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WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Using a 300 tonne hydraulic press on WWII Grant Tank road wheels!
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2022
- WILL IT PRESS??? Daz and Jess prepare the Grant Tank road wheels and have new(ish) tyres pressed on them 🦍 🌡️
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Hey Guys I'm an old school Kiwi Auto Engineer, metal fabricator and restorer/modifier of old time machinery/cars so obviously I just really understand and love ya work, visiting you lot will be my next road trip.
Only got onto you 5-6 weeks ago and first up was the Jagd Panther from scratch, impressed the F**k out a me!
Anyway now I'm checking out the Grant resto ( Actually bought models of both vehicles, sad but true) but I just wanted to share that there is a pretty tidy looking Grant out the back of a truck wrecker in Dalby QLD, looks like a easy runner to me but you probably already know about it but I thought I'd make sure, again luv ya work!
KEN Kogan QLD
Love my weekly armour restoration fix! Great work guys!
I'm surprised that the rubber on the "new" tires has not perished over the years.
It's utterly fascinating seeing the guys work their magic to save these iconic vehicles.
It's like old boots or wellies. The 30 year old ones are still in good nick and very rubbery, but newly made ones perish and crack in a couple of years, or at least in a decade. It's a shame things are not done properly anymore like they used to; it's just all trying to sell more and lower costs.
Damn capitalism
P.S. communism isn't good either
@@laurisikio Remember Communism is an extremist political view. There are other views less extreme.
I just tried to make sure that I'm not considered a communist.
@@laurisikio i consider you a communist.
Tires shown in your video: Dayton Rubber corp. (now DAYCO) was located in Dayton, Ohio. Goodyear Tire and Rubber located in Akron Ohio. (I worked there in mold design 1986 to 1987). Monarch rubber located in Hartville Ohio. (later named Teledyne Monarch Rubber: Out of business)
"O H !"
Also saw B.F.Goodrich rubber there as well. Don’t know if you caught that one.
I O!@@thurin84
We sell solid tires for skid steer loaders and they are bonded to the wheels. I think they come from Canada. If you are wanting to get the old ones redone, maybe research them and see if they could do that .
You could fill and weld repair the cut slits on the tyre formers and get them re-moulded with new rubber. See my post below, there used to be a place in Sydney that did it as a lot of heavy industrial forklifts and warehouse cranes used solid rubber tyres.
I may give the museum a call about it, LoL
Just a heads up. That style and size solid rubber tyre is still used on warehouse forklifts in the US. You would be able to call a service truck and have new tyres pressed on.
Even if it was, it's not for the tank. When they go to such lengths to stay authentic as to cut various parts to meld them together, they're not going to use modern tires.
As always, your videos make Wednesday the best day of the week!
If you're not going to ever reuse the old road wheel rims again, I think we'd all agree that it would be a terrible loss to just scrap them. I suggest you press them, then torch them into rectangular pieces, engrave them identifying the metal as to what it came from, add the Australian Armor logo to it, with a serial number, and then sell them for $50 a piece. Any profits after production cost can go towards the project budget. I know I'd buy one. Cheers!
There is something really satisfying watching those tyres slide on, those tolerances were machined back then without CNC. Very calming, especially as I'm sitting here in Belfast N.Ireland with an autumn storm outside and our regular horizontal rain !
So unexciting but somehow so satisfying, watching man and machine in harmony.
You boys just get on doing what you must, looking to sort out solutions for repairing decades old AFV's and what a result you get at the end.
It must make the working day so worthwhile.
My favourite sub site on youtube.
You can see clever little ways that the designers came up with to make the manufacturing easier and cheaper. The rims on these wheels being flat stock rolled into a circle and welded. No casting required. The volute springs were probably the cheapest solution as well.
Seems amazing that the rubber segments are not dry-rotted or otherwise unusable
after almost 80 years. Tanks a lot......
most military parts/stock is sat in the back of warehouses for decades, so sometimes you get lucky and parts are preserved, while sometimes youre not as lucky
That's a lot of effort for a tire change!
Great stuff, can't wait to see the Grant run!
There used to be a place in Sydney that used to re-mold solid rubber tyres onto the metal inners of wheels very similar, they were used on early forklifts and mobile warehouse cranes. My dad used to get the tyres redone on the ones for the white trucks Australia CKD warehouse in Alexandria Sydney in the 1960's.
He also had crates of running gear spares for the Stuart and M3 grant used on the property as farm vehicles that he picked up as surplus, along with an F30 ford Blitz used as a farm truck. They also had parts for white scout cars and half-tracks that were in Australian service as he ran white trucks Australia and they were the additional parts support stock holder.
Look forward all week to workshop Wednesday
Jim is a magician with getting things fixed made or taken to pieces.
I think I might have a Idea for the old road wheels press em flat and autographs and an ( example rwrf 01{road wheel right front 0} ) from all the crew members and then raffle draw at random I think it would be a cool thing to have a hunk of tanker history
Thank goodness for time difference...I wake up to a Workshop Wednesday
Who on earth stores 1940s components for 80 odd years?? Lucky they did - but finding this stuff must be a real treasure hunt. I recently bought some aircraft navigation instruments still in brown paper from the early 50s. Very exciting discovery and brought some gear back to life after decades.
america cranked out A LOT of hardware during ww2. me favorite stat is that during peak production in 1944 , on average somewhere in america, a completed warplane rolled the the assembly lines every 5 minutes!!!
nos of surplus gear is still being discovered in out of the way corners of warehouses and garages, etc pretty much every year.
@@thurin84 Thanks. That's interesting. 👍
My heart jumped a little when i saw you making that off center press @ 20:30 in the video. One of my neighbors was killed years ago at Western Gear when someone across the shop was doing an off center press. A piece of what they were pressing flew across the shop and hit him in the chest, like a bullet. 😧
I never get Tire-d of watching these videos.. Amazing to follow the project as usual. :)
Amazing but I need more!
With the old tire rims you could put a topper on top of them and make them into pretty interesting looking bar seats
Great idea! They could sell them in the gift shop as a limited edition item. tidy them up... a bit
As one of "your good friends in the US" I admire your perseverance, hard work and tenacity.
Watching the Tyers being pressed onto the road wheels was wheelie good.
Those tapered roller bearings was the Timkin company’s stock in trade for many years. Very good bearings.
What a great and satisfying video this week! It's nice to see the transmission go together; but it's almost a miracle to see that pallet of completed road wheels at the end. With 10 on the pallet and the 2 on the concrete next to it, that's enough road wheels to support one entire side of the finished beast - done(except for the bearings inside) to 1942 specs! VERY impressive - and a necessity, if this is gonna be a runner. Good job, guys!
Both sides, no?
Bravo Kurt ! well captured- I'm coming back next year to AusArmourfest to see this one in action with my new appreciation of US engineering.
I'd love to see an interview with whoever the "parts guy" is. The amount of bearings, seals, hardware, obsolete parts, and raw materials your team goes through is astounding. Although not as sexy as the grinding and welding, sourcing all these materials has to be a huge job.
Yeah, totally agree it would be interesting to see a talk with the suppliers…
finding the parts, like those new-old stock wheels, is an art in itself. You might do a video on that Herculean effort. You must have a dedicated team working that task.
Makes you appreciate how easily it was for tanks to break down during the war. Even the US stuff is complex!!
Today in Chillout videos, "Sounds of the sea", "Birds in the forest" and "Hydraulic press in 80yo wheels"... Beautiful
Good to see one of our allies taking such good care of one of the old Boys. That 300 T press "impressed" the bejeebers out of me----now I know there are much more powerful presses, but for the job, this beauty did the trick nicely. Sweet!
The level of dedication on this project is phenomenal!
Just a thought on a use for the old tyres. Squeeze one up so the gap from the grinder cut is maybe double the thickness of your cutting disks and weld it up on the outside. This way if you ever need to press off one of the tyres without destroying it, you have a ring slightly wider than your centre wheel that you can use to sit the whole wheel assembly on when you put it into the hydraulic press.
You could maybe clean the old tires of dirt and stack them to make some waste bins which would be unique and in theme.
The seals should be an easy replacement if you can find the right local store. Something somewhere will work.
Very soothing to watch these professionals at work. They meet an issue, they fix it for good.
Hard working men in tropical heat. Well done men, not many like you.
You guys are world class ! 🏅
Y love tank, fantastic work. 👍 in Poland
Again a great video, I watched it two times in a row, same as many other videos from your channel.
I really appreciate the balance between voice-over, music and raw workshop ambient noise, just on the spot. Btw your choice of music is really something that’s making your videos standing out I think.
The message to me from this video is that there is beauty even in a somewhat repetitive task and that you can get a lot of joy out of it.
Thanks for that! Cheers from Germany
I would sell a kidney to work there, what a plave and what fantastic fella's. Just stumbled accross it recently and loving it. My late Dad was a Cenutrion driver in the 50's in his national service and jI'm ust trying to find out a bit more about him and what he did. Whilst dribbling at centurion tank clips, this popped up. Brilliant.😃
Great work as always. My takeaways from this one are 1. It was someone's job to do that important but repetitive task 80 years ago, day after day, and I hope somehow they get to see their part in winning the war recreated. 2. As a non-engineer the part of industrial production that blows my mind isn't just the scale but the consistency and interchangeability of the same parts from multiple manufacturers, as demonstrated here. You can pick a part made by one of a dozen companies from a pile and industrial press not withstanding, it'll fit and work well enough to do the job. That was a major strength of the western allies, and the US in particular and a massive leap forward from the variable standards of industrial production even as "recently" as WW1. Anyone who's had experience in manufacturing will appreciate that you can give two companies identical plans and specifications yet somehow they'll find a way to produce two products that are just different enough, the systems and organisation in place to mitigate that and maintain consistency across dozens of companies making tens of millions of items is every bit as impressive as the calibre of a gun or the thickness of armour, it was true industrialised warfare and that's just hard to beat.
Kurt, you do a great job on these videos.
Best workshop in the world :-)
Those tapered roller-bearings are pretty indestructible, as long as they aren’t rusted. The speeds at which they are turning is negligible really. So if you end up reusing some of them, no worries. Nice to see the old bird coming along.
there is certainly something satisfying about seeing an old military vehicle being renewed and restored and coming together like a big 1:1 scale model!
My old man made flower pots around his drive in to the workshop with old tyres cut off they actually looks good and the truck tyres he's cut around then edge on side wall just below the tred and turn them inside out the ring sat on the ground and the tyre was folded up like a bird bath type plant pot on a pedestal
2:29 I've got those plier's but in the sparky's version (red & yellow handle's) and they are by far the BEST set of plier's I've ever had. You can definitely tell that sparky's have had a hand in designing them, as they've got a small shallow slit at the very end for folding over cable's.
I've always had CK tools from the very beginning when I started my apprenticeship but recently. I thought I'd try out some other Germany brand's to see what their like and I can safely say, I wasn't disappointed.
I bought my VERY first pair of insulated grips, Junior hacksaw, copper & aluminium (NOT aluuuuminiuuum) cable sheers, plier's and long nose plier's which are all NWS. I also got a pair of big flat bladed Wera screwdriver's which dig in, as you screw in.
(NOT aluuuuminiuuum) 😆😅🤣😂 I had to laugh.
Yep, those wheels being pressed was extremely satisfying to watch. If I ever get the chance to visit Aus you guys are a must see, great work one and all!
Seeing how often that press machine is used, it must be well liked and vital to these restaurations.
From a tinnitus sufferer, take care of your ears around these machines, and the grinder.
This channel deserves 1 mln subs!
I've watched all the episodes twice at least. Very impressive work was an autot tech for 45 years and thought that was interesting. Does hold a candle to your work. Please keep it up and the videos too they're awesome 😎 Dave for Chicago
Working in the fishing industry, we used to get net winch parts re rubbered. you could probably do the same with the old wheels
Awesome work guys, learning heaps and admiring your engineering skills👏 now to apply what I’ve learned to my 1/35th M12 kitset!
Bolting on large parts is easy, its the small things that add time to large projects
Great job Australian!
Absolutely unbelievable that you guys managed to find NOS tyres for it! Well done!
america cranked out A LOT of hardware during ww2. me favorite stat is that during peak production in 1944 , on average somewhere in america, a completed warplane rolled the the assembly lines every 5 minutes!!!
nos of surplus gear is still being discovered in out of the way corners of warehouses and garages, etc pretty much every year.
There’s a lot of stuff still laying around from ww2 and there’s also a company here in BC Canada that rebuilds/remanufactures parts for the m6 tractor and Sherman/grant/lee bc they made drilling rigs and logging equipment with Sherman and m6 tractor hulls and components.
This is first time I watch. The olden wheels will be a fine match for Lee or Grand armor tank to be replaced.
I love your home made bearing removal tool. Great ingenuity!👍🏻
Good stuff here. I remember making a model of one of these when I was a child.
Thanx again guys for the great content…it’s amazing how the wheels on the grant come in two types and the complex different bearings..
Doing an awesome job fellas, look forward to getting up there and seeing the results of your labour👍👍.
Interesting video fellas!! Great progress today! Stay with it!! 😀
cant wait for mooorrrreeee!!!!!!!!
Great idea for the bearing cover removal tool!
I have removed many seals and similar, it's much more complicated to get some things out without damaging the repair part itself or the bearing cover for example. A+
Thanks for posting all your excellent videos!!
I have a few favorite channels at which I check for new content on a regular basis. I never miss WW!
American manufacturing back then was called the arsenal of democracy.
It was amazing how all the industry transfered to military production. Truly the greatest generation
it really is amazing that 75year old rubber is still usable, and not perished.
By the twelfth road wheel, you boys look like you could use a cold beer! Awesome work sirs, it's a joy to watch y'all work on these machines! Cheers!!🍻
nothing better, than American made !!
This reminds of my days as an overhaul inspector at Standard Aero Engine. We bought surplus parts from around the world in the late 1970's to rebuild Pratt and Whitney radial endines. Shipments would come in from manufacturers labeled "Buick Motor Division - Building for Victory 1942" and many others. Yet they'd all fit perfectly in the same R 1830-92. With their political turmoil today, I wonder if America could rise to a war challenge and become again "The Arsenal of Freedom"?
Absolutely not possible.
Wow, guys, hat's off to the production team. The quality has really done a monumental jump... From documentary to art.
loving your work
Such a pleasure to watch you gents keep these old girls going, Keep up the hard work!!
Although I suspect you are enjoying every minute.
Yet another excellent vid ❤❤❤
I retesting to see all the different manufacturers and what they made during WW2. How the whole industry came together. Thank you.
Amazing how far technology has come since the day these tanks were first made yet we still must retain the ingenuity of that time.Thanks
use the cut off wheel hubs to generate revenue. cut them into smaller pieces and sell them. a lot of historical enthusiasts would love to own a piece of a ww2 tank.
What an amazing job that would be I'd love to do this! Awesome job on the linkage
That was wheely good guys...
Awesome, the real Kurt intro is back.👍🏼
Thanks again for another enthralling video, I look at the time and 26 mins has gone before I know it, cheers
While working in Shimiya alaska I saw a top tank turret for a M-3 GRANT that they were using as a pillbox 37mm gun.
Well done fellows! Welcome to retirement! --Bob Bailey in Maine,USA
Another outstanding video and presentation.
Great job!!! Look forward to the next video guys!!👍😁
Nice to see. No surprise that Goodyear decided to do ‘one better’ than their competitors.
fun stuff huh. i love old solid wheel tractors.
DEEPLY satisfying
Can’t wait to see it next Wednesday 😍😍👍👍👍
Outstanding job as always guy's, she is gonna be a beauty.
I love this channel guy’s.
Love your😀 work!!! //Lars
I am surprised you free-handed cutting off the old rings as the hubs were cut as well.
Yeah. Good to see you using spanners and ratchets. Proper job.
This is my favorite part of my day!!! Thanks for great content!
It would be cool if you guys paint marker the different manufacturers on the wheel so you can see them great content keep up the great work!!
I like your Aus armour Kurt,I loved how you liked the rubber jockey wheels being pressed on ,I love the prospective view and camera angle, what do you think kurt