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ID plate recovery & restoration

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fitterski

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The id plate on my just bagged IH-B275 has been painted over, yeah, I know ..some people are like that!

I think that restoring it would begin by trying to find out what washes down the overspray but not the original plate black etc.

I have from plastic eating solvents through acetone, brake cleaner, varsol, and good old gasoline.

Any hints?

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If it were me I would use paint and varnish remover. Most removers today are semi-paste so if you were careful you could strip the plate without getting remover on the rest of the tractor.
 

I will guess that the original black on the I.D. plate was intended to be impervious to gasoline. The red paint is probably NOT impervious to gasoline. I would try using some steel wool and gasoline, or maybe even mineral spirits to remove the red paint.

5 minutes or less with some masking tape would have eliminated that problem. An even quicker way to mask it off is to carefully cover it with grease.
 
It's probably 'tractor latex', it has that latexy look & feel & loss of sheen but that is far from conclusive AND it looks like 2 coats of not necessarily the same paint. I think I'll try another spot starting with gasoline, then progressively stronger stuff.
 
I drilled out the rivets because I did not want to hurt the paint on the tractor. Then I wrapped the tag with a rag, and soaked it with brake fluid. The paint fell off and it did not hurt the tag.
 
(quoted from post at 22:47:03 07/11/18) I drilled out the rivets because I did not want to hurt the paint on the tractor. Then I wrapped the tag with a rag, and soaked it with brake fluid. The paint fell off and it did not hurt the tag.
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Thanks, brake fluid eh? Is that comparable to nafta, what physical properties is it cited for in such a case?

I could even set up a retention container on it and not drill the rivets out.
 
(quoted from post at 22:47:03 07/11/18) I drilled out the rivets because I did not want to hurt the paint on the tractor. Then I wrapped the tag with a rag, and soaked it with brake fluid. The paint fell off and it did not hurt the tag.
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The body paint is in pieces so I need not worry about that. I stuck some plexiglass to glazier tape to hold a piece of mechanic's tissue soaked with brake fluid. The top edge is not closed off so I can periodically re-drip and can always see if it's soaked. You didn't say how long, so I figure maybe 3 days before I go in to examine the results.

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glazier tape was ok, but with a magnet holding the soaked tissue behind the plexiglass I did better:

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finals are no flash in the pan but I'm satisfied:

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I got a 42 M, the serial no plate is intact, but the black paint is all gone,it's still legible, and hasn't been sandblasted, i think i will just leave it alone!
 
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