I really appreciate What Daryl and Jessie do . My Grandfather was a Blacksmith during the early part of WW2 making Bren Gun Carriers and can only imagine what he had to do in the Woodville Plant ( now a Bunnings )
Was thinking similar - haha - why I find myself going ahead 10 seconds at a time to quicken pace as the banging is just too much. Got me to thinking too - "passion" doesn't put food on the table - what kind of salary do these artist/fabricators draw? Great work on part of both the team and the video/editing/commentary team.
Thanks for a great channel, i look forward to every wednesday to see your solid work. Would it be possible to do a special episode where Kurt interviews everyone in the team? About their background, interest in military vehicles, how they got hired? There are probably many more questions to be asked, and i'm sure i'm not alone in wanting to see this. Greetings from Sweden 👋
I’ll tell you what, you are really presenting all this terrifically well. Each week we have just the right amount of commentary, variety, context, music etc. And each of these things is correct, not inane or comments out of place. It’s really well edited. Congratulations. 🙂.
Great job boys! That's the sort of sheet metalwork I used to love doing. I'd dearly love to spend a day belting the living daylights out of a bit of one of those boxes or wings!
I watch WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY! with my 10 year old daughter every week. When the music starts towards the end of the videos, you break her little heart Kurt. I just thought you should know. 🤣
Considering the original condition of the vehicle, you gents are doing a brilliant job. As are your filming and editing team. Thanks for sharing this project with us!
That was the fastest 22m video I've watched!! Time just flies when you have a video so interesting and with such craftsmanship. Well done guys, fantastic !!!!
Imagine my joy whenever I check my subscriptions and find a new video from my favorite gang! Thank you so much for all your hard work and perseverance, boys!
The old girl might have started out a French vehicle but with all those it becoming swiss very quickly..😁😁 Awesome work boys. This is reminding me of doing coach smash repair work back in the day.
Outstanding as near always.. love your passion anergy lads.. you so rock! AN a side note, I'm involved in a group called the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) here in the USA.. I'm told they're down there in Oz land too. A kind of live role play/recreationist group of a more idealized middle ages, and I have picked up so may tricks and tips on working metal that I am starting the process of making myself new armor. Mostly 16 gauge with some 14 gauge pieces over critical areas And no one one but you lads to blame to so very inspiring! Salude!
Some one needs to buy these boys some better sheet metal working tools (brakes, wheels, presses etc.) so they’re not just winging away with hammers and vises. It’s like watching cavemen build a spaceship.
I love and appreciate your work preserving history. The part I have to be wary of is remembering when I work on my hotrod steel that it is MUCH lighter. lolol Same principles work, I just need a softer touch as my car isn't armor. I need to visit Melbourne, you've given me a travel adjustment to head north also that journey. Thanks for a different view of Quality Work !
Your choice of music and the proper timing of inserting music is spot on sir. Each old military vehicle I restored was akin to resurrecting an old warrior to her original glory where they spend the rest of their years in parades and a nice garage.
Restoration of old items from my father's era is an honorable deed, guys, and I very much enjoy watching you restore these wasted tanks to their original conditions. Thank you.
I always hit the 'like' the second the video gets rolling! You know it's always going to be a ripper! It's great watching you guys bend and hammer and coax the metal back into line; your experience and understanding of this sort of work is amazing.
These vehicles are all over the globe, not just France. Maybe this is just an exercise to keep the boys busy? But the time and materials would literally be better spent on fixing an automobile and reselling it, lol. There’s no value in these hulks when you can still buy examples in good kit. It’s not a rare Nazi tank or something.
I have no doubt that there are a bunch of panhard parts in one or more locations, the vehicle were ubiquitous in many armed forces. PLUS, there are actual Pandhard EBR 90s FOR SALE in various recent auctions and such. So the entire project is a huge waste of time unless it’s being put down to training or something.
@DoctorShocktor or the museum can't afford to purchase more parts and have the shipped across the world. Do these guys even get paid or is it volunteer work
Hi guys, I own a William/Proto 3/4” drive torque wrench which I purchased for one of my last overhead cranes built for Kimberly Clark Paper Co. in 2011 I retired later that year. I wondering if you guys might have a use or need of this torque wrench? I paid $530.00US but I’d give it to Ausarmour if you’d pay for the shipping and handling fee plus any of costs involved to ship it to your facility. Keep up the fun work I always look forward to Wednesday lol. Wish your videos were longer. Dennis Peoples Mesa, Arizona
Kurt, because you are an over achiever, I have a challenge for you. A challenge I think every viewer and comments section reader will agree with. I challenge you to produce two videos per week. Now I don’t mean a full restoration vid and a shorter tank chat / walk around ( nothing wrong with those cause they’re awesome too). I mean two full length, restoration videos per week…….the Aus Armor loyal fan base knows you can rise to the occasion. And realistically, we’re only thinking of your success in exceeding your personal goals. I dare you to accept the challenge!
@The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum You guys could consider a collaboration with World of Tanks. Could bring in more viewers and some much-needed financial support.
In England we say “ You can’t make a Silk Purse from a Sows (female pig) ear. Describing making something beautiful from something ugly. But I’m real sure you boys would be able too. Amazing job guys. 😂😂
As my instructor used to say when I was an apprentice in HM Dockyard in the 50's 'Get a bigger effing hammer!' Seriously though, another great example of the work you guys do, and when she's done and painted she will look just like a bought one!👍
Hey guys if you are looking for a ford Canadian Britz there's a nice one down in Hastings metal recycling here in Victoria I posted a quick video on it on my channel if you want to have a quick look it's got no real rust in it I would have more in my old 75 series Landcruiser
Looking at this battle to panel beat some mud guards do you guys ever think "f#ck it" we should just manufacture some from scratch? Must be easier with modern machinery. Sure I know restoring originals is a worthwhile venture but some of the value for time seems poor. Nobody ever will know/care if a Panhard mud guard was original.
My Wednesday Aus armor fix ,I do look forward to Daryl and Jesse hammering this stuff back into condition again where it's presentable looking again good show mates
The workmanship all you fellas display is awe-inspiring. Most of this can't be taught from books or in a class. You're all star mechanics and engineers and it's a thrill watching you all work.
Yep, big hammers and gas burners, I love them. It's going to look beautiful again, those men are really good at what they do. please keep it up. Greetings from the Netherlands.
I know it's too late for this project but maybe you guys could use some of you considerable metalworking expertise to build a power triphammer to give poor Daryl's shoulders and elbows a break?
Once again, Daryl & Jessie are making believers out of us skeptics; they are both a couple of miracle workers. I'm starting to believe they could take a ball of aluminum foil and restore it back to a completely flat sheet!
Guys; the level of innovation and craftsmanship is really top-shelf. But there's more on display here and that's the heart that these tradesmen put into these frustrating projects. Australian talent on display (Many Thanks).
I bet ya: when the Panhards are nearly up and running a donor comes along with all the parts in perfect condition that Y´all tideously restored. That aside: if You love what You´re doing You don´t work a day in Your life. This shop is exactly that.
Looks like you lot might need to get or make your own version of an 'English wheel' which are used to create and repair body panels for more mundane, ordinary vehicles on various TH-cam channels!
It's French engineering...quite brilliant at times - but always so strange. The trouble is you guys aren't thinking French, go outside, take in the sun with a bottle of wine, and come back to it about 3 hours later.
amazing work as ever - one thing i enjoy doing is amusing myself at the thought processes that went into designing these machines, sometimes things seem just thrown together as they are purely functional - but i bet somewhere down the line when the wings were designed and assembled, some little French chap was saying No No No No, pretty curves added to flat square parts, a nightmare this kind of restoration really needs descent smaller modified presses with a foot controller and to include a head and foot stamp to press the indents back into shape, rather than just beating seven bales for hours with a large hammer - still very impressive, the old army motto, make do and overcome works just as well, sometimes quicker, sometimes longer but still guaranteed the job gets done either way
You know your a dad in 2023 when you watch a blacksmith smack the s%/t out of stuff on your phone then realise you have headphones and don't want to wake up the misses and kids
Hey if your looking for two WW2 radial tank engines that are running there are two for sale in Washington state on face book market place. Let me know and I might be able to link y’all up.
Surprised the press wasn't used to help getting things back into shape. At work we got some lifting brackets made out of thick stainless sheet that sometimes bend a lot if not getting placed right in the machinery. I have found it's much easier to use the press and some clever placed bricks, than trying to get them back into right shape on a table with wise and big hammers.
I thought he would just have gouged out the broken eye and replaced it. I know it would have been a little harder to form but then the seam weld onto the chassis could have crossed the join leaving you with a much stronger eye. Loving the panel beating though.
It honestly looks like you're making more work Frankensteining rather than take measurements and building new storage boxes and only keeing original fronts.
I can only imagine the sheer satisfaction of beating the hell out of a piece of scrap metal and return it to what it once was! Awesome as usual boys!👍🇦🇺
I have a mate who always says you can’t make raspberry jam out of pig sh!t but you guys prove him wrong time after time. Incredible work 👍🏻🇦🇺
😂
chicken soup from chicken shit :D
I have literally doubled the price of a vehicle by way of a Dulux rebuild. I used to call it turning a sows ear into a silk purse.
Now! that's what you call panel beating 👍
That’s some mighty fine panel work there team, great progress
I am amazed that these guys can take old junk and turn it into something that looks great.
Absolutely 💯 phenomenal work gentlemen! 👍. A tip of the hat to you from Sunny Florida in the USA. Cheers and all the best.
These blokes are in the Aussie equivalent of Florida, cairns,far north Queensland.
well done
Looks like some hard core body work going on with this tank. I could watch these type videos all day long. Bravo guys, Bravo!
Well now I wonder if Daryl has ever considered becoming a drummer in a heavy metal band?
From scrap metal to fenders and storage boxes. Daryl and Jesse are true craftsmen! Your work always amazes me!!!!
I really appreciate What Daryl and Jessie do . My Grandfather was a Blacksmith during the early part of WW2 making Bren Gun Carriers and can only imagine what he had to do in the Woodville Plant ( now a Bunnings )
So now we get Panhard EBR and Stug III G alternately each week?
I think there is a competition who can make more hammering noise than the other. :)
Always an outstanding video and presentation.
Was thinking similar - haha - why I find myself going ahead 10 seconds at a time to quicken pace as the banging is just too much.
Got me to thinking too - "passion" doesn't put food on the table - what kind of salary do these artist/fabricators draw?
Great work on part of both the team and the video/editing/commentary team.
what youre hearing is the mating call of the elusive "gearheadicus mechanicus" in its natural habitat.
They don't call it "panel beating" for no reason.
Haha
Only bad thing about this channel is we got to wait a week for a new episode 😢
Keep up the good work mates!!
Thanks for a great channel, i look forward to every wednesday to see your solid work.
Would it be possible to do a special episode where Kurt interviews everyone in the team? About their background, interest in military vehicles, how they got hired? There are probably many more questions to be asked, and i'm sure i'm not alone in wanting to see this.
Greetings from Sweden 👋
I’ll tell you what, you are really presenting all this terrifically well. Each week we have just the right amount of commentary, variety, context, music etc. And each of these things is correct, not inane or comments out of place. It’s really well edited. Congratulations. 🙂.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos and to see your latest endeavours. Thanks
Great job boys! That's the sort of sheet metalwork I used to love doing. I'd dearly love to spend a day belting the living daylights out of a bit of one of those boxes or wings!
I watch WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY! with my 10 year old daughter every week. When the music starts towards the end of the videos, you break her little heart Kurt.
I just thought you should know. 🤣
Outstanding work gents, as always.
The old saying in action, a light heart and a heavy hammer.
Great work guys. Always impressed
Considering the original condition of the vehicle, you gents are doing a brilliant job. As are your filming and editing team. Thanks for sharing this project with us!
That was the fastest 22m video I've watched!! Time just flies when you have a video so interesting and with such craftsmanship. Well done guys, fantastic !!!!
Amazing patience these engineers show here. Dressmaking with sheet steel ! Another super video !
Imagine my joy whenever I check my subscriptions and find a new video from my favorite gang! Thank you so much for all your hard work and perseverance, boys!
The old girl might have started out a French vehicle but with all those it becoming swiss very quickly..😁😁
Awesome work boys.
This is reminding me of doing coach smash repair work back in the day.
The guys must have the greatest job of all times...
Outstanding as near always.. love your passion anergy lads.. you so rock! AN a side note, I'm involved in a group called the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) here in the USA.. I'm told they're down there in Oz land too. A kind of live role play/recreationist group of a more idealized middle ages, and I have picked up so may tricks and tips on working metal that I am starting the process of making myself new armor. Mostly 16 gauge with some 14 gauge pieces over critical areas And no one one but you lads to blame to so very inspiring! Salude!
A ton of hard work and creativity goes into restoring these old range wrecks. Well done guys.
In the 57 years I've been repairing things I've learned more when the job was difficult than I did when the job was easy.
Some one needs to buy these boys some better sheet metal working tools (brakes, wheels, presses etc.) so they’re not just winging away with hammers and vises. It’s like watching cavemen build a spaceship.
This Panhard is exactly like 99% of cars in french streets. Restoring its panels decrease authenticity 😁
I love and appreciate your work preserving history. The part I have to be wary of is remembering when I work on my hotrod steel that it is MUCH lighter. lolol Same principles work, I just need a softer touch as my car isn't armor. I need to visit Melbourne, you've given me a travel adjustment to head north also that journey. Thanks for a different view of Quality Work !
They’re not panel beating any armor, lol. This is just thicker sheet metal than your average car, it’s still just stamped.
why dont you use power hammers, air hammers and the press? you can even make wooden templates. a porta press would also be useful.
Great job guys !!!
Great to see you using proper PPE and guards on the angle grinders. Rule modelling the right behaviours to your viewers! Great work guys!
Your choice of music and the proper timing of inserting music is spot on sir.
Each old military vehicle I restored was akin to resurrecting an old warrior to her original glory where they spend the rest of their years in parades and a nice garage.
Pure dedication and passion in these guys work. Love it.
Restoration of old items from my father's era is an honorable deed, guys, and I very much enjoy watching you restore these wasted tanks to their original conditions. Thank you.
Watching Daryl beat the crap out of that mud guard was the highlight of my week. 👍
Anything that involves working with metal are my favourite videos.
Lots of hard work
Good to see
fantastic work... really shows what a struggle it is to work with that thicker metal!
You don’t use the press brake for squishing? It is great and flattening stuff. I’ve had amazing results with one :o)
A free set of earplugs with every issue 😬
Impressionnant 💪 bon courage a vous 😉 je suis impatient de le voir fini 👍
I always hit the 'like' the second the video gets rolling! You know it's always going to be a ripper!
It's great watching you guys bend and hammer and coax the metal back into line; your experience and understanding of this sort of work is amazing.
It's a shame all this work In France there are still some in better condition....
These vehicles are all over the globe, not just France. Maybe this is just an exercise to keep the boys busy? But the time and materials would literally be better spent on fixing an automobile and reselling it, lol. There’s no value in these hulks when you can still buy examples in good kit. It’s not a rare Nazi tank or something.
Good way to relieve any frustrations or brighten up a bad day - hit stuff !
Bring on the Ha-go!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! bangbangbangbangbangbang BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! - just wanting to do my part. :)
If the French Army still has some mudguards and storage boxes in a warehouse, how annoyed will the boys be?
I have no doubt that there are a bunch of panhard parts in one or more locations, the vehicle were ubiquitous in many armed forces. PLUS, there are actual Pandhard EBR 90s FOR SALE in various recent auctions and such. So the entire project is a huge waste of time unless it’s being put down to training or something.
@DoctorShocktor or the museum can't afford to purchase more parts and have the shipped across the world. Do these guys even get paid or is it volunteer work
Frankenpanhard..."It's alive!"
Michaelangelo with wirefeed indeed...!
Hi guys, I own a William/Proto 3/4” drive torque wrench which I purchased for one of my last overhead cranes built for Kimberly Clark Paper Co. in 2011 I retired later that year. I wondering if you guys might have a use or need of this torque wrench? I paid $530.00US but I’d give it to Ausarmour if you’d pay for the shipping and handling fee plus any of costs involved to ship it to your facility. Keep up the fun work I always look forward to Wednesday lol. Wish your videos were longer.
Dennis Peoples
Mesa, Arizona
Kurt, because you are an over achiever, I have a challenge for you. A challenge I think every viewer and comments section reader will agree with. I challenge you to produce two videos per week. Now I don’t mean a full restoration vid and a shorter tank chat / walk around ( nothing wrong with those cause they’re awesome too). I mean two full length, restoration videos per week…….the Aus Armor loyal fan base knows you can rise to the occasion. And realistically, we’re only thinking of your success in exceeding your personal goals. I dare you to accept the challenge!
@The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum You guys could consider a collaboration with World of Tanks. Could bring in more viewers and some much-needed financial support.
In England we say “ You can’t make a Silk Purse from a Sows (female pig) ear. Describing making something beautiful from something ugly. But I’m real sure you boys would be able too. Amazing job guys. 😂😂
Awesome work !!!
As my instructor used to say when I was an apprentice in HM Dockyard in the 50's 'Get a bigger effing hammer!' Seriously though, another great example of the work you guys do, and when she's done and painted she will look just like a bought one!👍
The work looks great! Hope you boys are enjoying doing it, I sure as well would . Keep at it,,,,Izzy Strong,,,,,
Hey guys if you are looking for a ford Canadian Britz there's a nice one down in Hastings metal recycling here in Victoria I posted a quick video on it on my channel if you want to have a quick look it's got no real rust in it I would have more in my old 75 series Landcruiser
I hope that lifting eye is marked "no lift" cosmetics is good but also a trap for the unexpected
Looking at this battle to panel beat some mud guards do you guys ever think "f#ck it" we should just manufacture some from scratch? Must be easier with modern machinery. Sure I know restoring originals is a worthwhile venture but some of the value for time seems poor. Nobody ever will know/care if a Panhard mud guard was original.
My Wednesday Aus armor fix ,I do look forward to Daryl and Jesse hammering this stuff back into condition again where it's presentable looking again good show mates
C'est un Panhard EBR qui a transporté la dépouille du Général de Gaulle.
The workmanship all you fellas display is awe-inspiring. Most of this can't be taught from books or in a class. You're all star mechanics and engineers and it's a thrill watching you all work.
Yep, big hammers and gas burners, I love them. It's going to look beautiful again, those men are really good at what they do. please keep it up.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
I know it's too late for this project but maybe you guys could use some of you considerable metalworking expertise to build a power triphammer to give poor Daryl's shoulders and elbows a break?
Once again, Daryl & Jessie are making believers out of us skeptics; they are both a couple of miracle workers. I'm starting to believe they could take a ball of aluminum foil and restore it back to a completely flat sheet!
Wow heavy metal music to my ears chums. Keep up the GREAT WORK lads!!!
Guys; the level of innovation and craftsmanship is really top-shelf. But there's more on display here and that's the heart that these tradesmen put into these frustrating projects. Australian talent on display (Many Thanks).
I bet ya: when the Panhards are nearly up and running a donor comes along with all the parts in perfect condition that Y´all tideously restored.
That aside: if You love what You´re doing You don´t work a day in Your life. This shop is exactly that.
Looks like you lot might need to get or make your own version of an 'English wheel' which are used to create and repair body panels for more mundane, ordinary vehicles on various TH-cam channels!
It's French engineering...quite brilliant at times - but always so strange. The trouble is you guys aren't thinking French, go outside, take in the sun with a bottle of wine, and come back to it about 3 hours later.
Do you check if Chrome-6 containing paint was used before heating of sanding?
"Check twice, cut once"
But we all know the reality. Half-assed measure once, stuff it up and then throw the hammer.
What you guys need is some sort of hydraulic press to help with reshaping and straightening that thick sheet metal !!! Keep up the amazing work 👍👍👍👍
Ear protection when hammering is very important, those sound waves will reach up to 90 db in peaks, not good for the human hearing long term.
Would love to know how the original French mechanics repaired these after damage in the field.
amazing work as ever - one thing i enjoy doing is amusing myself at the thought processes that went into designing these machines, sometimes things seem just thrown together as they are purely functional - but i bet somewhere down the line when the wings were designed and assembled, some little French chap was saying No No No No, pretty curves added to flat square parts, a nightmare
this kind of restoration really needs descent smaller modified presses with a foot controller and to include a head and foot stamp to press the indents back into shape, rather than just beating seven bales for hours with a large hammer - still very impressive, the old army motto, make do and overcome works just as well, sometimes quicker, sometimes longer but still guaranteed the job gets done either way
❤❤
Excellent work. Tedious but important.
I know what an English wheel is, I guess an Aussie wheel is a 5 pound sledge hammer! ;) Great work guys.
I imagine you don't get Too much of that weight sheet.
Looks like a fly press or drop hammer would help.
You know your a dad in 2023 when you watch a blacksmith smack the s%/t out of stuff on your phone then realise you have headphones and don't want to wake up the misses and kids
All things considered they did a superb job, I was wondering if a shot bag might help in certain situations.
Hey if your looking for two WW2 radial tank engines that are running there are two for sale in Washington state on face book market place. Let me know and I might be able to link y’all up.
I just thought of a sign to hang in the shop: “IF YOU CAN’T BEAT IT - HEAT IT”
Dear God, that is one hell of a lot of work. Impressive skills, patience, and determination!
Surprised the press wasn't used to help getting things back into shape. At work we got some lifting brackets made out of thick stainless sheet that sometimes bend a lot if not getting placed right in the machinery. I have found it's much easier to use the press and some clever placed bricks, than trying to get them back into right shape on a table with wise and big hammers.
I thought he would just have gouged out the broken eye and replaced it. I know it would have been a little harder to form but then the seam weld onto the chassis could have crossed the join leaving you with a much stronger eye. Loving the panel beating though.
Daryl, you mudgaurd basher. Does that mean this is work place abuse?
Thanks for slowing down Daryl's hammering so we could see it.
It honestly looks like you're making more work Frankensteining rather than take measurements and building new storage boxes and only keeing original fronts.
Where would Australia/Cairns be without Steel Toe boots and Blue Stubbies :)
Man, that is some of the toughest work I've seen. I'm really impressed!
you are all madlads and it is just so impressive how you can improvise to fix the heavily crippled state of the Ebr y'all awesome
Hate to say it, but I don't find this vehicle interesting at all. But still love watching the craftsmanship
Spotted a 500lb GP sitting on a pallet in the background.
I didn’t think that EBRs are so lean on the ground that this is the best example you could find.
I can only imagine the sheer satisfaction of beating the hell out of a piece of scrap metal and return it to what it once was! Awesome as usual boys!👍🇦🇺