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CWB: Those metal decals are held by small gromet type decive in each of several holes. The decal has matching pins on the back, with a bit of taper at the end, going to a uniform size near the base. The pins swell the gromet device, causing hood metal of hole to cut into it. You can quite easily remove those sliding a small screwdriver behind the decal at pins. It takes a bit of care and patience. I found I was only able to salvage about half of those little gromet devices. I was going to say CaseIH still stock those, and maybe they do. I bought about 2 dozen from CaseIH, however I had the feeling it was not CaseIH stock, but rather a customer concious partsman had found on his own replacement parts from another source. That was a few years back, and at that time folks were just getting into restoring these newer tractors with metal decals. I suspect those are probably more plentiful now. Those little clips that hold the grill screen are much tougher than you first think. That whole grill insert was in bad shape on my 130, so rotten one hardly dared straighten. I looked at it as toast back in 92, decided to sandblast anyhow. We sand blasted it, mig welded the cracks, all but one of the clips survived. We reinstalled the screen, painted it. It's still on there but with a lot of new cracks, and is starting to look rather unsightly again. The good part, I can now buy a new replacement grill insert, in 92 they were not available. Very high percentage of offset and C through 230 Farmalls are still operating, and that makes it worthwhile for parts manufacturers on replacement parts. Good luck with that army paint, I will not envy you, however I bet that paint has the sheet metal well preserved. My 130 grill insert was never great, always looked as though it had been splashed with some chemical. Even 30 years ago, one could straighten or bend the grill bars with bare hands.
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