Cheap Paint Job

I plan on cleaning up the sheet metal and using rattle cans on it. What"s best for the cast parts?

Also, does anyone have any pictures of their cheap paint jobs? Even if you don"t, how"d you go about preparing and painting?

Thanks for the help,

Jim

• Before & After

100% rattlecan including the primer. Around $100.00 and has held up great for close to two years now. No flaking, fading, etc.

I sprayed almost all the sheet metal & cast w/ a HVLP gun & compressor, outdoors. When I figured out what the gun liked the job went fast. I recommend using hardener, but at your own risk.

Jeff

To clean off the old paint I used a sanding disc on a variable speed drill, and various wire wheels, and some hand sanding as well. Then I used either some thinned down Rustoleum Rusty Metal Primer (brushed on) or a rattle can primer. To paint the gray, I used a combination of brushing on and rattle can spraying. The fenders were removed and hand brushed, and a 2nd coat sprayed on. The hood was all brushed since I didn't remove it. I did a few of the red parts too with spray cans.
I plan to do the red parts including the whole loader frame with Rustoleum Sunrise Red, which is very close to the original red, and NOT that orangy "vermillion" that some places sell.
Carl

Ok, ok, it's a Wheel Horse. But this is where I started . Got a couple of these things, went to a few of the shows in Portland IN and the seed was planted. Since moving from IN back to KY a few months ago and getting our 10 acres I've bought a 9N and a 640.

But this is what it looked like when I bought it.

And after getting all the sheet metal sandblasted and then rattle can priming and then sanding and then priming and sanding etc.. I painted it with Rustoleum rattle cans. Seemed to work best for me if everything was primered before I shot my color. If you paint something that say is red and dont prime it, any spot that's not red, like a rust spot you brushed and spot primed etc.. it takes forever to cover. A nice even primer coat lets your color coat go on much better. Or lets it appear to go on better I guess. What worked best for me was to give a couple of light coats of color to get a good base color down and then finally the last coat goes on thick and that's what makes it look shiney and not like a 10 year old painted it. At least that's what worked for me. Now someone that runs a body shop could have looked at it and sneared, but any of my friends and family that saw it were surprised to find out it was a spray can job. There was no overspray etc.. I took pains to do it as good as I could. Then later I sold the little thing. Wish I hadn't done that!

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Hey Soundguy, what kind of gray did you use on your n?

Right now, my N has just about every color Ford ever put on a tractor (tan, red, blue, a few different grays) somewhere on it. I plan on bringing it back to the original.

Thanks again,

Jim

I figure that ferguson grey should be almost a perfect match to the early ford grey since ford and ferguson were partners..e tc...

Soundguy

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If you have an air compressor, it will actually be chaeper to spray paint your tractor vs rattlecanning it. Between priming the thing, then the cans of medium grey, and red... you go lots of spray cans tied up like um.. 30+

For a cheap job,( 1 coat prime, and 1 coat paint )a quart of primer, a quart of white, and a quart of red for spraying will do ya. Also get some hardner, and naptha / mineral spirits... that 40$ counting the 3qts paint, hardner, and a can of naptha and can of MS... Your job will look 3x better than a rattle can job.. not fade as fast.. and have a better shine. A cheap gun is all that is needed.. these are 9.99 - 14.99 at a chinese tool store or tsc, or walmart.. Also need a regulator and filter.. get disposable 6$ filter from carquest.. and 10$ cheapy regulator from TSC.. or get a 19$ reg/filter from chinese store.. or use the chinese reg and a disposable fitler.. your call.

Going cheapest rout.. that's a 9$ reg, and 6$ filter, and 15$ gun.. that makes it 70$ if ya got an air compressor.. even a cheap pancake 2hp/4g unit... Rattle cans are what? 3$ In super cheap areas maybee primer is 2$.. if you figured 2$ @ 10 cans primer, and 3$ at 20 cans paint.. that's 80$.. and I don't think you will find rattle cans that cheap.. that puts you over the 70$ figure ont he spray setup..IF you have a compressor..

I'll post my last few tractors I've painted with my cheapy rig of 9$ gun, 19$ regulator, 6$ disposable filter, 89$ air compressor, (2) 4$ hoses, and BPS paint from tsc.. which is about 8$ per quart, or 24$ per gallon... hardner is about 8$ as well for a pint? that will treat a gallon...

These were all painted outside, with some level of disassembly on the tin.. somestuff was painted while hanging then assembled.. some stuff masked.. some drop cloths.. etc.. just depends on the project.. etc..

Soundguy