Farmall Super M Rim Paint

wowsk

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Has anyone used this before for painting the rims on a Farmall? Does it look good, not too shiny where it looks almost fake?

Rust-oleum Aluminum 7715 https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Oleum-7715502-Protective-32-Ounce-Metallic/dp/B000LNW4DC

Thanks,
Noah
 

I used rustoleum aluminum in spray paint cans on my Farmall M rims. I don t think that it is too bright.
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well its what ever you think. to its too bright for me, they should be a dull aluminum color . from factory they are galvanized. i see
your plug wires are still long. wanna make that pulley look good? put it in gear and hold a scotch brite pad to it.
 
The brush-on rustoleum aluminum paint is runny and inconsistent in my experience. No matter how much you shake it and stir it there are dark and light spots all through it. Does not cover well, requires multiple coats to even begin to get a consistent color.

It is not nearly as shiny as what's showing in the picture above. Especially after some time.

I have a couple of rims to paint. Bought the light gray paint this time. Rustoleum solid colors work much better for me.
 
More than a dull look looks fake to me. Like somebody had more time and money than most of the original owners did. Since they were galvanized like rustred said.
 
I use it on all my rims. Looks great.
It is thin and I have to stir it every
few minutes. But a couple brushed on
coats really gives a nice galvanized
look!
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I think you can just pick you out a shade
that you like, use, and everything will be
just fine.

Truth is, that's what most people do, so
your not going to be matched up with
everyone else no matter what shade you
pick.

If you run across 10 re-painted tractors,
your bound to see some various rim paint
used. Picking out one that you like and
prefer to use, is better than what some
correct police on here is going to tell you
to use. Kind of a, suite yourself and go
on, type of deal.

I recently repainted a single rear rim. I
made no effort to match color. Just
something close was all I was shooting for.
How did it turn out??? Basically the only
thing you can really notice, is one rim has
new paint, and the others don't. That part
stands out a little bit. But as far as the
shade matching on all 4, that part don't
match, and pretty much goes un-noticed.
 
SINKHOLE - Nice looking M. What's on the M decal at the top of the circle? Other than SM-TA or SUPER I've
never seen that before. Also, my personal preference is to have the frt wheels set to the narrowest position,
the 8 inch spacing. I have loaders on both my Farmall's, the operator's manual says tractors with heavy front
loads should use the narrow setting.
The aluminum paint looks fine, it will probably get a more dull aluminum as time passes.

I've heard this IH used Galvanized rims for over 20 years now. The French & Hecht plant that made rear
rims right along River Drive in Davenport, Iowa is long gone, bulldozed and in a landfill somewhere. I used to
know over a dozen people that had worked there many years. I could have asked them if the painted or
galvanized rims. I Know for a fact in the 1970's and early 1980's everything was PAINTED. THINK how many
companies used silver rear double bevel rims? IH, Allis, Minny-Mo,and White. Deere was yellow, Ford and Oliver
was white, Stiger had their own rim rolling line, they painted them whatever color they wanted. I did ask the
salesman that called on my from Electric Wheel in Quincy, I'll, He contacted a couple guys that retired from
EWC and had decades of history there, they never remembered rims ever being galvanized for anybody. I looked
at lots of IH rim & wheel blue prints, I never saw one requiring galvanized, but I never looked up H & M rims
either, not sure they still had those prints, obsolete parts for IH. MOTOR WHEEL in Mendota, I'll also made
rims & wheels. And Titan Proform in Canada made two dual wheels, the 16x38 and 18x38 10 bolt duals for 1586,
then 5288 & 5488. They were all red until the first shipment I got in for the 5288 & 5488 in the Argent gray
color that was used on ALL wheels & rims.
I've wire brushed and sand blasted the paint off both the inside under the tire & tube on my '54 Super H
built in January '54, and the outsides where the rim clamps to the cast wheel, no galvanizing, just
silver/gray paint till I got to bare steel. If anybody has definite proof of galvanizing I'd like to hear
about it.
 
Thanks for everyone's response. This isn't going to be a show tractor by any stretch of the imagination just a working tractor. I just didn't want something super shiny and bright that would look fake but it looks good on everyone's picture.

I just want it to look nice enough to be able to put it in a parade. I finished the 2nd coat of red today and got the decals so it is getting close.

Thanks,
Noah
 
(quoted from post at 04:26:19 09/14/22) More than a dull look looks fake to me. Like somebody had more time and money than most of the original owners did. Since they were galvanized like rustred said.

Don't use the "g-word" around DR. EVIL!

Oops, too late, LOL.
 

There's a big difference between paint and galvanized. Galvanized looks flakey and paint looks more smooth. Galvanized is dipped, look closely at a galvanized pale.
 
Rustoleum spray Hammered Aluminum. Looks perfect, not shiny and fake. There might be a few drips and runs, looks just like
galvanizing.
 

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