paint 50's Grey color

MI-Bill · Nov 21, 2018

recently painted 2 tractors. paint has faded so bad in just 2 years that I am considering repainting the grey. Looking for a better 2 part paint at a reasonable cost and the correct code?

Blueox4 · Nov 21, 2018

Not sure if this is what you may be looking for. Not my pic. Found the pic in research about my tractor.

Royse · Nov 21, 2018

What did you paint them with the first time Bill?
[b:a1c091c837]This[/b:a1c091c837] is what I used.

MI-Bill · Nov 21, 2018

In the past, I have used New Holland and a gallon of paint I bought at a tractor show from a 8N rebuilder in Indiana. They held up fairly well. I hit a spot on the 8N with a buffing wheel and it will buff OK. I have a set of fenders and some other parts ready to paint and I want to use somethng better. I have been using automotive base coat clear coat on a 55 ford truck and I would prefer to use an automotive paint this time. I have been buying some automotive paint mail order. The couple of places I have checked locally do not have codes for old tractors. A while back NAPA had some Martin-senour / sherwin williams paints?. Locally, it appears they have dropped this? So , PPG, sherwin williams. NAPA, or where ever codes? A while back, someone posted various paint codes?

Gaspump · Nov 21, 2018

Gotta chuckle every time I read 39-62 gray on those NH paints. In that time frame there were four different grays used. That particular one is very close to the 101 And early red and gray 1000 series color.

MI-Bill · Nov 21, 2018

Royse, I am wanting to get away from the alkyd enamels. They seem to be going down in quality from what we used years ago.

Royse · Nov 21, 2018

I can understand that Bill. I remember seeing those codes posted
too, but I either didn't save them or plain can't find them now.
It might have been Dollar Bill that posted them. Not sure.
I didn't search the archives for them.

Bern · Nov 21, 2018

I'm not sure if this is what you were looking for or not...
Paint codes

Dollar Bill · Nov 22, 2018

Looking for a better 2 part paint at a reasonable cost and the correct code?

PPG has served me well - Tisco TP 240 (photo) is a dead match if you are looking for the correct grey for 1948-1964 Ford tractors.

Various color codes I've collected through the years. The only color code I can confirm correct is Tisco TP-240.

showcrop · Nov 22, 2018

I thought that I responded to this yesterday, but I must not have hit the submit button. First, you obviously want to have your tractors looking good, so get the right shade of gray first. Like gas pump says there were multiple shades of gray. 9Ns and 2Ns were dark gray. The 8Ns and X00s were a lighter shade. The X01 gray has a little yellowish tan to it. Then in '63 with the X000s they went to a much lighter almost white. I go to the dealer for equipment and parts but I go to a paint store for paint. Fiat does not really wish to support our old Fords and trying to push one shade of a color to replace four is proof. You can take a part of your sheet metal that has not been painted such as the underside of the tool box cover, clean and compound it, and take it to a good paint shop and get it digitally analyzed in order to get it right. I have been using the Nason line by Dupont. It is an economy 2K automotive.

Here is my 901 with correct gray. I got this from researching the code as opposed to digital analysis.

TinCan · Nov 22, 2018

You sure couldn't use the inside of the tool box on mine, for paint IDing. The outside had paint on it, the inside had zero paint in it. It was total rust inside, from all the stuff that was still in it, when I got it. It was a bolt, pin & tool paint removable job. Even the stuff in it was solid rust lol

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