Posted by ScottyHOMEy on April 22, 2008 at 22:13:00 from (71.241.213.254):
In Reply to: serial number restore posted by stampmaint1 on April 20, 2008 at 14:54:13:
There are those around that will flame me for saying so, but I'm in favor of doing anything you can to save an original serial number tag. You or I can send off to any number of sources for a tag that says anything we ask them to put on it, which defeats the whole notion behind those numbers. A horrible world could be filled with competing Farmalls with a serial number of 501 in a given model.
To your question, if your tag is silk-screened, ignore everything I have to say.
On my older tractors, a BN and a SuperC, the "silver" lettering and the blank pads for the serial number and max no-load RPMs were raised. I first scoured them down with a ScotchBrite pad. After masking off the pads for the serial number and the RPMs (and the whole tag from the surrounding area), I then hit the whole tag with a black lacquer. The next step was to wet-sand the black down to the level of the raised lettering, then clear lacquer over the whole tag.
It takes some work and patience, but comes back nicely.
BUT, it worked only because of the way the tag was made. Look yours over closely. It's altogether possible that the design/manufacture of the tags changed between the letter series I have and your 1206. If, as BermudaKen said, yours is silk-screened instead of being raised metal this WON'T work!
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