Painting IH red

[DieselDoctor]

What color primer do you all prefer to use under IH red paint? I've used light gray on some brackets and the red seems kind of pink?? to me. I was thinking maybe brown would be better. Your thoughts?

[olds45512]

id go with a medium to dark gray, light gray is a pain to cover with red.

[dbuck]

Originally Posted by DieselDoctor

What color primer do you all prefer to use under IH red paint? I've used light gray on some brackets and the red seems kind of pink?? to me. I was thinking maybe brown would be better. Your thoughts?

The paint expert at the local Napa store, suggested using flat white primer. When covering with red, or any other bright color. He stated that sunshine/light will go thru the color and reflect off the white. Making the color brighter. I am about ready to paint my 656 Wheel Horse. I am going to try his method.

[olds45512]

Originally Posted by dbuck

The paint expert at the local Napa store, suggested using flat white primer. When covering with red, or any other bright color. He stated that sunshine/light will go thru the color and reflect off the white. Making the color brighter. I am about ready to paint my 656 Wheel Horse. I am going to try his method.

as a professional painter i can tell you that's a horrible idea, it will take a lot of coats to cover white with red and it will still have a pink look in the sun. you do what you want but if that guys such an expert then whys he working at a parts store?

[bocephus1991]

I'd go with the gray primer or a red tinted primer. Ih used yellow primer on their tractors. I used some yellow primer on the yellow parts on my 1200.

[DieselDoctor]

Olds45512 - so what color primer would you recommend?

[OldSkull]

Olds already answer you on post #2 of this thread.

I'm no professional like he his and he can correct me if I'm wrong.

It's all depends on the shade of color you want, you get better result using a primer having the same shade (Light/medium/dark), I have some flat black primer left and try it has a base coat for some yellow cub parts lately and the result was good!

[olds45512]

the entire painting industry has started using shades of gray for sealer, we have white and black and mix it to the desired shade that will give the paint the best coverage. believe it or not, red paint doesn't cover red primer very well but it will cover the proper shade of gray with ease. for the IH red id recommend something around the charcoal or dark charcoal, if the primer is to light it will either take a lot of coats to cover or it will look good inside but pink outside in the sun.


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[DieselDoctor]

Thank you Olds. That dark charcoal should yield a nice deep red color in bright sunlight. I'm just a amateur painter but I didn't want a pink tractor.

[john hall]

We painted a IH 140 tractor many years ago and used gray primer--BIG MISTAKE. We had removed several pcs for cleaning and mechanical repairs prior to painting. Used rattle can gray for primer. It was very hard to get all the primer covered with the tractor assembled. If we weren't real careful we would get drips and runs. I had to specifically paint thin coats on those pcs, which was hard since you couldn't really get the gun close enough to target those areas. I was especially glad when the last gun of paint went on that machine. Seems we were constantly going over it with a drop-light looking for areas that didn't cover.