im 66 yrs old and spent 22yrs in the british army and can honestly say seeing and hearing that old girl brought a tear to my eye , bloody well done getting that turret working on the batterys , NOT a easy task after all them years
Can we just take a moment to understand how the MoD's suppliers worked in the '60s and '70s. they used relays that were fitted to an RAF STOVL jet, a Royal Navy helicopter and an Army MBT. But what a monumental task lads and lasses. I mean to a) diagnose it, b) find the parts and then c) fit it all up and it works right off. As we say in Sou' West: "Proper job boys. Proper job"
The way it worked was that the engineer in charge said "I need a relay like this". Then he either sent that paperwork to Purchasing, where they would go to the Engineering Catalog Library, and look for companies that made "relays" Or the engineer might have skipped a step and done the research himself, but the purchasing agent can almost always override the vendor specification if he thinks he has a cheaper alternative, or a company where they have a favored purchasing agreement. There would have been engineers for all three services, and for commodity parts like this, they would have had many of the same catalogs in each facility catalog library, so finding the same part is not a surprise. There weren't that many companies that made military spec relays in those days. Possibly the purchasing agents for the various services talked to each other and tried to centralize quantity buys, but most likely not, each service bought its own relays, and did a custom order where the vendor put the military part number on each relay before shipping. Most likely the same relay for all three services would have differed in the customer part number sprayed on the stock they bought.
I worked on Chieftain in the late seventies in West Germany during the Cold War. Iwas a soldier in The Blues and Royals. I saw a jacking strut (frog) fly out from a road wheel across the tank park and neatly punch a great hole in the shed wall. You have to make sure it's in the right way round Probably the most dangerous tool on The Tanks tool kit. Great videos they were pigs to work on but great when they were working.
Sound of child wailing while a parent scolds them..."I warned you not to leave your bicycle lying about in front of Uncle Joe's tank shed". I felt your joy when the turret finally turned on its own power. Well done!
7:05 There was a half round indent in the wheel stud. A round pin should be fitted in there, and that should libe up with another half round cut out in the hub. This stopped the wheel stud rotating in the hub.
@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 the bike was dangerously unsafe, and could have killed any child that used it. The best option was to put the bike out of action.
@@Rover200Power Science is a lie. Jesus cometh soon best repent whilst you have time. Otherwise prepare to kneel before the devil and be cast into sin forever.
The Chieftain is an awesome piece of kit, one of the finest MBT's of the Cold war era and one of the best looking too. Except for the ever troublesome L60 of course... something that got rectified with the Rolls-Royce/Perkins CV12 in the Shir Iran/Khalid.
Those relays are the sort of thing I would actually spend weeks fixing. Bloody waste of time, mind you, but as long as the coil works all the rest is just levers, springs and contacts. I have "transplanted" bronze contacts salvaged off microswitches in the past to fix a classic car's irreplaceable steering wheel control stalks.
I used to enjoy working on electric system's as a mechanic but that looked properly complicated and fiddley, you mentioned about the screwdriver not being magnetic but if you twist a length of wire around the shaft of the screwdriver then flash the wire across a battery it will make the screwdriver magnetic but you probably already know this. Love the videos.
It's likely the terminal screws are plated brass or similar for good electrical connectivity so magnetic tools don't help there. A good soak with spray-on switch cleaner overnight helps a lot when dismantling stuff like this. After putting it back together I'd have topped the terminals with silicone lube spray to prevent or at least slow down corrosion having its wicked way over time with the "new" relays. I don't know what the recommended maintenance docs say about stuff like that, it's possible silicone spray wasn't around back then. Wonderful stuff, though, the sparky's version of WD-40. Torching the wheel nuts to get the road wheel off looked a bit brutal, you might consider getting an induction heater tool to do that sort of thing in the future since rusty stuck nuts are a constant part of your workload. The induction heater does less damage to surrounding paintwork than a torch and it also won't detemper hardened metal around the nut or bolt.
Absolutely awesome! The entrance on the little bike made the video until I saw that turret move. Kudos from the US, please don't sell anymore tanks to whistling diesel, he is a petulant child period
We will love to see an maintenance video on this beauty! like oil change, fuel filter change... and working temperature of this bease. BTW LOVELY sound! This Chieftain is amazing!
The smile tells us all we need to know. Great job lads. It might be an idea to pop a little silicon grease on the terminal screw heads to keep the corrosion at bay.
Congratulations lads!! A real step forwards achievement, now you know where the parts are for the next one you need to repair. A great sound those engines make, yes even if they are not the best. I just wonder how many of these tanks are running nowadays.
She's almost there! man that control box is a real nightmare! loving all the detail work! i didn't realise this was a comedy / tank channel! trike vs chieftain!😂
This video is a time machine! Hearing that engine note and seeing all that white smoke takes me straight back to my apprenticeship making these things in the 70's at Barnbow. I've made hundreds, probably thousands, of those wheel studs - for Chieftain and Centurion. Well done to all for getting the old girl going again.
Worked at Vickers,Elswick and made various components for these as well as ARRVs and bridgelayers.We then moved the plant to Scotswwod down the road where we produced Challi 2s.The wheel studs were thread rolled(not screw cut) and made from a high tensile steel.Great job.Keep it up.
well done guys ,,, you are doing great work there ...i served in the greek army as tanker , on the french amx30 and m48a5 , and surly love tank;s engine sound and move !!
I remember seeing my first chieftain at the end of 1965 stopped outside the museum across from the Junior Leaders Regimental entrance. There were 3 blokes working on the engine. I think 11Hussars were due to be the first regiment to take possession of the Chieftain in 1966. The rest they say is history.. the vids are great entertainment and your expertise with a ‘Birmingham screwdriver’ is second to none 😂 keep em coming.
Well done guys been really looking forward to the turret electronic repair conclusion, but i knew you'd nail it 🎉 see Ted's still on the Havana's 3.25 , your sign writer did a great job on the details too , the chieftain will be a real showstopper at Catterick!!
Joe and gang , bloody brilliant work . So pleased you've fixed the turret . When I was in the 14/20 at Catterick these Chieftains were our toys. Love it great stuff . Thank you and more L60 roars please 👍👍
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im 66 yrs old and spent 22yrs in the british army and can honestly say seeing and hearing that old girl brought a tear to my eye , bloody well done getting that turret working on the batterys , NOT a easy task after all them years
Thank you for your service. Royal Air Force air cadet here
@@A27crommwell Cheesy
@@Frille512 shut up mate what cadets you do? I’m thanking this man for his service. It makes him happy.
@@A27crommwell You're mad
@@Frille512 why
As an Englishman, I love the fact you run over a frog to change a wheel
Macron hopefully
Better than over a toad in a hole!
in 37 years, never heard of a fish plate being called a frog.....
I used to work 436 ASV and we called them fish plates not frogs that is a new term for me great memories of Armd bashing tho
My favourite thing about this channel is Joe not knowing when the recording has started
Can we just take a moment to understand how the MoD's suppliers worked in the '60s and '70s. they used relays that were fitted to an RAF STOVL jet, a Royal Navy helicopter and an Army MBT.
But what a monumental task lads and lasses. I mean to a) diagnose it, b) find the parts and then c) fit it all up and it works right off.
As we say in Sou' West: "Proper job boys. Proper job"
Nice one lads
The way it worked was that the engineer in charge said "I need a relay like this". Then he either sent that paperwork to Purchasing, where they would go to the Engineering Catalog Library, and look for companies that made "relays" Or the engineer might have skipped a step and done the research himself, but the purchasing agent can almost always override the vendor specification if he thinks he has a cheaper alternative, or a company where they have a favored purchasing agreement.
There would have been engineers for all three services, and for commodity parts like this, they would have had many of the same catalogs in each facility catalog library, so finding the same part is not a surprise. There weren't that many companies that made military spec relays in those days.
Possibly the purchasing agents for the various services talked to each other and tried to centralize quantity buys, but most likely not, each service bought its own relays, and did a custom order where the vendor put the military part number on each relay before shipping. Most likely the same relay for all three services would have differed in the customer part number sprayed on the stock they bought.
Dont know if it was true, but a REME fitter once told me that the fuel pump on a Chieftain was the same as used on a Lancaster bomber.
If it is the same fuel pump just need another three Meteors/Merlins to complete the big gun Lancaster then .
@@lwilton by ‘mil spec’, you mean useless and overpriced?
I worked on Chieftain in the late seventies in West Germany during the Cold War. Iwas a soldier in The Blues and Royals. I saw a jacking strut (frog) fly out from a road wheel across the tank park and neatly punch a great hole in the shed wall. You have to make sure it's in the right way round Probably the most dangerous tool on The Tanks tool kit. Great videos they were pigs to work on but great when they were working.
Ted steals the show. I almost spit water here laughing. 23:53
He’s a legend!
Home boy just appears out of no where like some magic trick
I love these videos, seriously impressed with your patience with fixing the electronics.
Why no call a armyman to heal the armywagon? Sorrey english no my languages
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 Why use that name then 🤔
@@BrumKid cuz it's popular this dayz
Seeing that grin at the end just shows how much you love doing this and the results are epic. 👍🏻
That’s impressive, not only managing to fix the turret but finding the parts as well as them being on a shelf nearly 50yrs 🤯😳👌
Sound of child wailing while a parent scolds them..."I warned you not to leave your bicycle lying about in front of Uncle Joe's tank shed".
I felt your joy when the turret finally turned on its own power. Well done!
Seriously loving these in depth turret electronics videos. You're getting alot better at this youtubing malarky Joe!
It seems no matter what country, men at shops all act the same. 😆
7:05 There was a half round indent in the wheel stud. A round pin should be fitted in there, and that should libe up with another half round cut out in the hub. This stopped the wheel stud rotating in the hub.
Well done boys. What a cracking job. Have you told Jack about his bike yet?
Why they destroy child byke? Coukd give to a poor child they deprived a poor child for RUclips clicks very poor tayste
I’ve found him boys, he’s over here in the comments. The wettest lettuce you’ve ever seen Mr bobby ray of the family smith
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 When Fun sees you coming, it crosses the road.
@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 the bike was dangerously unsafe, and could have killed any child that used it. The best option was to put the bike out of action.
@@Rover200Power Science is a lie. Jesus cometh soon best repent whilst you have time. Otherwise prepare to kneel before the devil and be cast into sin forever.
The Chieftain is an awesome piece of kit, one of the finest MBT's of the Cold war era and one of the best looking too. Except for the ever troublesome L60 of course... something that got rectified with the Rolls-Royce/Perkins CV12 in the Shir Iran/Khalid.
The tank looks amazing. Those relays though, what a job. I imagine in a new tank the same job would be done by something the size of a box of matches.
With relays, there's no replacement displacement.
Those relays are the sort of thing I would actually spend weeks fixing. Bloody waste of time, mind you, but as long as the coil works all the rest is just levers, springs and contacts. I have "transplanted" bronze contacts salvaged off microswitches in the past to fix a classic car's irreplaceable steering wheel control stalks.
@@peterlarkin762 well, there is. Solid state relays are most definitely a thing, as are MOSFETs and IGBT’s
@@Pugjamin A five-quid Arduino microcontroller plus level shifters would do the same job today.
Yeah, you could probably hide a little box inside there that would move the turret a lot easier/cheaper than repairing that rats nest of wires.
I love that urban camouflage
I used to enjoy working on electric system's as a mechanic but that looked properly complicated and fiddley, you mentioned about the screwdriver not being magnetic but if you twist a length of wire around the shaft of the screwdriver then flash the wire across a battery it will make the screwdriver magnetic but you probably already know this.
Love the videos.
It's likely the terminal screws are plated brass or similar for good electrical connectivity so magnetic tools don't help there. A good soak with spray-on switch cleaner overnight helps a lot when dismantling stuff like this. After putting it back together I'd have topped the terminals with silicone lube spray to prevent or at least slow down corrosion having its wicked way over time with the "new" relays. I don't know what the recommended maintenance docs say about stuff like that, it's possible silicone spray wasn't around back then. Wonderful stuff, though, the sparky's version of WD-40.
Torching the wheel nuts to get the road wheel off looked a bit brutal, you might consider getting an induction heater tool to do that sort of thing in the future since rusty stuck nuts are a constant part of your workload. The induction heater does less damage to surrounding paintwork than a torch and it also won't detemper hardened metal around the nut or bolt.
Very Kubrick'eske opening shot. Kudos to the 'Directeur de Photographie'
Almost as good as Jack in his tight shorts.
Well done gents. Really really impressed. Get Cody's fixed as well so he can shoot some more arrows out of his "bunged up" barrel.
Great work, patience of a saint with those electronics 👍
Also @3.32 😉
All the hard work and frustration paid off, well done boys!
Absolutely awesome! The entrance on the little bike made the video until I saw that turret move. Kudos from the US, please don't sell anymore tanks to whistling diesel, he is a petulant child period
I worked for Racal in the 70's when we manufactured the chieftain intercom, happy days.
Well done lads ! Glad to see no animals or children were hurt in this video only the kiddies bike ! Lol brilliant content and knowledge !
As a Brit, it brings a tear to my ole heart to see the girl turnin like me grandad’s record player. What a babe!
Tank you for doing this video, my daughter is going to love this
Well done chaps , looks good sounds good . Your attention to detail knows no bounds .
What a fantastic job you lads & lady have done. Absolutely smashing.
We will love to see an maintenance video on this beauty! like oil change, fuel filter change... and working temperature of this bease. BTW LOVELY sound! This Chieftain is amazing!
Ted walking out from between the road wheels at the end was class!
All that 1960's electronic technology - wonderful.
Smashing job done ! The relay change takes me back to the early 70's with my REME tels work. Thanks a lot.
I am amazed by your cycling skills. Trully incomparable.
Very well done. Looked great against the setting sun and can't wait to see the next steps.
Some bairn would’ve loved that bike, you monster!
Great job lads , really pleased for you guys after all the hard work you have put in , great to to see these old girls still strutting their stuff , 👍
Traversed by hand many of times so felt your pain guys . Fantastic work its great to see the old girls turret sort of working again well done
The smile tells us all we need to know.
Great job lads.
It might be an idea to pop a little silicon grease on the terminal screw heads to keep the corrosion at bay.
Absolute win obtaining them parts. Always feels good getting one up on a rip off merchant. Well done.
Great work 👍 I would've lost my mind trying to sort those relays out, mechanical stuff I can cope with but electrical gremlins do my head in😂
Hardwork pays off boys, bet if feels good. Well done!
Lol the snap on scratched off Milwalkee welder, makes you feel right at home!
Congratulations lads!! A real step forwards achievement, now you know where the parts are for the next one you need to repair. A great sound those engines make, yes even if they are not the best. I just wonder how many of these tanks are running nowadays.
8:37 that was amazing 😂, jokes aside I really enjoy your videos
Magnificent job .
Thank you for posting.
She's almost there! man that control box is a real nightmare! loving all the detail work! i didn't realise this was a comedy / tank channel! trike vs chieftain!😂
Good effort lads.chieftain sounds wicked
This video is a time machine! Hearing that engine note and seeing all that white smoke takes me straight back to my apprenticeship making these things in the 70's at Barnbow. I've made hundreds, probably thousands, of those wheel studs - for Chieftain and Centurion. Well done to all for getting the old girl going again.
Painstaking work but a great result. Well done 😀
Remember that exhaust sound early 1980s Munster West Germany. A beast!
So many memories of these beasts. Doing an absolutely fantastic job.
Well pleased with your perseverance and seeing relays work. Awesome.
Fantastic video! Absolutely loved this one.
Well done 'team' the smile says it all .. ace .. 😅 .. 😂 .. 👍
Thanks for sharing. atvb t .. 😉
You lot must have the patients of a saint
Lol well done chaps well done
Now that’s what I call a result. Crackin job guys.
Worked at Vickers,Elswick and made various components for these as well as ARRVs and bridgelayers.We then moved the plant to Scotswwod down the road where we produced Challi 2s.The wheel studs were thread rolled(not screw cut) and made from a high tensile steel.Great job.Keep it up.
5:48 The dog going to check if the frog was still in its place 🚬🧐 lol 😭😂
What an achievement! Bloody marvellous, gents (and ladies!).
I just love the fact your family is very happy of you and supports your hobby.
Excellent repair Gents. And interesting content I really enjoyed watching 👍
god thats a wonderful sound/look and great to see the results of your labours
Great work. Love the tech content in these episodes. It's fantastic to see it moving on battery. Looking forward to the next episode 😀
I'm really impressed how you guys managed to work on the electronics! Really a good job as always 👍 👏
Good job done guys , another great vid as always 👍😉💯
well done guys ,,, you are doing great work there ...i served in the greek army as tanker , on the french amx30 and m48a5 , and surly love tank;s engine sound and move !!
Spotted your Dads JCB on back of a white volvo truck heading east on M62, looked a sorry state 😅
God rest it’s soul!
That's majestic! Well done.
I remember seeing my first chieftain at the end of 1965 stopped outside the museum across from the Junior Leaders Regimental entrance. There were 3 blokes working on the engine. I think 11Hussars were due to be the first regiment to take possession of the Chieftain in 1966. The rest they say is history.. the vids are great entertainment and your expertise with a ‘Birmingham screwdriver’ is second to none 😂 keep em coming.
bloody excellent job everyone! Well done. ❤🎉🎉
Epic. Just epic! Well done guys
happy days well done guys ! electronics is my game and full credit to you for what you did there
I was a D+M regimental instructor on them in 4RTR, good to see and Hear the rumble of a main engine again
That looks stunning with that paint job lads, top work !
Liked the intro ... Barn, Loader, Tractor ... MK10
Love the vids. Best regards from Arad/Romania
Boys n their toys?? Love it. Keep em comin. The Ole Fella from Downunda.
Keep the old relays I'm sure there is someone who can rebuild them . Great job so far lads and girls .cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 ♥
I've used the tip of a hot soldering iron to heat stubborn little bolts up on electrical connectors & sometimes they come loose after cooling down.
Greetings from NZ love your work & videos re relays: 50 year old relays "New Old Stock" ;-)
Looks great, well done.
That looks killer with the baskets on !! Top notch work .
The relays didn’t look fiddly at all 😅😅😅
Bloody brilliant lads !
Well done again lads quality stuff !!
Excellent jobb boys and girls 🙏🏻
Unlike another certain channel on here from across the pond, your just getting the job done, nice one 👍🏻 that looked like a right pain in the arse.
I knew you would get it working, bit of faith in the guys whose trying 😊
Majestic shot of the tank pulling out mate.
Well done everybody and thanks for all the videos 👍👍👍
08:37 - I want more of that! She's gorgeous 😍
Well done chaps and chapesses. I am smiling as much as you are.
Well done guys been really looking forward to the turret electronic repair conclusion, but i knew you'd nail it 🎉 see Ted's still on the Havana's 3.25 , your sign writer did a great job on the details too , the chieftain will be a real showstopper at Catterick!!
Savage job lads
joe you have the patience of a saint
Amazing work, it looks really good
So very, very cool. Well done, to everyone involved!
Joe and gang , bloody brilliant work . So pleased you've fixed the turret . When I was in the 14/20 at Catterick these Chieftains were our toys. Love it great stuff . Thank you and more L60 roars please 👍👍
We are taking this one to Catterick this weekend can’t wait
@@MrHewes have a great weekend there . Look out for Cambrai barracks . That was mine . Loads of vids please. The Berlin camo does look good. G'nite 👍👍
In 1975 i just started serving a 3 year tour in Malta and only seems like yesterday as that is where my wife is from.
Excellent work!
Those amphanol connectors can be a pain in the rear that control cubicle is a work of art😊 doing a fantastic job lads keep it up
Fingers crossed for tomorrow 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽😎great job lads looks the business 👌🏼