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Originally Posted by olds45512
I recommend it because it's easy for beginners s to spray and the price is right, sure there's better paints out the but the iron gard is about $60 bucks a gallon and the better stuff is $200 and up per gallon. My paint hasn't faded and still looks just as good as the day I sprayed it.
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Fair enough.
Well of coarse yours looks as good as the day you painted it. It takes years for it to fade. Remember, all these machines were once painted with Ironguard, and you know what they look like if they have never been painted. Even ones that were kept inside all their life are faded some.
Some farmers I worked for right out of high school painted their own equipment. They had this beautifully painted 1086. They also had this nasty ratty old looking M. One day I asked when they were going to paint the M. Jeff said, "I did. Same year I painted the 1086." I was like, "WHAT?" He said, "Yeah. I painted the 1086 with Centarri, and painted the M with Ironguard from IH. Same gun, same hardener, same everything just different paint. Painted one then the other. Neither has sat out any more than the other, and they were painted about 15 years ago. Matter fact," he said, "The 1086 has probably sat out more, because we only use the M to move wagons and run augers in the fall." I was convinced. It looked like he had just painted the 1086 recently. It still shined! When I started painting, I always shot DuPont paints (not "always" but you know what I mean). Never disappointed. Even when they (DuPont) came out with Nason, I was reluctant to switch to the "cheaper" line. Was never let down with it either.
It doesn't matter to me what you guys use, I just wondered why everyone was so hooked on Ironguard. I still don't like it.
Oh, Alvy, it was in a rattle can. Which may been part of the issue. Paint in rattle cans never seems to spray like the same paint ran through a gun does. I don't know if it's mixed thick, or thin, or not at all..... but I don't ever get "satisfactory" results from a rattle can. Others do, but I don't. I usually end up with runs, or sags, or too thick, too thin..... but when you get used to using a gun that you can change the spray pattern to suite what you are painting you get spoiled I guess. Never easy to paint a small part, or in "crevices" when a fan spray pattern is what they gave you, and a round pattern is what you need.
Sorry for the long post.