Painting prep

pcp20us · Jun 4, 2015

Hi.

Righto, wanting to paint the bonnet, its an aluminium hood, read lots of stuf from google so now confused.

Its been painted and the paint has peeled cracked.
Do i need to remove all the old paint or casn i remove flaky paint and paint over as you would on metal?

I am not into buy cleaner, wax removers, etcher etc.

So what are some diy options to clean and etch alumin?

Tups, acteone etc, and what will make it stick.

Painting it with single epoxy enamel

cheers

Txturbo · Jun 4, 2015

if its flaking you need to remove it all. Then use self etching primer.

Tony in Mass. · Jun 5, 2015

Al-u-min-eee-um ...hood? Ok, we need pictures of that. Did you put a magnet on there to see? In 1939-40 Ford 9-N's had aluminum hoods, grills.... but not TE's far as I know...

Richard L · Jun 5, 2015

TONY lookie at this. Isn't this archive a wonderful thing? Yes Tony now you can learn something today.
aluminum hoods

Tony in Mass. · Jun 5, 2015

I don't know if that thread would hold up in court Richard... neither knew or reported back in if the hood really was aluminum. Best way for testing a painted anything is a magnet.
I believe production welding of non ferrous alloys didn't come out till the mid 60's, so most likely the whole thing would be held together with rivets. And to keep from electralasis corrosion, the tags and hook and anything steel would need a gasket or brass rivets. If I didn't have a magnet on me, that would be my second and third choices to look at... but then again..really... who doesn't carry a magnet around with em everyday???
And that thread was from when?? 2005??? Heck way back then, I was a young sweet innocent child... with a half dozen Allis Chalmers D series...

Richard L · Jun 5, 2015

Very glad to hear you got smart since 2005. Just curious what was the Allis Chalmers Rust Oleum orange paint called? LOL NO NO I don't want to get any just to see how it would look on any other brand of tractor.

Dieseltech · Jun 5, 2015

Tony is now getting closer to sweet innocent geezer status like me. But I don't have stock in Rustoleum like he probably does...

pcp20us · Jun 5, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:37:12 06/05/15) Tony is now getting closer to sweet innocent geezer status like me. But I don't have stock in Rustoleum like he probably does...

OnYa gurus and experts alike.. Well me magnetic torch sure will not stick to it. But here I am just at pleb status.... So it could be made from backerlite... And that's bonnet boy. We only have hoddlems here.....
:shock:

Charles in Aus. · Jun 5, 2015

Literally thousands of Aluminium bonnets on TE tractors in the UK and Australia Tony . Pressed panels rather than cast and held together with rivets and screws ; no welding at all .
Mind you we actually have Aluminium here not '' Alloo men umm ''
like you do

Mostly found on pre 1954 tractors and may have had something to do with lots of left over aircraft alloy from WW2 .

Tony in Mass. · Jun 5, 2015

ooooooooh.... how would a poor little yank get ahold of one of these??? Well this answers pcp's question... have it stripped down and sanded to panel beater quality... and clear coated!!
All right then, fair go... all the al-uuu-min-ee-um bits and pieces on my TEA are clear coated, well it's a Canadian 20-85.
Seems the Electron ltd co scrapped nearly all the WW2 aircraft- from UK,US, and Luffwaffe that didn't make it back across the channel, and according to my old friend's dad, a pom from Cheshire, this pile of Spitfires and B17's lasting into the early 1980's.... talk about a conversation piece at a show eh? What other brand did that?
Trouble is, unless you sandblast them, you can't really clean the castings to new bright finish, so it does look awfully grotty... but every time I run over a fresh cow flop... it doesn't matter...

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