removing paint from transmission housing

pcp20us · Apr 17, 2016

Hi

I am paint my tea20 transmission housing. I have used a wire wheel to strip paint, but being magnesium it leave indents from the wheel.

Whats the best way to strip paint? I have read that paint strippers are not good for magnesium?

so what do poeple use?

miner09 · Apr 17, 2016

Sandblasting with Sugar Sand shouldn't hurt. Haven't tried it but it will not cut
aluminum side plates on 35 & 40's. Try small spot and don't hold it close to test.Also using walnut is finer for softer material but cost a bit more. $24 sack.

Tony in Mass. · Apr 17, 2016

I left all the castings on my TEA natural and clearcoated. Just wire brushed. So yea, they still look grotty, so does the whole bloody tractor when ya think of it.... How many tractors are nearly half re-cycled Spitfires and B17's? What a conversation piece eh?
Painted the tin and steel castings, but not the alloys- well, clear.
Tell miner you're in 'stralia. Nothing but sand from one bloody ocean to the other! Yer not going to pay $24 for that s...... eh???

Benj R · Apr 17, 2016

I like the look of your tractor.

Tony in Mass. · Apr 17, 2016

Thanks Ben. It is an 'imported to Canada by Massey Harris Ferguson Ltd' 20-85. So a late model.
I pulled what was left of it out of a junk yard in Mass a couple years ago. Probably came down from Quebec many years earlier. It is now in Oklahoma. If you come down to the FENA meet in Missouri this summer, you can ride it around. Easier than the 2 day flight to Oz and see PCP's...

pcp20us · Apr 18, 2016

Mines Yella ATM, thought I'd go for a carny Yellow fergie 8)

pcp20us · Apr 18, 2016

(quoted from post at 06:06:06 04/17/16) I left all the castings on my TEA natural and clearcoated. Just wire brushed. So yea, they still look grotty, so does the whole bloody tractor when ya think of it.... How many tractors are nearly half re-cycled Spitfires and B17's? What a conversation piece eh?
Painted the tin and steel castings, but not the alloys- well, clear.
Tell miner you're in 'stralia. Nothing but sand from one bloody ocean to the other! Yer not going to pay $24 for that s...... eh???

Was thinking the same Tony. I like the look of bare tranny magnesium and clear coating is a good option, Pitty i just painted it Yellow ! :shock: !

pcp20us · Apr 18, 2016

Yep me again. I just noticed on you photo tony on the tranny just above the foot rest, there is a slight circular indent and some roughness where it fans out to where the foot rest bolts on. I thought i did that with the wire brush on the drill on mine.

Maybe you did the same or thats the way they are built. As i notice mine up near the bell housing is rough as buggery, Like someones taken to it an beat the crap out of it....]

Tony in Mass. · Apr 18, 2016

Well, post war pommie quality control at its worst? And what sort of dire straights was Electron Ltd in back then? And if this batch came from an old blitz crashed-Junkers...??? I know, no one gets the punch line... and some one parked a foo fighter in front of the camera....
Aluminium is maddening to weld at the best of times, to cast it like this, pay someone to take the time to smooth it out...and hey... not to us of course...but... fair go mates! it's just a bloody farm tractor....

miner09 · Apr 19, 2016

The indent is from the tie rod ends rubbing against housing when turning for 60
yrs.Tony didn't do it. It came that way. LOL

pcp20us · Apr 19, 2016

(quoted from post at 00:51:53 04/19/16) The indent is from the tie rod ends rubbing against housing when turning for 60
yrs.Tony didn't do it. It came that way. LOL

Na, I recon Tony did it :twisted:

Tony in Mass. · Apr 19, 2016

What dent? I thought you ment the rough sand casting. The curved scratch? From the cotter key? yeah I did some of that. Now I got to go outside and look for a dent!

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