Posted by Doug Steinbach on December 11, 2010 at 10:15:13 from (70.253.138.97):
In Reply to: Re: James Williams posted by 36F30 on December 10, 2010 at 21:13:16:
Hey James thanks for the link. My F14 hasn't been painted yet. Sitting ready for a job just couldn't decide between gray, it's original color, or red. Couldn't find a gray I liked so the decision has been hard to make.
I can assume that if IH only made small batches of paint at one time, in regards to the gray color, then there wouldn't have been very good consistency in the gray colors they used during the period it was used. Having mixed lots of paint in my lifetime, even with the high tech gadgets of today, it's very difficult to mix the same color twice and two differnt times, hence the reason paint is mixed and canned up in bulk quantities.
If the paint in question in the link James provided is actually IHC #1063 from the period the gentleman in the link says it is, then it stands to reason that it's going to be the absolute closest thing to the original color that was used.
I'm less concerned about the fact that the color found on a tractor under restoration is slightly darker than what might have been in those paint cans. I've seen several of these old tractors that should have been gray from the factory and about the only places I ever find paint is under grease and oil that has been caked on there for years. Paint subjected to grease and oil for very long periods of time has a tendancy to change color some due to having been stained.
I've emailed them for the formula, and the decision has been made. She's going to be whatever color gray was in that can.
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