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These came in the mail yesterday. Grill badges for my Oliver 500s. Oliver500WA made them for me. The quality and detail are outstanding! The trouble is,they're so good that they make they make my attempt at body work on the grill of the gasser look like crap. Back to the drawing board on that one to try to make it worthy. Thanks again Kevin! For the badges,not for making me look bad. LOL

You can see that I've moved the headlights down underneath on the orchard model. I need to find some of that same screen that's on the grill to make covers for the protective rings that I've made for them.
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Thanks, glad you liked them.

Handy that there were holes in the casting to mount the lights there. BTW those are the factory headlights.
 
Factory on the orchard yes. The ones on the gasser are LEDs from a flea market. I thought I could always get away with nobody noticing those,but I think I shot myself in the foot when I bought the other tractor. lol
 
There is nothing like LED headlights. Makes originals look like some really sorry excuse of an old flashlight. Every single garden and lawn tractor I own now has LED headlights. Will post the information in a couple of days for particulars. Shocking night & day difference.
 
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges! Actually, they look very nice, and your bodywork looks better than mine usually does--bodywork is yet another of those things where I stop when it's functional, not when it's pretty.
 

Randy, I posted to you a few weeks ago about that. If you really are going back at it, Eastwoods has polyester high build primer that is sprayed on. it can make it a lot easier to smooth it out.
 
I got in too big of a hurry on it when I did it. I had the hood,grill and fenders at two different body shops for two and a half years and nobody touched it. I was determined to get it done for a local show last July,so I went and got the stuff and the wife and I did it ourselves. If I'd had that much time just to straighten and paint the grill,I could have made it look like new,but I had three weeks to get all of the work done,get it painted and get the decals on it. We made it,but I didn't care to ever do another one after that.

I'm learning as I go on the one I'm working on now,using what I learned from the last one,but I know better than ever count on anybody else to do that kind of work for me again.
 
Boy, does that sound like a familiar song! Seems every body project I get into is because someone else thinks it's a great idea then disappears the minute the tedious bits need doing, and just about ALL bodywork consists of one tedious bit after another!. This means I end up either doing it myself or it sets there forever half-done and clogging up what little work space I have that's not ALREADY clogged up with OTHER half-finished projects!
 
That bodywork is fine. Pull the scree, Treat qith DuPont metal prep. Shoot couple coats of epoxy black primer. Light sand that. Then a good coat of filler. 220 grit board, block and jitterbug sander, Then the poly filler. And lastly hibuild white primer. with hand sanding 400 wet.
 
Next reproduction part will be the aluminum extended wingnuts that hold the hood down. Mine came with just one and the ears were broke off. Enough left and with the picture from the parts book, I was able to make a decent solid model. Have to finish the CNC programs and cut a few.
 
I think Oliver Jim has a few or those,but if not,I'd be interested in four of those too.
 
How does one get in touch with oliver jim? I'm curious what parts he has.

We will have to figure out what thread for yours. I suspect the studs in your frame are BSF threads because of your early serial numbers. Mine is a late build and they had switched many bolts and nuts to SAE threads so it uses 5/16 coarse.
 
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