Finally Picked my Paint!

Thanks in advance!

I also went with the red tinted primer to aid in coverage. My total cost was about $500.00 in materials to use the Concept system. I probably over-bought on quanities, but I am painting small sections while re-assembling the tractor so there will be some waste. Someone who is painting a tractor that is mostly assembled could get by for a little less $$$.

I suspect I will use a primer/surfacer such as PPG K36 which is sandable on the tin work over the epoxy. The cast is pretty rough by nature, so not much point in doing a lot of sanding there.

I am going to repeat here what CNKS has stated many times: If you are going to use a paint system with hardeners, you MUST use the proper safety gear (supplied air system, etc.). My PPG distributor recounted some horror stories of people who thought this was not necessary.

I'll throw my opinion in here. Nothing beats epoxy for a bare metal primer. If you want to stay within the PPG system (and I think you should), you have two choices for epoxy primer. One is PPG's DPLF, their high end epoxy. It comes in several different shades and is pricey, as should be expected. It would be a good choice under the reasonably high end single stage Concept urethane that lcbateman mentions. The other choice (will not be on the tech sheet for Concept) would be PPG's OMNI MP-170. That is their "economy" epoxy primer and would be an excellent choice under the OMNI MTK single stage urethane. It all depends on how much you want to spend. My guess is that the Concept/DPLF combination will run about three times more expensive than the MTK/MP-170 combination. Whether you get three times the value from the higher end products on tractors where exact panel matching to an auto OEM shade is not required is open to debate. I think not but I am not going to knock the high end products - they are excellent. A few years ago I moved (down) from DPLF to MP-170 without regret.

Rod