[AT] Wheel Paint

[Roger Moffat]

Thanks for the thoughts Phil and others

My intention at this time was just to actually paint the inside of the rim after having it sandblasted - from one bead area over to the other, and leave the rest of it (the outside so to speak) the way it is in its mostly original paint. The rim still pretty much shows the original aluminium/zinc colour on the outside - it’s just the inside that has become rusted. The wheel disc is a bit more faded and chipped, but I wasn’t going to paint that either.

As I said to the sandblast guy when I dropped the rim off this afternoon "I only want to paint the inside, because if I paint all of it, then the rest of the tractor will look like crap" in its 70 year old faded chipped paint.

Getting the rim galvanised would be a huge challenge I think - I tried to get the much smaller rims off my 1926 Franklin car galvanised a couple of years ago and got told I’d have to send them to Tennessee I think it was (or maybe Kentucky) - that no one in Michigan would do them - this came from a guy who nickel plated a couple of smaller things for me for the Franklin - the rims were too big for him to even think about doing.

I ended up doing the Franklin rims with the Rustoleum Cold Zinc, although at this time of year I can’t really spray as I have nowhere outside the house that’s at all heated to get to the minimum 50° that Rustoleum says is needed for their spray cans, and a quart to brush on is $50! I might just go with one of the Rustoleum metal primer quarts that are around $10 (yes I’m cheap LOL).

Roger 

> On Dec 2, 2019, at 2:52 PM, Phil Auten <pga2 at basicisp.net> wrote:
> 
> I don't know if others have replied yet, so here's my 2¢. the rims were originally galvanized. If you want originality you could have them re-galvanized, but it sounds like you just want to get the tires back on and put the Cub back to work. You might try that Rustoleum  cold zinc or you could just spray them with whatever you have. The inside won't matter much since it won't show, but the outside would look really close to original with a hammertone finish. I "think" Rustoleum offers a paint for that. If it were me, I would just paint them real well with any color  and then top coat with Aluminum paint. That's what I did on the front rims on my M and it has held up well.
> 
> Phil in TX
> 
> 
> On 12/2/2019 12:02 PM, Roger Moffat wrote:
>> Afternoon All - a tractor question if I may…
>> 
>> I have a Farmall Cub from around 1948/49 with 7.5-24 rear tyres on it. On of them kept going flat so I finally took it apart yesterday - the mid mounted blade on the Cub had just enough downwards pressure to help me break the beads on both sides with some hammering to assist. The tube had several small holes in it, so I have a new tube coming from Amazon.
>> 
>> The rim is also quite rusty, on the bead sealing areas as well as across most of the area where the tube sits, so I’m going to take it to get it sandblasted this afternoon.
>> 
>> What would/should it be painted with  - the part that contacts the tube and tyre bead areas? Just some Rustoleum paint, or something a bit more specialised like Rustoleum Cold Zinc, or ?? Something I can brush on would be best since it’s too cold here in Michigan for any spraying from a can at the moment, I’ll have to lug the rim down into my basement and let it warm up there before painting it I guess.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Roger
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