Painting the sickle mower

SVcummins

Well-known Member
It?s times like this I wish I had a heated space to work in. I would like to paint my no.8 but in Order to do it right it all needs to be disassembled I don?t think I will have enough time to do it between When the weather warms up enough to do it outside and hay cutting time
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It sure would look nice Though
 
I painted the blue Ford bolster in the thread down below in my office. I built a 7'x11' office in the corner of my garage. The main garage isn't heated - yet. Hopefully by next winter. I have a 220V electric heater in the office that warms it up pretty fast when I want.
I assembled this engine in there this winter.
Hauled the bare block in on a cart then lifted the finished engine out through the side door with the boom pole on the tractor.
Just a small space but not too expensive to heat as needed and a good hide away to get out of the house in winter.

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My garage is small enough I could probably heat it Just need a decent heater I have some diesel powered heaters maybe If I burned kerosene in em they would burn clean enough to paint
 
It's not as durable but an automotive lacquer would work in cold weather. You could paint in below freezing weather as long as the humidity wasn't too high. Once it's barely dry to touch you can put a fan on it and it would dry in a couple hours. Lacquer doesn't do well with humidity. It dries so fast it literally gets water trapped in it before it can come to the surface and makes the paint cloudy.
 
No way I would paint in area heated with kerosene heater, it will be full of water vapor and small amounts of hydrocarbons.
 
That?s why it won?t get painted most likely that and the little bit of oil residue in the smoke from the heater
 

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