Re: Farmall Red colors

Posted by ScottyHOMEy on October 24, 2009 at 19:54:28 from (70.105.238.87):

In Reply to: Farmall Red colors posted by Raymond in co on October 24, 2009 at 19:22:33:

That Van Sickle might dry to the kind of red you want.

Paint is funny stuff.

You mention maroon. PPGs formulas for IH 2150 are mostly violet and, from there and depending on the base, made red by the addition of one of several oranges, some black and, in some bases, a kiss of white. I went through a whole exercise with the PPG when I underestimated the amount of paint I needed and went back for more. They used the same base and formula for pigments as the first batch but it was WAY off. In the end I had them scan some parts that I had already painted and the formula they came up with was only mildly related to the first batch. (It was a high volume supplier, and I still think they put a wrong can of pigment in their computerized wall of stired pigments. . .) It'll be interesting, if I live long enough, to see how the two formulas fade.

Two more points to illustrate --

First, the original batch was only violet, another orange and black. The scanned formula for pigments to make two quarts in the base I used was 817.7 parts Red, 794.3 parts Organic Orange, 658.8 parts Violet, 18.2 parts Black and 10.6 parts White. That's not by way of giving you a formula, but more to illustrate that there were almost 220 units of pigment in the mix, and they were measuring it down to the tenth. Measuring it within a whole ten would have been impressive, but pigments are that strong and it makes a difference.

Second point -- My '47 BN was built in the period when IH's paint supplier was hit by a labor strike, and they were stretching their red by cutting a little yellow into it. My uncle remembers well the day they brought the "little red tractor" to the farm. I knew that tractor when it wasn't all that old and the still tight original paint on it faded through an almost Allis Chalmers orange and eventually down to a brown instead of the usual rosy pink.

There have been several variations on the color. The two most common were IH50 (redder) and later IH 2150 (still red, but with a bit more of an orange cast to the eye).

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