WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: PANZER I swing arm and drive sprocket hub fabrication and engine test!

The whole workshop pulls together to get these parts fabricated and restored!

This is a running PANZER I Ausf. B (1 of only 6 in the world).

Follow the progress of our workshop restorations every Workshop Wednesday! A must watch for students of history, engineering, mechanics and metalworking! 🧐🛠️

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[jamesroseby]

That 20minute episode felt like 5minutes, it was so absorbing. Loving this and can’t wait to see a running Pzkw I at the other end.

[jemc]

The level of craftsmanship in this workshop is truly astounding to watch. Thanks Kurt!

[NSYresearch]

Once again, I'm so impressed by the skill of these chaps. No university can teach this stuff .... it's just practice practice practice

[fedupamerican]

It should be called Workmanship Wednesdays. The quality of work is simply out of this world. Greetings from America

[WestHamBubbleBoy]

What do ya mean, that's all you got time for this week? Not again. I was just getting into that!

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together. Every man with a skill. Every man pulling together building a machine that will look good, work, and show everyone that team work really does work.

Great work, fellas.👍⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱

[knudvoecking]

The "boys" are worth their weight in gold.

[davidbutterfield]

It’s a joy to watch craftsman at work. Awesome as always 👍🏻🇦🇺

[parkucret]

Seeing these videos makes me appreciate how much work goes into producing vehicles like this. You lads are fantastic at what you do, keep it up!!

[gasgaslex_photos]

Would be great to see you guys do a colab with Kurtis from Cutting Edge Engeneering

[jetnavigator]

Kurt, great job on filming and editing. Very professional. Music can be polarising but I think it's very well placed in these videos.

[chish]

This should be part of every school curriculum so we can bring new generations into the world of engineering. Whats not to like about making things?
Good to see young guys involved on these projects but they only get their skills from the older guys.
Well done Aus Armour!

[oldbloke]

I really don't travel much but I really should make the effort to get up and see this place.
Great stuff as always guys.

[DavidSmith-sscg]

My Dad told me that the metal work that was normal, routine stuff was originally done for railroad suspensions and for Naval ships' drive components; the metal work these talented metal workers do at Oz Armour is one-off, specialty stuff. The original tanks were made in immense factories with huge machines; most of the work was done by stamping the metal when it was newly made, and thus comparably soft, with just outrageously(by today's standards) huge hydraulic presses. Then they would be finished, using huge milling machines - so everything was done quickly and easily, by the manufacturer's point-of-view. This is how they made so MANY of these magnificent machines. They destroyed most of them after the war, as soon as they could. Many of the armored vehicles we have were found relatively recently, they were buried in bogs and thought to be lost; but the cold fresh water and it's mud actually preserved them.

But the engineering CAN be understood, and replicated. This is why these videos are so absorbing; you have to remember, the whole world used to be done this way. You start to understand the forces involved by thinking of the making of these individual parts - that they used to stamp out those swing arms and drive assembly housings by the dozens every shift, and then assembled them in huge plants that were underground and hidden from the Allied heavy bombers, and then shipped by train to the front, where they would fight for a while and then the crew would have to destroy their tanks as they had small mechanical problems or ran out of fuel and then abandon these magnificent, expensive machines - after they blew them up.

The men in this shop have done videos showing how they straighten armor plates that are over an inch thick and then blown apart - the force needed to do that to that high quality steel, THAT thick, is just mind boggling. What a waste of resources that whole war was; and you can just imagine the expense and effort put into those tanks recently sent to Ukraine - and the ones us Western countries send them are the old, used stuff. Well, enough ancient history; sorry about that.

So, keep up the good work, Oz Armour Workshop; and Thank you for making these magnificent old machines come back to life from wheel-barrow loads of scrap steel bits and pieces that are all that's left of the Nazi Reich's world-conquering machines. see you next week.

[georgedistel]

Slick crew, I was amazed at the lathe operator manually feeding everything .

[jackmoorehead]

That may end up the fastest Panzer 1 ever. Love seeing real machinists doing their magic, no CNC or Auto feed, just skilled hands and eys turning a block of steel into a precision part.

[davidkaminski]

I love the fact that once you slap some paint on them, the "homemade" parts are indistinguisable from the original parts.
You guys are magicians!

[Masterbaconator]

When that music kicks in i always know the episode is nearly over, great work as ever

[Rhinexing]

These fellas are true artisans. I'm always impressed with the attention to detail that is put into every piece that is made.

[townsville]

Lathing metal is always fascinating to me. Great job Glenn.

[mgtf]

The chip didn’t fall far from the block with Beau and Glen.
Love your work, AusArmour 👍