Allis Chalmers Orange

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Working on restoring an Allis Chalmers WD45. I couldn't find the correct orange in urethane so I ended up with enamel (and hardener) from the ag dealer (possibly acrylic enamel from what I hear). I have done some small pieces with spi black primer and noticed it takes several top coats for coverage. Should I be using something other than black primer? Can I tint my black primer with color?
 
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Example from google. Also, should I use a sealer? I've never done that before. Thanks!
 
i painted a trailer with ag paint some years back, it dont cover real well and i would up putting on twice what i thought i would. it faded bad to, good luck. now i painted a few machines with Cat paint, that stuff held up well. no clue who really made it.
 
I painted the tins from one of those last year. I have a "Color by Design" mixing system which has a single stage urethane formula for A / C Pershing Orange. For primer I used a mix of red oxide and gray epoxy primer, which gave me a dirty pinkish orange. The single stage covered very well over that.
 
Try to get that color in something better than tractor paint. The color will hold out better. A single stage urethane will look better. What I've heard at the local tractor show few years ago was that the color faded after a few years. I used to go to them every year. So many interesting tractors and lawn mowers etc. Some looked really great. The slow tractor race was always interesting. The last one across the line won the race. Lol
 
RenewAP said:
I painted the tins from one of those last year. I have a "Color by Design" mixing system which has a single stage urethane formula for A / C Pershing Orange. For primer I used a mix of red oxide and gray epoxy primer, which gave me a dirty pinkish orange. The single stage covered very well over that.
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Can you elaborate on the primer you recommended? I've only used black spi primer.
 
When I paint my equipment I use tractor enamel but then I use a hard industrial clear coat over it. The clear coat is unbelievably resistant to diesel spills, scratches from low hanging branches etc, and it keeps the color from fading (over 6 years now). I'm farming with my stuff and getting it worked.
 
Used to be a lot of Allis Chalmers around these parts. With tobacco being the major crop, there were a lot of the very specialized little AC tractors with the very tall and very narrow wheels to go down between the rows. My adopted Grandpa had one that he used in his garden. Never had to touch a hoe he said. Could weed the entire garden with that little tractor. I miss him a lot.
 
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Chris_Hamilton said:
Used to be a lot of Allis Chalmers around these parts. With tobacco being the major crop, there were a lot of the very specialized little AC tractors with the very tall and very narrow wheels to go down between the rows. My adopted Grandpa had one that he used in his garden. Never had to touch a hoe he said. Could weed the entire garden with that little tractor. I miss him a lot.
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G is the model i think your talking about. AC's answer to the IH A
 
SPI makes white primers, you can intermix different colored primers of the same chemistry. You can't tint the black primer with anything else but white primer, or oxide red if it happens to be epoxy you are talking about.
 
I used SPI orange on an Allis C a while back. I think it looked better than original. I sprayed it over gray SPI epoxy. Black would probably be a little hard to cover.
 
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