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greenbank
10-28-2007 13:40:20
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Re: TO-35 fender brace colors in reply to greenbank, 10-27-2007 17:15:44
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Well, I'm definitely no expert. I was looking at my original brochure and some Ferguson books with period photos, and they all seem to show TO-35s with gray fender braces.
From a production standpoint, how did they do it, if they're green? The rivets holding the fenders together must have remained unpainted, then? The toolbox is attached behind the lower rivets, as well. So when the tractor came down the line to the chassis paint shop, the lower braces were bolted to the tractor already, the toolbox was temporarily held in place, and the upper braces were temporarily held to the lower braces with bolts...and then the whole shebang was disassembled, the skins, painted only on the back were offered up, the skin was riveted in place, the tractor masked off, and then the front of the skins were painted on the tractor? Does this make any sense?
I suppose the braces could all just have been painted green as a separate item before assembly, and whole thing was riveted together, and then the front of the fender was repainted.
Neither of those operations seem efficient from a production line standpoint, as opposed to putting together the entire fender assembly and then dipping it. But, again, what do I know?
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