1940s Toy Tank Restoration [It Actually Fires!]
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Vintage firing gas cannon tank from the 1940s restoration.
Big Bang Motor Tank restoration. Made by Conestoga Toy Co. in the 1940s and 1950s, the "Big Bang Motor Tank" has a working gas cannon. The gun/cannon uses calcium carbide mixed with water to create acetylene gas. When sparked, it explodes with a Big Bang.
This tank is made by the same company, Conestoga Toy Co. that makes the Big Bang Cannon I restored. If you haven't seen that one, the video is here: • Restoration of 60 Year...
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I really enjoy the restoration video of the tank toy, very detailed and thorough, the equipment is complete, greetings are always healthy from Indonesia 🙏
Thanks for the demonstration of the cannon!
What kind of metal putty did you use to “spackle” the pitted metal surface?
Do you sell these things after you restore them? If so, how can we buy them?
I've never heard of doing something like that with carbide. Interesting some of the things they used to do with toys before people got this idea that everything had to be made of bubble wrap.
I like to imagine when he ordered the breech block, an alarm went off at their office and woke up some dude that's been sleeping in a chair for years all covered in cobwebs and dust
"MARTHA! we got an order! it's been 18 years, but gosh dangit i told you business is far from over!"
Martha - eye roll
I bought two cannons at an estate sale a few days ago, and went by their office yesterday to purchase a missing breech block on one of them. Very nice lady helped me. They ship daily and have many parts available, particularly expendables such as their calcium carbide. Amazing displays of their current and older models of cannons, tanks snd airplanes.
"Hey.. Bob.. I hear tanks are pretty popular with the kids right now.. Do we have a tank toy?"
"Nah, Jeff, we make toy race cars, remember?"
"Just stick two turrets on top of one, Bob."
I don't know, looks more like it was made by a company that designed boats. I mean, what's with the keel-thing on the front?
"As long as we make it out of heavy metals, lead paint and shoot fire right?"
The best holiday gift for your little warrior from Mainway Toys!
This is a very fine restoration; but, your fabrication skills are (for me) the real energy and talent....great job!
Thank you so much 😊
I have been deathly ill since the labor day weekend and your video put a huge smile on my face thank you
Hope you get well!
@@AcmeRestorations Thank you I just got my meds starting to slowing pull out of it knock on wood thank you again !
great job and thanks for going the extra and actually firing it :)
Yeah i would have been so mad if he didn't fire it XD
A dude like this was always going to fire it.
👍
It's not often I say this about toys...but holy crap that tank is gorgeous!!
Wow, thank you!
Okay, I gotta admit THIS is genuinely cool! Great job, and not to mention, getting the thing to fire using the original process -- awesome! Nice work.
Glad you liked it!
That looks like it would be a fun toy to have,,,very nice job on the restoration 😊
Back then they actually make FUN TOYS
I had one of these as a kid, only mine was a cannon. I loved playing with it. I tried finding another one but they are very rare. Nicely done with the resto. 👍
Here is my restoration last year of one of their cannons: ua-cam.com/video/vly_4LcIWGY/v-deo.html
They are still in business and still make them. Canastoga Toy Co.
I had two different size cannons! Had a lot of fun with them. Would only bring them out on the 4th and New Years
Mad respect for the new brass inserts for the wheels. Those look great.
Thanks!
Love the flames coming out of the main turret gun. Major cool toy! Wish I had one as a kid. All I had was a cannon that popped toy gun caps. It was loud but no flame.
Nothing brings out a child's imagination quite like a toy box filled with potential fire hazards.
I just found out the company still exists and makes these, beautiful restoration too!
Thank you.
@@AcmeRestorations You are welcome sir.
What's the name of the company?
@@gregwright392 Conestoga Toy Co. www.bigbangcannons.com/
👍 Danke fürs Hochladen!
👍 Thanks for uploading!
👍 Very good and beautiful, thank you!
👍 Sehr gut und schön, danke!
Absolutely fantastic Restoration !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Loved every minute of that. Well done
Great job on the restoration and fireing of this toy! Shows you the toys lasted so much longer..please keep them coming.
Thanks! Will do!
Well done, brilliant stuff! 👏👏👏
What a cool toy !
OMG, impresionant!
Beautiful toy.
Congratulations.
Regards from México.
Excellent restoration!
Beautiful job 💯💯💯👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I actually own a Big Bang Cannon. But I have never seen a model like that one. Nice refurbishing. Thumbs Up. Oh, and they are extremely loud as well.
Yes, these were only made for a a while back in the late 40s and the 50s. Although they do make an anniversary edition now that is made from bronze. VERY loud. The video doesn't really do it justice. Thanks for watching.
Wow great job guy. Amazing test.👍👍
Wow amazing 🌟!! Beautiful toy and perfect job 🙌
VERY NICE !
You never cease to amaze .... Your attention to detail and abilities are incredible 🤘😀
Thank you very much!
That is super cool
Nice restoration
Awesome!
Wow, a toy with real fire and chemicals, i want one
Awesome job you did fantastic 👍👍👍
Thank you 🤗
Back when toys were not only dangerous, but could light dad's cigar.
Heck of a nice job 👍🏻.
Great to see it back in the game :)
Some camouflage would have been good, but you have still done a great job friend, Stay Safe !!!.
I was thinking OD green, but i also respect that he tried to match original color. Makes it more of a restoration and less of a customization.
That is cool. Well done man.
So cool!!!
Very much Respect
AWESOME!!
Cool toy
Hermoso juguete y muy buena restauración ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Enjoyed the show
Thanks!
Your videos are amazing , true craftsmanship
Thank you very much!
Very nice restoration 😊
Thank you very much!
I really have been enjoying watching your videos! Honestly quite calming but most of all I am just so amazed at how good you are at what you do!
Thank you so much!
Ultimate lawnmower
A canales como estos hay que apoyar suscribiendose, buen trabajo
That is amazing, man the toys from the time of my parents, I played with my mom and uncles Michigan crane, dad still has it.
Restoration looks great 👍
Thanks 👍
I’m most certainly going to say I appreciate the whole fact you actually painted it over powder coating. These toys were never powder coated and it drives me bananas when I see others doing it. Personally I’m not a fan of how this genre has more or less went to powder coating everything. Beautiful restoration!
Thank you. I agree as well. I don't want to powder coat things that don't call for it. Also I never powder coat ductile metals.
Excellent
Thanks
I suppose the simple fact the drill press can go through those rubber wheels shows how old the tank is... try that with fresh rubber and there would have been smoke and an unhapy drill press hehehehe (great vid)
Excellent!!!I love your videos!!!
Thank you very much!
Great work mate
Amazing Stuff!
1940’s were a hell of a time where anything went apparently
In the 50's some company put out a Nuclear Laboratory Set with real Radio Active material in it.
@@geoh1896 you could get a toy ring that glowed in your cereal if you were lucky
@@DaleDix Yeah I remember we had an old watch in the junk drawer for years that glowed in the dark.
@@geoh1896 That was Gilbert. Gawd, I wish I'd had one!
Haha.... we used to find actual coin money in our lays potato chips at one point
Excellent restoration, looks like it's just come out of the box on Xmas Day.
Thanks. I was really pleased with how well it turned out.
This restoration is 'bang-on' !! ;-)
i love the thumbnail loop for this vid where its just endlessly pouring stuff into this thing xD
I wish UA-cam let me control that. Those are created by the UA-cam servers. Sometimes they are cool (usually they aren't). Thanks for watching.
12:28 that paintbrush was awesome!!
Nice restoration. Cool toy. Liked and subscribed.
Muy buen trabajo,....!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇦🇷🙋🏻♂️
These where the toys we wish we have today, back than you get toy tank that actually shoots, now it CocAMellOn
الله يسعدك اخي الفاضل
That’s a bad ass toy
Looks great and I really like it!!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you! Cheers!
Now that's a toy I want
It's cool
nice
Lovely restoration :-)
Many thanks!
Nice to see a Logan lathe being used.
Ive got two and they have been faultless for the last 30 years.
Thanks. I restored mine, but that was before I was doing videos. I'm the second owner of this one. Very light use by the previous owner. I think it was in storage for about the last 40 years. Got it for $300. One of my prized possessions. Thanks for watching!
@@AcmeRestorations love resto channels, Awesome Restorations,Odd Tinkering,Chip Channel, subbed to yours after 2 minutes 💯💯😀🤣✌🏼👍🏼💙💙 great job buddy 💙💙💙👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼💯💯💯 keep em comin💯💯✌🏼✌🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Very fitting for your channel name! Very nicely done!
Thank you very much!
I had a two wheel cannon of this type, which used Bangsite carbide granules. I believe that your breach block (sparking mechanism) is identical to the one on my cannon. Great restoration. I'll have to look about in my mothers attic next cool day I am at her house. I think it is still there.
I did a restoration of a Big Bang cannon last summer. Made the breech block from scratch, before I knew they still sold them. Thanks for watching.
Very cool toy well done.
Thank you 🤗
That’s neat.
???
cool
Świetna jest ta zrobiona robota pozdrawiam twórcę tego filmiku mile i serdecznie 👍👍👍👍
Very cool "toy" and great outcome.🙂
Thank you 🤗
@@AcmeRestorations
Welcome🙂
Love it. Only thing I'd have done differently is tap the body and turret and use grub screws instead of rivets to make taking it off and cleaning inside easier. But rivets obviously are more authentic. :)
Doesn't need to be taken apart. When used properly, you just rinse it with vinegar once in a while after use. Keeps it nice and clean.
Now this hearkens back to a time when toys were toys. American made. Real steel. Able to shoot white hot flames out the gun barrel. Kids today are missing out. 😢
Bonito juguete
Great work as always! What a terrifying 'toy'. 🧡
LOL. These are actually very safe. You can't set the ammo on fire. If you hit the ammo with a rock or hammer, nothing happens. If you add too much calcium carbide, it doesn't work as well. So kids had to really learn to dial in the right amount. Unlike caps and cap guns. Thanks for watching.
@@AcmeRestorations I still wouldn't want to have it facing the wrong way round! ❤
I guess you were never a small boy. If you were you'd understand that this is *exciting* and teaches kids to think about what they're doing. (Maybe after taking their eyebrows off a couple of times !) 😁
@@Kevin-mx1vi No i was never a small boy! Haha...but I can just imagine my brother pointing it me or a dog walking past! Not now... i mean when he was about 8 and i was 5 :) Yep, he'd have maximised its terror capabilities . That's small boys for you! Don't trust then with fire breathing tanks is my advice! ❤
@@-Deena. The flame video is kind of click-bait-ish ( I did that for effect). If you actually do it right, you get no flame but a larger bang. The trick is to get the mix of acetylene and oxygen right. These are actually pretty safe for kids. The calcium carbide is not flammable. It won't explode by itself. And, if you add a LOT more, it works worse than if you add just a little. Safer than caps guns for sure.
Can you imagine them making something like that for kids today?
Hahaha very cool!
Gostei 🇧🇷
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Me: hardly audible *sigh of relief*
Wow and you got that smooth of a finish using ground high speed steel lathe cutters? Thats impressive with a armstong tool holder, ill have to practice more on my 1974 sears lathe to get a finish that good.
Sharp tool, slow feed, right speed. Thanks for watching.
if only toys like this were still a thing
They still sell several models of the cannons. Google Conestoga Toys.
So I started doing this recently… have any tips on restoring things to make my channel better and my restorations better
good job bro 😍❤❤🔥😍👍
Thanks 🔥
super🤩
Комментарий в поддержку канала и ролика, в также труда мастера.
I Want one !
AWESOME JOB! One question for you - if you were going to improve on the design, what would you change?
I'd make it look like a tank! :)
magnifique (de France)
Merci
Once more into the breach!
Excellent work! What camera and lens do you use for close-up shots? Cheers!
This entire video was shot with my Android phone. Thanks for watching.
Thanks! I have one as well. Will try it with my next project.
nice job😁👍, wondering why u used xylene instead of acetone to thin your paint, any difference between the two?
Xylene doesn't dry as fast as acetone so you get a nicer finish when painting with enamel.
@@AcmeRestorations ok THANX for the info 😁👍