What did you use to clean it before painting? I was thinking pressure wash, then sand blast, then paint??
I sprayed everything with simple green and let it soak about 10 mins
then I pressure washed everything. I did not sandblast the tractor as a whole.
I did sandblast a few small parts but I'm not doing a concours restoration
on a tractor so I am looking to get off the dirt and grease and oil.
I also hand sanded the rusty parts to remove the rust but not the old paint.
I found from doing a few other tractors that if I sand blast
the parts to bare metal that I have to spray many coats of primer
to get the parts smooth enough for finish top coat. If I put that much
work on paint, I baby the tractor to much for fear of scratching the paint
and then I don't enjoy using the tractor. Here is a picture of my pennsylvania panzer
that I sand blasted the hood and both fenders. I sprayed one coat of primer
and 2 coats of turquoise and after I assembled those parts back onto the
tractor I realize the paint looked porous. I should take those parts back off and
sand them and add a few more coats of paint to get the finish to
look better but then I'll worry about scratching the paint so the panzer would just
sit in the corner covered. Anyway I am not looking to make a show tractor
so I won't be doing much sandblasting.
Oh, Sandblasting may get sand into areas you don't want sand to get into.