Workshop Wednesday - STUG III G RESTORATION Ep. 12
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- Dismantle the Diff Housing! ⚙️🏘️
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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 ?
Historic when you consider the bombing effort to stop those bearings being made.
That Sir is an outstanding idea.
I’d buy some for sure
Great idea mount on a plaque with inscription.
Great idea but imagine the shipping cost. And having to package all the pieces as well
Who knew it would be so satisfying to watch a rusty nut get unscrewed? Keep up the good work, boys!
@YT 🤣😂
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.
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!!!!!!
Switzerland stepped in with a few.
Ditto Tetra Ethyl Lead!
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.
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 😮
Great episode. What a battle, I nearly passed out when that diff housing plate fell on to the concrete. Great work Beau
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.
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.
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.
Much German stuff was.
@@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.
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.
The germans from 1945 would be despirately collecting those bearing balls from the floor
I would pay 10$ for a genuine bearing ball from a german WW2 tank!
I would pay 10€
Yep, probably made by slaves in an underground hell.
That just gives extra emotional value
Ok, maybe that water pump replacement on the wifes Golf the other day wasn’t that bad.
Sometimes you just need some perspective.
3 questions:
1. I'm guessing you have no drawings for this piece so you can see how it is put together?
2. Is there a reason you don't use something like WD40 to loosen stuck parts?
3. 5 hours and Beau asked is it 11. You start work at 6 AM?
North Queensland is tropical, gets hot and humid. Start early, finish early.
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.
I even had them on the axles of a 1970 Dodge Power Wagon. It was the first time I had ever seen them.
For a collector you should sell the ball baring's from the Stug III to help in the restoration.
Great job! I watched it twice. I would love to buy one of the original bearings!
me too
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!
Documenting your work like this will be invaluable not only for purely educational purposes but as reference for any similar restorations in the future.
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.
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.
Wondering if tossing the whole thing in a bon fire would have made it easier 👍👍
those gears are in great condition, you should make a mould of everything inside the houseing, and cast spares,or better yet, sell them 👍👍👍
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..
Maybe you could chuck these bits into a large drum of penetrative oil about a month ahead of working on them....maybe this could help???.
I will never complain about changing the clutch on my car again! Keep up the good work 👍
Superb video great craftsmanship !
You should keep the ball bearings , Schweinfurt raid , aug 17, 1943.
Outstanding video and presentation.
All in a days work for a Heavy Equipment Mechanic..except the stuff you work on is waaaaaaaaaaaaay cooler 😎
Cliffhanger!
Nothing was easy about getting that thing apart, but those gears are still in pretty nice condition.
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!!!
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!
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. 😎
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
talk about perseverance! even had a haircut half way through because it took so long ;)
part mechanic part archeologist. Looking forward to the next episode!
8:00 You should use a Hakenschlüssel (hook spanner, C-wrench) and not a stoneage tool.
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
You blokes need to learn some German swear words. That’s what’s required.
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.
there is alot of wear on the sharfts and splines inside the gears. of coarse this can all be copied . but id say that the gear box has alot of miles on it (in tank terms).
Please don't tell me I am the only one who thinks Beau is adorable?
..... ya, didn't think so 🙃
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.🤔
6:57 If metal expands when heated, would heating the pin not just make it more stuck? Why not heat the part its pressed into?
It was probably completely rusted shut.
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.
It takes real attention to detail, and craftsmanship to disassemble something this far gone and still have usable parts.
Amazing work, Beau!
Is there Stug life after death?
Thanks for filming this and restoring history.
Wonderful work! Coming along great. Amazing how you work thru this to get it apart!
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.
Deutsche Wertarbeit! Jawoll! :=(. 😎👍🇦🇹🐺
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.
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
The professional quality of these videos is exemplified by the skilled and relaxing voiceover as the work takes place.
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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.
Well it was built by slave labour, so yeah I expect you're right
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
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!
Great work. When you dropped the housing I was worried it may have cracked - so good to see disaster averted.
Highlight of my TH-cam week now. Many thanks for the fantastic videos from Belfast.
I feel a bit sorry for the bearings that was chopped in pieces but I think there was no way to extract it. Perhaps the best solution was putting the whole transmission in the acid solution and leave it for some days depending on the acidity of the solution. Perhaps the only drawback is that the rubber and normal gaskets will melt away. You guys are always doing an excellent job 👍 👏 👍
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.
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 ?
I love to see Kurt's armour like the helical gear 🤩💗
Great job, guys!!! All your projects is fantastic. I’m looking with interest. 👍👍👍
Great and interesting update and hard work from Beau. Thank you for sharing.
That was a lot of hard work guys. I guess Beau’s ‘a bit of oil -she’ll be right’ approach didn’t work after all on this one. Hard work paid off though, and I am looking forward to the next episode in the Stug’s journey back to life.
As Always….great job and keep the videos coming!!👍😁
Good fun! 🙂 Nic work guys.
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
Great Work, greeting from Germany,
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.
Beau is a great mechanic, it takes a team to run the whole show thank you all.
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
Every Wednesday feels like Christmas when you post a new video.
Great work guys!!👍
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!
Hello. It's Wednesday again. No workshop Wednesday this week? Got to have my workshop fix.
Be patient it's coming soon 😉
@@Jeales12 cheers me dears. 😊
Outstanding job. I look forward to your weekly updates.
Another great job. To think what mechanics had to do in the field at times.
Absolutely brilliant. Beau has so much patience in working things out. Amazing.
After the Acid, soak it in Diesel.
Huge respect folks! Absolutely fantastic job. Keep going!
wow! this was a crazy episode. great work by Beau.
Thanks guys - loving it!
Great work guys , always look forward to seeing your progress 👍
I never thought I’d be so fascinated with watching someone removing rusty gears. Great work 👍🏻🇦🇺
Enjoy as usual can't wait for the shoot bit
Great stuff, keep it up👍
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Just out of curiosity, are you in contact with the DPM ("Deutsches Panzer Museum") in Munster, Germany?
Aren't German (ex-)tank manufacturers (I'd guess a majority of them are still in business) interested in supporting you??
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
The nut and washer lock aren't over-engineered, not really, it's a common feature. In that time's world, there's way more overly done solutions, like split nuts with tightening threads, nuts with pin threads, nuts with tapered collars (with matching tapered sections on the shaft), nuts with slide cages (tho, those wouldn't fit in this application) and quite a few more. As solutions go, this one is actually simpler to make than a castellated nut for a split pin... you only stamp 5000 washers and put the shaft through a mill at the end of production. It's really the simplest of methods. They didn't have (not in the same style, there were some rubber type ones, but according to early 1900's automobile magazines they weren't that good) Nyloc nuts like we do today or thread glues.
Ever hear of WD 40 ? would of saved that rubber. I don't know just saying.
I understand not wanting to torch the part after lubing it for toxic smoke.
One more thing, why dont you soke the parts in 40/60 vinegar and water first ?
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.
This is just your everyday restoration of most WW2 vehicles...rust, crust and rot. This Stug is actually in pristine condition compared to my 1942 Dodge WC-51 Weapons Carrier.
Is Beau aware of 'posi-lock' brand bearing pullers?
Having experienced the same deficiency with bearing pullers while restoring old, badly neglected/deteriorated machinery myself and also watched other blokes do so as well, I reckon the design might be just what is needed.
Please use "Kriechöl" (Sorry for the German word, but TH-cam does not like the Englisch translation for this type of oil) and disassembling of bolts and drive shafts is much easier!
I know this sounds simplistic, but I wonder why a new repro gearbox can't be constructed, and yeah, its like I suppose old style vw transaxles I've rebuilt or the newer german 80's to 90's manual gearbox transaxles, or the hot rodding I was involved with loosely and read about, where gears were turned out, aluminum housings cast, etc....I even looked into the possibility of repro the old style ww2 vw four wheel drive gearbox for a repro project I considered cause original is not to be had. Technically, I once had enough parts to build a repro kubelwagen, reduction boxes and everything, but eh, no use in bragging out my ideas and plans of projects I usually helped others complete instead. And yeah, those old ways of german over engineering, that could be simplified, as everyone already knows. I mean, I am not a mechanical engineer of course, so what do I really know.
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.
You do reaize, each one of those ball bearings are a lucky charm. They survived the Allied bombings of the ball bearing plants by the 8th Air Force!
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.
Love your channel. I'm wondering why parts seem to be heated with little regard for expansion. Why would you guys heat the shaft when trying to remove the helical gear? I keep seeing this. You guys built a tool to remove a cap but then heated the cap. That only makes it bigger. What am I missing?
There is stuff. Alex WD 40 it was invented about 30 year ago and another thing called oil which is about a 120 years old just a tip which maybe useful to loosen things up ?
Bo is super
"Industrial Fallout Solution"? Hmm, seems legit.
You should sell those bearing remains in the gift shop. I bet people would buy them. Put 'em in a little bag and have Beau sign the tag.