[tools whirring, clattering]
[groovy music]
‐ I'm a freak for these things.
I don't know what it is about 'em.
I mean I got flashlights everywhere.
If you've ever walked out of a hardware store,
it's like a grocery store.
There's all that stuff to buy, like when you just‐‐
‐ Well, they're very eye candy.
‐ What is your flashlight memory?
‐ Well, you know,
I kind of like going back to lanterns.
I mean, the first flashlight was like, you know,
fire or some type of a light.
‐ Here we go.
[machine grinding]
‐ Yeah, baby.
[laughing]
Hi. I'm Tim Allen.
If there's one thing I love,
it's people who build things.
[machine whirring]
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.
[chuckling]
What could go wrong?
Oh, oh, oh! ‐ Whoa!
‐ Except for maybe that. ‐ Whoo.
‐ This is "Assembly Required".
[rock music]
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
Well, another exciting week. Oh, where'd you come from?
‐ Good morning, Tim. ‐ Well, well.
‐ We have a great day. ‐ Do we?
‐ Yes, and our makers are going to be incredible.
‐ Come on. Let's check 'em out.
‐ Let's go to the videotape.
‐ My name is Jordan Harris
from Cincinnati, Ohio.
For the last two years,
I was running my own company, called Creativ Spaces.
We were making new cool things
out of old, unused things.
‐ Well, you said magic words in there.
‐ I converted a school bus into a tiny home.
Just so much of the bus is reclaimed.
I remember when my dad would tell me,
"One man's trash is another man's treasure."
I'm a midwestern kid who had to pick up a lot of tools
from a lot of different places and figure out how to use 'em.
Let's get creative.
‐ [laughs] ‐ Yeah.
‐ I like his enthusiasm.
‐ Not only that. I love RVs.
And I love repurposing stuff.
‐ But he also‐‐he said he learned it on his own.
I mean he said, "I'm gonna do this."
So he learned how to do it, and he did it.
‐ Very impressive. ‐ Very cool.
Let's see the next one.
‐ My name is Joshua Kirsch.
I'm definitely like a mad scientist
experimenter/inventor.
So I consider myself
an artist, lighting designer, fabricator.
I work with electronics, LEDs.
This is an LED light sculpture behind me here.
If I'm in something, I gotta win it.
I have to do it the best and have to win.
[laughs]
‐ Electronics.
Robots walking on treadmills. ‐ Yeah.
‐ I think we gotta keep a very close eye on this on.
‐ [laughs]
Let's see the next one.
‐ I'm Adam Heffner,
and I'm from Springfield, Tennessee.
I'm the owner and founder of Maker Table Metal.
We make signs, to containers,
to metal fabrication jigs.
I started out fabricating in rock crawlers
and off‐road 4x4 stuff.
Ah!
‐ [laughs]
‐ And eventually worked
into the iron workers' union
where I built big infrastructure projects
is really my background.
My specialty really has to be
metal fabrication and design.
I want to win because no one remembers the loser, right?
‐ There is a bona‐fide character.
Come on‐‐anybody that's gonna wear an ascot.
‐ You said it best. You don't see the ascot worn.
‐ Not a lot.
‐ Man, I don't know how cool it is to find these guys.
Three really inventive, different guys.
‐ Well, come on. Let's go live.
‐ I'm in. Let's go.
‐ Makers, welcome to "Assembly Required".
I'm Richard Karn.
‐ And I'm Tim Allen. I'm Richard's handler.
He's calm now but try not to make any loud noises.
He will come right at you.
‐ All right.
We are very excited about this show.
‐ Well, you're very excited. ‐ [laughs]
‐ Yes, I am. We're very excited.
This is gonna be an amazing competition.
Now, the best part about this competition
is working from your own workshop.
But don't get too comfortabl.
Tim, tell 'em what they're gonna build.
‐ Here's what it is. Let's talk about the workshop.
I love workshops. I'm in my favorite workshop.
Every tool's ready. I got everything.
But when you go to a site, it's not quite as easy, righ?
You can't be lugging everything around
because it's just impossible, and it sucks, right?
‐ Yes, so in the second round,
two of you will attempt to make a mobile workshop.
It takes the shop to where the work is.
The winner takes home a cash prize
and‐‐wait for it‐‐ bragging rights!
‐ Whatever that's worth.
Anyway, I'm happy to announce
we're offering direct deposits into our account.
So when you win, we'll manage your money for you.
‐ No, no, no.
‐ I took a shot.
‐ [laughing]
‐ Okay, makers.
First up is the Make or Break Challenge.
This is a 90‐minute build.
Each of you has been sent a package containing components
and materials needed for this challenge.
‐ Okay.
Round one, you're going to build us a flashlight.
But just to make it a flashlight
would be a bit too easy.
So the one you're gonna make needs to be durable,
which we will test by dropping it from five feet
to make sure it stays lit.
Because when have you never dropped a tool, am I right?
‐ When time is up we will inspect your work,
and we will put it to the test.
You'll be judged on three criteria:
design, originality, and functionality.
At the end, Tim and I will deliberate,
and somebody will have to be eliminated.
‐ Let's do it. ‐ Absolutely.
‐ Whoo!
‐ Makers, your shipments have arrived.
You have 90 minutes to make or break a flashlight
that can survive a 5‐foot drop and still work.
Your time starts‐‐ ‐ Now.
[exciting rock music]
‐ Okay. What do we have here?
‐ What? Don't need that.
‐ Oh, yeah. Here we go.
‐ All right. ‐ Yes.
‐ They all went in different directions.
I love that.
Take a look at all
the components we've sent them.
What the makers choose to use for their flashlights
depends solely on their imagination.
They can also incorporate whatever they have
in their shops if they think it will help.
But with only 90 minutes to finish,
it's not gonna be easy.
Especially when their builds have
to survive a 5‐foot fall
and still work.
‐ More wood.
Oh, it's aromatic cedar.
I can line my closet now.
♪ ♪
‐ Adam, what do you think? Talk us through the plan.
What are you gonna do?
‐ All right. Well, first thing,
I gotta have a battery pack.
I gotta have a switch.
And I gotta have the bulb, right?
‐ Right. ‐ So I need to keep all of 'em
protected for this fall.
The battery pack could explode on the drop,
and, you know, not have good contact.
That could‐‐you know, then the light won't turn on.
I could break the switch,
so I need to protect that in some way.
And then I could definitely break the light bulb,
so I need to protect that.
And my soldering is gonna be put to the test.
‐ Have fun. Keep going, buddy.
‐ Yeah. ‐ Make it stylish.
‐ Yes. Absolutely.
‐ I got PVC,
and that'll just probably plug right together.
That's too easy, and it's not sexy.
Not sexy at all.
‐ Jordan, what are you thinking?
‐ I think we're going with the cherry.
‐ Oh, you're going nutty, baby.
I like that. Yeah.
‐ What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come across here
and create an octagon.
Gonna get shaved.
Then I'm gonna sand it significantly.
And it should be much more comfortable to hold.
‐ And add your‐‐a little sense of style, Jordan.
That's what we're looking for.
‐ Bing. Let's go. That's a light.
‐ Yeah, baby. ‐ You got the light going.
‐ That's how we do it.
‐ You got an hour!
‐ Don't scare them.
‐ 30 minutes gone.
You got an hour!
‐ [laughing]
‐ This is an LED bulb.
See that little guy?
This thing is crazy bright.
‐ Josh, he's got a leg up. ‐ Yeah.
‐ So this appears to be a momentary switch.
Not a push on/push off.
But it has the mount we want.
‐ Joshua works with lights. ‐ Yeah, but he's an alien.
We can't have people from other planets.
‐ Yeah, but now, he has to fasten it inside the thing.
‐ Josh is going for a metal housing for his flashlight.
Should hold up to a 5‐foot drop?
We'll see.
‐ The next thing I want to do
is make the caps.
One cap is the bottom where you put the batteries in.
The other cap is the one that has a hole in it
for the flashlight lamp.
‐ He's got a big grin going,
"I am gonna burn these guys so to the ground."
‐ [laughs]
♪ ♪
‐ What I want to do is put my button
and my switch on the end,
so it'll be a push button type of flashlight.
Batteries will sit about that deep in,
so now I'm gonna drill.
I'm gonna set the height on this,
cut this off, and drill down.
See if I can't make this thing work.
‐ I love watching these guys work.
♪ ♪
‐ Yeah, buddy.
♪ I taste sawdust ♪
♪ That means I'm working ♪
‐ This is a very challenging thing.
April, we need your big brain for this.
♪ ♪
April, so if I said, "Pretty simple device‐‐"
‐ The flashlight?
‐ Yeah. ‐ Yes.
‐ The batteries have positive/negative,
and then you complete the circuit with a switch.
And then it lights up.
‐ Now, I know that they were given kind of a variety
of shock‐absorbing materials.
‐ Right.
‐ Are any of them using 'em yet?
‐ It doesn't appear to be so.
‐ Well, they're all mavericks.
They all want to do something with their own stuff,
and their own design, and things like that.
Which is very cool.
‐ Really what they need to focus on is just making sure
that everything can stay in place.
A flashlight really is just a very simple circuit.
‐ Right.
‐ So being able to hold all the components
to where it doesn't break that circuit
in any one little, small place...
‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ Then I don't see how they can fail.
‐ All right. Thank you, April.
Always informative.
‐ Okay.
‐ Let's see how Jordan is doing.
‐ Mm.
I'll do my button.
[coughs]
Hmm.
♪ ♪
So I'm gonna try to use this saw
that's not for metal cutting to cut some metal.
‐ I don't know. This seems inadvisable.
‐ What would it be if I didn't try something crazy?
‐ Here we go.
[tense music]
[dramatic music]
both: Uh‐oh. Uh‐oh. Uh‐oh.
‐ Oh, I'm bleeding.
I'm cut open.
‐ Kids, that's why you don't cut metal with a wood saw.
The teeth are big, and you will get
what they call kickback.
‐ Wow.
‐ [bleep] that piece of metal.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
Forget it.
‐ Jordan, you all right?
‐ I'll be all right.
I was trying to cut an aluminum block.
I wanted to create a contact
for my light assembly. ‐ Uh‐huh.
‐ So I could just connect that,
and I would have the connectivity I need.
It didn't work out.
‐ Is it something that you should have looked at?
‐ No, man. I rubbed some dirt in it.
We're good.
[both laughing]
‐ Yeah. You keep at it.
Good going.
Sorry about the little injury. It happens.
Boy, I've been there.
‐ You guys, you've got 30 minutes left.
‐ Battery pack is packed.
[groovy music]
♪ ♪
All right. I'm gonna try and get this switch as close
to this flared end as I can.
If I make a straight line here,
then it'll protect the switch from getting thrashed.
‐ Adam is thinking about the drop test.
I like it.
♪ ♪
‐ Ho ho ho! We got a switch.
See, I have to remind myself how a switch works.
That's how often I make flashlights, guys.
‐ [laughs]
‐ I have 13 minutes left,
and I have one more solder joint to do.
I'm gonna solder right to the battery.
‐ That is gonna make a stronger connection
for the circuit.
‐ This is the assembly.
It's gonna allow our bulb to work
and to light up.
It's gonna be inside here.
So I just drop some batteries down here.
♪ ♪
Eh! [cackles]
[both laugh]
‐ Okay. Ah!
Okay.
I have a working flashlight.
That's good.
[rock music]
‐ Gonna solder that connection.
Oh, it doesn't even freaking work.
What a fail.
What a fail!
‐ Jordan, what's going on? ‐ It's not working, man.
I'm wired wrong, and I'm hard‐wired in.
Connectivity is the issue.
‐ All right. Keep at it. Keep at it. Keep at it.
Keep at it. ‐ All right.
‐ Restructure yourself.
♪ ♪
‐ I'ma tape the negative
to this battery and continue forward.
‐ This is far more dramatic than I would have ever
conceived making a flashlight.
This is ridiculous.
♪ ♪
‐ Last step.
Jam the switch in the hole,
and we have
a functional flashlight.
We're ready to use the drill press.
‐ All right. Two minutes left, you guys.
‐ Two minutes. Let's do it.
‐ [sighs] Ah!
[dramatic rock music]
[laughing]
‐ Ten, nine, eight.
both: Seven,
six, five,
four, three, two...
‐ One. All right.
Step away from your creations.
‐ All right. ‐ Time is up.
‐ Yeah! ‐ All right.
‐ That's what I'm talking about.
‐ Hands up. Pencils down.
‐ Whoo!
‐ It's now time to check out
the durability of your flashlights.
We gave you a stand that measures five feet.
Each of you will turn your flashlight on,
hold your creation,
and drop it.
All right, Adam.
We're starting with you.
Can you turn it on and point the light at us?
‐ Ah, ah! ‐ Ah!
Okay. That's just a joke.
‐ Ka‐chow.
‐ All right. Go back to the drop zone.
Get ready to drop.
[tense music]
Okay. Let it go.
♪ ♪
‐ Oh. ‐ Oh.
‐ The light doesn't work. ‐ No.
‐ Aw.
‐ Maybe I can smack it like the old ones, you know?
Oh. Oh‐oh‐oh‐oh‐oh!
‐ Whoa. ‐ Oh.
‐ I smacked it, and it works. ‐ It's back on.
‐ It just needed a tap. ‐ Okay.
Good job. Great showing.
Joshua, show us your machine.
Boy, is that gorgeous. Nice.
Turn it on and show us the light.
‐ There we go. ‐ There you go.
All right. ‐ Beautiful.
Go back to the drop zone.
Drop your flashlight.
♪ ♪
Wow.
‐ Oh, oh. All right.
‐ Excellent. We have lift‐off.
♪ ♪
Okay. Good job.
All right, Jordan. You're next.
Look at the beautiful craftsmanship of that.
‐ Jesus. ‐ Boy, is that gorgeous.
Very nice. Can you turn it on?
‐ No. ‐ Wow.
♪ ♪
Jordan, you had a beautiful design,
but you weren't able to keep the bulb lit.
So it can't be tested.
‐ And because of that, we gotta say goodbye to you.
It's not an easy thing to say
'cause I really admire your skill set.
‐ Thank you for having me, guys.
I appreciate it.
I feel grateful to have been here to compete.
I tried to add a bit of style to it,
a bit of flair, by making a wood cylinder.
So all I had to do was run one wire and make it connect,
but there was some sawdust down at the bottom
of my flashlight cylinder.
It got me.
‐ Adam and Joshua, congratulations.
You're making it to the second and final roun:
the Run with It Challenge.
Now, when we started,
Tim laid out the challenge of building
a workshop on the go.
Now's your chance to take on that challenge
and show us what you can really do.
Inside your crate
are materials needed to build
a custom mobile workshop.
‐ I've tossed in a pallet jack
to help those workshops get moving.
You can use it however you see fit,
but make it work for your mobile workshop.
In addition, you've also got to incorporate
the flashlight into the build.
Give it a place and a purpose,
two things Richard has struggled with his entire life.
‐ Thank you, Tim.
These mobile workshops need to be ready
to take on any job site.
♪ ♪
They have to be able to tackle any build,
so add as many items and features as possible.
♪ ♪
You'll be tested on three criteria:
design, originality, and functionality.
Now, most of all, make this build your own,
and take it above and beyond our expectations.
Show us something new and exciting,
and prove to us you are the best maker.
Your crates will arrive tomorrow morning.
You got five days to complete this build.
Good luck.
‐ Both: Run with it.
‐ All right. Let's make it pretty.
‐ Yeah, baby.
♪ ♪
‐ All right.
Well, let's see what we got here.
‐ Ooh, it's like Christmas morning in here.
‐ Check out all the tools and items
we sent these makers for their mobile workshops.
‐ Oh, for taking naps. This is nice.
♪ ♪
‐ This literally is the most
we've ever sent our makers.
Going to need to pack these workshops
with as much as they can
if they're going to be able to tackle any job.
‐ Pneumatic tires.
‐ They can also use whatever they have laying around
in their own shops.
‐ Drill press.
‐ That'll be handy.
♪ ♪
Hardware.
‐ But to keep them on their toes,
we had April sabotage their pallet jack.
‐ This is a monster pallet jack.
This is gorgeous.
‐ Fra‐gi‐le.
Must be Italian.
[both chuckle]
♪ ♪
‐ I got a bunch of drawing
and designing to do, first of all.
I'm gonna make two tables that nest inside of each other,
so this one workstation is actually gonna be two.
You can take one away from the other.
I can start figuring out how all the stuff
is gonna fit together and mesh with each other
to actually be a mini‐mobile workshop.
♪ ♪
‐ I like how Adam is thinking.
The winning build is gonna be
a Swiss Army knife type of workshop.
♪ ♪
‐ My goal is to get this 3D mockup
as thorough as possible
and have as many shapes and things ironed out.
‐ Well now, I mean, here you've got planning.
♪ ♪
‐ So here's our tire more or less.
This just slips right on here, like so.
♪ ♪
38.
Copy paste.
There we go.
I'm already getting a better visual idea.
I think it's gonna be good.
I feel like I have a good handle
on the overall scope of the build.
This is my basic building block
for the floor.
‐ All right.
♪ ♪
‐ Get right at it, boy.
Get right at it.
‐ I'ma get cruising here, on this cut station,
and get pretty much everything I can cut out
for the next four days of the build.
I've got tubes to cut.
I've gotta weld stuff out,
and there's at least a solid day worth of work.
Boom! Look at us going now!
♪ ♪
Time to dip into the private reserve of steel.
♪ ♪
Tubes, and tubes, and more tubes.
‐ Well, right off the bat,
I mean they both started... ‐ Right.
‐ From very different points of view.
‐ You gotta love a man with his own private steel reserve.
‐ I'm gonna worry about structural shapes,
so I'll start tacking and fitting
some of this stuff together here.
This is improvisational fabrication.
The main, you know, super structure,
it's gonna be awesome.
‐ A lot of work already done by Adam now,
but it looks like Josh is still working on his plans.
‐ I will do center 5A is 0.625.
‐ I hope he knows this competition's only five days.
‐ All right. Day two.
When I heard I'm building a mobile workshop,
the first thing that came to my mind was,
"What am I building it on?"
There's our file. Grab a sheet of metal.
A good, solid foundation is gonna be crucial,
so I'm gonna build the punch plate floor
that I can then build off of.
Hey, Google.
What's 457.2 millimeters in inches?
‐ 457.2 millimeters is equal to 18 inches.
‐ 18 inches.
And...press play.
We'll see how long this takes.
♪ ♪
‐ Wow.
♪ ♪
‐ It might look slow, but in 20 minutes,
having a fully fleshed‐out part is lightning fast.
Should we see what we got?
Cool.
♪ ♪
You turn it upside down, it's not gonna let you slip on it.
I mean, it's like a texture.
‐ How cool is it?
‐ He created...
‐ The metal floor. ‐ A metal floor.
‐ Neat. ‐ You know, it's interesting
because the base seemed pretty basic.
I mean it wasn't something...
‐ Yeah. ‐ That he had to, like,
spend that much time‐‐
‐ Wait till you see it in person.
‐ Sorry. Loud.
Ow. [laughing]
Sorry.
♪ ♪
‐ Looks like a CrossFit workout.
♪ ♪
[metal screeches]
♪ ♪
‐ Let's see what it feels like with bare feet.
♪ ♪
Fine. Nothing sharp.
‐ [laughs]
‐ Let's make two more.
‐ The floor is cool, but he needs to add a lot of stuff.
I gotta be honest with you.
Historically, this is not the first time
someone has had a mobile workshop.
‐ Well, I know that tone.
You're about to drop some history on me.
‐ That's hurtful, to be honest with you.
‐ I really enjoy your lessons. ‐ Okay.
Back in history, in 1914, this was cool.
They had‐‐ ‐ [snoring]
[laughing]
‐ The English royal engineers. ‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ You're making fun of them? ‐ No, I'm not.
‐ Should I bring some of those 100‐year‐old guys here?
‐ Just bring 'em in. ‐ Come here.
‐ Supe‐‐ ‐ Yeah. All right. Coming.
‐ All right. All right.
‐ [squeals] ‐ [laughs]
‐ It's World War I.
British royal engineers.
‐ Mm‐hmm. ‐ They had these trucks
that‐‐it was like mobile workshops.
They'd go into war with a truck and kink, kink, kink.
'Cause that was‐‐with a lot of horses, so literally...
‐ Yeah.
‐ You could turn the tide of the war
'cause you have an anvil.
‐ Well, you know, that's one of the perks
of being your friend, you know,
I get to learn all these interesting things.
‐ Yes.
♪ ♪
‐ Got my day three swagger on.
Hump day!
My back is a little sore.
My legs are tired.
I haven't pulled this long of days
on my feet in a long time.
So I need to finish up welding pretty much everything out.
End of tonight, that would put me in a really good spot.
All right, I've been dying to play with this,
since I pulled it out of the crate.
Me and my brother used to have pallet jack races
at my dad's old meat factory.
‐ Oh, man.
♪ ♪
‐ [laughs]
Okay. That never happened though.
‐ [laughing]
‐ Well, I think he found what April left for him.
‐ Yeah.
‐ Who inspected this?
‐ I gotta look over here.
♪ ♪
‐ Oh.
No horseplay in the shop, kids.
But if you do skate on a pallet jack,
you should probably check and make sure
it's in good, working order.
‐ Oh, hi, April. ‐ You have a question?
‐ Did you do something to the wheels?
‐ Oh, is something not working properly?
‐ [laughing]
‐ Maybe it's because they're missing
this little guy.
‐ It's a retainer for some axel or somethin.
‐ An E‐clip.
In order to keep the wheels from falling off,
they have something called an E‐clip or a retainer clip.
‐ Yeah.
‐ And there's a groove in the shaft,
and this slips right into it.
‐ Those always irritated me.
‐ Tim, what doesn't irritate you?
‐ Yeah. ‐ [laughs]
Don't you have some napalm to pack?
‐ I do.
‐ Since my build actually revolves around this thing
working for the second table, I better go get some parts.
Let's go to the shop and see if we have something.
‐ All this for just that little piece.
‐ Close enough.
I'm behind on my build at this point.
All right.
I think the snap ring's gonna work,
but the washer‐‐ a little bit too small.
‐ I hope he figures this out quick.
He's wasting a lot of time.
‐ How did that happen?
That was supposed to be the easy part was the washer.
I feel like I'm gonna be kind of short on time here.
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, man.
‐ But I think I can spend some time
with the die grinder and make 'em fit.
♪ ♪
‐ Slow down. Don't hurt yourself.
‐ That must mean it's done.
♪ ♪
Two custom washers in the house.
Come on!
You dirty cheese chugger. Get in there.
‐ [giggles]
Boo‐yah.
‐ Nice.
‐ Boom.
♪ ♪
‐ This one's for our more advanced home builders.
It looks like for April's hack,
we're gonna have to pull out the old soldering iron.
♪ ♪
‐ Fixing a flashlight. ‐ What?
‐ It's your favorite.
So this flashlight had this cord disconnected.
If the solder lets loose, and the connection comes out,
then the flashlight won't work.
And then most people throw them away.
But most of the time, it's an easy enough fix, and this‐‐
‐ It's an easy fix.
‐ So many things that need to be fixed here
are little, tiny pieces that break.
‐ I'm gonna be soldering this connection
back into its terminal.
So what I did is I used my iFixit kit.
Comes with an assortment of little utensils
that you can aid‐‐ the flashlight should work
as soon as this connection re‐attaches.
‐ Oh, boy.
♪ ♪
‐ There's a lot of stuff cased there.
‐ No kidding.
♪ ♪
That's good. She tried it again.
Finished it up. Don't throw stuff out.
‐ Even if it doesn't work, it's a great doorstop.
I mean this thing is like‐‐
‐ Would you stop? It's working now.
‐ It's like five pounds. Look at this.
‐ Boy, I dislike you sometimes.
Great job. Great job. ‐ Thank you, guys.
‐ All right. Let's get out of here.
‐ Okay. ‐ Go. Get. Go.
‐ All right. Okay.
[tense music]
[rock music]
‐ It's day four. I got lots to do.
Was thinking about that pallet jack Tim and Richard gave me.
And maybe there's a way
I could incorporate it into the back of the structure.
Slide it in behind those two wheels.
♪ ♪
[music falls]
[tense rock music]
♪ ♪
Hmm.
Now that's a problem.
Oh, yeah.
That wheel just comes right off.
[both laughing]
‐ We're missing some kind of a retaining clip here.
I guess we're gonna have to make one.
‐ It's ridiculous how much technology this guy's got.
It looks like he lives in a discotheque.
‐ We've got very different ways of going about things.
I mean, we've got Adam doing everything by hand,
and Josh has technology at his fingertips.
‐ That's gonna fit.
Put the wheel on first.
♪ ♪
All right. That works great.
Wheel's not coming off. Works just fine.
Hey, Tim and Richard, next time,
don't send me a broken pallet jack.
Thanks.
Obviously, I've been working with steel all this time.
That got me thinking this ought to be a metal sho,
so it's gonna be set up for metalworking,
tapping, machining, that sort of thing.
A metal structure to work on metal.
‐ A metal shop is cool, but it's not what we asked for.
This better be one hell of a metal shop.
‐ I love the streak of rainbow colors
that goes right through it.
♪ ♪
The perfect tool for this job.
♪ ♪
Yes. Perfect.
[rock music]
‐ Day four. It's go time.
I'm gonna start making my cut list
and see what kind of trouble I can get in in the wood shop.
♪ ♪
I'm just gonna try and do, like, the lower shelves,
the upper shelves,
and then the work top,
and a pegboard mount.
The last thing to really cut out
is the seat for the bar stool.
It would be kind of cool if it was like a tractor seat.
And then when you want the seat,
flip it around.
Got the seat. ‐ Wow.
‐ I got this really thick plywood here
that I could actually carve,
like, some butt cheeks on,
you know what I mean?
Hey, Google.
What size is Tim Allen's butt?
‐ Tim Allen is 5'10" tall.
‐ I'm 6'4". He's 5'10".
I have a 15‐inch butt.
Hey, Google. What's 5'10" in inches?
5.8333333333 feet is equal to 70 inches.
‐ Hey, Google. What's 70 divided by 76?
‐ The answer is approximately 0.921053.
‐ What's .92 times 15? ‐ 1,380.
‐ [laughs] ‐ Hey, Google.
What's 0.92 times 15? ‐ 13.8.
‐ Okay, so Tim Allen's got a 13.8‐inch butt.
‐ [laughs]
‐ Let's do this.
13.8 inches is obviously Tim Allen's hard butt dimension.
[both laughing]
This is science, y'all.
This is how we engineer stuff in Tennessee.
‐ [chuckles]
♪ ♪
‐ I just feel like I'm releasing the soul
of hundreds of dead trees
every time I get in the wood shop.
♪ ♪
Done.
[groovy music]
♪ ♪
‐ Hey. Nice molars.
‐ You know, I don't have a hole in my molar.
‐ I do. ‐ My prostate is like this.
‐ My prostate, however‐‐ ‐ Yeah. My prostate.
‐ Which reminds me.
[grunts] I gotta‐‐
‐ It doesn't even matter.
I just pee while I sit.
‐ [sighs] ‐ [laughing]
[rock music]
‐ It is day five,
and I know
everything that I need to do today.
And we're just gonna let it flow.
♪ ♪
Let's figure out something
to make this thing solid on the ground
when you're set up and you're not transporting it.
Boom.
Drop the four corner anchors
into the ground,
and you can even‐‐ [groans]
You can probably stand on 'em and be like,
"I gotta drive this corner anchor into the thing."
♪ ♪
Yeah. Let's explode all of these.
♪ ♪
‐ Why is he spending time on this
when he could be adding more tools to the build?
[tense music]
‐ It's a rainy day five here.
Game plan today is
get the table painted, put it together,
and start hanging all the tools
and mounting all of the equipment.
I've got black high temp paint for the barbecue
and black high temp paint for the welding station.
And then I've got white for everything else.
♪ ♪
‐ All right.
♪ ♪
‐ I don't like painting
or finish work in general.
Not my favorite thing to do...
♪ ♪
But it makes all the difference.
‐ I think we can just bend this guy
the old‐fashioned way.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
♪ ♪
Ooh. Ha ha ha oh.
♪ ♪
‐ He's still working on the braces
or whatever those are.
This is not good.
[tense music]
‐ I cannot get my brain to work,
and I can't even think straight.
♪ ♪
It's just stress.
It's just like I'm all thrown off with my sleep,
and, like, I want to be able to just take a nap.
But‐‐ugh‐‐ what am I doing this for?
‐ He's letting the pressure get to him.
Look at him.
‐ [grunts]
Torture. Torture.
I just want it to stop.
♪ ♪
I am tired.
I gotta try to clear my head.
Walk away from this,
and maybe we come back,
or maybe we call it done.
But we have three hours to decide.
‐ Got three hours left.
‐ Don't get depressed.
Oh, boy.
[suspenseful rock music]
‐ All right.
That's the last coat of white paint.
It's raining, too,
so this paint is not gonna dry fast.
‐ Going to be assembling parts that aren't dry yet.
‐ I'm afraid what's gonna come up.
‐ This is gonna add a couple hours at least
because I can't just sit here and let it passively dry.
Like, I gotta actually be over here with a heat gun.
♪ ♪
‐ Adam is moving along, but what is Josh doing?
‐ Oh, boy.
[casual, relaxed music]
♪ ♪
Takes a nap?
♪ ♪
What is happening with you?
♪ ♪
‐ We're near the end of day five,
and he's catching his beauty rest.
♪ ♪
Oh, I don't even want to say anything.
[upbeat music]
‐ All right. Just got up from my nap.
Slept good.
I'm probably gonna go back into hyperdrive.
I only got one hour left.
Is there anything else
I want to throw on here while I got the time?
♪ ♪
This metal shop is a raw,
naked thing.
It needs to be populated
with all kinds of stuff.
Vice.
Might as well throw this guy on there.
This can be a work light.
♪ ♪
‐ There's the flashlight.
‐ And as a little homage
to your broken pallet jack,
I've decided to put a nice, big brand on the back of the table.
♪ ♪
Let's make this guy as big as we can get it.
The brand/the logo for this metal shop is
your broken pallet jack clip.
Ha ha. People will look at that.
They'll think it's a horseshoe,
but you two, Tim, Richard,
we know what that is.
♪ ♪
[upbeat rock music]
♪ ♪
‐ That was not by design.
That was pure luck.
♪ ♪
‐ Look at that.
‐ Ooh, it even slides nice.
♪ ♪
The idea is to basically make, like,
a traditional articulating desk lamp.
♪ ♪
‐ Wow.
‐ That's where my tools go to take a nap
when they're tired.
Night‐night.
‐ [laughs]
♪ ♪
‐ Man, he's really adding a lot to this workshop.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
Five, four...
‐ Just a little bit more. ‐ Three.
‐ Two, one...
♪ ♪
Put down your tools.
‐ That's it. I didn't touch it.
[rock music]
‐ I feel like my build's the winning build.
It's so well thought out.
It's so fleshed out.
I love steel.
It just looks cool. It's heavy.
It's solid. It's thick.
I got to make a badass, all metal,
mobile metal shop.
‐ I feel like a porn star at the end of a shoot.
I 100% answered this challenge.
There is nothing else that could be added to this.
There's nothing I feel that's unfinished.
It's gonna be tough to beat this one.
♪ ♪
‐ We asked Adam and Josh to build us a mobile workshop,
and they were really up to this challenge.
Adam's build is chock full of functionality
and a place for all your tools.
His workshop sports a separate pull‐out workstation,
built‐in hideaway storage, and a barbecue grill‐‐wow.
His swingout bar stool completes this mobile workshop
with comfort and style, and hey.
It's custom‐built for my sweet cheeks,
so it's gotta be good.
Josh went a different direction altogether.
Gave us an all‐metal masterpiece
perfectly suited for welding
or other tasks requiring bulletproof construction.
With his cast wheels and leveling spikes,
his workshop can roll onto any job site
and stay put until it's time to clock out.
Real question:
can Josh's workshop outwork the competition?
Whew. ‐ Wow.
Look at this.
Man.
‐ Bingo‐bongo.
See, he knocked this out of the freaking park.
‐ We asked Adam and Josh to build us a mobile workshop,
and they really proved they were up to the challenge.
Now, we'll be judging these builds on design,
originality, and functionality.
♪ ♪
Design.
‐ Joshua‐‐ ‐ Was stunning.
I love the build. I love the idea of it.
The problem is we asked
for a mobile workshop that can tackle any job,
not a mobile metal workshop.
For what he did, this is brilliant.
Adam's build. Okay.
I got a vise. Drill press.
This is better than the shop I'm in.
‐ Adam's build seems to be able to do
a lot of different things.
A pull‐out welding station with a grinder and welde.
A drill press. You have a vacuum.
A storage area for all sorts of other tools.
A grill back here, and this is a sustaining island.
You could live here.
‐ I've gotta think about this.
Hmm.
‐ Now, he made that seat by hand.
He cut it out.
‐ I saw that.
Design. Bingo.
♪ ♪
Next one, originality.
Adam did a great job.
He's got a grill. A barbecue grill.
But Joshua, I just love the metalwork.
♪ ♪
‐ It's beautiful.
‐ This thing's built like a piece of sculpture.
Guy's a craftsman tier‐‐
‐ I mean, this is a wonderful flooring.
‐ I gotta be honest with you.
This is freaking original.
I'm going here.
‐ Functionality.
Adam. He's got the chair.
I mean, look how beautiful these wheel arcs are.
Adam's build has so many more things to offer you.
‐ Josh is ingenious,
but it's not what we asked for.
I want to see more of it.
I want to see it finished.
‐ He built the potential for something that's really great,
but he ran out of time.
‐ Ran out of time.
I just love the metalwork.
This is original.
This has got craftsmanship, but that's got‐‐
function is‐‐he knocked this out of the freaking park.
♪ ♪
I think we got some news to tell these guys.
‐ I do too. ‐ Let's make a call.
‐ Okay.
[upbeat music]
April, come on over and join us.
‐ Bring all your weapons. Hey there.
‐ Hey. ‐ Hey.
Adam, Josh. How you guys doing?
‐ Hey, good. ‐ Doing good.
‐ I would just like to say
that you both did an amazing job
with this project.
I could use both of these in my own shop.
I mean right now. I literally could.
‐ That was the goal, to make it useful.
‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ Josh, talk to me about your biggest hurdle.
‐ Figuring out, like, what was the actual purpose of the shop.
Is this gonna be an all‐purpose thing,
or is it gonna have a specific purpose?
‐ All right.
‐ Adam, what was the biggest challenge of your build?
‐ The biggest problem was making the custom
carved bar stool seat for you, Tim.
‐ [laughing] ‐ That was a lot of fun.
‐ Enough delays, you guys.
It's time to deliver some simultaneously great
and simultaneously terrible news.
‐ The maker
with the winning
mobile mini workshop
is...
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Adam.
Congratulations.
We said you'd have bragging rights.
Well, you've got bragging rights.
‐ Well, thank you, guys.
‐ You just won a cool 5 grand also.
‐ Courtesy of iFixit. And they're also gonna be
sending you both the ultimate fixer pack.
‐ Josh, I really related
to everything you set out to do.
You've got so much talent, but unfortunately,
you gave us a very specific type of mobile workshop
while Adam gave us one that could tackle any job.
♪ ♪
‐ I'm kind of bummed.
I made a badass mobile metal shop.
I'm proud of what I built.
‐ Adam, congratulations.
What you did with that workstation‐‐it's everything.
There is no wasted space.
‐ Very thoughtful. ‐ Yeah.
‐ Really well put‐together.
‐ Really beautiful design.
‐ So congratulations.
Enjoy your victory.
‐ Thank you, guys.
I can't believe I won.
I am‐‐
oh, I'm so relieved.
The next thing for me is get back to work.
I have "make" tattooed on my knuckles
because I like making stuff.
♪ ♪
[laughs]
♪ ♪