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Going to paint my M soon, its going to work a little so I'm not going to use expensive automotive paint (im going to save that for the MTA im starting, she'll be the trailer queen). I have heard good things about rustoleum sunrise red w/ primer but I know people use CaseIh paint as well. is rustoleum better than caseih and how does IH Red, 2150, and sunrise red compare to that farmall red? any pictures would be greatly appreciated along with any advice, thanks ~Anthony
 
If you want your tractor to appear as International Harvester intended it, go with the IH 2150. It is very durable, and because of improvements over the years, the 2150 will actually result in a higher gloss than your M had when it was brand new.
 
I tested a can of Safety Red on my 53SH .
Color is holding good and I'm checking it's toughness. It's in the second year and I think it has done well.

I may spray can the whole thing!
 
I don't know if they still make it but I painted mine with Rustoleum "IH Red". That was 15 years ago and I had people in the hay field last week commenting on how good it looked.

The only real problem I had with mine is that it probably took the paint a full two years to harden.
 
I use Rustoleum on my working tractors.
They make a 'Farm Equipment" series that has IH red.
pretty close
I usually just use regular 'Regal Red'
just a shade dark, but looks good and holds up ok.
(it's also a good compromise, for IH red, Ford red, WheelHorse red, so one paint fits all here)
I tried 'Sunrise Red' on one tractor, looked very good, but was a touch too bright/light for my taste and had pink overtones in the right light/angle.
 
2150 is better paint than Rustoleum, probably not quite as good as acrylic enamel, but better than the Rustoleum alkyd enamel.
 
We always use the IH #2150 with hardener. Never tried Rustoleum Red, but we did use their Gray on a 2N Ford, even with the hardner it"s so faded you would swear the tractor is in primer now. So we have never tousled with the Rustoleum again!
 
I've always used Rustoleum for my gray Farmalls and had good luck with it. I've never tried the red. I do know I painted my 656 with 2150 in about 2001 and it is faded badly already. On the other hand my propane H painted about the same time stored inside a heated building is holding up nicely.
 
Well the last tractor I saw painted with 2150 looked like an Allis Chalmers...

The color is very subjective. Looking at the old photos the red looks dark, not the bright orange-y color that 2150 gives you.

I think the Rustoleum IH red is closer to reality than 2150.

You can't tell me that people remember a color with 100% accuracy after 30, 40, 50, 60 years... Fact of the matter is nobody alive has any idea what the REAL color looks like so it's a matter of interpretation.
 
And who is to say that all colors look alike to all
people? Maybe what I see as red is not red at all
but simply what I have been taught is red?
 
Ok, I am going to irritate some people and educate a few others, and bore some people to sleep with what they already know.

IHC mixed a lot of their own paint. It was an alkyd base paint. It also varied in tone and hue from batch to batch. While each batch was relatively close, they were NEVER identical. Read the history. Go to the Wisconsin archives. Read some of the old posts. Read some of the books on the subject.

In WWII, the IH Red was almost Orange due to the availability of some pigments (or shortage thereof).

Ok, with all that said, getting the color close, is truly OK! IHC wasn't too worried about EXACT match. The quality control of their paint factory was ok, not 100%. So, chose the color/paint brand you like. Use it. From my chair, it is more important that the paint used on a single tractor is consistent for that tractor. Changing brands or codes in the middle of a job will produce a crap result. Otherwise, STOP obsessing over an EXACT match for color. Get it close. Do a good job, and enjoy.
 
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