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Mike CA

10-30-2007 19:29:25




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I've heard Farmalls were just hosed down with red paint all over the thing. Did that include the radiator? A guy has a beautifully restored, supposedly "correct" '43 H that has a black radiator. If it's not correct, the reason I can think of that he did that was for the shutters, so you could see them under the grill. I was just thinking of which way I would go.

Here it is

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Jim Becker

11-02-2007 07:00:50




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
The black paint helping cooling is one of those things that has enough truth in the science behind it to be believable. But in the practical world, it falls on its face. The thickness of a layer of paint probably removes more cooling capacity than changing it to black from any other color will add.



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Paul G. in Mn

10-31-2007 18:08:29




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
That H really looks nice, wonder what other tractors are in the back ground. cant wait till my H and M are to that point.



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CNKS

10-31-2007 17:42:46




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
I paint the tanks, etc red, and leave the core alone. No sense to me to buy paint just for the radiator. One thing to remember. If you take it to a radiator shop to have it cleaned, the shop will likely paint it -- black. Radiator shops are the world's lousiest painters, so tell him not to.



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old timer

10-31-2007 15:17:36




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
id like to see the other tractors that are covered



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Goose

10-31-2007 11:35:52




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
Depends on how you use it. When I was racing stock cars, a radiator man told me a radiator painted black will dissipate heat better than any other color, or even bare unpainted.

Makes sense.



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Mike CA

10-31-2007 07:04:20




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
"Spinds my propeller" I like the Navy slang for the Squid! third party image



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Janicholson

10-31-2007 06:15:06




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
Mike,
All depends on what you want. Correct is a tractor that was masked off to keep a fdew spots from getting paint. including the steering wheel black, the name plate on the torque tube, the generator plate, rear axles, distributor/mag, cap and wires, lenses, and a few more items . Then all remaining exposed parts were sprayed belts and all with a (pretty mediocre, but OK for the day) red paint that was a simigloss within 6 months, and faded to an array of colors after 10 years.
The radiators were black when installed before paint, and when sprayed, (as Scotty points out) got paint on them.
MAking a tractor 500% better than new with sanding castings, filling/surfacing, Priming, sanding, and multi coat/clear coat paint is very nice, but niether correct, nor conducive to driving it in the fence row with a bush hog. I like things that I am willing to use. But sense your "use" is parades and people, do what spins your propeller. JimN

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ScottyHOMEy

10-31-2007 09:49:14




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Janicholson, 10-31-2007 06:15:06  
Jim, that one looks to me like a good example of the approach you mentioned the other night, about putting it back like IH might have made it IF they had taken the time.

That's pretty much the approach I took, as in "keep the radiator black and mount it with the shroud, after I'm done shooting red, for example, and putting the belts and hoses on afterward.

Yeah, they had overspray from the factory, but I think a clean paint paint job makes for a lot better representation of what these machines were in their day, and still are.

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chuck craig in SUNNY SOCA

10-30-2007 23:49:48




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
I like that WF. Mike, I need one like that 4 the 300.



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ScottyHOMEy

10-30-2007 20:04:18




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 Re: Radiator color in reply to Mike CA, 10-30-2007 19:29:25  
Black, with red overspray.



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