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<p>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.
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Cecil<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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".
<div>He always said that he had no idea if it really helped or
not. May have been snake oil...</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
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<p>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.<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
<div>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.
:-)</div>
<div>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. </div>
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6:45 PM Howard Pletcher <<a
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div>
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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???<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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Any ideas or thoughts?<br>
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Carl<br>
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