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How It's Made
Season 4 · Episode 4
Conga Drums, Metal Plating, Buttons
10.021mJanuary 25, 2004
Wooden staves are joined and fitted with hardware and drumheads to make conga drums, objects receive decorative or protective metallic coatings through electroplating, and a range of materials is molded, drilled and polished into buttons.
Episodes
- Episode 1Plastic Bottles and Jars, Mail, Eggs, Handcrafted Wooden Pens
- Episode 2Plastic Injection Moulds, Automotive Oil Filters, Filing Cabinets, Blown Glass
- Episode 3High-Precision Cutting Tools, Stained Glass, Semi-Trailers, Recorders
- Episode 4Conga Drums, Metal Plating, Buttons
- Episode 5Grinding Wheels, Compost, Window Blinds, Milk
- Episode 6Brushes and Push Brooms, Blackboards, Smoked Salmon, Zippers
- Episode 73D Commercial Signs, Hardwood Floors, Corrugated Polyethylene Pipe, Mattresses