Great work Beau and Kurt. I had the pleasure of chatting with you both at the Armourfest this year, Beau was my driver in the Jagdpanzer and then was a perfect host when we did the workshop tour. I can not say enough how impressed I was not only with the museum, the rides, and the restorations you all do, but also with how welcoming and approachable everyone was at the museum. You all had a smile and were happy to stop, chat and listen to the armchair experts as well as answer their questions. Huge credit to you all.
Tennessee USA, I've watched the entire series on the stug 3. This is some of the most interesting restoration/ fabrication work I've ever seen. I just can't get enough of this content. Please keep the videos coming. Kudos to beau and his dad on the excellent work they have done.
A friend of mine is an airplane mechanic. Dropped by recently to show me a piece of history. Parts for a DC-3 engine in original 1943 wrapping! He'd ordered them for an engine.
@@scottburton509 You can still get parts for Cat 60's from 32 and 33 (those i've come across) in original cosmoline wrappings. Parts exist, you have to know where to ask and have the dough on standby, some of these cost little fortunes.
Here in my village, a farmer uses a carrage to transport cut trees. Today i walked there and looked at the rims. The front rims are from a SdKfz250, 2cm FLaK or Sonderänhanger. Maybe i should have a chat with the farmer....Regards from the Battle of the Bulge area, Belgium
In France, i met a farmer that had a disc plow made with the hubs and dish bowls of german tanks. Ruined by decades of use, and completely balled out, but still... How many times do you recognize something like that in casual conversation only for the farmer to say "oh, that one? My pa and i made it from two wrecks we found on our fields" or some such story that makes you scratch your head.
@@aserta and yesterday on my birthday, a visitor who lives next to the village, took me to a shed in a big grassfield and showed me a same sort of carriage to transport beams from trees. On a 1925 or so axle from a Delahaye Paris car was on either side a sdkfz 7 track wheel. I took some pictures from it. It was sunk in the ground already for 10 procent. I would like to have it both how to tell the farmer (96) how I know it is there.....? I can send you the pictures but do not know how.
I so appreciate what this channel is doing to document these restorations. I haven't seen anyone else anywhere, on or off RU-vid, who combines such satisfying coverage with such production quality. Cheers from Michigan!
Incredible to think that these parts are still out there and can be used to bring a shattered beast back from the grave! As always, a huge tip of the hat to the entire crew at AusArmour!
Visited the Museum a few days ago and met some of the team. Great blokes all. A visit is a must for any tank enthusiast. I even managed to come home with a track link from a Soviet T-26.
You guys get to rebuild and document how the tank was built, an incredible amount of work to get them back in working order! This is where the fun begins!
I glad to see people preserving history even if it's some of the worst cause whether people like it or not it happened and the stories need to be told and remember
Bo- "I'm an amateur ay" ..while turning a pile of scrap into a running stug. And the award for being the world's most humble man in the world goes to bo! ..watta legend
I notice when you were taking of the bolt flange, that it help when you change the socket form inch to metric. In a railway engine and bogie workshop, such parts would be immersed in a warm bath of petroleum; for about 24 hours. The warmth make the metal expand and the petroleum works as a penetrant. I really like you videos ⚒⚒
I watch these folks in amazement. The great work and the skill is tremendous. I can't even keep my own business equipment up to speed. There's always something we're fixing. But we seem to break stuff as fast as we repair it. These folks reach back 80 years and rescue a unit from the grave. We'll done!
Awesome work and video production quality, as always. I really missed the StuG-oriented Workshop Wednesdays during the hiatus. The Quote of the episode award goes to Kurt: "You can never have too many Panzer IVs".
Epic battles to free parts, can’t look away. I have visited Bovington tank museum in UK. Your museum is on my list visit and it Aussie. I am glad I have discovered it.
I'm always impressed with the guy's craftsmanship, but when told about leaving an oversized metal patch because, "no one will see it", Bo responded with, "I will !" That's true craftsmanship!
Brilliant informative and interesting films, showing the real and precision engineering, involved in building of these mechanical giants of the battlefield, and how easy they can be paralyzed by the tiniest piece of shrapnel, and also give an idea how deadly shrapnel can be, even inside armoured hulks, but thanks to guys like yourselves for bringing these vehicles back to life, all of your videos are brilliant.
Great episode, thanks guys. Love Beau's sense of humour. I really like the way he identifies different parts and functions. And I feel so good to see a guy using vice grips, a socket set and a hammer to disassemble machinery. Hard to imagine using a hand lever to engage drum brakes to turn a 35 tonne tank.
By the way I forgot to mention - have youse ever heard of Kroil? Some of the best stuff I've ever seen used to free up seized bolts n stuff. Heat the external part to cherry red - as you already do - then spray a bit of the Kroil aroubd the seized part. It bubbles & boils for a few seconds, then almost miraculously, the bolt turns! I've watched Matty from the diesel creek channel undo almost impossibly rusted & jammed bolts out of old trucks & tractors n stuff. You might wanna give it a try!
great job restoring these old and tired beast , i woud love to see a " brief history of said vehicle , where was it destroyed , where it served , how you found it " :D keep up the awesome job , dont forget to bend it the right way :D
4:36 The mechanism he describes here for adjusting the brakes is still used today in a modified style on trucks and some SUVs.Those breathers do not go into the gearbox, but push air into the brakes to remove dust and cool them.
You guys need a full size sand blast cabinet. Send out the big stuff but for all these smaller jobs and abrazive is 100% better than wire wheel. Then ofcourse you need your local Stug dealer for all those small parts you need. I feel sure Townsville has one!!
So I'm not a mechanic by any means but I do work for a trucking company and last Saturday I was asked to help do all the breaks on our trucks. We run Peterbilts and Kenworths. It's incredible to me how similar the brake systems on modern semis are to these old tanks. I don't know the names of the parts, but they look very similar.... Those damn Germans were smart
Sofilein interviewed Hilary Doyle as he showed her around an intact Stug 111G. Fascinating to see what the finished product looks like without any work since WW2
Nice, I love a good unboxing video, especially when they show parts for yet another cool project. One thing these videos show is the combination of great mechanics taking things apart and figuring out how they work, rebuilding stuff that doesn't work, and scrounging the world for parts that are (at best) 77 years old. Great fun, even if it does take months between videos while you wait for parts.
So cool! I really think that for somebody working in mechanics a job like that is a "once in a lifetime" opportunity! I surely would NEVER want to give up on a job like that.
What guys from downunder don't have pocket knives? This is such great fun guys.. makes me wish I was a young man again.. I would buzz down and give you a helping hand.. I love taking old rusting machinery and return it to full operating condition.. It can be a cussing good time.. be safe, have fun and carry on lads..
I really enjoyed the jagdpanther one you did , now I'm hooked on this stug build . About all I can say is that's the job I would have much rather had than 33 years in the chemical industry with 22 having been in the maintenance department. Kudos to your fabrication skills, I did alot of fabricating in the shop and enjoyed every minute of it. Really miss that kind of work now that I'm retired. You guys keep up the good work!
ca fait un bout de tps que je suis abonne et vous faites un boulot extraordinnaire . de vrai metallurgistes pour reparer et recreer les mefaits de la guerre ou de l'usure du temps , autant en qualitée de soudure ou en creantion de pieces irreparrable .bravo a vous great job .sorry i dont speak english like i would know .
Fan flamin tastic guys! I wish I was there to help youse - even as a gopher! War is horror & hell but the machinery & engineering is magnificent. I just love all that stuff, & your inginuity, talent & resourcefulness is great to watch. I've just bought the Takom 1/35th scale StugIII Ausf.G & the Voyager photoetch upgrade set for it. I'm gonna have nearly as much fun as you guys! Cheers!
yes i also wish every day was workshop wednesday. grew up on a farm that had a Sherman conv to dozer, sold as scrap yrs ltr would been easy restore for these magicians
These videos are amazing to have passion and skill to give new life these tanks is just perfect. When looking these and Jagdpanther restoration, the steel made these tanks seems to be just top notch level which amazes me considering how heavily allied bombed industry to actual make steel of high quality in those circumstances. Its kinda mindblowing.
I vaguely remember from my Morris minor days that the critical thing with torsion bars is never reverse the direction of operation. So ones in the right side stayed on the right side etc
