WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Our ISU-152 can't turn left!

[@ausarmour]

Ask your questions about this week’s episode HERE!

[@divarachelenvy]

How does it handle?

[@nunyabusiness7405]

i havent researched it but why do russian tanks smoke so much? and if its oil, do they consume a lot from burning? or is it poor fueling efficiency?

[@80chuma]

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[@scipioafricanus4328]

“It refused to turn left at all….highly unusual for a socialist vehicle” lol GOLD!

[@thurin84]

i guess hes another defector from a communist country thats had quite enough leftism lol.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Funny! 🤣🤣

[@722garage9]

Legend.

[@ronyeahwiggie729]

Indeed!

[@Slaaibak]

Kak snaaks 😂

[@aserta]

9:59 the fact that the lawn mower isn't dressed up like a tiny tank is ... heart breaking. 💔

[@blueblur6447]

I concur, it needs the upgrade.

[@dukeallen432]

Camera shots of tracks in motion were wonderful

[@richardedkins8856]

I thoroughly enjoy Steve's videos. Great mechanic. Great sense of humour. Seems like a great all-round guy.

[@dougstubbs9637]

8:33. Pretty innovative camera placement. Really enjoyed. Has anyone got Steve a creeper for Chrissie yet ?

[@alexrandall3685]

A 'super industrial tank' with a mechanical problem solved by cutting pieces off the steering! Brilliant work.

[@therish7169]

She’s whisper quiet! 😂 Steve’s getting pretty artistic with the cameras now too 👍

[@welshpete12]

Yep , nice shots !

[@brothermaynard3200]

Won't turn left? Good to see you cured it of its counter revolutionary tendencies...

[@busterdee8228]

Steve's bonus package: he gets to drive everything he fixed.

[@michaeldallimore8590]

Never get tired of these videos from Steve. Great job.

[@entropyachieved750]

Woohoo it's workshop Wednnnesdayyyy!!!!!!

[@harlech2]

It won't turn left which is odd for a Socialist vehicle. I spit my coffee all over my keyboard with that!

[@722garage9]

Love Steve's running commentary 'a face only a mother could love', then follows an engineers description of how it works and why. Just brilliant. Superb.

[@russwoodward8251]

What a beast. The steel plates were so crudely cut. Steve dives right in. Thanks again.

[@jarheads88]

Wow one of my favorite videos I loved all of the camera angles great new touch

[@zaska9698]

Eggcellent work! greetings from finland :) we have ISU-152 in parola tank museum as well! not in driving condition unfortunately

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

Get Steve enough funds and have him come over?

[@samleigh7817]

I had to drive a Spartan with the same problem, every time I wanted to turn left I had to stop and reverse right then go forwards. Luckily I only had 3 km back to camp . The hydraulic cylinder had blown a seal. Steve fixed it faster than REME did.

[@oskar6661]

Nice work on a gorgeous sample. Really can't wait to see if the rumoured KV-1 becomes a project soon. My favourite tank of WW2.

[@pfineyut]

Just another day at the office. I was cutting the lawn using a ride on mower....oh look there goes a Soviet heavy tank destroyer 😉

[@hungryhank6044]

Hello Steve! Really enjoy your series of videos. Those different camera shots were pretty cool! Keep up the great content! Cheers

[@andrewdowns3403]

look at the cuts of metal and welding inside this beast . as rough as you can get . well Steve

[@alaric_]

Considering Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant was pushing 8-9 of these out per day, there wasn't much time left for polishing.... "Good enough" was the main ethos of the soviet tanks. What always hits me is how the all workers had to be completely deaf after the war. With the long workdays, heavy machinery and no hearing protection, it was inevitable.

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

@@alaric_ Deafness beats deadness?

[@KaitlynnUK]

I'd just taken a mouthful of tea @0:44 and almost spat it all over my keyboard.

[@scottcrawford7310]

Well got my Workshop Wednesday fix. Great to see it now running and steering.

[@DragonFireEngneering]

I was having my first cup of coffee this morning and nearly snorted it out my nose laughing at that offhand comment on refusing to turn left. Well played.

[@OgdenTunkRR]

Steve is great he is a wonderful addition to the gang

[@luckyno888]

I come for the tanks. I come back for Steve's comedy.

[@desertviking]

It’s a pleasure to watch Steve work, the guy is brilliant!

[@stephenyoud6125]

Subaru Steve fixes it again. No surprises there then. Well done Steve, mate.

[@MGB-learning]

Outstanding video and presentation. Great job Steve!

[@luvtruckin]

This is one of the coolest tanks you guys have so cool to have Steve working on it.

[@simongleed]

As a Chieftain Tank owner I am feeling your pain in a tight space! Great content :)

[@celewign]

I love the unconventional track shots

[@tomwarner2468]

There's a video on KZbin showing one of these setting in a residential area, and it had been there since ww2! A bunch guys worked and worked on it! They finally got it started, and with much rocking to an fro, they drove it out ,on to a flatbed ! At one point it caught fire!

[@garynew9637]

Haha, saw that vid years ago.

[@tomwarner2468]

@garynew9637 yeah,that's one of the first KZbin videos I ever watched! Then the one where they pulled a german sp,turned turtle, out !they righted it, pulled it and the tracks still moved and you could still make out the paint !

[@farmerjohn6192]

Great job by Steve but on the test drive you scared the crap out of the gardener!

[@skyd8726]

Good on ya Steve! I agree with your clear wrap-arounds too, having done the same in my working environment (wood) and always getting crap in my eyes, eventually I got smart and wore them.

[@nicflatterie7772]

Love the different camera view points 😊

[@assessor1276]

“….electric fans make it a relative breeze…”. Hhehehehehehehehee. Good one Steve ole’ buddy!

[@gunnoreekie]

As usual, workshop Wednesday never fails

[@busterdee8228]

"Ugly?" It fits right in with the other welds and cuts.

[@huwtindall7096]

I'm usually more of a fan of the non-mechanical restorations vids but man Steve makes the intricacies of what actually makes these things work fascinating.

[@dougcrawford7507]

Great videoing from some very interesting angles. Thank you!

[@patchmack4469]

well done Steve, great job, another great example of engineering

[@battlejitney2197]

This my favorite day of the week: Workshop Wednesday!

[@ymishaus2266]

8:18 Still the neatest weld on a wartime soviet vehicle I've ever seen.

[@DrewCartwright]

Outstanding camera positioning! Loving your content, gents!

[@CommissarBooks]

Steering is super important on these machines. True they weren't meant to be driven everywhere, but steering is the first part of aiming the thing! But again, best channel on KZbin!

[@timriley302]

I was fortunate enough to visit Australia In August and visit the AAA museum I really enjoyed my trip there.

[@shanemossmoss]

Great job Steve love your work

[@peterbrown3608]

That must be one of the better perks of the job, getting to test drive all these vehicles afterwards.

[@thurin84]

gotta say kurt, those are some pretty dramatic camera shots and editing! bravo. one of these days youll have to rig a camera right in front of a tread of one of these beast so we can get a "tread eye" view!

[@knudvoecking]

Some really crazy camera angles this time!

[@americanpatriot2422]

Great work by Steve.

[@iDuckman]

What a beast! That was a brave fix.

[@dave499]

"Ha! Good one." I really enjoy watching Steve work, and his running commentary is comedy gold.

[@aussiefirestorm]

Steve with the zingers! 🤣

[@Roulandus-le-Fartere]

Love the unique camera angles during the manoeuvres ahead of the shake down run!

[@michaeld1167]

I liked how on the test drive, it looked like the guy mowing the grass was going to take on the tank but then pulled out of the chicken game

[@davidmorris56]

Great work..love workshop wednesdays..always watch on my morning coffee break!..highlight of the week! Auz Armour amazing great vids of battles with ancient heavy tech..& amazing building from scrap of priceless exhibits..top job all round Auz Armour...need to get over for youre annual event..kent england being not round the corner!👍👍

[@JohnSmith-pl2bk]

It's at least three slabs' distance Kent to Aus...

[@Swellington_]

great camera shots

[@billyponsonby]

Excellent!

[@01ZombieMoses10]

Steve's ability to explain complex mechanics in a succinct, layman's manner is truly enviable.

[@depleteduraniumcowboy3516]

Look at Steve getting the Soviet vehicle to turn left. Ah the good old days.

[@06colkurtz]

well done. Nice short video. Liked the new video angles. Entertaining

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

'Pretty ugly, but functional' was the motto of the CCCP...

[@paulsilva3346]

23:59 hours Tuesday, in North California... I'm the 2nd LIKE of thie day. And now on with the show... 1:35

[@roderikvanderkelen]

"It has a face on it only a mother can love!" is now my favorite Australian expression!

[@jamespray]

I propose nicknaming the vehicle "Zoolander". "I'm not an ambi-turner!"

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

I searched the comments for this!

[@NSYresearch]

Once again...large cup of coffee, sitting comfortably... Workshop Wednesday !!!

[@dankorolyk5917]

Great job again on the video,Steve’s a magician.

[@HarrydeLackadais]

Great job Steve

[@dominiks7023]

When will you start the Ha-Go tank restoration?

[@penchant4]

Cool how Steve got you to hang on the end of the gun tube, and sit in the running gear to get those action shots. Great work, once more!!

[@tedheath9018]

Steve what a top bloke.

[@ДжоБлэк-ш5у]

Хорошая сау , меня в детстве катали на такой но в варианте ремонтно эвакуационной машины. Я был в восторге ).

[@alisdairherd9501]

I love the Russian solution to track pins, most other countries had some sort of nut or retainer, the Russians used floating pins and simply welded a ramp to the hull to push them back in when they wandered.

[@dfjab]

panther had it too! gotta steal the nice bits aye

[@danielstickney2400]

Not on this vehicle, it has duck bill connectors that extend beyond the pins on both sides of the track

[@yattaran1484]

Thank Steve for making her possible to turn whichever she wants to go !

[@TallDude73]

I like the riding lawnmower at the end going one way, and this behemoth going the other way. It'll give the gardener an inferiority complex. ;)

[@JDCheng]

Love that blink-and-you-will-miss-it "haha, good one!" at 2:46...

[@Richard-pe4cx]

love all the camera angles

[@smalcolmbrown]

Thanks :)

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks.

[@clchan1953]

I was waiting for this week’s episode!

[@garyphillips7993]

Some jaunty camera shots in there 🤪

[@thurin84]

and editing.

[@cseivard]

Ha! “ typical for a Socialist vehicle.” Educational, too!

[@Alan.livingston]

He said “highly unusual for a socialist vehicle” because it wouldn’t go left. 😂

[@cseivard]

@ Now I get! Sorry, I am a stroke survivor, (brain injury, but lived!) I missed that entirely! Too quick for me!

[@LukeBunyip]

10:53 "Oh, ISU-152 of the lake, tell us of your wisdom..."

[@gerhard6105]

Very cool. Nice repair. The Russians used castle ponds to wash their tanks in. Like ponds from big land houses (Gutshof) and big manors in the area's they had just conquered.

[@davidkimmel5153]

So so interesting to follow you guys. Fascinating

[@oldbloke204]

You would be feeling a bit vulnerable on the ride on mower as that brute was roaming around eh?

[@mdfyui8000]

slasher has the close quarters advantage though

[@oldbloke204]

@@mdfyui8000 I'm not seeing the offensive capabilities of the John Deere mower tbh? Now if it was a whipper snipper it would be a whole different story.................

[@simongregory5691]

‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’ but three lefts do !

[@orbitalair2103]

but Two Wrights make a plane !

[@AdamSander-b3b]

You can see the huge welds in the corners. It’s like they just let the rod stick and then they just folded the hot welding rod left and right and let the weight of the rod be the mass of the entire bead instead of letting it melt into the surface metal. There must be tons of welds in that thing.

[@motoxray]

Thanks for another great episode. Now, can I humbly request some more longer form editions for the future, particularly the fabrication shop ones... Thank you

[@bruceinoz8002]

A "counter-revolutionary ISU-152?

[@idiotsavant7276]

I figured threading the rod ends and using a threaded sleeve would have been easier than welding it back together, but obviously with Soviet stuff, the chances of it coming close to any known fitting is to threat is unlikely.

[@jaycrank8163]

Instead of getting the break bands replaced get pad linings on it to take up the space.

[@benleszczynski3936]

Just in time!

[@philoverdrunk]

Love your eye protection plug as I make prosthetic eyes for a living. ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION. You name a mechanical scenario and I have a patient from that. Keep up the good work.

[@johnmclean6498]

Now that she's turning left, let's go after the White Tiger!

[@qwiky2691]

Merci 👍

[@bgdavenport]

MM Steve is a wizard!