[AT] Green Farmall Cub
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Tue Mar 3 05:59:25 PST 2020
I have had several airless campbell hausfeld units that sucked paint out
of a bucket over the years. They worked ok. In about 1985 I found a
Hero belt drive airless with a 5 gallon tank over the pump and a 1/2hp
motor. I sprayed everything with it. Everything except auto type
finishes. I had bought 125 gallons of oil based paint from a local
college. It was a sort of beige. We still have a lot of beige stuff
around here 30 years later. The first thing I painted was my house when
I finished it. I sprayed 55 gallons of white in about an hour and a
half. Walls, baseboards, trim, doors, etc. We needed to move in quick
and I was not going to wait on painters. That paint is still good after
34 years!!!!!!!! Back then you could get a variable adjustable tip.
They don't make them any more. I used to open the tip up to clear
plugs. With old paint, I was always getting plugged. I painted a lot
of tractors and equipment with that sprayer and my sandblaster...
Nothing takes old grease off like a sandblaster.
Cecil
On 3/3/2020 6:16 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> My father used to tell of early paint shops (1920's and 1930's)
> painting cars and letting them skin over good then pushing them either
> out in the rain or running a hose over them for a while to "make the
> paint harder".
> He always said that he had no idea if it really helped or not. May
> have been snake oil...
> He once painted a car (1937 Willys 4 door) by brush after it pretty
> much lost its dark maroon factory paint. He used black "stove" paint
> which had a reputation (or at least a claim) of flowing out smooth and
> shiny. It did hold up decently. Shortly after WW-II he bought a good
> quality spray outfit that included a 3 gallon pressure paint tank and
> did quite a bit of painting older equipment etc. I still have it and
> it is still a good unit even at 70+ years old.
> I bought an airless outfit about a year ago but have not used it yet.
> I plan to paint several buildings with it including a rental house and
> a few grain bins.
>
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> .
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> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:13 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net
> <mailto:crbearden at copper.net>> wrote:
>
> My early tractor mentor told of painting a 30's model dodge before
> WWII with a brush with paint from the local hardware store. He
> said it was auto paint and had a retarder in the paint to allow
> the brush strokes to flow out before the paint hardened. He was
> telling how a dust storm had come in the night after he painted it
> and put it in the barn. He washed the dust off with well water
> and thought that the cold water set the paint. He said the paint
> stayed shiny and hard until he sold the car in the 50's.
> Cecil
>
> On 3/2/2020 6:18 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> In recent years I have been seeing a number of pink tractors (and
>> no I don't drink) many of them very nicely done including decals
>> etc.
>> One of the two McCormick 10-20's my father bought after WW-II was
>> painted green, maybe with a mop. :-) During the depression and
>> WW-II proper paint was often not affordable or unavailable and
>> people used leftover stuff to paint machinery etc. That 10-20 may
>> have matched his house or maybe he might have wanted it to look
>> like a John Deere D. :-) In the 1940's and early 1950's even
>> cars and trucks were often brush painted. Some looked quite
>> nice... and some didn't. :-)
>> When Case IH came to be I recall someone displaying a Case SC
>> Painted IHC colors (wasn't very tidy) at the Indiana State Fair.
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:45 PM Howard Pletcher
>> <hrpletch at gmail.com <mailto:hrpletch at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I've heard IH would paint tractors any color you ordered
>> and I've seen other green Farmalls supposedly from the
>> factory. For trucks, it was a rather nominal fee for
>> special colors, don't know about tractors. Here's a 966
>> at Red Power Roundup 2009 that was supposedly green from
>> the factory. The owner wanted it to match his other
>> tractors.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM <szabelski at wildblue.net
>> <mailto:szabelski at wildblue.net>> wrote:
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>> OK, I know that there were white Farmalls that were
>> used for demos at various dealerships, but did they
>> ever paint them green for any reason???
>>
>> I’m in the process of rebuilding my Cub and just
>> about everywhere I look there is green paint under a
>> couple of coats of red. I’ve never heard of a green
>> Farmall being built for any reason.
>>
>> The green is deep in the crevices and it doesn’t look
>> like it was painted green over red at any time. I
>> don’t think they used green primer.
>>
>> Any ideas or thoughts?
>>
>> Carl
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