Ted deserves his own channel, we know he'd be knocking them out more frequently than Un-Fitter Matt.

I can see that Ted's mechanical expertise are the backbone of the entire operation

@CustomcrowdMitroc

Жыл бұрын

This buisness is registered in teds name

I’ve just realised Teds not a old dog he’s just covered in over spray. 😂😂😂😂

I remember painting the Berlin camo on the Fox. We used brushes and tins of paint. One guy had the pattern and shared it between the crews. All patterns were (almost, at a distance) the same. Great job lads.

Loved the safety squint whilst welding.

The world needs more Ted's.

Always reckoned that the thickness of paint on our 432’s and CVRT’s was more protective than the original armour.

I remember seeing a Chieftain in Berlin Brigade camo in the Saumur tank museum, it looks awesome!

@k-mc94

Жыл бұрын

Just did an image search for that and it looks great

Invest in a induction heater for bolts likeInduction Innovations - Mini-Ductor Venom HP (MDV-787) - Handheld Induction This will surprise you in its ability make bolts removal so much easier. Cheers from across the pond.

Thank you, Joe, for telling Fitter Matt to stop slackin!

people always ask me 'what paint do i use' the answer's always the same, 'wet paint, it goes on easier' love Ted, great looking dog, and got great character, likes to get in on the action, just lost mine, so going to miss him, Gunner was a German Short Haired Pointer, was a great character too all the way to the end wow was beginning to think you'd fallen out with Flatter Matt, and he's cooking on gas, burning stuff, welding his nuts Jack doing a sporting job on the paint scheme, will be nice to see that . . . parked up somewhere in town, outside a police station perhaps hehe . . . the one that helped so much with your Landy

You guys are really quit amazing. Often laugh when you say we don’t know what we are doing,yet you all have a better understanding than most mechanics that have gone through school.It’s a far better mechanic that can trouble shoot a problem than one that just replaces parts until the problem goes away.Keep up the good work.🎉🎉😊😊

10 extra likes for Ted! Jack just cracks on too, what a guy.

Probably the best content on KZread your commitment to what you do is brilliant❤❤❤👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

This is SUCH a great channel Mr Hewes 👍

@MrHewes

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

You fellers sure know how to sass up a tank. Love to see it thanks for sharing!

Fantastic work as always

Just imagine painting every crack & cranny on a tank, that has to be teeeedious man. Nice first coat btw.

Looking good gents, keep up the good work!

Awesome video thanks lads looking forward to seeing the finished job 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Good paint job boys and Ted . Very interesting thanks

nice to see the tank coming along Cheers Jim

We need a Tank and Ted t shirt. When ur ready.

Thanks for the pov doggy belly rubs haha

THANK you so much....I posted this a few months back requesting this on your FB page....absolutely loving your content and channel much love!

Always something new mate, love it

@MrHewes

Жыл бұрын

It’s a nightmare 🤣

If you tied a paint brush to Ted's tail he could do the underneath of the tank .

Can't beat a bit of red lead xD Can't beat the B.O.C Spanner either xD Would be great to see it going with the turret live, tanks just look soooo much better when the gun is being stabilised!

The primer job is looking great guys, looking forward to seeing the rest of the paint job, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍

Once again, Ted steals the show!

WE used to silver solder silver dimes to old knackered contacts to refurbish contacts.

Great project 👍👍

Definitely good in primer! Nice to see ted getting a mention

@MrHewes

Жыл бұрын

I always try to get him in

We used to paint our Berlin Armoured Sqn Chieftains by hand every year just before the Parade season, lots of masking tape was also used! 😂

Such a beautiful dog

Glad to see Mat is back! Missed the big man!

It would be simply lovely if you lads would place a breath-taking Meteor engine in the empty bay.

Safety squint approved. Great video!

I love your videos of restoring British tanks. I’ve always wondered what they look like with their clothes off!

You guys need to get a HVLP pressure pot for painting these old girls....thats what i used when painting re-furbished d11 dozers.....pot that sits on the ground, holds about a gallon of paint, and has the hose and gun coming off of it and air hose plugs right into the pot.....makes painting big stuff easy and can put down a lot of paint quickly

love your videos such a mixed bag 👍

@MrHewes

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to my world

Id' love to get involved with something like that, looks great fun.

Good to see Matt back!

Excellent 👍

thats kinda beautyful, I want one

Wery interesting job 👍

Thanks a lot everyone. You're doing a great job for history.

FANTASTICA ATTIVITA! BRAVISSINI!

Nice to see fitter mat in the video

Moar belly rubs for Ted! ❤

Each troop would get three gallons pof paint each year, two green one black for three tanks, add benz to make it go further, not too much or it would end up like gloss.

@ThePhoenix198

6 ай бұрын

MoD develops Infra-Red Reflecting (IRR) paint with very specific IRR properties at great expense - there's even a Defence Standard for it, and a NATO one. It then contracts out for manufacture at great expense and issues it to units. Who then dilute it with petrol to make it go further, thereby neutralising the very properties it was developed for. Don't you just love the false economies at unit level in the Army. I tried explaining this to a QM Tech at a Gunner regiment in Gutersloh in the late eighties - it was like trying to explain nuclear fission to a piece of cheese.

2:53 Fitter Matt is an... outstanding individual :P Since the welding thingy seems to digust him, I'd suggest using something more manly. like a newspaper 🤙

Loving the content! Loving Ted more though

I used to huff red oxide paint right out the can snort it up get high and shoplift. Great times

Carefull with arc eye!!

@johnnunn8688

Жыл бұрын

That’s why Matt did the safety squint.

Yes! Tanks, Ted and Fitter Matt👍

Definitely get an auto dark lens, they’re 40$ at my weld shop and amazing

It is sweet of you to worry about the shop pooch. We have a couple stray cats that hang around the shop where i work, and i always worry sbout their eyes getting flash burns from welding

Lovely stuff again lads

Berlin camo is so cool

I wish I had these skills.

I repainted the Chieftain 1000 at the Yorkshire Air Museum some six or seven years ago, with a two inch brush, (well about a dozen actually, easier to use a new one rather than trying to clean them). Really really enjoyed it, amazing how many of the visitors wanted to talk about it, and how many ex army guys had so many stories to tell. It stands outside and needs painting again, still worth a visit, how many times can you say , I parked next to a Chieftain?

@oddball_the_blue

Жыл бұрын

Last year (parked next to said Chieftain...). Good work on it though, the paint job still looked good.

I think you only have Ted to wipe your oily hands on. He's really a yellow lab.

Matt's a treasure. A national treasure.

Ted is the bestest boy and is already dressed in camo

Good Ted content!

NAR JUST LOVES HIS DAD ! OR HE'S CHECKING TO SEE IF YOUR REDDY TO EAT ??? LOL

I think fitter mat , will end up with a big purple welders /alcoholic’s nose welding with out a mask 😂

0:20 "Did you just call my face *fat*?!" 0:33 "Berlin? Don't they have wurst there! Send me to the city of sosig!" 1:30 "Can't resist the wrench if you're fucking liquid!" 1:51 Fitter Matt confirmed Zoroastrian? Ask Fitter Matt to recover that Ram! 5:16 I am an amorphous Frankensteinian construct of duct tape, rusty antique weaponry and cats. I do not have a life. 9:15 We luvs Ted. 11:00 has that *absolute infidel* painted over the lights?

Looking good boys . Would be bice to know your background / and the boys how you got started in the game .

@MrHewes

Жыл бұрын

Il do a vid as some point

Matt with the safety squints

Guys u need to buy a 2ltr pressure pot for painting,,, will speed u up a lot

Sending Ted loads of love. (Shedloads of love?)

U should put one of those starter motors in something like the Diesel brothers have. ❤❤

It is going to be awesome lads!

Good day to you all from the USA I live in Texas and just found out we can't bring a tank in the USA now

@MrHewes

Жыл бұрын

You sure can we have sent 2 out recently!

Arctic camo undercoat! Lol

Ted is a bit of a star

Fitter Matt will get Arc Eye not using welding mask. Be careful bud 👍🏼

@ThePhoenix198

6 ай бұрын

Nah, it's okay, he was using safety squints.

Good to see the ol safety squints in use 🤣 Awesome videos guys Also where can I purchase one of the mr hewes jumpers??

Ah the good ol safety squints

Ted is the new site manager

I’ve seen pics of these Berlin tanks, in the urban environment, they really do disappear. Some officer came up with the cam, I believe?

Ted should have his own channel

It looks like the exhaust tip was smashed off and dented the tube duct? Nice one :)

Could you add a 'cope cage' to it... I'm sure Seb won't mind.

I painted berlin on a 432 in 2017👍🏻

I am more curious about the pre paint task of cleaning up all the debris, rust, mud, leaves, crusty old paint and oil.

How much of the rust and crap do you have to take off before doing this? Seems less so from (what may be incomplete view of your process) than when I see rust filled cars being restored? Looks bloody great after the paint I have to say. Good as new

You should get a pressure pot for that amount of painting ???

Matt welds like I do, puts mask down, use eye lids 😂

Guys, have you tried a lazer rust remover? are they any good?

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I don't know if it's the same in the UK, but military paint in North America is two pack which contains isocyanate which gives off cyanide gas when welded, burned or grinded.

@johnnunn8688

Жыл бұрын

And?

@vvr881

Жыл бұрын

​@@johnnunn8688 ...u Die

@stevemorris3710

Жыл бұрын

If you breath that stuff you'll end up making up words like 'grinded'.

@swagmanexplores7472

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemorris3710 🤣

Surprised you guys haven't got a sand blaster tbh

@ThePhoenix198

6 ай бұрын

Rationale for not using one on a partially disassembled tank is explained in another video. Apparently, the sand gets everywhere it shouldn't (into grease packed bearings, for instance) and turns into grinding paste. Also, a bitch to clear up after.

I really want to work with you guys

Did Mat go to Skipton fer the tan?

Tedd needs more air time, possibly a Ted-cam

It can get really painful extracting "nuts".😂

@1chish

Жыл бұрын

There is a very funny but unprintable joke about 'extracting nuts'.. 😂😂

Adding Krisps to paint for texture?