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NEED HELP IN PAINT PREP

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Jake Wilken

08-28-2005 20:59:24




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I am taking apart and restoring a farmall cub i purchased. This is my first time doing this with no previous experience and i have been very anxious to get started. I have some money but I also have time so how is the best way to strip the tractor down. I dont have a air compressor powerful enough to run a sandblaster, and I tried the oven cleaner with minimal and slow success. I was thinking about putting a wire brush/ wheel on my angle grinder. What do you think? And also what do I do after that? Prime and paint. It cant be that easy....any info would be helpful thanks....

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scott#2

08-29-2005 19:18:30




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 Re: NEED HELP IN PAINT PREP in reply to Jake Wilken, 08-28-2005 20:59:24  
I started a SA a while back and am starting back up on it. I used a 50 gallon stock tank, lye/water mix and a battery charger. It completly stripped all the paint and ate up the red rust. Took about a week to strip it all. All the parts were then coated with a rust neutralizer pickelex and must for rust so I could get back to them at a later time. From there they will be wire wheeled down and primed. Read all the post you can from CNKS and Rod on this forum. They are about 95% responsible for this resto turning out as good as it will.

Thanks Rod & CNKS,

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FiremanJohn

08-29-2005 17:38:20




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 Re: NEED HELP IN PAINT PREP in reply to Jake Wilken, 08-28-2005 20:59:24  
I am on my second tractor restoration doing it that way. I take apart almost every nut, linkage, etc and wire wheel. I have taken bigger things such as front axles to be sandblasted, usually it is quite reasonable. I am afraid to get the sand near anything important though. Your best bet would be simple spray cans of primer on each part as you do it, otherwise you could get surface rust. Then you can either give one coat of primer over the reassembled tractor or paint as is. Good luck. I am no expert but my 411B Case looks good two years later.

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CNKS

08-29-2005 11:41:04




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 Re: NEED HELP IN PAINT PREP in reply to Jake Wilken, 08-28-2005 20:59:24  
People do everything from a simple pressure washing and painting to removing every part then cleaning and painting each one separately. One person on the Farmall forum "prepped" and painted a IH 460 in a half day -- he seemed quite proud of it. I remove all parts and use a combination of oven cleaner, chemical stripper and a cup brush on an angle grinder, along with several electric drill type brushes. There is no easy way. I probably get 95-99% of the old paint and rust off. I also sandblast some individual parts, not the whole tractor. Sandblasting is faster, but not essential. The parts are then cleaned thoroughly with PPG DX 330/440 wax and grease remover, and primed with epoxy primer, followed by topcoating. The sheet metal gets epoxy primer and several coats of a sandable surfacer, and is then topcoated with acrylic urethane. Anything you use hardener in requires a supplied air system because the isocyanates in hardeners will make you sick, at the least, and can kill. You can use epoxy primers (most of them, anyway) lacquer surfacers and acrylic enamel topcoats with only a charcoal mast. Much more info in on the following pages and in the archives. Do a search for "prep before painting".

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Jake Wilken

08-29-2005 18:52:03




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 thanks in reply to CNKS, 08-29-2005 11:41:04  
thanks guys for the paint prep tips. I will start stripping her down this week...talk to you soon....



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