<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><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:13 AM Cecil Bearden <<a href="mailto:crbearden@copper.net">crbearden@copper.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:45 PM
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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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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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