WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Stripping back the steering brakes (PLUS part shipment unboxing!)

[@kiwifruit27]

I wish everyday was Wednesday. I love this channel, you guys do such an awesome job

[@nzmonsterman]

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.

[@3gunshooter60]

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.

[@commanddos]

Greetings from Poland! I'm really glad to see the progress. Stug is one of my favourite vehicle of WWII and I'm unpatiently waiting to see it running.

[@iggysfriend4431]

Proper engineering at it's best. More shows please, I could watch this for hours.

[@alexandermccarthy]

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!

[@gerhard6105]

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

[@aserta]

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.

[@gerhard6105]

@@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.

[@simonworrall7950]

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.

[@jamespray]

I so appreciate what this channel is doing to document these restorations. I haven't seen anyone else anywhere, on or off KZbin, who combines such satisfying coverage with such production quality. Cheers from Michigan!

[@bebo4807]

Yes

[@jeffreytan2948]

Not to mention the attention to detail. Glorious.

[@davidjarpemo9275]

Best day of the week!

[@arcamean785]

History like this deserves to be preserved and remembered as all history both good and terrible.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

What makes this so amazing is you have technical manuals to show all the bits It just makes it that much easier 👍👍👍

[@wickedfriggengood6992]

“No one will see it”. Beau “I will” now that is a true master of his craft. I loved hearing it cause I’m the same way lol

[@mutualbeard]

Ditto

[@shlomoschoenbrunn4877]

Special delivery..from Poland :-D

[@lysanderkrieg5474]

Another great episode guys. And kudos Kurt on the epic intro.

[@aaronsauer1679]

I honestly can't believe how much parts are still out there

[@scottburton509]

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.

[@aserta]

@@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.

[@tachi98lep]

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!

[@salameragazzo]

So cathartic to watch Beau tear the brake steering assembly down. Part surgeon, part wrestler, part butcher!

[@crunchytheclown9694]

Mostly butcher, but time is money

[@FrancSchiphorst]

Awesome stuff as always! Love the "I'll know it's there so I'll fix it proper" attitude, fixing the brake dust opening.

[@timothywood4402]

You guys do some damn fine work.

[@jerryshelton1481]

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

[@loken67]

I love the attention to every detail. Fantastic work so far.

[@neilfairless4589]

Awesome job Beau as always. I could watch you restore tanks all day mate.

[@kevins.449]

Amazing craftsmanship. That is a crew of wizards there.

[@emogenelea7185]

So are your a welder, mechanic, bodyman, artist? What a fascinating job. Well done, that one!

[@generalbutsatisfied0317]

I've been waiting for this to come, and it has!

[@gerardkavanagh144]

To say I enjoyed this episode is an understatement. As usual the content and video production was top shelf. Thank You.

[@bohhica1]

Haven’t seen any knocker loose, penetrating oil, nothing like that, just heat, amazing.

[@thepugster0117]

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

[@BigUnitBeef]

Well done guys.....love watching from America

[@ericcorse]

Some panzer gold from Poland.

[@TheSonicfrog]

The complexity of this relatively simple vehicle and the quality of its construction is astonishing.

[@mattholland8966]

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!

[@michaelmayo3127]

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 ⚒⚒

[@fatman6061]

you can never have to many panzer IVs, no truer words have ever been spoken

[@markhunter444]

I always look foreword to Workshop Wednesday

[@wboquist]

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".

[@aaronbirkholz4997]

Thank you! Years ago I was looking up how that worked on WWII tanks, and I could not even find photos.

[@davidallen2058]

Very keen to know the ins and outs on reusing or replacing the torsion bars when you get up to that. Special heat treatment surely required.

[@alfabethev2.074]

It's a pure joy to see this guy work !

[@kiwifruit27]

Congrats on 50k subs, plenty more to come too

[@richardtutor8331]

Love all of your videos. Thanks for uploading.

[@horusak4232]

Scale modelling on top settings :) Nice work, lads!

[@busterdee8228]

Amazing work from amazing craftsman.

[@danielpalmer4353]

Amazing work everyone.

[@jeffkeith637]

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.

[@peterthrupp3133]

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.

[@anthonygallagher1397]

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.

[@jonowens460]

Thank You for you efforts. These Machines; Priceless!!! You all obviously know...

[@davidkasnik8225]

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

[@billbarton9046]

Well I suppose it's a cuppa tea and sit back and enjoy another great video.☕

[@dusan.racicky]

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.

[@ldnwholesale8552]

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!!

[@nevillegoddard4966]

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!

[@vinnoschop107]

Is it possible to have a workshop Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday? sometimes a saturday? 😂 Another super episode!

[@thurin84]

"workshop week"! sounds good to me!

[@aserta]

@@thurin84 "Workshop daily" :))

[@thywarhag1131]

Good on ya mates 👍👍👍 Imagine finishing it and taking it on a ride......🤘🤘🤘 What a blast , cheers

[@samiam5557]

A Stug III auf G; fantastic! 🤗

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

Very interesting to see that steering brake assembly in detail.

[@benkendall7489]

Beautifully shot as always Kurt! Fantastic production value, really shows how much care you guys put into everything

[@thomasfx3190]

I would have broken off 10 of those bolts, great work guys!

[@jamessalisbury5861]

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

[@robertsmart4628]

Just go's to show how much work you have to put into getting one running again. My hat's off to you all . Mind boggling really.

[@aserta]

21;54 oh, they gave you the proper cool boxes with hand holes and metal reinforced corners. Noice.

[@kiwifruit27]

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

[@garycharland3018]

Bo I am continutly impressed with your mechanical ability. Wow!

[@formerparatrooper]

I've wrecked several pairs of expensive gloves trying to transport a hot metal piece to the water bucket. Great job on this.

[@KucskarMihalyTamas]

I really love the GoT style intro! Kurt you're a genius, and getting better every time!

[@tinkmarshino]

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..

[@MCPhilop]

Great episode, realy looking forward for the next one 💪

[@krmould]

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.

[@johnviney7919]

Good video! Very enjoyable - keep up the great work!!😀

[@kayneahnung3661]

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.

[@JackFlemingFan1]

As always thanks for posting yet another video & how I wish I worked at The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum too!!

[@tymz-r-achangin]

Cool project! Thanks for giving us all of the details that you showed!

[@FairladyS130]

The work on those brakes, what a job, I'd like to see close ups of things like bearings and bolts which have maker's etc marks on them.

[@TheSlugstoppa]

More heat, Bigger hammer, A joy to watch.

[@Bill53AD]

Great video today. love the inclusion of actual diagrams. This will be a great running unit to the collection.

[@georgedistel1203]

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!

[@prillewitz]

Excellent! Goodies to repair the tank!

[@edwardbrophy9749]

You blokes are awesome. Love watching this chanel!! 👍 Keep up the amazing restoration's. And I'll keep watching ☺️

[@josecintron2323]

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!

[@fredericrousset6853]

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 .

[@americanpatriot2422]

Always an Outstanding video and presentation.

[@wekker090]

Man this a dream shop to work in. Love these vids.

[@neilperry2224]

I think they should do a huge game of operation and win prizes for the restoration garage or local charities

[@NinjaKittyBonks]

G'Day, from America... mates ❤

[@petrolekh]

Wow, this is going to be an incredible project with the interior and running!

[@danielt.3152]

These videos are great. I would love to work there, sadly I would probably do it for free. Keep the. Coming I am addicted

[@ramtiger10]

Is it me or is it Australian enginuity at its best. Thank you for posting your hard work.

[@tommytaylor4458]

Another great video guys!!! Looking forward to each Wednesday video and work!!👍😁😁

[@nevillegoddard4966]

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!

[@Americal1970]

I hope you don't mind a, suggestions. Get a BRASS, HAMMER and a couple of bronze rods 3/8-1/2". Backup things you hammer on. solid. If you need to "Tank" parts like the 15 minute acid "pickle" solution. Swimming pool acid (however strong you want) for rust. For anything greasy including your own human body☠️ Caustic Soda be careful its great to clean files before you acid sharpen them. What I have seen you fab you can make split gear backup that your bearing puller pulls on. If it deflects when you hit it😢no good. 😭 Keep some wood blocks handy. No offence, loose the steel ballpeen hammer. 😊 Brass or bronze rods flat bar ie. to drive bearing races.

[@thejamppa]

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.

[@sneakysnek2185]

This would be a dream job.

[@Will_CH1]

I love watching these guys. Best job in the world.

[@markdavis2475]

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

[@Will_CH1]

@@markdavis2475 I guess there were left and right hand threads depending on the side.

[@markdavis2475]

@@Will_CH1 I think it was more that after a while they took on a slight twist/set if they were twisted the other way they could break.

[@Will_CH1]

@@markdavis2475 That could be nasty

[@garylawless3608]

Gotta love a Stug!❤

[@Wamphyrii1]

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

[@andrewsteele7663]

Thanks Team, keeping bring out the excellent content, cheers

[@stevepringle2295]

Fantastic piece

[@jerryplews1023]

Great job gents