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What's the best way to learn how to restore tractors?

CertifiedSimp · 2020-08-21 11:28:25

I'd love to take an old tractor and make it looking really good again, especially the paintwork. Problem being I don't know much technically about tractors or spraying. I guess you need to know all the components in a tractor and what their role is to start with. Then you might be able know from trying to start a tractor…

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#32 29-08-2020 12:22PM

maidhc

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whisky_galore wrote: »

I wouldn't bother with a car.

Nor would I. Cars are pigs to work on compared to tractors and a banger is always a banger. At least if you buy a tractor and make it good it will always sell, and always be useful.

I did up a Ford 3600 when I was about 16. My doing up involved a wire brush, a tin of paint and isopon as required, but I was a proud as punch.

20 odd years later I am still at stuff, pretty much the same idea but less Isopon. Still get the same feeling when a machine is done and the added bonus is pretty much all the farming is done now with machines I restored (and it the fact they are working machines gives me the legitimate excuse not to seek out mirror paint finishes!)

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