carvel minne farmer
Well-known Member
working along on the m5 (1961) again today and I was sanding and using my wire wheel buffer to get the old paint off the front cast pieces and sheet metal to get it ready for priming and painting. I can't find any primer?? just the yellow paint and i'm sure this is factory paint. also it looks like some of the tractor pieces where painted seperatly and some where painted after assembley?? i'm wondering what kind of paint they would have used that stuck so well and lasted so long? in my experience you need to prep clean and prime bare metal and then paint, but I can't find any evidence of primer anywhere on the tractor.