[Farmall] Painting F-20

[John Hall]

I do my own cleaning and painting so here is what I do on my stuff. First 
off I'm not retired so I don't have 10 hours a day 7 days a week to dedicate 
to my iron. Therefore I clean and paint when I can. Right now time is so 
scarce that I am dissasembling, cleaning, priming and painting in 
sections(I'm also playing mechanic at the same time.) Normally it is not 
enough to justify using a big spray gun so I use good quality spray can 
paint and primer. I feel its the best I can do given the amount of time I 
have to work on it. I am sandblasting everything so rust is not an issue. If 
you are wirebrushing you may want to use also a rust converter. Some of them 
leave brush strokes on cast iron so a little trial and error sampling may be 
in order. As for sheet metal (hoods fenders etc.) you'll proablaly be 
happier with at least using a real spray gun for painting and probably for 
priming as well---but with sheet metal there are things such as dents and 
pits to fill so that can get to be a real education.

John Hall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Pitts" <mgomaize at yahoo.com>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: [Farmall] Painting F-20


> OK, so I have the F-20 I have been working on for years running.  Now, I 
> would like to to be a bit more pleasing to the eye.  Anyone know anyone 
> within a couple hours of Ann Arbor, MI who paints tractors?
>
> Barring that, an education on cleaning secrets, and primer, paint 
> combinations would be appreciated.  If I paint it myself, I will not be 
> investing in the super safe breathing equipment, so that eliminates 
> certain types of painst with ISO's (?).
>
> My guess is that prep would be a slow process, so is there a system I can 
> use where my first coat of primer could be brushed on as I complete the 
> prep on a given part?  I don't see myself being able to spend enough time 
> on it to complete it in a weeken or the like.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
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> Tony Pitts
> Ann Arbor, MI
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/pitts/mbf
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