Workshop Wednesday - STUG III G RESTORATION Ep. 12

[@jeffreypurcell4681]

Hi Aus Armour, a suggestion, what about you guys selling the broken and cut up bits and pieces eg the individual ball bearings etc ? It might be a good fund raisers. Own your own piece of a German tank ?

[@nickraschke4737]

Historic when you consider the bombing effort to stop those bearings being made.

[@davidwearne2086]

That Sir is an outstanding idea.

[@Alan.livingston]

I’d buy some for sure

[@chaosenterprises57]

Great idea mount on a plaque with inscription.

[@bruhsoundeffect8455]

Great idea but imagine the shipping cost. And having to package all the pieces as well

[@Search4TruthReality]

Who knew it would be so satisfying to watch a rusty nut get unscrewed? Keep up the good work, boys!

[@Search4TruthReality]

@YT 🤣😂

[@jamienevill1768]

I will never complain about changing the clutch on my car again! Keep up the good work 👍

[@robchilders]

Beau is an amazing mechanic. I've so enjoyed watching him work. I've reworked a few old trucks, but none of them as rusted as this. Loving your tank museum videos. In a couple of these videos I've seen large ball bearings and wonder the pain it took to make those considering all of the raids on Schweinfurt.

[@Rich77UK]

HE sure is a great mechanic for such a young fella. He has a wise old head on his young shoulders. I feel ancient saying that....Im only 44!!!!!!

[@alexhayden2303]

Switzerland stepped in with a few. Ditto Tetra Ethyl Lead!

[@jeffreytan2948]

Documenting your work like this will be invaluable not only for purely educational purposes but as reference for any similar restorations in the future.

[@johnoneill5661]

I know that it's well worth it in the end but you guys really must have the patience of the proverbial saint to not loose it big time and smash it to pieces 😮

[@roberthocking9138]

Great episode. What a battle, I nearly passed out when that diff housing plate fell on to the concrete. Great work Beau

[@petercliff4023]

Just to think that the inside of that housing hasn't been seen for over seventy years! Another very interesting video, just love the dedication to preserve the inner components. Great stuff Beau, Sir - you are a genius..

[@majorkursk780]

Seems like a over engineered transmission for it's day. The men that worked on these components, in field conditions during the war, were simply outstanding mechanics.

[@whiskeyinthejar24]

The Panzer 3 was fairly robust and simple. Have a look at a tiger, which had the ability to neutral steer, that's intense engineering for the time.

[@paoloviti6156]

Why do you guys keep on claiming that everything German is over engineered just by looking at it? Have you seen the transmissions on the British tanks or the Shermans. Those were not simple at all in order to work or to produce and where about the same quality as rhe German transmission unless you look at the helical wheel that has been extracted previously but much of this was pretty straightforward. The over engineered issues you really have to look at is the Tiger and and to a lesser degree the Panther.

[@davidedbrooke9324]

Much German stuff was.

[@majorkursk780]

@@davidedbrooke9324 A designer named Heinrich Ernst Kniepkamp was ahead of his time with his vision of building the famous Panther and Tiger tanks along with his innovative designs for the E Series that would have shared universal components throughout the series of models that would have excellerated production and cut costs. If the Germans had built these various designs they would have shared many important components between models and in doing so would have eased the various factories production capabilities to mass produce larger numbers of the same interchangeable parts. Obviously Hitler thought different and the opportunity to standardize the panzer forces was lost.

[@SPSteve]

part mechanic part archeologist. Looking forward to the next episode!

[@CNSFX]

My grandfather was an Italian tank commander and mechanical engineer in WWII, N Africa. He said they used bacon grease or butter with heat to penetrate into stuck bolts and nuts. Old school tricks!

[@999torino]

You guys do great work! This comment feeds the youtube algorithm.

[@russwoodward8251]

The Germans definitely had a "style" to their engineering all their own. At the same time we're learning reverse engineering shop techniques. Really great. Thanks!

[@jsmith294]

I will never complain about the difficulty of removing a rusted nut again! The gears look great, by the way! Hope you can save the housing.

[@micemb2570]

4.53 The fact that no one has probably touched that part since it was last assembled somewhere in a factory in Germany and is now being pulled apart some 80 years later in an Australian Museum is just incredible. Its probably outlived everyone who built her.

[@1Wilful]

Well it was built by slave labour, so yeah I expect you're right

[@anderoo9260]

That's not that hard to guess, it was probably built by slave labourers that lived on stringent rations and under poor conditions. And even if they were of prime strength, they would need to be like 100 years old today lol

[@davidclodfelter7147]

For a collector you should sell the ball baring's from the Stug III to help in the restoration.

[@stevenslavicek9711]

Beau is a great mechanic, it takes a team to run the whole show thank you all.

[@timhullfilms]

Great job! I watched it twice. I would love to buy one of the original bearings!

[@Mike-mm6jp]

me too

[@bgdavenport]

The professional quality of these videos is exemplified by the skilled and relaxing voiceover as the work takes place.

[@alexandermccarthy]

It takes real attention to detail, and craftsmanship to disassemble something this far gone and still have usable parts. Amazing work, Beau!

[@dustyfarmer]

You can get those bearing shells out by running a bead of weld around them on the inside, when it cools it will pull the shell in & make it easier to extract.

[@jeffkeith637]

Oooh so wanted to see it all come apart. Love Wednesdays.

[@davidoverall8060]

Beau,love your work. Keep up the subtle innuendo !!

[@steveyountz9184]

Thats going beyond blood, sweat, and tears.... He may not feel that in the morning, but thirty arthritic years from now he will. Great video, as usual.

[@andrewsteele7663]

I love Workshop Wednesday, I wait until I can watch undisturbed and if I am I start from the beginning, thanks love your work, Cheers

[@stefanstamer3043]

Great Work, greeting from Germany,

[@gerardkavanagh144]

Your presentations never disappoint; patience coupled with perserverance paid dividends. Considering the age of the assembly; the war damage incurred and a total lack of maintenance for nearly eighty years my hat goes off to the team. The big guy will have to soak that hand in ice tonight.

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video and presentation.

[@aarondwyer3746]

I love to see Kurt's armour like the helical gear 🤩💗

[@davidbutterfield2949]

I never thought I’d be so fascinated with watching someone removing rusty gears. Great work 👍🏻🇦🇺

[@michaelguerin56]

Good fun! 🙂 Nic work guys.

[@ctid107]

Highlight of my KZbin week now. Many thanks for the fantastic videos from Belfast.

[@saltleywsc]

Superb video great craftsmanship !

[@markbehr88]

Great work. When you dropped the housing I was worried it may have cracked - so good to see disaster averted.

[@lwilton]

To be fair, fold-over locks (that bent washer thing to hold the nut in place) were in common usage from the late 1800s to the 1950s on pretty much all moving machinery. Look at any Cat D2 or D4 tractor and you will find at least a hundred of them. Until Loctite thread locker came along, this was the best way to make sure a bolt or nut would not back off in some inconvenient place, like the inside of the engine. That vibration isolator that mounted the diff will likely come as neoprene sandwiched between two metal tubes as a unit. As long as you know the ID and OD and length, it is likely to still be a catalog item.

[@wboquist]

I even had them on the axles of a 1970 Dodge Power Wagon. It was the first time I had ever seen them.

[@neilfairless4589]

Kurt, you should put those ball bearings up for sale on your website. Loads of us would love to own a piece of history like that.

[@thedeathwobblechannel6539]

My suggestion: get set up with a soda blasting area because you'll be able to get all the rust and dirt off of the parts that you're trying to disassemble and you get a better idea of what it all is entailed in getting it off plus working with clean parts is always better than working with filthy parts. We have guys here in the states that will bring their soda blast machinery and blast off your old muscle car to get the rust off they can clear the rust off of steel Wheels even with the 50-year-old tires on them you could do a rear axle housings frames anything blow all that rust right off so you're down to bare metal and you got an idea what you're working with you'll get less dirty you'll have less of that crap in your sinuses and in your lungs. Best of luck gentlemen

[@saschapulkowski4413]

Every Wednesday feels like Christmas when you post a new video. Great work guys!!👍

[@brutter602]

Sometimes when I heat components up that are heavily corroded , I then quench/cool them with cold water. The initial shock cause the steel to contract and break up the corrosion . I then use penetrating oil and the components then undo easily in most cases.

[@davidgraeme3186]

Absolutely brilliant. Beau has so much patience in working things out. Amazing.

[@Misitheus]

I am a novice to all of this and totally fascinated. Incredible restoration(s)..... But it looks like the blow torch is the go to for just about everything! Peace!

[@Bryan-cs9to]

This series has really put into perspective the complexity of German machines and why they were not able to manufacture as many as the allies. Great work!

[@alphamercstudios]

sometimes I wonder if Germany deliberately made their tanks mechanically complicated to prevent the allies from using them after capture. Great work as always, can't wait tot see the next episode!

[@philipp5254]

Interesting thought. I can‘t imagine though, that the engineers constructed the tanks for the case of being captured and rusting away for decades just to f… allied personell off. 😎

[@theonlymadmac4771]

What is complicated here? I just see straightforward mechanical engineering. If it’s much simpler, it’s no tank. You can’t fight a war with a kiddy tricycle

[@markgriffin4888]

those gears are in great condition, you should make a mould of everything inside the houseing, and cast spares,or better yet, sell them 👍👍👍

[@claytonnans5639]

Outstanding job. I look forward to your weekly updates.

[@ianstewartbrown5308]

All that heat, I was sweating just watching!! Bo has the patience of a saint. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the next episode

[@derekwilliam1165]

what an amazing episode. Beau is absolutely brilliant. really great to see proper engineering at its best. A great episode to watch. Looking forward to the next one. keep up your amazing work

[@ferrelx]

All in a days work for a Heavy Equipment Mechanic..except the stuff you work on is waaaaaaaaaaaaay cooler 😎

[@twin40dave]

Great work guys , always look forward to seeing your progress 👍

[@4DModding]

Its a testament to good engineering that the internals of the gear box has remained in such good shape. And when all else fails get a bigger hammer and the gas

[@philhitchings]

talk about perseverance! even had a haircut half way through because it took so long ;)

[@johnbradshaw354]

Great and interesting update and hard work from Beau. Thank you for sharing.

[@davidlongley534]

Enjoy as usual can't wait for the shoot bit

[@rrl4245]

Thanks guys - loving it!

[@alesisanchez9728]

Just discovered this video series, I love watching both the history and the metal work. Awesome, thank you.

[@fatcat3211]

wow! this was a crazy episode. great work by Beau.

[@otavioamadei4331]

Hi Aus Armour, sou do Brasil e meu ingles é ruim porem entendo tudo que vocês dizem!!! Descobri o canal a pouco tempo e todo conteudo é muito bom!!! Nunca parem !! O trabalho de restauração é inpressionante!!! Um dia se possível visitarei o museu!!!

[@tgfcujhb7583]

Wondering if tossing the whole thing in a bon fire would have made it easier 👍👍

[@tommytaylor4458]

As Always….great job and keep the videos coming!!👍😁

[@Bill53AD]

Great job mate. You will find SK still makes the bearings. A group in Canada are using molasses and water to soak their tracks in on a restoration. What engine and transmission are you going to use as a replacement? Keep up this great work, it will be nice to see it move on its own.

[@johnvaluk1401]

Wonderful work! Coming along great. Amazing how you work thru this to get it apart!

[@denbrown8301]

Great job, guys!!! All your projects is fantastic. I’m looking with interest. 👍👍👍

[@commanddos]

Huge respect folks! Absolutely fantastic job. Keep going!

[@chrisjackson9978]

Have really enjoyed watching this series of videos on the Stug. Amazing skilful work being done. In dealing with so heavily corroded components I would use electrolysis to clean them before starting to disassemble. It should make the disassembly at lot easier.

[@Comatoses_97]

Hey guys, I think a good idea for another segment may be the restoration/maintenance of some of the service rifles you have in the collection that visitors can shoot?

[@glenngosline3303]

Another great job. To think what mechanics had to do in the field at times.

[@stevefoster7787]

Fantastic work , makes me wish I was young again , so I could ask for a job and learn from the masters ! Such dedication and attention to detail is an art lost to time.

[@tvrrich7202]

Great stuff, keep it up👍

[@TheFurriestOne]

The side-plate falling to the floor makes for a great end to the episode! XD Acid-dip? Nice! Worked great!

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

Nothing was easy about getting that thing apart, but those gears are still in pretty nice condition.

[@davidoverall8060]

Keep up the good work Beau. Love your subtle innuendo !!

[@charliemessenger6537]

Hold onto those bearing balls. Those are worth at least a tenner each in the gift shop. Have to recoup all those labor hours somehow.

[@laurisikio]

The germans from 1945 would be despirately collecting those bearing balls from the floor

[@gothinger]

I would pay 10$ for a genuine bearing ball from a german WW2 tank!

[@laurisikio]

I would pay 10€

[@chrisjordan4210]

Yep, probably made by slaves in an underground hell.

[@laurisikio]

That just gives extra emotional value

[@bryankennedy7123]

CLANG!!!!!!!! So satisfying.

[@ristretti]

Just a thought, would a big tank with Evoporust be an option? If you let the gearbox soak in there for a long time it could be easier going. Enjoying every episode! One of my favorite channels.

[@frankgaletzka8477]

Well done go on Looking forward what to come Take care Frank

[@danielringel4840]

Impressive work boys, big respect for your work on these ancient machines! Working on these housings, especially these big "Seegerings" may be a lot easier with plenty of oil, you could save some more rare parts with kinds of penetrating oil, as tolerances are really narrow! You can find similair fitments still in VW busses and beetle transmissions. Love your series, a pitty that I'm so far away from your fab museum! Keep Up your great Work!👍😊

[@outlawflyer7868]

Very cool work as always. Save the steel ball bearings and sell them. I want one! see about having some kind of laser engraving done on them like the front picture of this tank. You should soak that in Evapo-rust and then let it soak in penetrating oil.

[@g2macs]

It's funny but when I saw the ball bearings, I thought about all the attacks on the factories that produced them by the RAF and USAAF.

[@Absaalookemensch]

Is there Stug life after death? Thanks for filming this and restoring history.

[@charlesemerson6763]

Good on ya Beau. Perseverance pays off in the end.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Fantastic amazing work Beau !! Hope you got some ice on that hand you pounded ? Does this make you travel back in time as you see how they engineer their diff housings ?

[@nv1493]

The design of these tanks is fascinating.

[@darrentuer5378]

We need to unscrew this bit. Don't have a tool to do it ... lets just make one! That's awesome :) And hey, I enjoyed seeing that three jawed puller getting a chance again to prove itself! Top episode team.

[@hypercomms2001]

Amazing what you have achieved!

[@declanjoyce8640]

Mmm...that bath at the end could make some real nice Stug lll soup, with the right spices of course...and a few vegetables..

[@chrisnichols4962]

Beau has very interesting combination of surgical skills with a cutting torch and brut finesse with pry bars. Great fun to watch him work from half a world away. 👍

[@wolfganggugelweith8760]

Deutsche Wertarbeit! Jawoll! :=(. 😎👍🇦🇹🐺

[@keithgarland3404]

Hello. It's Wednesday again. No workshop Wednesday this week? Got to have my workshop fix.

[@Jeales12]

Be patient it's coming soon 😉

[@keithgarland3404]

@@Jeales12 cheers me dears. 😊

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

So, I take it you have documented all of your findings with each part of the Stug. Are these available to the general public?

[@yattaran1484]

Great content as always !. Is there any war time factory manual for the Stg ?. If such manual does exist, it helps your work a lot.🤔

[@Vosper385]

Not a moment too soon, my weekly fix of tank restoration. I was getting withdrawal symptoms! The Germans were well known for 'over engineering' their military equipment and you can see why. Great stuff as always, keep it up guys...

[@theonlymadmac4771]

Just copying the same tired old BS doesn’t make it true. It’s a STUG, no Tiger. What’s complicated here?

[@mr.m2556]

A AZ team thanks for another detailed episode. Cheers. Have you ever considered submerging the part and doing electrolysis to remove a bulk of the rust and to free up the internal parts for a easier breakdown of a seized part?

[@dnbeckmann]

Hope the hand is better! Brilliant job!

[@enriconapolitano4321]

Keep up the good work,

[@davidallen2058]

Cliffhanger!

[@ethanferguson1550]

Hey Aus Armour! Just wanted to say I love your videos and they are very informative and entertaining. I did want to say to be careful of those mushroomed punches/drifts/chisels I see scattered through your series! The striking head of the tool when it is the badly mushroomed can actually start sending tool steel-projectiles around the workshop that are super sharp and hold so much velocity!

[@paulpitcher790]

When removing isolator bushings like these, it's pretty simple to just burn the rubber out with a torch to liberate the outer steel sleeve. Then, for the inner sleeve, just score it lengthwise with a sharp cold chisel to stretch it, and it will slide right off the shaft. For many automotive applications, polygraphite replacement bushings require that you reuse the original steel sleeves. In that case, the inner shell is just left in place on the shaft. Not possible with this installation because the inner sleeve had to be removed to remove the shaft from the case.

[@GreenPlasticWaterCan]

Hey guys, Can I suggest a small pneumatic jack hammer? I've gotten great results getting stuck things unstuck with it. I'ts a bit noising but works like a charm. Just a quick buzz and the vibrations + heat make things come loose.

[@fabrice19701]

Waw very good work 👍👍👍

[@marybagg8569]

Hi guys ,just discovered you guys I love this sort of stuff really interesting,I have got a couple of bmw bikes, so I can see how you understand how good these things were put together,when you try to take them apart,carry on the good work ,, db from gb.

[@jdsstegman]

Bro, come worth of farm equipment in North Dakota. Or our rusty cars. You would get use to this!! Evapo rust is an amazing product! Used it many times. It works amazingly.