IH Red paint brands

phil51

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I have a Farmall Super MTA that I will be repainting soon. I
have used Ag Specalty paint in my past paint jobs and liked
the results, however I have also heard great things about the
Majic paint that TSC carries, which is also cheaper. Just
wondering what opinions you may have on if I should try the
Majic paint or stick to the Ag Specalty. Or if there is another
brand out there that's good I'm open to suggestions.
 
You won't have any difficulty with the Majic paint adhering to the existing paint. What you need to worry about is if the Majic paint will fade or not. I don't have any experience with Majic paint but I've heard it's as bad to fade as Valspar paint. Red is a color especially prone to fade so you need to be very careful. If the Ag Specalty paint has worked well for you I would stick with it. Personally I would prefer automotive paint. It's a lot more money though.
 
I haven't been impressed with rattle can AC Orange majick, have a can of IH red but haven't tried it yet, fades BAD... my .02
 
I have painted several tractors, and for IH, I use case-IH paint and urathane reducer and hardner. It is the right color and goes on good and shines and is durable. For the green ones, the same, except I use green paint.
 
I've seen where different people have said good things about the case/ih paint but I've never used any. The case dealership in my town will only buy paint once a year so at the time when I was painting my tractor I would have had to wait five months to put in an order. So, I went with Dupont Nason.
 
I used PPG's single stage in 2006 on my Horse Troy Bilt tiller. It still looks good. I gave $100.00 for the tiller and it needed a lot of work.
I installed new tines, new seals on the tine holder and a new 10hp B&S engine. I sold the 6hp Tecumseh engine for $65.00. Hal
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I really like Nason products. They aren't high dollar and hold shine and fade well when exposed to the elements. I always used their paints if one of my school buses needed a repaint. Thank goodness tractors like yours don't have windows. That was a full day job on a bus. I don't miss that.
 
Since you asked. I tried Van Sickle IH red spray cans, and it developed a white film just sitting in the barn over a few months. No sun, no moisture, nothing... just a nice white film. Really objectionable.
Went with Case IH red, spray cans, and like it a great lot. Best part, for me, I can wet-sand and then touch up scrape marks and defects in the fall, every year, get ready for the Christmas parades. Color is the same as CaseIH on the dealers lots, looks exactly correct. Not just sorta-maybe-half-way-close, but correct.
 
Are you going to use it, or just going to be parade duty only. If you are doing a 100% museum restore, spend for PPG, or other top grade paint. There is a company from PA that makes paint that is highly touted. Their name escapes me right now.

If you are going to use it, just use Case IH Iron Guard. It's tough, accessible and easy to apply.
 
(quoted from post at 09:17:04 09/13/15) I have a Farmall Super MTA that I will be repainting soon. I
have used Ag Specalty paint in my past paint jobs and liked
the results, however I have also heard great things about the
Majic paint that TSC carries, which is also cheaper. Just
wondering what opinions you may have on if I should try the
Majic paint or stick to the Ag Specalty. Or if there is another
brand out there that's good I'm open to suggestions.
Check out this supplier. Thecoatingstore.com. The epoxy primer and paint they sell is awsome and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than the "big name" paints. This outfit does all of its marketing via the net so...they can sell quality products at a reasonable cost.
 
Use magic paint if want it to turn pink,I've painted 2 Farmalls and one A C.The Allis turned yellow the Ih's turned pink in about 3 yrs.Never again.
 
Phil, I'm not an expert (equipment painting isn't my line of work), but in my view, cheap paint isn't worth putting on. It also isn't wise of time, money or material to do a job "half-fast". Fixing a half-fast paint job takes at least as much time as doing it right the first time. Degreasing goes several rounds, just to make sure you've gotten nearly all of it, then everything is gone over with a 'prep-sol' solvent and lots of clean rags. Rusty spots on sheet metal get sanded and etched with phosphoric acid, or on cast, just wirebrushed and etched. Sand blasting cast is only if you are going to completely disassemble and clean, replace gaskets, seals and bearings then reassemble before etching and painting. Once prep is done, it gets coated with a sandable primer. I like a urethane (2 part) primer, such as available from NAPA (Nason). Pricey, but worth every penny. The paints available from CNH seem to be about the best "low cost" paint from what some with more experience here say. Lots of others won't stop short of using an automotive grade paint, which can be easily be $200 a gallon. I use CNH IronGuard paints, and have been pleased with the results. Last I knew, they run about $70 a gallon.

As a word of warning, I got a rattle can of Majik to do some touchup on a neighbor's tractor I was fixing for him. It went on glossy, covered pretty well, but took a long time to become 'tack free', and lost tone and sheen within a month. No way I'd use it for anything more than stenciling outbound shipping crates. The old (iffy) can of Valspar tractor enamel I put on other parts of it is still looking good a year later. Time will tell.
 

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