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CNKS
02-21-2005 10:07:23
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Re: Legendary Gray Paint Offered by McCormick-deer in reply to SproutW, 02-21-2005 07:39:55
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You are not wasting anyone's time by asking questions -- and again, what I said about the NOS paint was only an opinion. I am not that familiar with any colors before IH changed to red in 1936?? or so. Thus I don't know the gray codes. Someone on the Farmall board might. You might study the archives on this forum, as to types of paint, then ask specific questions, though. Basically you want to take your tractors to bare metal, use epoxy primer on everything, then use a sandable surfacer on the sheet metal, followed by either acrylic enamel or acrylic urethane topcoat. If you use hardener, it requires special breathing equipment -- a positive pressure supplied air system, since a charcoal mask will not filter out iso's. Since you are doing more than one tractor, you might consider the hardeners. Some people will tell you to start with something simpler -- I don't agree, unless you simply can't afford to spend the money up front. You will get better results (and spend more money) with hardened paint. If you are sure you are only going to do a one or two tractor deal, then perhaps you should just use acrylic enamel without hardener. I haven't read any books in years, and those are now out of date -- everything you need to have (except experience) can be found on this and other forums -- sometimes it may be difficult to separate good advice from bad, but you will eventually be able to sort it out. You will find a few of us that will tell you exactly the same thing -- probably then you can have an assurance that it is the correct information. I'm not going to name names because there are several who don't post very often, who might feel left out -- you will learn who you can rely on.
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