Paint process - logical break

chhanes

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For context, I'm rescuing the tractor I grew up on. The second owner abandoned it to the weather. It now resides at my cousin's farm shop (2600 miles from where I now live). The tear down is now complete and on my next trip I will begin to rehab/re-assemble. From searching this forum, I am inclined to use a process with the following major steps for painting: 1-media blast (small parts) and wire brush (castings) to clean metal. 2-final degrease. 3-rust kill. 4-neutral wash and air dry. 5-epoxy primer. 6-sealer. 7-single stage Urethane. I will off-load the sheet metal and fenders to an automotive expert (glennster?) so we are talking only the rest of the tractor. My cousin suggests priming as I go to avoid returning to step 1 for each trip. The re-coat window for epoxy complicates everything. What I am asking you experts is: A) where is the logical break in this process? B) what to I need to do to resume the process after months-long breaks?
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This post was edited by chhanes on 07/14/2022 at 02:55 am.
 


You have been doing your homework!! Good on you!! I believe in epoxy primer, and sure you can scuff when you get out of the window, but you can also coat the epoxy with a compatible sealer that doesn't have a recoat window.
 
I think if you de-grease it thoroughly, then use a self-etching primer and even follow that with epoxy primer, - then you can let it rest for months in a dry environnment and then scuff
it for topcoat.
 

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