[AT] restoring a steering wheel

[Roger Welsch]

Cecil...

I use PC-7 because it sets up slower than Bondo and gives more time to shape
it.  I file it and sand it down, fill in where I need to, seal with a
primer, fine sand, and then spray paint with a matte black.  I've never been
very good at this kind of fine work but I'm proud of how my steering wheels
have turned out.

Rog


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: [AT] restoring a steering wheel


> My newly acquired D-12 Series III Allis Chalmers tractor
> originally had a cream colored steering wheel. It appears to me to
> have been factory painted over the black wheel. As most of the paint
> has worn off due to normal use and there are only a few thin cracks
> in the wheel itself, I thought I'd vee out the cracks, fill them with
> Bondo or something of that sort and then paint it. Bob Brooks was
> over here one day while I was looking it over and suggested I use
> the off white enamel used on my Woods mowers as it appeared to be a
> very close match to the Allis Chalmers cream color. I've never done
> a steering wheel before and wondered if anyone has experience with
> regular enamel paint lasting when used to paint a steering wheel?
> Also, if any of you have painted steering wheels, and I suppose you
> have, what did you use for paint?  If you painted an Allis steering
> wheel, what paint and what color did you use?
>
> Thanks for any help with this matter.
>
> Cecil
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
> Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
>
> Free advice
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