WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Test fitting our ORIGINAL StuG III G transmission! 

No better part of a Wednesday, than a fresh episode of Workshop Wednesday 👌Another cracking piece of work gents, loving this Stug Build.

All your headaches and hardwork will be well worth it when its sitting on display being admired by everyone!

Great to see Beau back on the Sturmgeschutz III.

Piece by piece she's coming together guys and looking grand. Get better soon Alf.

Love my Workshop Wednesdays

The dowell on the brake drum with it's thin groove to hold the washer:...WOW! more "wristwatch tech" in a tank!

I am fortunate to be visiting Aus Armour on July 26 2024 from the USA looking forward to the experience.

The Panzer III and IV were really something special.

I look forward to my next visit to Cairns and your wonderful Museum. Keep up the great work.

Always a joy to watch how the restorations come together. I am in awe of the skill of all the guys. A total joy to watch. Thanks Kurt. Keep up the good work. Hope all are well and recovering from illness and surgery well. See you next Wednesday.

The gentlemen are doing well again, as always, it looks great. greetings from the Netherlands.

hope you will never get old and be able to continue your work for years ! Fantastic jobs !Thank You !

Man I could watch these guys eat lunch!!! Great job as always and keep making more please!!!

Liking the vid before watching, because i know this is always the best part of a Wednesday :D

Exciting to see the first signs of life for this tank! Great work team 😀

Best day of the week! Put some anti-seize on those bolts! The next guy to work on it will love you for it...

Had a smile when Beau talked about the Hummel and pronounced it „Hammel“. Hammel is the German word for a wether. Hummel is pronounced like „who“ with „ml“ at the end, „who-ml“. Hummel is German for „bumblebee“. I am much amazed about your dedication, all of your team, to work and preserve those vehicles of the past! Thank you so much for what you do!

Just love the skill of the old boys and young putting these monster jigsaws together, remanufacturing and making it all work ,its a real treat for me to watch on Wednesday but its just not long enough ! I intend to go there one day and if I was younger and closer would love to work with these guys.

Definitely give it to the field crew's who had to work on them especially on the Eastern front in the cold .

I do enjoy watching you guys puzzle solve your way through things!

Simply magnificent work Beau

🏆🎖️🙏🤗 Thank you for sharing this

Loved the "passenger side" notation on the brake shoes!!! 😂

There are 2 yokes in that universal joint, there needs to be some radial misalignment so the joints articulate. The needle rollers in the yokes will have a shortened life if the shaft alignment is too perfect.

Nice! I learned the importance of properly torquing U-joints when I went to pull my M113 out of the mechanics bay in 1987 and had the left drive shaft come through the plate under my feet - even though I was only going about 5-10 MPH! That mechanic definitely owed me a beer!

For some reason, watching Bo spinning the final drives put a giant smile on my face. Even though there's more to be done, what an absolute accomplishment it is to see things working.

Brilliant job! The mixture of old and remade parts looks great. You should be proud boys 👍👍

Absolutely brilliant. Always wishing my life away for the next Wednesday to arrive!

I actually get home from work and open RU-vid every day. And on Wednesday it's always "Yes, Workshop Wednesday"! Really love this channel.

Great progress guys!! Really enjoy Workshop Wednesdays!! 😀

One of the few channels where I hit the like button before I even watch the video! Great job by everyone again!

This was a really well constructed episode, great mix of explanation, progress, and montages 😊 With regards to the 'genius of the German designers' it could be argued that they make the original concepts overly -complicated....then have to engineer their way out of it!

You all should be very proud of your achievements. Well done.

WOW I enjoyed this video it’s so interesting can’t wait to see the next video what great workmanship 👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Al.👍

These boys have so much patience. I don’t know how they do it.

Good to see all of the pieces coming together.👍🏼

I watch these and think holy crap. I couldn't imagine the driver accidentally getting wadded up in those moving parts. Bo needs to think about his long-term health and well-being he won't be a young man forever. I watch these videos and start getting little aches and pains just watching them , but ahh it brings back memories of happier and pain-free days!

Excellent

Amazing work guys, I can wait (but I will) until the next video comes out!

Impressive reconstruction!

It is interesting to see how much technology and engineering went into such tanks over 80 years ago. They would certainly still be a dangerous weapon today.

Best part of Wednesday!

Very nice fitting , great job 👏👍😎

I like the "passenger side" written on the brake shoe

Beautiful workmanship mates. Having helped on a Panther restoration this lets me see segments of aa build I wasn't present at.

I am impressed by knowledge, passion and manual skils of Beau, and all crew! Next project of reverse enginering - rocket V2!😊

Thank you for the restoration work you do!

Great work guys, it's always good to see how your progress on these vehicles 👍👏

Great work! It is easy to appreciate the reason self-contained / "unitized" "power-packs in AFVs came into vogue. Crook motor, gear box, etc>? Open the engine deck. Disconnect the "plumbing". Undo the mounting bolts and hoist away. (Using your friendly local field workshop detachment and vehicles). Reverse the process and away you go. (Without "forgetting" to cross the "spanners / greasers" palms with adult beverages, or quality battlefield souvenirs, of course).

Excellent work, so much went into these machines👏👏

It's so interesting to see how the StuG goes together. The last people to do that may have been forced labour. Amazing work going on. Looking forward to the next video, and fix it Friday with Steve. Lol.

Another great video! Thanks for sharing the progress and the lads are doing great as usual. Can't wait for the next fix!

The StuG IIIG certainly is a complicated little beast, still, you are getting there, slowly but surely. It’s a wonder that Beau isn’t as grey as Johnno by now! Cheers,

Wow! Another awesome episode! Well done boys it's really coming along.

Thanks :)

glad to hear als on the mend!

Wow! I’ve never before seen the epicyclic brake drums rotate at 4x the drive sprocket speed as the sprocket is turned. Fascinating stuff.👍👍

Really great to see the guys back in action

Great build amazing craftsmanship 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

the camera job is so well done ! i would love a making of episode to see your set-ups to get thoses angles...must be acrobatic some times! lol

Thanks again for another riveting episode. I was watching the gap where the bolts were supposed to go with dread. Then presto, brilliant. Absolutely amazing to watch it all come together. Cheers

You guys will never know how badly I envy you.

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Fascinating content as usual. Now I can understand how the transmission etc operated on the 1/35 Panzer iii model I built recently.

So You guys from Aus Armor tell me you are building a Stug III From stcratch that will actually work? I Love you guys! Keep up this work!!!

Great update Kurt thank you. Beau looks relieved to see all his hard work starting to come to fruition. Well done.

Amazing stuff as usual🔦

Not sure if it'd be worth the effort, but I'd personally enjoy the challenge of turning the original corroded-to-death transmission into a see-through unit demonstrating how the shifting and all that functions. (which would mean making it possible for it to rotate again, no easy task!) Have to have solid windows over the moving parts to keep fingers out, of course. Could have it be driven by manual crank and/or electric motor. Definitely a long-term project! Wild ideas aside, the fit up looks to be going well despite the snags.

Those 18 minutes just flew by. Wouldn’t mind a 30 minute episode next time! Keep up the good work guys!

Waited till our house was completely quiet then I turned on the lads at workshop Wednesday love watching them all in action they are all artisans in their own craft , Best wishes from Tassie

The old and the new together. pretty amazing. Nice work by Beau and the video team. Thank you.

Well done ! Keep on Stugging.

I loved the last service and maintenace episodes and I also love this restoration episode, keep up the good mix of both kinds.

I am currently building a Panzer III Ausf J model and the interior is super detailed and exactly the same as this Stug! The transmission is the later version though.

I went back to your channel to watch some episodes I’ve already watched. I need this tank fix from Ausarmour.

Thank you guys for posting !. I've been waiting for this to come out. Because Stg3G is my favorite vehicle of all German Panzers !. 😄

I look forward to seeing your progress every Wednesday. You have some of the very best in your shop.

This build is awesome....😊

Fantastic workmanship thanks for sharing

Really neat to see how the nuts and bolts of the transmission system actually works! Can't wait until the next episode of the Stug! 😎

Reading about complex German engineering, then seeing it in these videos is a real eye opener, great work guys.

Looking forward to seeing the engine arrive that has been sourced for this big lady!!!!

Outstanding video and presentation.

Get well soon Al.

G'Day mate. Looks about time to throw some shrimp on the barby and pop open an oilcan of beer, Foster's beer if I remember correct. Come on man, that beautiful beast of a transmission spins fine and changes gears. We all know it isn't coming out any time soon and could maybe, you know, be put to the test before sending it to the rebuilders. Wink wink, when it works then maybe decide to just leave it there.😉

STUG project is awesome to watch and the work is fantastic!

My weds day therapy, just love it !beau's knowledge for someone of his age is incredible,makes me wonder what it was like for the repair crews in the field in Russia etc,they must have been under such pressure to get the vehicles back into service. Without them it would of ground to a halt.

Great work. An observation from a retired aircraft engineer, the universal shafts look like they should be installed before the gearbox. It appears to me that they would remain installed for removal and installation of the gearbox, just retract the drive flanges and lift it out and in. I could be wrong but you guys are on the spot not watching a video. Keep up the good work.

Thanks

One wonders at the ability of the original panzer mechanics who could do this work in field/ battlefield conditions

Nice work boys! getting there slowly, but surely. Can't beat German engineering.

Pain in the ass, yeah. Looks great! 😎🤙🌺

Great progress.

👍

Stug. Excellent 👍

Cracking video once again guys, i really look forward to each episode. Wishing you all the best from the UK.

Gday Johno, good you can offside for Beau. The STUG is looking very smick with the transmission in lads.😊

Good video, the transmission disassembly will be much anticipated.

Gotta love a bit of workshop Wednesday...