My M37 Restoration Thread

[Doc Dave]

Bones,
Where do you live?
I am in Hollywood.
Not many PW people in southern Maryland.

[bones1]

Very nice work there. As soon as I find a decent M37 near Maryland I will do the same and park it in the garage next to my finished M35a2, something I always wanted to do.
Actually, an M813, Deuce and a M37 in a row would look good.
Nice tip on the Walmart paint Kaiser.

[JStinson]

Isee you are prepared to spend time with your M37. I noticed your bed roll and back pack sitting in front of the Zero Turn lawn mower. Ha Ha Ha.
Not to seem like I was being nosey but I see you have the same wire wlder as I do. Do you have a problem with it spattering. Maybe its me but boy when I use that welder instead of my stick welder it leaves a lot of spatter. I tried some blue stuff from the weld supply place that you sort of wipe on around the weld area and it did help but not much. Any clues. By the way nice paint job.

Ha, I'm bad about not putting stuff up after I use it. The backpack was left over from a hiking trip down the road in Pine Mountain. Could have used an M37 the last few miles...

Now that you mention it, the welder does give off a fair amount of spatter. I find that most of the little "drops" are small enough that they come off with a wire brush though. A heavy scraper would probably work ok too.

[Kaiser2boy]

Isee you are prepared to spend time with your M37. I noticed your bed roll and back pack sitting in front of the Zero Turn lawn mower. Ha Ha Ha.
Not to seem like I was being nosey but I see you have the same wire wlder as I do. Do you have a problem with it spattering. Maybe its me but boy when I use that welder instead of my stick welder it leaves a lot of spatter. I tried some blue stuff from the weld supply place that you sort of wipe on around the weld area and it did help but not much. Any clues. By the way nice paint job.

[JStinson]

Still looking great! I see I'm not the only one who uses the engine hoist for a painting jig.

Thanks for the compliment. The engine hoist makes a great hanger.

[W_A_Watson_II]

Still looking great! I see I'm not the only one who uses the engine hoist for a painting jig.

[JStinson]

One more for good measure

[JStinson]

A Little Progress

The last few days I have been trying to get the windshield frame prepped for painting. We got rained on quite a bit so the work slowed down some. Either way, I finally got it done today.

After blasting:



Primed:





The paint is a little glossier than the original OD. I was skeptical of it at first, but it has really grown on me. The downside (upside, really) is that I'll have to pay a lot more attention to details. Glossier paint really shows people where you tried to cut a corner.

[Kaiser2boy]

You are saying they limit the size? This forum software has no size limit on remotely hosted images.

In all fairness I am not sure if the limit you but I posted two experimental photos of the same thing and one was sized at 200 kb and one at 1000kb , they both showed up as a thumbnail size. I may be missing some trick but I think I read the instructions right. I did not see any option to load up a bigger format. I am not worried about it because I dont do much posting of photos other than via email.

[Kaiser2boy]

No problem, I tried several times to post a photo with limited luck.
You see the color and finish on the truck , that is Dutch Boy Cafe-Noir extreme adhesion outside metal paint.
$14.00 a gallon at Wal-mart. I think it is one of the only items NOT made in China in the store.

[W_A_Watson_II]

JStinson,

Beautiful! I love the work and detail. they do make matte and flat clear coats if it stays too glossy.

Merry Christmas,
Will

[JStinson]

Hope you don't mind, Kaiser2boy

Kaiser2boy has a beautiful truck. Hope mine looks this great soon.

[JStinson]

OD Paint-Finally

I'm finally satisfied (mostly) with the paint color. I wish it had a tad less sheen to it, but the color is fantastic. Hopefully it will be a little duller after it cures completely. I'll check tomorrow.

Remember, it was still wet in all these pictures.

[Gordon Maney]

I have photobucket and tried it but they seem to limit the size of picture you can post. I loaded one up and when it showed up it was about an inch square like a thumbnail.

You are saying they limit the size? This forum software has no size limit on remotely hosted images.

[Kaiser2boy]

If you are not a subscriber or premium user, you can link to photos at a remote host, such as is the requirement at other forums. You need a photo hosting account such as Photobucket or Smugmug, that sort of thing.

I have photobucket and tried it but they seem to limit the size of pictire you can post. I loaded one up and when it showed up it was about an inch square like a thumbnail.