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Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 5:58 pm
by icom102
Hi
My Super Major is nearing its restoration first of all has anyone the colour codes for the Blue and Orange paint?
and second what was and was not painted on them from new I have seen ones with the wheel studs painted and some has them as the bare finish can anyone advise me I assume there's no colour pictures of a Super major when new ?

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 6:45 pm
by henk
Icom,

Thats a problem. The bleu should be EMPIRE BLEU. But!!!!! The same name will give different shades by different supliers and different sorts of paint.
The same for orange.

Mine has RAL 2009 traffic orange on the wheels and 5017 traffic bleu on the tractor. I know it's the wrong colour. The bleu is almoost the same as the Ford 1000 series.
Some mix Ford bleu and Ford gray to get the right colour of the early Major. But that is very different from the later Super Major.

Best to find a piece of the tractor where the sun has never shined and take it to a paint shop.

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 7:21 pm
by icom102
Thanks but there is not a scrap of the original blue left :(

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 7:51 pm
by mathias1
icom102 wrote:
Mon May 11, 2020 7:21 pm
Thanks but there is not a scrap of the original blue left :(
Also not under the bonnet? I used the paint on the inside of the dashboard panel below to get a match. I wonder if a color would be found behind the little gear change plate.

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 8:42 pm
by icom102
It had no tin work at all was in a bad way but its getting there

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 3:28 am
by Dandy Dave
Oh lardy. What ever you do. Don't paint the front screen orange. Dandy Dave!

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 9:57 am
by icom102
The front screen ?

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:21 am
by peter2
like this:

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I used colors of Sparex, if I remember correctly.

And according to Brian the whole Tractor is blue, as if it was bathed in color.

Peter

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 12:59 pm
by Dandy Dave
Yup. :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: That.... Dandy Dave!

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 1:03 pm
by Dandy Dave
Actually the older Fordson Major screens are blue. The Power Majors and Super Major screens are silver. Dandy Dave!

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 10:02 pm
by icom102
Ah yes I see I have seen super majors and the headlight grills as I would call them are orange so they are meant to be sliver

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 5:50 pm
by henk
The wiki is working again, so take a look at http://wiki.somee.com/default.aspx/MyWi ... rills.html to see what Brian had to say about it.
To login fordsontractorpages and dotty

Re: Fordson Super Major Paint

Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 9:41 pm
by icom102
So sliver grills it is then