Posted by CWB on December 15, 2007 at 19:41:58 from (70.100.227.17):
I'm a 24 year old fresh out of the army and back on the farm now so its time I finally got around to painting the tractors we use the most. Between my dad, my brother and myself, we've got a F-12 with steel wheels all around. a "good from 10 feet" restored H, a decent unrestored M with an original IH 8 ft belly mount sickle mower, and the one I'm starting on now, the 100. My 100 was owned by the army until the 70's when my grandfather bought it and used the belt pulley to run some equipment. My brother re-sleeved the engine in the early 90's and we've used it since for firewood and hay raking duties. Strangely enough, it was originally red, but the army painted it industrial yellow over red and I'm having fun with the wire wheel removing an inch of paint! I grew up using and fixing these tractors, but this is my first attempt at a "restoration," so please bear with me on silly questions. Mainly it'll be paint and a little straightening as this is still going to be a working tractor, not a show piece. I was wondering what you do to try and preserve the tabs inside the grill shell insert when youre removing rust? They're the ones that hold the mesh screen farmers put in there to keep weeds out of the radiator. My wire wheel I'm pretty sure will rip them off as I think the sand blaster would too. Any ideas? Also, how do you remove the emblems without breaking them? They appear to be crimped on. Quick story because I know people love these. After we bought the F-12 almost 20 years ago, my dad remembered when he was a kid and they had one on the farm. It was a rubber tired one with a single on the front. When my grandfather scrapped it he took the frontend off. I went exploring and yup...found the frontend to go along with our F-12. Similar story with the H. My brother bought it at auction 2 years ago because it had brand new tires on it and paid next to nothing. Got it home and went exploring on the farm and wouldnt you know...we found a set of fenders for it. Its a nice H, but I'm still waiting to get access to my grandfather's Super M Diesel with power steering...now that's a tractor
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