painting blade.

[John(videodoc)]

okay now i am confused. somewhere were red, some where blue. some were white. maybe go green. lets take a poll, from the experts. what color do you'll think my snow plow should be?

[Don McCombs]

What color is your tractor?

[John(videodoc)]

its 59 loboy. trying to stay true to the scheme. IH red most of tractor. silver/grey rims, IH white 4 bar horizontal grill. IH blue on rockershafts and of course the cup & smoker holder i found here on farmall cub .com

john

[Lurker Carl]

Probably supposed to be red. It would look nice painted white.

[Jim Becker]

If you are trying to match original '59 colors,I think the L-54 blade should be red, same as a Cub-54A. Then you should loose the blue paint can and paint those parts red.

[Donny M]

Jim wrote:

Then you should loose the blue paint can and paint those parts red.

Boy is Mr. GW going to be ticked

[Jim Becker]

Jim wrote:

Then you should loose the blue paint can and paint those parts red.

Boy is Mr. GW going to be ticked

I doubt it. Videodoc specified "its 59 loboy. trying to stay true to the scheme." I took it he was asking about the original scheme. If he is trying to stay true to some scheme he is making up, he wouldn't need to be asking.

[Donny M]

Jim,

I understand about the paint issue. I respect your knowledge

I was commenting on a post by Mr. GW where he was disappointed with the way people confuse loose and lose.
I did find another post where he made reference to the problem:

http://www.farmallcub.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6063&start=30

Mr GW wrote:

Hey Country... if you don't let it get LOOSE, you won't LOSE it.

Just bored I guess

[Jim Becker]

OK, I'll take that hit.

I waas beginning too thiinnk that we were gettting soo doown on the Coorect Poolice that it was no loonnger pooliticallly coorrrect to tell aanyboody what the ooriginal cooloor oof anything was.

[Donny M]

Jim,

I apologize if you thought my comments were a "hit" to you That was not my intention

I was just trying to embellish the thread

[Rudi]

A wise man once said

"It's your Cub, paint it how YOU want it "

Seeing as there were so many customers say from the US Department of Highways which painted their Cubs and implements USDoH Yellow, to CN Rail which used CN Orange, to the US Marines, Navy, Army etc. so you can imagine what colours those were, not to mention all the large commercial customers who had their Cubs and implements painted in Company liveries....

Sooo, saying that, I would assume that their really is no really truly correct colour scheme.

However, when IH send equipment to the dealers there were specific colours called out for different models, years, upgrades etc.

Generally accepted would be:
IH-50 Blue (1150B) for the earlier McCormick-Deering Blades.
IH-50 (2150) Red for the Cub-54, L-54 and Cub-54A blades.
Whitecap White for the Demonstrators
901/902 White for the regualr blades painted white in the 60's and 70's
and of course again the
IH-2150 Red for every other occassion.

I think that about sums it up....

btw, thanks to the combined knowledge of George, Jim, BD, Carl and a bunch of others, the above is what I have gleaned from their comments/expertise and my own reading on the matter.

However, it is just meine zwei pfennig's worth.

[John(videodoc)]

did i open a can of worms or what.

[allenlook]

Yep, I'd say you did!

Lesson I learned: When it's time to repaint something, I'll save myself a whole lot of heartache by skipping the can of worms and just open my favorite can of paint!

I hope the lid is lose and I don't set it aside somewhere and loose it