Rattle can paint over welds on FEL

[RaydaKub]

Wish I was there I would paint it for you..

What's stoppin' ya? :laughing:

:welcome:

 

[AStanton]

I used this trick for detail painting with paint left over in spray cans. I would spray the paint into a container first, then use a brush to paint in on a surface. Here's what some of the process ended up looking like on the frog.

 

[jimbo64]

First, grind off all the burnt paint and soot from welding. You need a shiney, abraded surface. A wire wheel will work, but the surface needs to be abraded with sand paper after wirebrushing. Clean the metal with automotive grade wax and grease remover (from an auto paint store). For what you are doing, you could just use a rubbing alcohol/water mix. Acetone, laquer thiner, etc. could attack the surrounding paint, and is not really a good cleaner anyway.

Then you can primer and paint a few hours later. I would not worry too much about over spray from a spray can if you are just touching up some hooks. Throw a sheet over the front of your tractor, and that should be good enough. You might want to cover or move your 1967 big block Corvette, or whatever, but other than that it is a non-issue.

good advice, i do have a 64 corvette convertible and i do not paint in the garage- i touched up around my hooks on the tractor loader with a small brush and some bota orange---from tractor supply- two minute job---------------i did glue a couple of rubber pads where the hooks rest on the loader- several years ago and they are still there'

 

[k0ua]

What's stoppin' ya? :laughing:

:welcome:

Well "noob" is a bit far for a paint job.. he is in MD. and I am in MO.

James K0UA

 

[rsewill]

WELCOME to TBN

I moved your thread to the Kubota Owning/Operating Forum.

Painting a bucket doesn't seem Kubota specific.

 

[jdonovan]

1) paint outside in the open air.

good plan

2). If i paint in the garage what should I do to prevent overspray

move the tractor outside first. See #1.

3). Technique - my thoughts are to ground them down to bare metal. any help from you boys would be most apreciated.

Remove the loose/bubbled paint, light grinding, sand paper etc... it need not be classic car perfect prep....

Unless you are going to keep the tractor showroom new. If you are going to use that tractor it will be no time before LOTS of paint is rubbed off the bucket.

Start spraying before you get too close to the area to be painted, and spray across the target and move away before stopping the spray.

Put your arm straight out, elbow locked. Move arm left-to-right. Thats the basic motion.

Do not spray if the can isn't moving. You'll just make a puddle that will drip.

 

[jonyyuma]

All good advice, I like idea of having a Classic car in there with it. Scratches will show up plenty quick enough, then you can use the camel hair paint brush..

 

[blunosr]

Well, the farmer in me says "it's just a tractor, not a ferrari", so long as the hooks don't fall off when a chain goes on them, the paint is not critical. How about painting a block of wood first just to get the hang of it. I guess we're not born knowing this stuff...

And personally, I don't worry about a little overspray, the rocks and chains are going to scrape it all up anyways. But I did know a guy who used to wax his "tractor", and put Armourall on the seat... He really never used it, but it was a good showpiece I suppose. If you put hooks on it, it sounds to me like you want to use it...

Bye for now,

 

[My Hoe]

All great tips.

I painted heavy equipment, for a summer, right after high school.

In addition to using a piece of cardboard to block off direct over spray, it seems like there's always some "indirect" over spray (and that's NOT a "term of art"--just my term, I guess).

Anyway, you can also use/do:

1. Masking Tape and Paper:
You can always "mask off" anything like a lift cylinder, or other item. (They have special tape and paper for this, but for a bucket job, outside, that's overkill. Newspaper and "painter's tape" (the blue stuff?) should be fine. (I haven't tried the blue stuff for actual painting, yet, as I've got some auto-making tape (cut to closer tolerances, and who knows what other differences).

2. Grease Anything You Can't Mask:
Or that you don't want to mask, like a cylinder rod, again, for example. Just remove grease before use, of course. Can get messy even when done right, but it works.

3. Drape as much as you don't want paint on.
Not to sound like a "wise guy" here, but it's easy enough--an old sheet or two is fine for this. Tie off well, lest the wind arise, so as not to have it whip around into you new, wet paint work.

4. Wet the area around the tractor
This is kind of "old school," and an automotive thing, (and I know will be "overkill" for tractors, in many's opinion, here). It was for shops with concrete floors that always seem to be shedding a light dust, you know? But I think I'd do it outside, too, so your footfalls aren't raising any dust.

*Note: I don't know why part of this looks like it was written in Cyrrillic, below. Tried twice to fix it.

5. Don稚 overlook the 斗owly, small, foam paint roller
I致e had surprising success with using small, foam paint rollers, but that was with heavy, think Rustoleum paint --it "flows out" slowly enough, IMO, that it creates a more even effect--I've had it be almost as good as factory 登range-peel" (*weak applause* LOL). Not appropriate for your job, however, as it痴 a technique best used with panel-work, (fenders, hoods, etc?. Some haven even sanded multiple coats, mega times, to achieve a shockingly-lifelike 都prayed effect. Kind of like the old 塗and rubbed lacquer, in theory, but with very find sand paper. Some people also paint airplanes with rollers, I知 told.

Best of luck--easy-peezy.

My Hoe

 

[Ford tractor]

Well, the farmer in me says "it's just a tractor, not a ferrari", so long as the hooks don't fall off when a chain goes on them, the paint is not critical. How about painting a block of wood first just to get the hang of it. I guess we're not born knowing this stuff...

And personally, I don't worry about a little overspray, the rocks and chains are going to scrape it all up anyways. But I did know a guy who used to wax his "tractor", and put Armourall on the seat... He really never used it, but it was a good showpiece I suppose. If you put hooks on it, it sounds to me like you want to use it...

Bye for now,

But it could be a tractor and a Ferrari (they make farm machines too).

ferrari tractors