you go.
Now that everything is working, I feel more confident.
[lively rock music]
‐ I am onto my metalwork.
‐ These guys have been at it for three days.
Let's see where they are today.
‐ We need to get metal on the body here.
We need to get metal on the back.
We're gonna add sort of more of a fantasy treatment.
Well, we have this tank hanging out.
We're gonna make an articulated tail
that hangs down like this.
It's gonna sound like a construction site in here,
for hours and hours.
♪ ♪
I'm creative about everything I do.
The way I work my metal is creative.
I'm using every bit of my shop to bend that metal.
‐ Sean is‐‐you're giving me ADD problems.
‐ Well, he's the mad scientist. He's the artist.
‐ So I'm thinking for the top piece covering my extinguisher,
just that I'm gonna make about four of these.
‐ This thing I know is gonna be killer‐looking.
It's gonna look like a dragon.
The question is, will it breathe fire?
‐ Very interesting.
And historically, wasn't armor heavy?
‐ How did you possibly move around in armor
without sweating your you‐know‐whats off?
‐ I don't think they knew the opposite of that.
They didn't have air conditioning,
so maybe armor was‐‐
‐ When they knock you down‐‐ and then,
"I'll need eight guys to come on and help me up."
‐ The fight ends when you're on your back.
[brisk rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ Time for me to start painting.
First of all, what I'm gonna use is, like, a primer,
but it's pretty much just like a acid.
It will be‐‐etch the material for good addition.
Adhes‐‐adhesion?
Adhesion of the paint.
♪ ♪
This color represent one of my favorite
World War II airplanes‐‐ that is the P‐51D.
We got green.
♪ ♪
We got yellow.
♪ ♪
‐ Ooh, hair dryer. Well, you need that.
He doesn't, but... ‐ [laughs]
‐ Not bad. He's got some style here.
This thing is awesome‐looking, but will it work?
‐ It looks really good.
Can see my vision coming to life.
I'm ready for day five. [tools whirring]
[dramatic rock music]
♪ ♪
All right. Day five.
Whew! A lot of energy.
My first and biggest motivation is my family,
and after that is my passion for art, and creativity,
and always doing something that doesn't exist.
It's just from nothing to finish.
I would like to just have a moment
to think what else is missing,
because I want this to scream P‐51.
[lively rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ A lot of my style revolves around a super high polish.
It's a look I like. People like shiny stuff.
It's not the safest thing in the world either.
It puts off stuff you don't wanna breathe.
I've gotta have my mask on.
I've got to have these shields up,
but to me, that's part of what makes it
a Sean T. French piece.
‐ I love all that stuff that I don't know about
that some of these things are dangerous‐‐
some metals you'd never even think about it.
Very different way of going about it.
‐ I've got an hour and ten to go.
Time for another fire test.
[laughs]
[rock music]
‐ [chuckles] ‐ I love that.
♪ ♪
‐ Why is my gas not going off?
[tense music]
‐ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What happened here?
‐ One hour before the buzzer,
the worst things that could go wrong
went wrong with this piece.
‐ I love more power, but this guy's got no power.
‐ Time is not on his side.
All right. Where is she? Let's check in with April.
See what tips she has for our home builders.
‐ Hello, gentlemen.
‐ So show us your hack.
‐ I have a really great one today.
‐ Okay.
‐ Especially‐‐I think you'll appreciate this one, Tim,
since you're always working on motors.
‐ Yes.
‐ Have you ever had a gasket break on you,
or maybe just be missing,
or just too beaten up to replace?
‐ Or in my case, when I did my first
carburetor rebuild in a '67 Catalina.
I just said, "Oh, gasket‐shmasket,"
and I just threw them out.
Carburetors don't work well without them.
‐ Sometimes, you're in a pinch,
and you don't have gasket‐making material
to do a replacement gasket.
A cool hack is that you can actually use cardboard.
In this case, I'm using a cereal box.
And what I did is I took this one,
and I traced it on the cardboard.
And then I cut it out and punched the holes
to make a replica.
So one thing about the cardboard
is it is a little porous,
so to block up all of the pores
and to keep it from just, like, oozing out,
you need to first seal it with grease.
But then this is a great method to do a replacement gasket.
‐ What motor is this? Was this something‐‐
‐ It's from a weed eater I took apart from your garage.
Sorry. I'll put it back together.
‐ [laughs]
[rollicking rock music]
‐ Ooh, right there. That's bad.
[sighs]
Wow, we might have lost the integrity
of our threading on this handle.
This is stripped.
One hour before the buzzer,
the worst things that could go wrong
went wrong with this piece.
This is just terrible news.
‐ Time is not on his side.
The difference between these guys is absolutely crazy.
I mean, on the one hand, you have the marine, Alex,
who's ready to go with time to spare.
And here, you have the crazy artist, Sean,
who might not even get his build finished.
‐ I thought I was ahead of the game.
‐ Two minutes to go. Come on, Sean, come on.
[tense music]
‐ I'm stuck with having to go with my other trigger.
♪ ♪
This one's leaking too. Man.
‐ Oh, come on, man. ‐ Huh.
[air hissing]
‐ Let's see if I can get it‐‐
[sighs]
‐ Ay‐yi‐yi.
‐ Got some spare parts, and when it's on,
I don't even know if it's gonna fix my problem.
‐ Uh‐oh. Hoo‐hoo!
‐ Is he getting frustrated?
‐ I'm stressed watching him finish this thing.
‐ Yeah.
‐ Oh, man. I am not happy with this.
‐ Five, four, three, two, one.
♪ ♪
‐ [sighs deeply]
‐ Wow.
‐ That is not how I want this to go.
I have a piece. It should work.
[sighs] Man, I am so disappointed.
‐ Well, he says it works. We will see.
‐ I'm feeling great.
I'm feeling really great. More than great.
My finished product. It's perfect for me.
That is a winner.
[lively rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ Wow. ‐ Shut up.
‐ Wow.
[laughs]
Oh, my gosh.
‐ All right, I asked 'em to build me
the ultimate all‐weather machine,
and boy, did they deliver.
Alex came guns blazing with his design
modeled after a P‐51 Mustang.
Yeah!
And he included all the bells and whistles:
a flashlight for night op,
a digital thermometer and accessory pouch
with a backup fire starter.
He also incorporated a strap and pressure hose
from his round one build.
Nice going.
Let's hope this performs as mean as this dude looks.
Sean delivered the mother of all dragons
with his entire machine encased
in hand‐hammered lightweight steel
to look like a dragon.
What a head on this guy.
He added D rings and a brass fitting from round one
to his propane tank.
Huh.
A galvanized pipe to the leaf blower, got that,
a hidden fire extinguisher,
and if that doesn't get you excited enough,
he added a larger flame nozzle for you‐‐
you guessed it, a little more heat.
♪ ♪
Only one thing left to do‐‐ the test.
Richard and I will find out
which one is the biggest blowhard
by seeing who can move their pile of leaves
across the parking lot first, all right?
After that,
we'll see how fast these babies can melt
4" hanging icicle posts.
Don't see those very often.
Strap in, people.
It's about to get hot and windy.
Well, hot and windy but‐‐ all right.
You get the point.
♪ ♪
Shoulder up, hombre. ‐ Okay.
‐ Taking these things into battle.
I thought he said it was lightweight.
‐ I'm at DEFCON 4 right now.
[motor running]
[no audible dialogue]
Come on.
[motor revving]
[rock music]
‐ Let's test which blower is more powerful.
First one to blow their leaves to the other side wins.
I'm at DEFCON 4 right now.
[motor running]
[no audible dialogue]
Come on.
[motor revving]
♪ ♪
[laughter]
Oh, that was fun.
Leaf Wars.
Next, on the History Channel.
Part one of the functionality test was amazing.
‐ Yeah.
‐ I mean, we blew a lot of leaves around.
‐ It's amazing.
‐ I feel like they were both kind of...
both: The same. ‐ Yeah.
‐ Right?
And neither of them chose to boost the power of the blower.
We're only halfway there.
Let's head over to the ice and flame test.
‐ [grunts, laughs]
[heavy rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ All right, we got the final test of functionality.
I guess we're gonna know real quick
if Sean fixed his valve problem.
♪ ♪
Let's light these popsicle chains up, huh?
‐ You feel like getting hot? ‐ Let's do it.
First one to melt through the ice wins.
‐ Let's go!
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ Well, son of a gun.
Yours cut through a lot quicker than mine did.
I could never see my flame. I saw your flame perfectly,
but I didn't know where my flame was.
‐ It was at the end of the device.
‐ Yeah, well, apparently it wasn't as strong as yours.
Yours [bleep]‐‐ look at that.
I'm not even halfway through.
Come on.
Let's go give these things a closer look.
‐ [grunts]
♪ ♪
‐ We're judging these builds on the design...
‐ [groans] ‐ Ingenuity and functionality.
Only one maker can take a criteria.
‐ Says who?
I say we take these to our houses, and we run.
‐ [laughs]
Are you ready to go? ‐ Yes!
‐ Okay. First criteria, design.
‐ Done. ‐ The design.
You like this? ‐ Yes.
It's functional, it does this‐‐ this is more decorative.
Amazing amount of design work.
He designed‐‐ put it here, put it here.
All the way throughout,
it does everything it's supposed to do,
and he added all these other features for the design.
♪ ♪
What's the next one?
‐ Ingenuity.
This looks so much like something that it should be.
‐ This looks like something‐‐
‐ And this looks like something in a "Mad Max" movie.
‐ Or Satan has one of these.
[light rock music]
Just putting this metal on here‐‐ingenious.
The way he pulled this on here, hammered it on.
It's got a freaking tail.
‐ Yeah. ‐ You'd use the word ingenious.
There's something wrong with this man, but I like it.
♪ ♪
‐ Design, ingenuity. 1:1.
‐ We're down to functionality.
We gotta go. We got some bad news.
‐ They deserve to hear from us, come on.
[brisk rock music]
‐ Hey, April, we're all set here.
Come on over. ‐ Kay.
‐ Oh, boy. This is gonna be rough, huh?
‐ Guys, look at this. ‐ Oh, yes.
‐ Alex. Hey, Sean.
‐ Hello. ‐ Hello, how's it going?
‐ Good to see you guys in the flesh.
‐ Well, you both did a tremendous job
on this ridiculous project.
‐ Well, thank you. ‐ Thank you.
‐ Your two machines have taken over season cleaning.
[laughter]
‐ Guys, seriously, amazing work.
We had a crap load of fun.
I mean, the two of us really had a great time,
and it was tough.
It was‐‐this is tough.
Take it, Richard.
He's gonna tell you the rest, 'cause I got
way too much invested in both of your designs.
I was really over my head. Great stuff.
‐ Okay, well, Sean...
[tense music]
Alex,
you both had incredible designs.
You both had amazing ingenuity,
but in the end,
one of the builds outperformed the other.
‐ Mm‐hmm.
[chuckles]
‐ Just this much.
‐ The maker with the winning all‐season leaf blower is...
[dramatic music]
Sean. Sean, you are the winner.
Congratulations. Congratulations!
‐ Oh, man.
‐ On top of winning, you also got 5 grand coming your way.
April? ‐ Courtesy of iFixit.
They're also gonna be sending you the ultimate fixer kit.
‐ Both of you did incredible detail work.
‐ But one of 'em melted ice
quite a bit faster than the other one,
and we just had to give it to you, Sean.
But, Alex, my God.
‐ You made us love your build.
‐ Well, thank you so much.
I'm really happy with what I built.
I wouldn't change anything.
‐ Congratulations to both of you.
And the victor, Sean, piece of artwork you did there, man.
‐ But I gotta tell you, anytime, you know,
in a movie when the military goes up against a dragon...
[laughter] The dragon usually wins.
‐ Yeah, yeah.
‐ Thank you guys very much for being part of this.
‐ Thank you. I am amazed.
I'm super gracious and excited.
I, in no way, was expecting to win.
I'm humbled. I'm honored.
It was amazing. Thank you.
[fire whooshing]