Nice work
Workin' on the Old Tractors
- Thread starter cjet69
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Last Thursday I got set up to spray the yellow on the hood and grille. I had a 1 gallon unopened can of JD Yellow that I bought last year. Mixed up the paint and began spraying and noticed the paint acting funny and not wanting to cover. Thought maybe I over reduced it and added more yellow to thicken it up. Still didn't act right so I added some more yellow to the point it would hardly spray out of the gun and it still wasn't right. I gave up, shut everything down, and with the heat lamp I got it cured and sanded down smooth late Friday. I made a run to the JD dealer and picked up another quart of Yellow and some new Hardener in case it was the problem. Warmed the shop up today and tried it again with the only change being the new paint. It sprayed just fine and gave good coverage. Now, if I don't find a bunch of runs when I go back out to check it over, I should be able to mask off the yellow in a few days and spray the Green and get this finished up. The owner is getting antsy and I don't blame him.
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Yep, John Deere brand Yellow right from the dealer.
Is the hardener the very same you used first time? Reason I ask is newer JD paint I was told is synthetic enamel. If you used basic enamel hardener and different the 2nd painting that could have caused it. A paint shop told me he "thinks" acrylic enamel hardener will work with synthetic enamel, but told him just sell me some synthetic enamel hardener so I wouldn't have to worry. I've not sprayed the green yet, but will in the next month or 2. It's an old friend's JD 316. I sprayed all the yellow over a year ago.
Same hardener. Also the same hardener I just used in the Green paint I shot on the fenders and it worked great. Been using this hardener for the last 15 yrs. Its Valspar REN 3001. Now I see the JD dealer has a Sherwin-Williams hardener which I believe owns Valspar now.
With dad passing and the cold temps I haven't worked on these parts for almost a month. Temps are going to be in the upper 50's to low 60's for the rest of the week so I am hoping to get the final green shot on the hood and grille. If all goes well I may be able to get this back to the owner early next week.
Missed you Cjet..
Hope all is going well...
Slowly getting back into the normal routine. The farm work is always there with the twice daily feeding of the cows so no break from that chore. Its actually kinda nice to go for the .6 mile round trip walk twice every day. Need to get this job done so I can start prepping for hay season.
Looking very good cjet its nice that it warmed up we also are enjoying warm weather since Sunday our snow is all but gone out in the open but in the woods and I'm liking it
Thanks, GB. It feels good to have it close to done. Its been dragging on for way to long. Did you use the Kubota blowing snow a bunch this year? We just had the one snow event this year in early Feb. but it did stick around for a while. I think I can safely pull the blower off the craftsman at this point.
Hi Chris, have had it out 3 times so far have put about 16 hrs on it so far, will most likely get to use it once or twice in Mar
Do you have to be careful of plugging up the little holes with paint or aren't they that small ?
The owner had primed these and a bunch of the holes were plugged. Not sure in he didn't get them completely cleaned out when he sandblasted or if he loaded the primer on to heavy and plugged the holes. I had to sandblast them again to clean them out. It would take a lot of the green paint to plug them unless you sprayed it really thick.
