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With good reason.....why go to the effort of a full restoration, right down to period goodyear tyres, and then paint something so shiny it looks like all the panels are fibreglass.

Those on a quest for the purest form of originality aim for a finish as close to factory specifcation as possible
the customer is paying and thats what he wants the finish and plus it shows how good we are at paint finishing, in my eyes the customer that pays can have what ever he wants we sell alot of restorations on the back of a completed one in the showroom it works for us and its our way
 

Pennine Ploughing

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Mixed Farmer
so if you got a MF 135 with hard shell cab on it, and say everything had been done, the likes of the engine, gearbox hyd, everything was sorted, it has new square wings and bonnet is good, new tyres ready to go on, and on PAVT wheels,
so it is all just cosmetics and paint,
what sort of cost to do it, in 2 pack and finish ?

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John 1594

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Cambridgeshire
the customer is paying and thats what he wants the finish and plus it shows how good we are at paint finishing, in my eyes the customer that pays can have what ever he wants we sell alot of restorations on the back of a completed one in the showroom it works for us and its our way


So if someone approached you to do a restoration, and wanted it in writing that it would be finished to "factory" spec, ie enamel paint, well applied, but not mirror finish like 2k

would you turn the job down or try and convice him to go 2k to make your own life easier

as well all know that its harder to achieve a nice shine with slow drying enamel than it is chemically cured 2k, which goes off pretty quick

fact is, when these old girls were new, the paint wasnt that good, as long as the main panels were blemish free, the chasiis could have all sorts of runs it it

trying to make a modern car finish look right on a 50 year old tractor doesnt happen. All it makes it look like is the owner couldnt be bothered to do it right, and just sent the tractor to a modern car body shop for a re-spray.
 
so if you got a MF 135 with hard shell cab on it, and say everything had been done, the likes of the engine, gearbox hyd, everything was sorted, it has new square wings and bonnet is good, new tyres ready to go on, and on PAVT wheels,
so it is all just cosmetics and paint,
what sort of cost to do it, in 2 pack and finish ?

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would you want it to look concorse like all rust pits fillered new window rubbers all new bright wheel bolts nuts check chains pins etc painted in hi build an flatted an mopped
 
So if someone approached you to do a restoration, and wanted it in writing that it would be finished to "factory" spec, ie enamel paint, well applied, but not mirror finish like 2k

would you turn the job down or try and convice him to go 2k to make your own life easier

as well all know that its harder to achieve a nice shine with slow drying enamel than it is chemically cured 2k, which goes off pretty quick

fact is, when these old girls were new, the paint wasnt that good, as long as the main panels were blemish free, the chasiis could have all sorts of runs it it

trying to make a modern car finish look right on a 50 year old tractor doesnt happen. All it makes it look like is the owner couldnt be bothered to do it right, and just sent the tractor to a modern car body shop for
thats hard to answer depended how busy we wer but as we have 15+ ish tractors booked in for 2k jobs then that kind of speaks for its self,
im not against poly, sythenic enamels etc i never said i was they have there uses and we do use them,
BUT to send a restoration out with runs in it come on we get runs now and again 2k give you a second chance to get rid of them when its dry
 

John 1594

Member
Location
Cambridgeshire
An example of differences in restoration...

you can bin all the tinwork, and fit blemish free, new tin, easy to paint, couple of coats and its done, easy, slap some filler on any bad rust pitting, wont know the difference when its painted

all new repro parts, off the shelf, gauges, dials, wiring looms, lights, linkage parts. All foreign made nowdays, and nothing like the originals, but they loom nice because they are new and shiny.

Or, like we did with one tractor, had the original gauges re-furbished, i even went to the trouble of getting the original headlight reflectors re-chromed..to preserve the original lights as opposed to fitting cheap indian made replacements. Any badly rusted chassis parts were swapped with better conditon parts sourced from breakers yards

the linkage was refurbished by manufacturing oversize pins on the lathe, and boring the respective holes out to eliminate wear

when you start doing things like that, then the costs get far beyond what any machine will ever be worth when its done
 
An example of differences in restoration...

you can bin all the tinwork, and fit blemish free, new tin, easy to paint, couple of coats and its done, easy, slap some filler on any bad rust pitting, wont know the difference when its painted

all new repro parts, off the shelf, gauges, dials, wiring looms, lights, linkage parts. All foreign made nowdays, and nothing like the originals, but they loom nice because they are new and shiny.

Or, like we did with one tractor, had the original gauges re-furbished, i even went to the trouble of getting the original headlight reflectors re-chromed..to preserve the original lights as opposed to fitting cheap indian made replacements. Any badly rusted chassis parts were swapped with better conditon parts sourced from breakers yards

the linkage was refurbished by manufacturing oversize pins on the lathe, and boring the respective holes out to eliminate wear

when you start doing things like that, then the costs get far beyond what any machine will ever be worth when its done
how much would that cost!! if your doing your own tractor yea or a customer that has an endles supply of money, but we are doin it sensibly an to not bankrupt a fella yes our jobs arnt cheap only because of the amount of labour involved parts are cheap and we spend time to make new tin work fit and not feel cheap we use as many original parts possible but do have to keep to bugets etc
your view is yours and ours is ours
thanx for your interest though
 

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