1930s Triang clockwork Tiger Tank restoration. A scarce vintage toy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- My restoration video of this rusty old 1930s clockwork tiger tank toy made by Triang Lines Brothers.
This was quite a challenge rusted inside and out with a seized mechanism so I set about stripping it down and de rusting all the components using electrolysis ready for re spraying, the clockwork components were de rusted and cold blued and the cog frame nickel plated.
New square axels cut and soldered to look like the original hammered ends
Then finally new silicone tracks were made using a wooden and plastic mould, these prove to be really effective when it came to the final testing with the tiger tank easily navigating obstacles.
All in all a very enjoyable restoration project.
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Disassembly
08:27 - Rust Removal
09:33 - Filling and Spraying
11:15 - Cold Blueing Nickel Plating
12:32 - Reassembling
20:57 - Making Tracks
25:24 - Special Operations
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Great video, loved the rubber tracks you made. Fabulous restoration 😊
Thanks for the comment, I enjoyed making the tracks, wasn’t Sure how they would turn out but was really pleased in the end.
Very impressive restoration - particularly liked your inventiveness with the tracks construction.
Thank you
after a little trial And error the tracks turned out good.
Rich
The stop-motion animation at the beginning was really clever.
I have seen a few examples of these pre-WW II toy tanks, and they are surprisingly realistic as compared to contemporary designs of the actually vehicles.
Thanks. Enjoy doing the stop motion. Agree with your comment about the realistic designs, love some of these old tin toys.
Innovative and very clever problem solving!
Thanks for the comment James, it was a challenge at times.
Brilliant Restoration
Thank you
Brilliant! Great restoration. The track design was superb.
Can’t wait for the next one!
Thanks Josh. Was very happy with the tracks. More videos coming soon
That's a great thing you've done m8. What a brilliant toy! Nice one buddy!
Agree some of the old toys are fantastic. Thanks
as lagartas de silicone renderam o like e a inscrição!
LOVE the intro
Thanks
enjoyed making the intro
It looks great and you did a wonderful job restoring it as well!!!!
I enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you for the comment and the 👍
Excellent and entertaining. Well done.
Thank you very much and thanks for the comment.
Rich
This is the coolest thing I have seen in quite a while. Great Job, especially the tracks....just genius. I could watch that tank go over obstacles all day. Hey, I'm retired, what can I say. The body reminds me of the 3D metal models that I build with all the tabs and slots but, yours is on a much larger scale. I've done quite a few tanks also.
Great thanks a lot I’m glad you enjoyed the video, was going to do some more obstacles but decided the video was getting a bit long.
Thanks for the comment and enjoy your retirement.
Rich
Great job, especially on the treads. Keep 'em coming!
Thanks, will do!
Beautiful restoration 😊
Thank you
Very impressive how you not only restored the toy tank but also made new tank threads for it. It looks much better and it works like a charm too. Excellent work I must say.
Thank you very much
Nicely done Sir!
Imagine the kid who got that as a present all those years ago, and how excited they would have been.
ManyThanks,
And yes this would have been an awesome toy in the 30s.
WOW FANTASTIC.......❤
Hello again and Thank you! Hope all is going good.
Rich
Something about seeing an old toy being respectfully restored.
Good old times when your imagination powered it.
Yeah good times had as a kid
Thanks
Rich
Красивая игрушка. Танк постапокалипсиса. Можно мультфильм снять.
Thanks enjoyed the project
Excellent work in restoring this vintage toy especially with making new caterpillar tracks...I love how it even sounds like a tank with that wind up motor. 😎
Thanks very much for the visit, and yes the clockwork makes a nice noise.
it has a beautiful sound
Yeah nice sound would have been an amazing toy in the 1930s
@@recollectable4258 many overlook the sound of things but they find their way inside your brain and memory ;) they are part of the "magic"
Very good work and what an awesome job on the tracks!
Glad you enjoy it!, was really pleased with the tracks and how they performed.
Amazing work!!
Many thanks
Excellent!
Many thanks!
💥EXCELLENT!💥
💥 thanks very much was a fun project.
Brilliant! Many thanks. Tom (from France)
Hello Tom. And thanks for the comment hope you enjoyed it.
Rich UK
Th
e tracks is what impressed me the most.
Thanks
Nice restoration of this old toy! A bit of a weird design but even by the 1930s most militaries didn't know what the most effective tank design could or should be. And I guess for the child playing with it, it didnt matter.
The tank is looking brand new. I couldn't have done this myself I would have thrown it away. Thank you for saving this toy!
Yes there was some random designs on very early tanks. interesting to see some of them.
Thanks for the comment
I was amazed, the result is fantastic, thank you😊
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it.
I loved your display of editing skills for the stop motion, made an awesome video even better
Thank you so much glad you enjoyed it
Cheers
Rich
Beautiful job, I'm thinking that one advantage these old toys have for restoration is that the metal is thick and soft making the tabs less likely to break.
You’re right, Triang toys in particular have very thick metal not sure if the tabs would take a second straiten and bend though.
I have had them brake before, very frustrating when your finished with spraying or the item is litho printed.
Thanks
Rich
It's a pretty cool toy. As a kid in the 70s I would have loved to find something like this is my christmas stocking.
Yes we really appreciated our toys back in the 70s
Thanks for the comment
Rich
You dismantled that like you were diffusing a bomb
😀 the spring was like a bomb
“It was dark all around, there was frost in the ground”,
“When the tigers broke free”
👍 Great Band
Awesome job ! Loved how you made new tracks
Thanks was really pleased how they turned out
Thanks
Rich
This was one of the old-timer iron toys that I never found featured on the Chip channel. It's an old-timer combat tank that uses no treads. On 2nd thought, was it supposed to have combat tank treads? It's definitely not a combat tank of the future. 🍟 🍪 🍟
Hi yes this was originally made with rubber tracks but most have not survived. in fact I’ve only seen one or two with the original tracks,
And you’re right they won’t be modelling future tanks on this design.
Cheers
Всё железный капут готов 😊😊
Yea it lives again 👍
nice
Thanks for viewing
Increible
Thanks a lot 👍
That introduction was awesome...lol
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for the comments
Rich
@@recollectable4258 no problem, thanks for the video
Good restoration well done nice job!
Seeing as the Tiger I tank didnt appear until 1942, I would guess that the Tri-Ang tank is late 40's rather than 1930's as you suggest.
Not sure on www.triang.nl/earlymodels.htm it list as 1930 - 37
@@recollectable4258 Okay thanks. But how could they name it after a Tiger tank when Tigers didn't appear until 1942 is all I'm saying. The bottom tank in the link looks like a Sherman. Well, Shermans were not developed until 1940-41. Naaah, Tri-Ang have guessed the age of the model!
Surely the point is that Triang simply happened to call their toy tank a 'Tiger'- not that it had anything to do with the German wartime tank of the same name...
a tank turret from The Mind of Minolta.
Thanks for the comment, but sorry I don’t understand it 😀
@@recollectable4258 - your edit showed the turret turning on it's own, a mind of its own. i very much enjoyed your restoration process.
Pew bang cool beans!!!
Top comment 😀 cheers
I do Marine repair and restore Muscle cars from one professional to another you knocked this out of the park wow blown away with the time you spent making the tracks very well done. I do have a question though I studied a little on clock repair and you always put a tiny bit of lubricant on the pivots for the mechanism I was wondering why you left most of it un lubricated? I am not knocking the restoration at all just a question why you left most of the pivots dry . Thank you for the video love it
Hi mad man mechanic thanks for the comment, it was an enjoyable project, what a job you have doing muscle cars must be great 👍
With regards to the pivots I definitely remember clock oiling them but with several hours of filming it will of got edited out.
Thanks
Rich
@@recollectable4258That is cool dude ! I am in the process of restoring and old school American made Solvent tank its going to be nut n bolt restoration all new wiring lights , pump switches . and paint its built like a German Panzer really thick gauge American made steel . I had it out in the yard for the last 20 years just kept putting on the back burner. I looked on You tube the only videos you can find are Harbor Freight up grades there are no total restorations of American Made Solvent tanks. I think mine might be the only one. I have no clue what the hell I am doing never done this before. I am going to put in a Canister style fuel filter to filter the solvent on the side of the tank I have the filter ordered and on the way. But I have been videoing and it going to go on my New You tube Channel I started last year. Since you are old school like me thought you might be interested. Have a good one dude keep up the good work Roger🙂
Would be great to see that what’s you channel called I’ll give you a subscribe 👍
Hey, cool vid.
I know on live auctioneers website they call this a tiger tank in quotations. My guess is you took your info from them, and that they used the term tiger as clickbait. The actual German Tiger tank was not in use until 1942 and is a massive scary beast. Unlike this obviously inter war baby. Not a Tiger.
Hi thanks for the comment
Who knows, I get the information off Triang website www.triang.nl/earlymodels.htm. Also If you also check the video at around 9.08 mins it has Triang tiger tank pressed into the metal, but at the end of the day it’s only a toy.
Rich.
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Thanks
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Thanks 👍👍👍
When media blasting do you adjust the air pressure according to the material you're blasting? Or do you just change the media you use?
I usually use glass bead find this great for most of my projects as it produces less dust. If something is really thick painted I might change to a coarse material. With regards to the pressure I tend to leave the same but will adjust the distance of the gun from the item to suit.
Beautifull, what is the polymere you use to rebuild the track?
Thanks for your comment, 1 used Liquid silicone rubber just add activator and it goes off in about 24 hours 👍
Hi. Watching the hands with their ten articulating digits, five on each articulating arm, dismantle the intricate toy tank device, supports my long-held belief that aliens have to process equivalent physical attributes to have built their multi-faceted space crafts. The universe follows universal laws of matter. Electricity, for example, has to be harnessed the same way as it is today. This requires intricate construction. So a fat blob of alien being and a inter-planetary space craft are antithetical. Thank you. Good video.
Sorry for asking, what antithetical means?
Wow that made me chuckle
Thanks for the watch and comment
Pelo barulho no começo do vídeo
Yes the start was is a bit noisy
Do you think you could go a little slower?
Indeed this is slow, but watch it at 1.5X speed. It works well.
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uau, isso é um grande elogio. Obrigado e tudo de melhor
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Sorry I can’t help on this one, hope you can sort it out, I’ll keep an eye out for your videos.
@@recollectable4258 That I dont know not sure I posted my first video about 11 months ago I think my SEO is buried . But what was weird about 5 months ago talking to a dude in Star bucks I gave him my user name get went in on his phone and my channel popped right up . Now it wont. I did go on TH-cam site and pushed in my user name but had to scroll down through the guy in UK but it finally did pop up. It has to be some setting . Maybe I pushed a wrong button . Thanks any way man
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Many a strange toy in those days. But interesting to see now
@@recollectable4258 Это да. Танк на гусеницах, да ещё и самодвижущийся! Хотя если посмотреть на современные игрушки - гораздо больше всякого странного )
In some cases I agree that restoring an antique toy would be of interest. However in this case you have destroyed the collectible value completely and ended up with a new/old toy. The cost of restoration rarely justifies the ends.
Hi
Yes in some cases I would agree, I have some items with beautiful patina I wouldn’t want to restore, some I show and others I intend to show on my channel, however in this case the item was rusted both inside and out totally seized and in my opinion was a good candidate to restore,
most collectors toys are in original condition and its always a matter of personal choice, to me it’s not always about value.
Thanks
Rich
To what end though? Why does everything have to be a collector piece? This is a toy. Before, it was junk. I would have sat on a shelf in some thrift store or been stored on a shelf with a million other worthless Knick-knacks ready to be carted off to the landfill the next time somebody is clearing house. Now, it’s ready to be properly displayed OR given a second life as a new toy again. Just because it’s not what YOU would do with it, does not mean it’s the wrong thing to do.
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