[AT] Farmall Super A data plate....

[Mike Sloane]

Try ordinary paint remover, Goo-Gone, carburetor cleaner, lacquer 
thinner, oven cleaner, etc. Apply whatever you try with a cotton swab 
wearing rubber gloves and try not to get it anywhere else but on the 
serial number area. A little gentle rubbing with very fine 0000 steel 
wool while the paint is soft probably won't hurt. You can fill the 
stamped-in numbers with black paint rubbed on with your finger, or even 
dirty old grease (works for me!) to bring out the numbers, once the old 
paint is removed.

In practical terms, it probably doesn't really matter what year the 
tractor was built - virtually nothing significant was changed on the 
Super A during its production. But it is something folks always like to 
know. There will be a date code somewhere on the engine block that will 
tell when the engine was cast, which is generally about 3-6 months 
before the tractor was built - IH usually liked to "age" the cast iron 
parts before assembly. The date code will be something like 12-31-A (A 
being the first year they were used, 1931, running to Z in 1954 and then 
starting over again in 1955 until 1958.)

Mike

Howard Rawls wrote:

>     I want to determine exactly what year model this tractor is, but I can't
> quite read the  painted over numbers on the data plate. Does anyone know of
> a "best" way to remove the paint so the numbers can be read??? I hesitated
> to just start scraping for fear I would make a bad situation worse.
> Thanks again for any suggestions!
> Howard Rawls
> Vanceboro, NC
> 
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