whitish Grey W6

Kcgrain · Sep 25, 2009

Have another question for you IH guys, this W6 that we are getting running, is red, but the red is coming off or faded away in spots specially on the castings, underneath the red is a whitish grey color, which looking at the paint is the color of the tractor over the primer, the primer is that red oxide color, than this greyish white than red over the top, was wondering why its that greyish white, was it something IH did or was it a military tractor or what does that color mean??

Janicholson · Sep 25, 2009

IH didn"t use primer. It could have been painted 3 times. Once IH red faded and looks like primer. second time grey primer over the original, third IH red (or someones) to make it look good again. JimN

Kcgrain · Sep 25, 2009

Actually the guy that owned originally, died a couple of years ago and he bought it from a dealer suppose to have been new, he never painted it, just the tins and did that with a brush, the first color is definetly primer, not faded IH red, than greyish white than the IH red. which is faded away like IH red does and thats why the greyish white is showing threw now

Janicholson · Sep 25, 2009

Well I stand by the general principle that IH used no primer. But they would paint a tractor any color. Thus it could have been painted multiple times at the factory, or the dealer, or by the old man who is now no longer able to give evidence. Jim

glennster · Sep 25, 2009

i ran across two i-h tractors (both m's) that had that same whiteish grey paint layer. one a 1942 and the other a 1949. what i suspect it is, is a primer that was applied at the dealership when the tractor was repainted there. from reading guy fays book on the letter series tractors, i-h encouraged the dealers in the 50's when sales were slow to repaint customer tractors as a way to bring in cash for the dealers. that would explain why so many tractors when being stripped for repaints appear to be white demonstrators, even tho the year of the tractor is wrong.

CNKS · Sep 25, 2009

As Jim stated, IH did not use primer in that era, the IH paint was so bad that if the tractor sat a couple of years it needed to be repainted, particularly if the dealer wanted to sell it as new; the dealer could have used primer, only a guess -- but basically the paint doesn't mean anything.

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