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Re: (ET) Rust on an E20, repair time...



On my E-12 the side panels were well rusted but don't think riveted in. Small bolts held panels center cowl and front grille.  My fix goes back to Fall '99 and before I discovered POR15. 

At that time I removed panels, sanded/wire-brushed away the loose rust, then, with a plastic tray, soaked the rusty area in Dupont metal conditioner 5717s, then repaired weak spots with fiberglas reinforced Bondo, primed with Rustoleum and topcoated with Centari acrylic enamel. Still good. Today, I would use the metal conditioner following with POR15 silver, then the Bondo and so on.

The finish I had made up is very faithful to the oem yellow.
It is Sperry New Holland Yellow, these label numbers are still visible and perhaps understandable to you (but not me).
758S drier 34.7
705A black 6.6
700A white 304.1
734A pon orange 35.4
732A fer yellow 122.7
738A lt yellow 189.2

Having said this, my file has a note about a list member that makes these panels...Keith Stieg.

I can tell you're having so much fun you just can't stand it.

Cheers, Jack

On Jul 25, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Christopher Zach wrote:

Well, this morning I had some free time so I pulled the front two
batteries on my E20. These are dead T105's kept in there as ballast
since I run pretty much exclusively on the BB600's in the back.

It's rusted, no surprise. However one of the side panels is completely
rusted on the bottom and I think I should just swap both of them out.
The question is does anyone have any of the new ones? How do they look
and fit? Is removal simply a case of taking out the transformer, pulling
the old sides by drilling the rivets and putting in the new ones?

And what are people using to paint their tractors these days? The latex
I used about 6 years ago tends to peel. I'm thinking a base of POR15 on
the bottom frame, followed by whatever people use on top.

Thanks!
Chris



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