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Great point! All I know is right now the gears halfway when they're turning the top ones are tight. So I'm assuming that the bearings are messed up or the main shaft is bent. So other than turning the tail shaft and working the gear leavers you would have to be sure it's spaced out correctly with the differential.

@@evanmolnar1351 Hello Evan, thank you for watching my videos and thanks for the question. I got most of the parts from collectors on a forum on Facebook. You can search Facebook groups. Try typing in "Kettenkrad" and search. There is at least a couple of forums. I got some parts years ago and also from a person who used to specialize in making parts for the Kettenkrad.

@@JMark-zk5pj hello thanks for watching and thanks for the question. The turret Winder is the device on the inside that enables the turret to spin around. You turn a crank handle that turns some gears. The gear then pushes on the ring gear that the turret sits on. This makes the turret move.

@@alexyfretel5948 no problem Let me know what I can do to help you

No problem! I like to share my interest with the world what technology nowadays it doesn't take much to just shoot a quick video. Thank you for taking your time with all your nice responses. Have a great week

Thanks much Mark I greatly appreciate your response! The chassis was built in Sweden during the war I like to remind people that this is an LTV 38 and then the Germans called it the 38t and then the Suides called something else but it is a wartime chassis. The Turret was produced by the Germans as well as the engine and transmission. I've been able to find some other things that are actually produced during the War.

@@ddegn hello thanks for responding I hope you like my video makes me wonder what do the new armored vehicles use what kind of transmission and differential is considered modern

@@warbarn2510 Apparently turning treaded vehicles has been a difficult since their inception. I just read Wikiipedia's *Tank steering systems* article and it looks like there have been a variety of methods used to turn tanks. Personally I've only made small treaded robots. I always use two or four motors to power the robots. I use encoders on the motors so I can accurately control the speed of the individual treads.

Hello I know the experimented with electrical drive and some modern vehicles use hydrostatic drive to with hydraulics

@@stevenslavicek9711 hello thanks for responding from what I understand over the years just about every part was made other than maybe the engine block crankshaft transmission and gearbox cases I heard there was someone several years ago who made three complete bodies. There's someone else is supposed to be making the bodies too so when engines run out I'm not sure how they will power these reproductions?

@@pipikr yes is this Pat?

I think of you when I am putting the brakes together and how you crafted my parts

@@alexyfretel5948 Hello I assume your name is Alexy? It is great you have enthusiasm towards rebuilding one of these !Thanks for responding yes, I consider myself very lucky to have this project. I am not a millionaire I was at the right place at the right time. I had to clear out all my bank accounts and get a small loan too. But I think it's worth it .I had other vehicles and I was able to sell multiple vehicles to get this project. Most people thought it was impossible to transform the post-war chassis back into the wartime configuration. But I'm doing it!😊 I have pictures that I have blown up from 38t reference books. One of the books is out of date. However I'm more than willing to share the pictures that I have. And if you need measurements I can also take measurements too it's nice meeting you and I hope I can help you with your project and perhaps you can help me with mine too? And hopefully we can coordinate and assist each other with our Restorations. Who knows maybe a reproduction part you're making I need as well.

@@warbarn2510 Nice to meet you sir "I was at the right place at the right time" WOW very lucky. i have this project in my mind for a long time when I was still in my engineering school. well if you need help i can try but I think you are one step ahead of me. i have some documentation if you want. and I am a volunteer at the armored museum in France so maybe even more documents of panzer 38t hulls. Where can I contact you? and i can't wait to see this little panzer running again !

@@alexyfretel5948 hello are you on Facebook? maybe I could send you a friend request so we can communicate via messenger?? It's a lot of work to make one of these however it is mostly all straight plates with a few exceptions. Have you seen Rolf tankman's reproduction? It came out really good.

@@warbarn2510 Yes give me your profil, and i don't see the Rolf's reproduction. I follow the panzer 1 project with spain team to build a full correct thickness and cast panzer 1

@@alexyfretel5948 James George Walker

@@slackers2002 Thanks bro! I appreciate it 😁

@@nunovsky77 yes even though the turret Winder was painted over and over and it's dirty , the inside was Immaculate I think it's all very service life perhaps a few military exercises and then the vehicle was probably mothballed

@@albertmartino8844 Great hearing from you! I am not a mechanic per se. But I began tinkering with hot rods in the 80's. So, mechanics were simpler back then.No ECM, no emmisions, no sensors etc. Same with the WW2 stuff 😊

@@warbarn2510 Melinda turned me on to your YT. very cool

@@albertmartino8844 hello Albert good to hear from you! Feel free to comment have a great week

Our pleasure!

@@nunovsky77 👍 Yes, I think I could pimp my ride 😛

@@markburd8541 very well, I appreciate your input Mark!

Cool, thanks!

Glad it was helpful!

Makes sense. Thank you for your response! There were many tracked vehicles most had tracks designed just for that specific vehicle. I am not well versed in the wide variety of styles.

Hello, Yes the outer cup of the bearing is pressed into the track. Then the needle carrier fits in that.

I think you are right. yes the bigger panzers and half tracks were actually carried by rail most of the time toward where the action was. The Kettenkrad had to go probably futher distances for it served many roles.

You bet!

Hello you are correct and I agree with you. It seems the Axis industry was not concerned yet with making things quickly. Some car factories nowadays make 1000 cars a day! My quick math figures there were less than 20 Kettenkrads made a day! Granted the NSU factory was making other vehicles, bikes etc

Hello good question. I know there were two big feed bins inside the fighting compartment. Presumably one for each machine gun there were storage bins for the main gun ammo in the rear of the turret. I guess another option to replenish the ammo would be to just furnished loose rounds and refill the belts?

Hello KL thanks for the response and the question! I think it would be a great video to show how the links go together with all the bits and pieces. Give me a little bit of time I'll make a video or at least a short for you😀

Thank you Steve! How I been?

Hello I envision it all painted all the same color late War dunkel. I'm not too concerned about markings but a set of Repro plates might be nice. That is what I call an icing on a cake kind of an item. A fellow collector and friend used a radiator from a British car I believe it fit into the housing. He did need to modify it but it did work and it keeps it cool. I'm not sure if modern lubricants Aid in the cooling of the vehicle you would think so though right? I have to look into it but I heard if you use synthetic oil that helps the engine run cooler. Id like to do that but I need to see the pros and cons of using synthetics. I am using synthetic grease and gear lube wherever I can. For these purposes I don't think it could harm anything. I mean if it wears less and a vehicle last longer and perhaps run smoother to me it seems like a simple answer. Now the engine might be a different thing with tight tolerances and multiple parts of the engine doing different functions it could affect things differently. I think in general it's okay to use synthetic in the engine as well.

Thank you so much for watching my video thank you for the input I will try to answer your question the best I can. Yes the travel lock and the traversing mechanism are in one housing there is an additional stopping bar with a button for the people inside the turret. So you can lock this from below with the lever in the video. OR there is a bar, which I'll try to make a video in the weeks and months to come, then not only do you grab onto but if you push the button it connects to the locking mechanism on the traversing body. Your other question is a good one did they continue to use the Czechoslovakian Factory workers when they took over the plant? Then supplant their own work sheriffs and supervisors? Or was there a complete change of personnel they continue to use the Czech machine gun. Although they had to put their own marketing symbol on everything! I do have those symbols on the inside of the turret in several places and on my deactivated zb37.

@@warbarn2510 nice nioce! thanks for the answer!! i really love the work you are doing!! any plan on cotinuing with the Kettenkrad??

Hello yes I continue to Hopscotch from Kettenkrad to 38t. I've been waiting on some parts for the kettenkrad. other parts for a really long time. I have the brake levers so what that means is I can put on the stopping breaks and assemble breaking lever which goes through the Gear Drive. I hope to work on that beginning next week.

@@warbarn2510 Cant wait to see it! By the way, i had anothother question...(Hope you dont mind) How are the thin rubber tires attached to the kettenkrad roadwheels? are they shrunk on? or glued??

The rubber is actually put on a metal rim and then heated and then pushed onto the rim originally. I had a place who restores lift truck wheels do mine. They made a mold and poor polyurethane so it's not exactly original but just as strong perhaps even stronger

Hello Mark! Thanks for the response. I appreciate your input. You are correct in that I need to make what I can myself. Surely messing up a small inexpensive piece of sheet metal would not break the 🏦. I consider this though an icing on the cake type of item. Needed yes but low priority. When I see an original item and period for this tank that I need. I do try and purchase them. Would you by chance be in the metals industry? I figured you might since Pittsburgh used to be the "Iron City" and steel producing giant.

Thank you Tim! I appreciate your input. Thanks for watching 😁

Heck yeah I thought about that. But most of this work needs to be done I mean I have to take apart these things to see the damage on the inside most of the projects I'm building are from the ground up anyway

@@warbarn2510 Good point...No choice i guess! Thanks!

Thanks my man!

Hello Thank you for watching my videos! I can most certainly do requests. I can do an overview of the rear flap. Give me a bit of time and I will do it. The gear box I have begun taking apart but have stopped for I have too many disassembled systems all over. ! is there something specific in the box you wish to see?

@@warbarn2510 Thanks!!! i would love to see the reason why the fangearbox it even there and also the way its mounted to the bottom of the tub!! thanks! im uilding a 20th scale metal kettenkrad at the moment...would love to have a real one...

You got it glad you liked it

Hello yes thank you for watching my videos! how you been?

Glad you like them!

Hello thanks bud I appreciate it hey feel free to put in a request I could definitely do some more details or more specifics of a certain system or a certain items let me know what you want I'll try to accommodate

Hello Mark thank you for subscribing and thank you for your nice comments I appreciate it. I'm glad you like my videos

Thank you sir I will try to interject as much as comedy 😂 as possible !! I appreciate your response you have a great weekend

Hey much appreciated thanks for chiming in maybe ithere willl be one tomorrow lol

Good question, the big gear is towards the sprocket. There is a threaded hole on the end. Once the sprocket is put on the nut will screw into this outer gear. There are many questions I had and still have! Feel free to ask.

Thanks so much!! so does this mean the red oilfill plug is on the inside of the vehicle??@@warbarn2510

Hello The Fill plugs are on the outside there might be an additional one on the inside but I don't think so. I will check it out soon.

awesome! thanks!@@warbarn2510

Hello I'm just checking out the Kettenkrad gear reductions. There's actually one filler point on the inside of the vehicle and then there's two access nuts on the outside for fluid. Not sure why there's three I mean one on the inside is high up to fill it ones on the bottom on the outside to drain it perhaps the third one is to check the level?

Thanks again!

Hello, Yes I got your message thank you! I am glad you share your enthusiasm about this piece of history. It is a diamond in the rough but I am working on putting a shine in it!

Thank you