Re: square head bolts and paint codes

Posted by Farmall Gray on July 29, 1999 at 20:20:47 from (152.163.232.22):

In Reply to: square head bolts and paint codes posted by R Rahmier on July 26, 1999 at 20:01:48:

I buy all of my bolts from a local bolt supply
house. Most towns should have one They don't always have what I need in square heads but can order them. I had to have them order me 2 boxes of bolts to do the radiator on my Regular. They also carry heavy nuts which is what most of the nuts on thes old tractors are(bigger hex than normal-ie a 3/8" nut with a 5/8 hex). I have also
found that their prices are much lower than anyone else in town-even Lowes. Correct hex bolts are what I have not been able to find. The bolts on these old Farmalls have a taller head with no markings. Some have a dot in the middle. That is really getting fussy though. The #s for the gray
paint are Dupont 27625 or Napa Martin Senour 8711.
These numbers will have a prefix added to them
to indicate what type of paint they are. The complete Napa # for acrylic enamel is 99L-8711.There is some color variation between brands but I have been told over the years that there was some variation from year to year on tractors from the factory. Paint wasn't as sophisticated
back then. I got a fomula for PPG paint from Rice Eq that they said was supposed to be the original
formula that IH used, but when I took it to a PPG
dealer, they said that it wouldn't work and they couldn't mix it. I would suspect that some of the
mixing toners have been discontinued. At any rate,
the #s I gave you are generally accepted as a correct match for IHC gray.

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