Whenever I suggest using Van Sickle paint, someone posts a picture of a "black" 10-20 that was reportedly painted with Van Sickle's McCormick Gray Paint. In response and in support of Van Sickle, I am posting a picture of my W-30 painted with Van Sickle's McCormick Gray Paint:
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It looks beautiful to me! I am working on getting two BASKET CASE W-30s. They have been outside for years w/o exhaust covered etc. The guy wants to keep one, but I said I would only take both and TRY to make one tractor out of them. Even that might be a challange.
One of the tractors has a loader. Did they have a loader available or is it a homemade deal? I am guessing homemade bc the hyd pump runs off the fan belt up front.
One of the tractors has a loader. Did they have a loader available or is it a homemade deal? I am guessing homemade bc the hyd pump runs off the fan belt up front.
That W30 looks very good to me. I don't know what it is that folks don't like about the Van-Sickle paint. It may not result in that super, high gloss finish that some folks think they want, but these old tractors are not SUPPOSED to have a high gloss finish, and the Van-Sickle paint is SO much better than the original paint used on these tractors 60 to 80 years ago.
I think your tractor looks great! A couple years ago when I was debating paint colors on a 1929 "Regular" a guy named Mike Hood, who takes a lot of pictures of tractors for various calendars told me,"The paint job really only has to please one guy, the owner." I agree. So my thoughts are, if you like it, I LOVE IT! Keep up the good work.
I am using the Van Sickle paint. They say if fades, but I've had no problem. I just switched to the Van Sickle a couple years ago and before that, I was using the ValSpar from Tractor Supply. The Van Sickle is far and away better that the Valspar in my opinion. I have several tractors painted with the Valspar (some as much as 10 years ago) and none have faded. They don't have that high gloss finish that some want, but I thought that was for cars. The Van Sickle goes on better and gives better finish than the valspar in my opinion. Sure it's cheap paint, but Why spend $200 for paint on a $2000 tractor.
Alkyd enamel used to be automotive paint. They improved the automotive paint by first going to acrylic enamel, then to urethane, then to base-clear, which is also urethane. Some automotive manufacturers previously used acrylic laquer, which to me is worse than alkyd enamel as far as fading and durability. I don't mind spending the money for urethane and don't care what the tractor is "worth" to others. I'm not going to spent $4-5000 to refurbish a tractor and put $25 paint on it. But, every on is entitled to their own opinion, no offense intended, only my opinion on the paint thing.
I thought the guy that owned the black tractor posted the pic last time BUT...Who's to say the guy even used the right color!?! They have about five different grey paints on their website.
Here is a link to the "hall of fame" section of the website. http://www.vansicklepaint.com/halloffame/halloffame.html
There is a perfect colored F-XX two tractors below the black one. Every other tractor looks perfectly normal to me.
BTW - I use the high end Martin-Seynor from NAPA.
Here is a link to the "hall of fame" section of the website. http://www.vansicklepaint.com/halloffame/halloffame.html
There is a perfect colored F-XX two tractors below the black one. Every other tractor looks perfectly normal to me.
BTW - I use the high end Martin-Seynor from NAPA.
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I cant say what others have expeienced, but I know of 8 or 9 trators right now that were painted with the Van Sickle IH red. Each of these has faded to pink, and has become very chaulky on a couple if them. On mine, it sits in a pole barn when its not out playing. Where the sun hits it, it has turned pink, and the rest of the tractor is still red. It was painted in 93 or 94. My uncles JD 4020 was painted with Van Sickle 3 years ago, it held up OK for abour 16 months, and has now started to fade some t oan almost blueish color.....It sits outside pretty much year-round.
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