WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: How to assemble a StuG III G final drive unit!

[@ray.shoesmith]

These videos are unique in the entire world. Please keep them coming.

[@artdawggy]

If they stop I will have to go into rehab.

[@jmc7034]

The satisfaction all these people must get when they turn a piece of scrap into a running tank must be great

[@groksplitta9211]

I'm sorry but I cannot feel the same without the "hi, I'm Kurt. and this is workshop Wednesday"

[@murilo8507]

Kurt Osama

[@tannerjones9687]

😂🙌

[@peter9314]

Year something is missing.

[@mikezavilla-davies9464]

@@murilo8507 Kurt Von Osama........just not the same any more!

[@russellhamer8690]

Here Here.. your part of the team bruh

[@picturebypicture3598]

Just joined the channel when the full tiger video showed up in my recommended and ever since then I’ve been hooked. I can’t get enough of this stuff, it makes me feel proud that Aussies are keeping history alive. Good job lads and keep it up

[@bebo4807]

These men are from Austria. The accent is correct for that.

[@picturebypicture3598]

@@bebo4807 this is from Australia not Austria

[@bebo4807]

Australia does not have tanks or modern workshops. Austria has the needed electricity systems for this purpose.

[@picturebypicture3598]

@@bebo4807 what the hell are you going on about? That has to be one of the most incorrect things I’ve ever heard

[@TheMintox]

@@bebo4807 OK champ take your medication and have a lay down.

[@Bill53AD]

Thanks!

[@darrentuer5378]

Huzzah! New StuG episode!

[@swagmanexplores7472]

‘No hull too rough, no part too tough’ for this team 👍

[@tristan1234567890]

they were known, as the S(crap)-team... TAaTATATAAAA TATA...TATA..

[@predi888]

6:34 cool jagdpanzer :D

[@garymucher4082]

WOW the weight of everything is the real hard part about rebuilding tanks. Nothing is light weight... Just watch the fingers and toes... Thumbs Up!

[@williamjohnson6025]

I was a tank mechanic m60 class m548 m578 m113 m88 avlb and cev when I was in the army love watching

[@babylonsburning1]

I love watching how you boys go about rebuilding and repairing these AFVs. From start to finish, you can see the enthusiasm the whole staff have for their jobs and the subjects they work on. Thanks to you all from the UK.

[@user-wf2lm3vi7o]

What they do in Cairns weather too!

[@peterblakeslee4040]

Greetings, from western, Massachusetts USA

[@jessicabuckman9675]

I absolutely love watching the guys reconstruct one of these long dead war machines back to life. Keep the video's coming.

[@steveyountz9184]

Hard to comprehend the engineering that went into these machines, especially towards the end of the war, when the factories might be under attack. And to remember that the most sophisticated calculator at their disposal was a slide rule, makes the design and engineering all the more impressive. The work you folks do is just as impressive. Hard to believe you can recreate these parts with few, if any, drawings or dimensions to work with. You guys demonstrate an interesting combination of force and finesse and I always look forward to each new episode. Keep up the great work.

[@keithammleter3824]

It seems to be a common misconception these days that before there were electronic calculators and electronic computers, engineers had only slide rules. That is not so. They had mechanical calculators, some quite as sophisticated as modern electronic scientific calculators, and with about the same precision. In wartime Germany there was limited use of the Zuse electric computer, developed by Konrad Zuse. Desktop mechanical calculators equivalent in function to electronic calculators go back to about 1890 and were very common from about 1900-1910.

[@suburban404]

I have yet to master the proportion of force vs. finnese

[@MoveAhead101]

The metric system helps 😊

[@keithammleter3824]

@@MoveAhead101 : It helps a heck of a lot, although wartime Germany was CGS metric, which was not quite as good as the MKS/SI metric used throughout the world now (except by the stupid Americans). A lot of engineering calculations before the PC used to be done with printed tables and graphs as well - you could buy various sorts of books of tables and graphs for common engineering calculations. Not quite as quick as using an electronic calculator but still good, and more accurate than a slide rule.

[@geraldmiller5232]

i used to know how to work a slide rule. many many years ago.

[@bryankennedy7123]

Another master's class in forklift operation.

[@Michael_CS615]

Brute force and tappy tappy tappy..... Nice work!

[@Javdoc]

So cool how Beau's just making some brackets and there's a Jagdpanzer IV sitting behind him. Like your average day in your garage, you know.... 😉

[@1339LARS]

Great vid, keep ém comming!!!! //Lars

[@davemiller6893]

Good day from the UK. You lads are the best.

[@dnbeckmann]

Kurt, Thanks for the weekly "fix"! Those guys could have been brain surgeons :-). We're glad they're just where they are. :-)

[@mr.m2556]

Nice to see the lads at it again with the torches and the hammers. Cheers A3 team.

[@aarondwyer3746]

Beautiful work Kurt by them ,and your angelic reportaire on the video narration

[@Rudi-Mhz]

Good Craftsmenship !! IT is Not easy to Deal with Parts heavy Like Hell and also precise manufactured! What a Job the Guys had done in War Conditions, Winter and every few Days a new Place to Work. My Grandpa was a Sergeant Mayor in the Medic Corps in Charkow 80 Years ago. He picked Up the Woundet and escortet them to Germany near Kassel. His Brother August was Commander in such a Sturmgeschütz even in the Area at Charkow, the Area Putin ist fighting against the Ucraine now. They both died in the War, but they reportet at Home about the every Day Cruelty against Human Beeings they can't stand anymore on the Ostfront. One of the Brothers died in Amerika in a POW Camp by Appendizitis. So 3 from 4 died. The 4. One survived the Genozid of mentally disabled people by Hitler luckily. So every Men Out of my mothers Family was gone after the War.They choose the Ostfront Not because they wanted to fight, they all where Members of the Kommunist Party as Workers before War. They had been arrestet by the SA in pre- KZ Prisons but they choosed the Wehrmacht because the could protect the Familie in this way. But the Areas they were send, were the deadlyest in War. So the Story of the Sturmgeschütz of my Greatuncle hit by russian PAK in Rostock 1945.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Bo certainly got a workout on that sledgehammer Better him than me Can’t wait to see next week’s updates 👍👍👍👍

[@warrenhunt5556]

The gentleman and craftsman of Ausarmour, I give you a BRAVO ZULU. Without hesitation, I would accept with pleasure, for you to be part of of team, when I was in the RAAF for 36 years. I thank you Kurt, Beau, Dad, and the the rest, for something I now, have a Wednesday to look forward too. I am just gob smacked and amazed and have learnt so much.

[@Misitheus]

"Best job I ever had..!" Peace!

[@MsEagle65]

What a fabioulus job. Greetings from Germany.

[@bmwoutlander]

This is just brilliant. Down the track it's Panther time.

[@aaronsauer1679]

I can't believe how well the internal parts cleaned up

[@neilfairless4589]

Kurt, your videos just keep getting better, that was a pleasure to view. Those lads are superb at what they do and you capture it so well.

[@neilpalandri-jones689]

Said it before, and I'll say it again - best armour channel on KZbin

[@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes]

Brian Block could HBM the side of that gearbox mounting flange down......... LOL good job guys!

[@rionijam6137]

somethings got to be done about you kirt, it was only 18 minutes this Wednesday, how about an hour or so, you got me feeling like a junky craving for my next hit.🤣🤣🤣

[@PabloEugenioSiostrzonek]

I'm amazed of the work you are doing and the level of skill of the mechanics!!! Please!!! Try to make the videos longer!!! I enjoy them very much and they finish so soon... This channel it's like good meals. You never have enough of it!!! Regards from Argentina!! Till next Wednesday.

[@MrDeancoote]

When you think a group of design engineers sat and drew every single part after working out what each part did is amazing.

[@keithammleter3824]

I began in engineering in 1965. What we had was a drafting pool, which was to an engineer as a typing pool was to a businessman. Just as it was a waste of a businessman's expensive time to type his own letters and got a much lower paid typiste to do it, we engineers were paid too much to do drawing. What we did was do a quick sketch and outline what was required to a draftsman, who did neat drawings to appropriate standards for quite a bit less pay. I said "draftsman" but often they were female. Engineers in wartime Germany would have worked the same way. Now of course, businessmen have email and engineers have CAD/CAE - Computer Aided Drawing / Computer Aided Engineering, and there are no typing pools and no drafting pools. Before the PC, one engineer could generate enough work for several draftsmen. If you look at the title blocks of old engineering drawings, you'll typically see listed along with the date, title, etc, something like "DRWN: FGN", "APPD: DGH" - this means drawn by somebody whose initials are FGN, and the drawing was approved by someone whose initials are DGH. FGN was the draftsman and DGH was the engineer.

[@MrDeancoote]

That really interesting thanks.

[@maispao]

Absolutely fascinating. 1:1 scale model kit. Love t.

[@willierants5880]

Lovely new intro. Goosebumps.

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video and presentation.

[@harpomarx7777]

Good soundtrack at the beginning. Loved it; keep 'em coming, boys!

[@Roulandus-le-Fartere]

Kurt: "That's all we have time for today" My Household: "Boooooo!" Love the vids, highlight of Wednesdays!

[@andrewsteele7663]

My day is now complete, if I were to pass tonight, I would not worry as I have watched " Workshop Wednesday" Cheers, love the weekly updates👍😀

[@SPSteve]

Beautiful work, guys! Great job working to return these historic fighting machines back to running condition. Love the Jagdpanzer IV, you need to do a video on that!

[@fw1421]

Amazing job turning a rusty mess into a working drive unit.

[@scottcrawford7310]

Love these U tubes Very talented guys

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

Those final drive units are fascinating. Especially those bearings!

[@ChristopherReader]

Some clever camera work here!

[@raymondswarmer1433]

I always look forward to the next video, wether it’s the STUG, the Grant, or something else. Can’t wait to see what other projects Aus Armor has in the pipeline for the future. Great work and attention to every detail. Bo, it has to be fun working with both your Dad and brother.

[@garynew9637]

KV 1 coming up!

[@jangosselaar6708]

Bo is a artist

[@kiwifruit27]

Fantastic as always, Wednesdays can’t come quick enough 😅

[@CapnJackSB]

Fascinating. Your crew makes a lie out of that old saying, "You can't make something out of nothing". Bo is a wizard with a torch and a sense of humor even when things go wrong.😀

[@NSYresearch]

I have absolutely no interest in engineering but these guys make it fascinating. Seeing the interior workings of these machines is amazing.

[@scroggins100]

Delicate Heavy Engineering at its best Gentlemen!

[@udondave]

Kudos Kurt- your videography just gets better and better. bravo !

[@danielcotnoir3363]

Workshop Wednesday... the best day of the week! Thanks fellas!

[@teverwelsch9114]

Thank you for the help I disassembled my Stug and couldn’t figure out how to put it back together

[@danielriordan6387]

I enjoy watching your videos for both the historical values as well as the engineering insight as to how this tank was built.

[@stephenparkes626]

So look forward to your videos many thanks

[@paulmanuse2353]

Great!!

[@wekker090]

An induction heater for the bearings might be a good investment.

[@bmw1894]

Belt sander and a Biax scraper will solve the out of true mounting surface.

[@MrMoenzy]

Masterclass model building in scale 1/1…without an easy to follow building plan.always amazed with the work you guys do

[@templer4295]

Love It.....absolutely love watching you guys rebuild history.....Bravo!!!l

[@jamesneveaux4892]

Appreciate the works and kudos to the 3 dimensional ability to visualize mechanical interactions (look at multiple parts and be able to put them together).

[@wowyoureadthis4778]

GOOD STUFF BOIS

[@zerohour5747]

Thanks for the video !

[@billbarton9046]

A great way to start my day off from work, with another cracking video from Aus Armour.

[@davidpothin5544]

What's that beauty in the background? Ain't a hetzer it's on panzer 3 chassis, wheels and running gear. That long barrel too!

[@leonkrouwel1878]

15:59: also put some copper grease on the bolts or nuts: That also saves a lot of trouble if it has to come loose again one day.

[@edwardbrophy9749]

I'm having stug withdrawal!! ☺️ So I'm watching them all again 👍

[@victorwolfenson5449]

fantastic job,congrat

[@Evans701]

Uraaa every week i see new video) its great)

[@rebeljack1860]

You guys are the best ! The workmanship and dedication is amazing to see and like many others that came across Workshop Wednesday buy accident including me ..... I can't get enough of the amazing work that you guys do. please keep the videos coming.

[@alexandermccarthy]

Simply stunning!

[@craigmandall9420]

It's great watching the brothers working together. My brother and i are both diesel mechanics/fitters and have worked together at 3 different jobs

[@timothywood4402]

Wow just amazing work guys. Can you imagine working on those on the ground like they did back in the day.

[@stevelyons1962]

Beautiful work boys

[@formerparatrooper]

Great stuff you blokes are doing. If I were back in OZ I would certainly try to visit your shop.

[@2t2crash]

I hope these men know they are working my dream job

[@elcapitantommy]

Absolutely amazing channel, keep up the good work.

[@terryhatcher9644]

Do you guys use experienced boilermakers to handle alot of the welding, cutting, and heavy metal fabrication. The welding and heavy metal fabrication skills I have observed on the restorations are excellent and on par with master boilermakersdoing similar work in the US power plant refurbishment and maintenance.

[@SeanHodgins]

You mean you don't have a milling machine with a 7 meter bed in your shop? 😁

[@edwardbrophy9749]

Brilliant job as usual boys! Can't wait till the next Stug episode! Keep em coming ☺️ 👍

[@nachtsumhalbzwei]

Thanks for sharing the new content. I allways cant wait to be workshop wensday. Keep up the good work.

[@stephenhill560]

Another fascinating episode. Brilliant

[@josephtrad7560]

I always watching your great work... amazing...

[@paoloviti6156]

Again you guys are doing a great job 👍👍! The final drive and housing looks really heavy and it's definitely not a job to do it alone and without experience not to mention the much needed tools and equipment of all kinds! Looking forward to see your new videos 👍

[@wes11bravo]

Absolutely beautiful work. It's amazing to see such rigorous preservation of this unique example of engineering and military history.

[@ianbertenshaw4350]

Awesome video! I can't comprehend the size of the milling machine that was used to machine the sides of a tank! I have often wondered how the engineering compared across various tanks, some must have been a bit of a dog's breakfast others brilliant.

[@Elvis20101]

Thank you

[@doughudgens9275]

The filming and editing of the making of those clips was spot on! Well done way to keep a repetitive task interesting.

[@АндрейИванов-ц1ю2х]

Good job. Good video.

[@tommytaylor4458]

Can’t wait to see the fix guys!!! Love watching 👍😁😁

[@derekwilliam1165]

Another brilliant episode of the restoration. Very impressed with the build. Keep up the great work guys

[@aserta]

A good solution to keep new bolts from rusting and giving them a slightly better edge (doesn't always work, the quality of the metal is important) is to heat them up (not cherry hot, but hot enough) that when dunked in used motor oil, they turn flat black. I've had hinges, bolts, all manner of metal that's exposed to the weather 24/7 done up this fashion and it never rusts post treatment.

[@tissapathiratna7761]

So far the best ,The Transmission disassembley .In my experience all German machines are somewhat similar But I have haven't seen a Tank Transmission I guess this one is made by ZF. I would use protective Gloves all The time. & plenty of penetrating oil. Thanks Bow. & Workshop Wednesday 💪🏿

[@divarachelenvy]

well done guys..

[@northislandguy]

Been enjoying these series Amazing how solid the tank is and the weapons used to knock them out, crazy tech

[@claytonnans5639]

Thank you for another great "heavy junk" fix! What a great team.

[@michaelnielsen1262]

I loved the intro of this video.

[@NinjaKittyBonks]

"Beau is adorable, but do we _really_ need to show him making like 5 metal clips in a row?" -all guys watching "YES" -all ladies watching