[AT] Good bye!

[Terry Welch]

I would first see what you can afford to spend. You also needto look at age of vehicle, do you plan on keeping it long. Do you want to make a show piece out of it. What type of use are these boxes getting? Do you want to spray or brush? House paint will not give you the shine, but good exterior paint will hold up. Equipment paint holds up Ok. But I would suggest a hardner in it or other wise it will shorten the life of of it quite a bit. It tends to caulk out. The hardner helps hold the shine. The automotive style Urethane will hold up the best but will be very pricey. As for you in CA there might be some restrictions on what you can use. I would check with local paint shops on this. The water base paint that was talked about earlier might be just what you need. But remember most of all ALWAYS WHERE A MASK THAT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM THE PAINT AND HARDNER. Look what you can spend and talk to the local paint store to get the most bang for your buck.
  Terry 

Grant Brians <gbrians at hollinet.com> wrote:
  Terry, I need to paint my box trucks with signage. Can I use house paint to 
do the job or does it require the use of new type auto paint? Or should I 
actually use the new expensive stuff? Or old implement enamel? My budget is 
seriously STRETCHED. Thanks for a few tips.
Grant Brians
Hollister California
p.s. Thank you very much

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Welch" 
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Good bye!


>I remember the boxes very well as I was the first on to carry one away from 
>the starting point at Paul's place. Handed it off to Guy Fay. It was fun 
>and good learning experience then. It was great meeting the nice people on 
>this list. I do not post much here any more because the so called experts 
>tell you everything you do is wrong. I used to answer questions on painting 
>equipment as this is what I did for over 30 years. I am no expert, even 
>though I do have some lic. that says I am a Master Tech in this area. I 
>listen to see if I can learn something and maybe help someone else. But 
>when I get blown off and told that I do not know anything. It is time for 
>me to set back and lurk.
> Terry
>
>
>
> Who remembers the long voyage of "The Boxes" that so many of us were
> involved with. For those who don't know the story here's a short version.
> Spencer had a JD "M" that he was going to restore. A bunch of us came up
> with the idea of getting a set of manuals for it and circulating them as 
> far
> as possible, by face-to-face meetings between members. Seems like there
> were four manuals and they each took a different trip. Each carrier signed
> the book before passing it on. I met some nice folks while I was involved
> with the box. If I remember right we managed to keep it secret and I think
> the box, with the manuals back together (only three, seems like one
> disappeared enroute to/from So. Africa) were given to Spencer at the
> Portland show. That goes back a ways, seems like it was 1997 or '98 we did
> that.
>
>
>
> Al Nadeau
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