Instruction Manual for Your New Tiger Tank

[Jacob]

Manual here: http://www.alanhamby.com/tigerfibel.shtml

Sample page:

[MadImmortalMan]

The illustrations are sweet. Lots of naked ladies.

[Berkut]

This is very cool.

[Admiral Yi]

I was deterred from clicking the link by the unappealing sample page.

[Pedrito]

The kind of bi-color red-black print reminds me a lot of old Marklin model trains manuals. Oh, and the complexity, too.

L.

[derspiess]

Awesome.  Skimmed through part of it but I'll wait until my boring conference calls later today to read through it in detail.

[KRonn]

Pretty interesting. I liked some of the info on the engine,  compact but underpowered even in its upgraded version. The engine compartment wasn't large enough to allow a bigger engine.

  The compact engine put out tremendous power for its size. It was 4 feet long, 3 feet 2 inches wide and 3 feet 1 inch tall without the air cleaners. It was mounted in a sealed compartment at the rear of the Tiger.
The engine was rushed into production without all the bugs being worked out. The engine could not be reliably operated at its maximum power output of 3000 rpms and indeed the operating manual given to the Tiger crews, the Tigerfibel, recommended no more than 2600 rpms. It soon became obvious that the Tiger I was seriously underpowered. Because of the tight engine compartment and other technical limitations it was impossible to install a physically larger, more powerful motor. As a result the original engines displacement was increased by replacing the aluminum cylinder block with a cast iron block and boring it out to 23.88 liters (1457 cubic inches). This increased the weight of the motor but also increased the rigidity. The result was a gain in power to 700bhp at 3000rpm. The new engine was designated the Maybach HL 230 TRM P45.

Only the first 250 Tigers had the HL 210 engine. But even the power increase from the HL 210 to the HL 230 was not enough. While it was comparable in speed to other German tanks of the time, it was still slower than many of its adversaries, such as the Russian T34. It also had a high fuel consumption rate of approximately 2.75 gallons per mile. Since the total fuel capacity of the four fuel tanks was around 125 gallons (568 liters), the operational range of a Tiger I was limited and refueling stops had to be frequent, especially when traveling off road. German logistic plans expected the Tiger to be able to travel 121.2 miles (195km) on road and 68.4 miles (110km) off road before refueling.

[derspiess]

Wonder if they had a similar manual for Panthers.

[PDH]

Wonder if they had a similar manual for Panthers.

Engine:  Warning it will catch on fire.

[derspiess]

Wonder if they had a similar manual for Panthers.

Engine:  Warning it will catch on fire.

That was fixed.

[PDH]

Wonder if they had a similar manual for Panthers.

Engine:  Warning it will catch on fire.

That was fixed.

Revised
Gearbox, it will break.

[derspiess]

Revised
Gearbox, it will break.

Operator error

[Syt]

A friend of mine had a Tiger-Fibel that he had gotten from his grandpa.

[Ed Anger]

Which was the page for what to do when Sherman's got on your rear while trying to manually traverse the turret?

[derspiess]

Which was the page for what to do when Sherman's got on your rear while trying to manually traverse the turret?

The page that has the funny cartoon with the panzer dude saying "Ich...hab mir... in die Hose geschissen."

And then Elvira starts screwing some GI.