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
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)
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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. 😧
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!
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!
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.😃
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
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!!🍻
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
You gentlemen have the coolest job ever,wish I could be there to work, I love your dedication to detail and problem solving,such a great crew,it gives me anxiety waiting for the next video,keep up the great work lads,love ya guys 👦
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.
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
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+
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.
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.
guess it has to be said that press is impressive to watch, and probably the most important piece of equipment in your inventory, makes mincemeat of all the hard labour your guys put into the subjects, whether it be tyre changing or bending thick tank bulkheads back to near perfect for refitting - i wonder if you have used it for the smallest of jobs - reminds me i have some bronze bushes to press out of some scrap oleos
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!
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'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.
Today in Chillout videos, "Sounds of the sea", "Birds in the forest" and "Hydraulic press in 80yo wheels"... Beautiful
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
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.
Look forward all week to workshop Wednesday
That's a lot of effort for a tire change!
Great stuff, can't wait to see the Grant run!
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.
Amazing but I need more!
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.
I never get Tire-d of watching these videos.. Amazing to follow the project as usual. :)
Jim is a magician with getting things fixed made or taken to pieces.
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.
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
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.
Thank goodness for time difference...I wake up to a Workshop Wednesday
Watching the Tyers being pressed onto the road wheels was wheelie good.
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
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.
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. 😧
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?
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!
As one of "your good friends in the US" I admire your perseverance, hard work and tenacity.
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
You guys are world class ! 🏅
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.😃
Those tapered roller bearings was the Timkin company’s stock in trade for many years. Very good bearings.
The level of dedication on this project is phenomenal!
Makes you appreciate how easily it was for tanks to break down during the war. Even the US stuff is complex!!
Kurt, you do a great job on these videos.
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
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!!🍻
Very soothing to watch these professionals at work. They meet an issue, they fix it for good.
Best workshop in the world :-)
Y love tank, fantastic work. 👍 in Poland
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. 👍
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…
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!
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!
Awesome work guys, learning heaps and admiring your engineering skills👏 now to apply what I’ve learned to my 1/35th M12 kitset!
I love your home made bearing removal tool. Great ingenuity!👍🏻
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.
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.
This channel deserves 1 mln subs!
Great job!!! Look forward to the next video guys!!👍😁
This is my favorite part of my day!!! Thanks for great content!
Hard working men in tropical heat. Well done men, not many like you.
I love this channel!!
Badass job guys!!!
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.
Thanks so much for your vlogs is great fun seeing these videos awesome fun!
Wow, guys, hat's off to the production team. The quality has really done a monumental jump... From documentary to art.
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
Nice finesse with the press.
Thanks for sharing.
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!
You could maybe clean the old tires of dirt and stack them to make some waste bins which would be unique and in theme.
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..
Well done guys, great work en restotation. Greats from Holland
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.
Great job Australian!
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.
You gentlemen have the coolest job ever,wish I could be there to work, I love your dedication to detail and problem solving,such a great crew,it gives me anxiety waiting for the next video,keep up the great work lads,love ya guys 👦
Yet another excellent vid ❤❤❤
Another outstanding video and presentation.
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.
Great work, great content. Amazing how robust these vehicles are.
Interesting video fellas!! Great progress today! Stay with it!! 😀
Doing an awesome job fellas, look forward to getting up there and seeing the results of your labour👍👍.
Thanks again for another enthralling video, I look at the time and 26 mins has gone before I know it, cheers
The seals should be an easy replacement if you can find the right local store. Something somewhere will work.
Can’t wait to see it next Wednesday 😍😍👍👍👍
loving your work
I retesting to see all the different manufacturers and what they made during WW2. How the whole industry came together. Thank you.
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
good to see it coming together team
This is first time I watch. The olden wheels will be a fine match for Lee or Grand armor tank to be replaced.
great work with the video!
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+
nothing better, than American made !!
I love this channel guy’s.
What an amazing job that would be I'd love to do this! Awesome job on the linkage
Good stuff here. I remember making a model of one of these when I was a child.
cant wait for mooorrrreeee!!!!!!!!
Awesome, the real Kurt intro is back.👍🏼
Love your work 👍
Great effort guys .
it really is amazing that 75year old rubber is still usable, and not perished.
Bolting on large parts is easy, its the small things that add time to large projects
Fascinating!
Pretty good keep up the work!
Working in the fishing industry, we used to get net winch parts re rubbered. you could probably do the same with the old wheels
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.
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.
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
Well done fellows! Welcome to retirement! --Bob Bailey in Maine,USA
guess it has to be said that press is impressive to watch, and probably the most important piece of equipment in your inventory, makes mincemeat of all the hard labour your guys put into the subjects, whether it be tyre changing or bending thick tank bulkheads back to near perfect for refitting - i wonder if you have used it for the smallest of jobs - reminds me i have some bronze bushes to press out of some scrap oleos