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Painting a Parker gravity flow. Pee Green paint?

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I have two Parker gravity flow wagons I want to paint. I believe they are about 330 bushels each. Of course that pee green color is not available at $30 a gallon at farm stores. Does anyone know if Parker makes the paint available to the consumer? Or, has anyone ever mixed green and yellow implement paint to make their own Parker pee green paint? Thanks.
 
Parker used at least 3 shades of green over the years, and they do not have any of them available. I restored a couple 1960s Parker boxes a few years ago, and I pulled off some un-faded paint from behind a decal, and took it to the paint store... they mixed me two gallons. I had decals made,too. A local sign company used a digital picture I took, as well as dimensions I supplied, and made decals. Maybe $30 for 6 decals.

Have fun.
 
I needed that Pea green color for a couple of project repaints. When custom mixed and they use that color matching computer gizmo there are several colors used. The green base color, and bright yellow, but also some white, and blue, and black. You get the correct color but these make it a very intense color. Looks awesome. Remember when you were a little kid riding school bus. That was the interior color. The other was that butt ugly pink. Both were ment to be calming. Have fun with your project.
 
(quoted from post at 06:17:38 08/11/19) I have two Parker gravity flow wagons I want to paint. I believe they are about 330 bushels each. Of course that pee green color is not available at $30 a gallon at farm stores. Does anyone know if Parker makes the paint available to the consumer? Or, has anyone ever mixed green and yellow implement paint to make their own Parker pee green paint? Thanks.
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Are you restoring them to original, or just want to make them look nice? I ve seen a fair number of gravity boxes of all brands painted the color of the owner s favorite tractor. Most wagon manufacturers today (including Parker) will paint the box blue green or red to suit the buyer.
 
Take a sample of the color to a paint store and they can mix the color you want. I painted my Parker Box Kubota orange to match the rest of them.
 
Pea Green is about my least favoritist color. Guess I'd take the repaint opportunity to paint it something more pleasing.
 
Deutz had a pea green that is close to Parker green.
I painted an engine with Factory Deutz pea green about 30 years ago and it still looks great.
I did sand blast the engine and prime with Zip 834 Zinc Phosphate primer.
 
There is a device made by the Xrite Corporation out of Grand Rapids, Michigan that precisely measures paint color that most suppliers use to mix modern paint colors with. If you can get them a sample most all major paint company's can match it's original formula. I repainted a Stieger 325 several years ago and was told that it was the same formula as Deutz used at the time. I called it pee green too.
 
(quoted from post at 22:02:27 08/11/19) isn't pee more of a yellow?
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2x4 that is what I was thinking too. I would call the original Steigers, or 2 parts JD green and 1 part JD yellow, or any of the old GM earth moving equipment all green.
 
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