How Dry Erase Boards Are Made | How It’s Made

Dry erase boards wipe perfectly clean due to its non-porous surface and dry-erase ink. The dry-erase ink contains release agents which prevent the pigments from permanently adhering to the surface.
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[@duncantalksalot]

> How whiteboards are made. > Skips the porcelain steel sheet, probably the most important part of the whiteboard.

[@Noneblue39]

haha yeah. i dont understand tho how that allows the marker to stay on and erase easily

[@timfischer]

Yeah they do this sort of thing a lot but this was perhaps one of the most blatant. They seem to follow only a single factory/location. They obviously buy the coils premade from some OEM vendor... would have been nice to see that and then follow the process here, but that's now HiM works. In other videos they go into ridiculous detail of how one part is made, then later in the video they're like "Now they take the pre-made leg assembly (which until now hasn't been mentioned)..."

[@timfischer]

@@Noneblue39 all the "tech" is in the marker. The boards just have to be non-porous. The ones at my company are all glass.

[@Noneblue39]

@@timfischer thanks for the explanations you stated.

[@aliceanderson5154]

I bet that part is a trade secret they'll never talk about. I've made my own by framing a cheap piece of glass with a white paper behind it.

[@djstringsmusic2994]

That one kid who used a sharpie on the board

[@CrazyBunnyGuy]

And then someone happily uses a permanent marker to draw a giant Santa one Christmas for an office Christmas party. That Santa stayed with us for years to come, despite being doused in many a liquid in an attempt to wipe it off...

[@monk3y206]

I miss the puns...

[@David-if2hj]

"specialized cloth" huh... Never knew my shirtsleeve was that special

[@AzmiMaulanaHamdani]

It's actually different cloth

[@eastwardExpansion]

@@AzmiMaulanaHamdani it was a joke

[@enigmaoftheechidna6279]

@@AzmiMaulanaHamdani r/whoosh

[@ghostkilla931]

How many shirts have you dirtied doing that lolz

[@anotherstrangerontheinterw158]

We used gym socks in third grade….

[@saltymisfit6566]

I love the technician who just happened to wear his Batman with utility belt shirt that day 🦇 😁 🤣

[@IdealIdeas100]

Its blurred out but still easily identifiable at 2:51 the woman in the dark grey shirt is wearing a Stewie (Family Guy) shirt.

[@chemicalspore]

I'm batman

[@punker4Real]

permanent marker can be removed with saliva

[@webluke]

"You Mad Bro?" guy got the message too.

[@far2kthoughts158]

0:16 “SPECIALIZED CLOTH” AKA my hand... 🙂

[@titilayoanoma7842]

lmao "specialized cloth" like if u used ur hands

[@Vlad2319]

Or a sock

[@missingno2401]

i use either my hands or a paper

[@hotaru8309]

Using your hands can eat away the coating amd make it stain permanently. That's why often certain areas of the boards are harder to erase or stay slightly stained. The hand wiping slowly and sometimes quickly kills the whiteboard. I also causes the marker ink to "miss" spots.

[@hotaru8309]

One of my teaches spent 8 years petitioning for a new white board with the last three years having an atrocious mess that you actually couldn't write on in spots because the ink wouldn't stay on and you'd be missing parts of whatever you wrote or drew. We successfully got a new whiteboard and she lectured us about using the dang eraser because we literally couldn't affird to replace it. I have to say it was amazing how smooth the new whiteboard was. Drawing on it was amazing and I used kleenex to erase just to be sure. I really didn't expect an uncontaminated board to be very different. She was actually a nice teacher and she did let us all make ridiculous giant complicated artwork on the new board as well as calligraphy. We got to take photos with our phones before erasing.

[@k.pacificnw02134]

I wanted to see the process for making the porcelain covered steel.

[@MatthewStinar]

Literally the only part of the process I cared about. 🤦‍♂️

[@usmale4915]

Me too. That's what I was most interested in seeing. But it's still not too bad of a video.

[@Scanlaid]

Brooks Moore is the best how it's made narrator. Voice like buttah

[@Schattengewaechs99]

*Drinking game:* Take a shot every time the announcer says the word "technician".

[@dacheet8174]

Black Simon Alcohol poisoning

[@Mr3344555]

Instead of learning, you find ways to entertain yourself. Why are you wasting your time on this video in the first place?

[@Schattengewaechs99]

Mr3344555 - I made a stupid, silly joke as a reaction to something I didn‘t enjoy about this video. Maybe you should learn to have a laugh once a while. If you can‘t deal with people having an other kind of humor than you do, you shouldn‘t be on the internet either.

[@thetoecutter13]

They say "worker" and "employee" a lot in this show too. It's a French Canadian show, the narration is pretty dry, probably cause a lot is lost in translation.

[@ZenZaBill]

@@Mr3344555 To up the ante, why do you waste time commenting on that post? Why am I? To entertain myself and the masses who agree, of course.

[@navi_6621]

How It’s Made staff: 📞 “Cool, great, we’ll be filming tomorrow see you then! Oh wait! One more thing, be sure to tell all your workers to please not wear any shirts with logos on them.” (Click) Dry erase board staff: I’m Batman. 🦇

[@joeybaseball7352]

Gay

[@Vlad2319]

'Specialty cloth'... One of my teachers used a sock... Also: 'the workers are careful to not touch the pressure sensitive surface' *worker immediately slapping her end of the board.*

[@eddytholland]

how dare they blur out the batman logo...

[@grpapajim]

That's not how it's made... it's how it's assembled...

[@ZaccoOfficial]

You really want to make this video 4x longer showing the aluminum mines and the sawmills and the oil refineries that make oil into plastic for this?

[@nahmos658]

👏

[@MatthewStinar]

@@ZaccoOfficial No o just want to see how they make the part that makes it a dry erase board. I've already seen how the other parts are made.

[@olivia.j]

that was nowhere close to 15%, no wonder he had to erase it again😂

[@RobloxTerror6666]

3:12 when you convince the boss its a 4 man job instead of 2 so you can hangout with your friends

[@Bondubras]

In my school, we never had the plastic parts at the ends of the marker trays. Instead, the trays had curves cut into them at each end, rounding off the corners.

[@scrubhq9130]

This is the same voice that does the pacer test

[@pezjme]

Guy says the two gals are trying to avoid touching the pressure sensitive substrate, then lady rubs her hand over it.

[@SalvadorSTMZ]

4:24 you mad bro?

[@coolpad9111]

I want to see how those are ACTUALLY made. If you know what i mean.. #Huggbees

[@victormgv]

Step 1: Start with white board everyone watching How It's Made: Whiteboards: 🤨Oh COME ON!🙄

[@Trenzo777]

I can't believe I actually just watched an entire video about how dry erase boards are made and did not fall asleep

[@pyrogee9690]

Did he not say they avoid touching the pressure sensitive material with their hands? Then they put it through a giant roller? Or did I miss something

[@squeaz8268]

2:37 Ok so when they're cleaning they're "Craft's Women" but if they do anything else they're "Technicians"

[@zaneh6224]

That's what I thought, don't look like any Technicians I know, more like a bunch or Hobo's 🤣🤣

[@ForensicsLabwithDrDan]

Chalk is not impressed 😐

[@phils4634]

These things are so very useful. Half-size one by the hall stand (so we can leave messages by the front door where they'll be seen), and a full size one upstairs where I do my preparative work. Far easier to use than the old chalk boards.

[@Hey_Blinkin]

Awe man, I wanted to watch the glue cure.

[@Law0086]

I love watching this show. Thing is... I want to know how they make that porcelain coated steel.

[@sauceboss1102]

after this video i'll probably hear the word technician in my nightmares

[@iso_2013]

Whiteboards are quite remarkable.

[@tmoxie]

I love white boards

[@groverbundy899]

That's remarkable!

[@carinaas7053]

All the people in this video look so chill and comfortable idk why it gave me such a cozy feeling :3

[@zachtrapper2398]

4:15 BATMAN YEEAAH!!!

[@LordMoldyCheeks]

Love the blurred Batman shirt Anyone know where I can buy one?

[@Sciencerely]

Maths Professors will love this..

[@nasilemak868]

Nah.. they prefer Hagoromo chalks

[@KrisRyanStallard]

It's the puns that make them so durable.

[@Mcvac]

Why is no one talking about how easily the two ladies put the porcelain sheet on the glue! I can’t even paint my fingernails inside the line 🥲

[@ellier.537]

I LOVE that they *barely* blurred out the Batman symbol on that guys shirt, Like us nerds wouldn't know it anyway

[@channelofberry]

Hola

[@elle-mx2cm]

Is the narrator the same guy who narrates the fitnessgram pacer test?

[@sakiv9275]

Ok. What will be its cost outside USA?

[@lukedavies2406]

Bruh they go for $80 +, they're not expensive

[@davidribeiro]

That's a fugly pie chart... Damn.

[@norainnoflowers1551]

Video: “and use a _specialized cloth_ to wipe away your markings” Me: didn’t know a sick from my pile of lonely socks is considered specialized

[@shimonigmagames]

Now I know 👍 Thanks!

[@ralanham76]

What did the shirt say that needed blocked ? 4:15

[@astriess]

It was the Batman logo

[@TOPSYKRETTSHERE]

NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE FRAME! im not lining my room with frame crap, tell how to make the writing surface!

[@awestacular]

This was amazingly boring.

[@Markis4285]

Wow, these are remarkable!

[@bwbrooks2031]

I see what you did there

[@boriskarloff598]

3:35 It's henchman 21 from the Venture bros.

[@jimmiemaghes7375]

With a voice like that's theres no way you'll get bored watching this

[@will-i-am-not]

It's nice they say technicians, when the term was called production line worker, not sure you have to be a technician to tap in a size to a machine that's computerized.

[@KRmedfndllcARCwof81213]

These can get quite expensive. Our boards in one of my schools i attended was gigantic. I didn't want to spoil the lesson so i said nothing.

[@rawbacon]

Craftsman, Craftswoman, Craftsperson, Technician, Worker, Artisan

[@GB-kr6gy]

Where was this invented? Isn't polyurathane highly flammable?

[@noeneonmusic]

Seems like all of this could be automated, no need for the people

[@andrewmurray9391]

So, in the likely event a school child manages to rip off the plastic cover, there's still a sharp metal edge under there?

[@pyrogun1839]

15% of that circle my a$$...more like 5-10%

[@chattyddful]

Why not just sell the top piece without the board BEHIND IT

[@hazardtrooper2791]

4:02 my mans got a batman shirt that had to censored

[@nerdgeekcosplay909]

Business or classroom… OR A BEDROOM for a student / writer

[@c187rocks]

Skips the part anyone cares about.

[@lyricsshqip4580]

omg i thought the white board was made from a white paper and glass, so you could erase the marker😂

[@Garbagejuicewaterfall]

Dork😆

[@mattm1823]

4:30 u mad bro?

[@darink300zx]

Wow! Remarkable!

[@5577xx]

U mad bro?

[@09ThunderOne]

U MAD BRO?

[@fredsavage4925]

heads up, people that drive 4 screws repeatedly are not technicians

[@pizzasub3194]

I love the guy near the end with the “you mad bro?“ shirt💀

[@aaronluna4341]

How Its Made - Make a video of you erasing the parasitic memories of the regrets that consume my soul. Wash them away like a beached whale getting it’s last breath as the luke warm salt water pulls all its hopes down back into the ocean.

[@Noneblue39]

good to know !

[@armandoortiz3175]

How are the materials to make dryboard make and how are the materials made to make boards and how are the materials to make materials to make boards made?and how are the materials to make materials even made?

[@TheOaklandBoy]

my old friend tony had one of these. used to write fake menus on them

[@tessm8783]

I love you PEOPLE

[@spiralfairy]

shoutout to the guy wearing a u mad bro tshirt

[@MattQrillz]

...why's it called a white boa..... Oh

[@tessm8783]

I love you ppl

[@dwarfbard]

2:53 "technicians work carefully not to touch the surface with their fingers" -- slaps the surface

[@TheCaler4]

"Dry erase markers have pigment that keeps it from adhearing permanently.." i call BS 😂

[@SRMkay]

Man. Remember when we didn't have these and had to use chalkboards instead? Shit was fucked up

[@Nerf22]

I swear, Brooks Moore could literally narrate me taking a crap, and make it sound so buttery smooth.

[@satyamshivamsundram1885]

Muje lena hai prizes kiya hai

[@clementevillacastin6436]

If you are reading this comment, always remember that you are loved by people. 💕💕💕 Let’s spread love and erase hate!

[@lyricsshqip4580]

ClemandTake 🤗🤗thx. that made me feel better

[@kimbratton9620]

Exactly, that's the idea!!

[@drivestowork]

Never knew a tissue or paper towel was a "specialized cloth"!?

[@kimbratton9620]

I liked writing on one once!

[@pebbled2303]

Why not say worker?

[@anasqai]

I have idea of an Area Noticeboard like this but have Sliding Panel like Aquarium Type with Lock, to tell of News/Info/Answers/Crisis Place because it is like the Helpline will Redirect to Continuous Harassment.

[@anasqai]

With Lock.

[@anasqai]

Or a Solution that Rage Hearts and Causing Mental Unstability from Worry and Anger.

[@anasqai]

They have a Movement of "if seen while/when(an action)" that is a Common Sense Positioning thing.

[@anasqai]

As long as a telling is secretive they want to attract harassment to Target due to wanting to Ruin Life + Luck of Random Attacker that may be Stronger to Join Attacks.

[@RingaSo]

0:14 you mean my hand?

[@SandieCastaneda]

Why did I watch this 😆

[@daniellands6984]

God can do anything and anyone is welcome to go to church.

[@celine_e_]

Forget white boards.. We have our closets 😂

[@antitouchable]

When the markers are more difficult to make than the board.

[@Rena152]

4:24 the guy with the U MAD BRO? T-shirt

[@preciousqh1867]

👎

[@bromodz2309]

How did I get here

[@shadowwillma]

Why is sciencechannel.com not available in Germany?

[@priyadarshiroy9584]

Its sunmica

[@sidetechmediaproductions9239]

Truly a remarkable invention.