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    Allstate tire help

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    6 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

    This is an area where I tend to buck the "conventional wisdom".

    However, if the casing is cotton cord? Definitely, do not trust old tires. Even the tiniest surface cracking can allow water to  invade the cotton cord. A fungus common to cotton can grow and (literally) eat the fibers of the cotton resulting in severe weakness. This is not unlike dry-rot in wood.

    Nylon cord on the other hand, does NOT rot! It can deteriorate due to UV exposure (like most synthetic plastics and fibers). Unless the surface cracking gets so severe that the nylon fibers become visible to the naked eye? They can last many decades with only minor loss of strength. Most nylon cord tires (not otherwise physically damaged) as long as the rubber is somewhat pliable, can be safe to use even at fifty or sixty years old.

    I have a few Sears Allstate  tires in model T/A 21 inch size that are known to be from the late 1960s. Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to head out on a coast to coast tour with them if I had a car that used that size. On the other hand, I have a 30X3.5 model T size clincher tire that was about fifteen years old when I got it about fifteen years ago. The silly thing looked new-old-stock. Nearly perfect. No visible cracking, checking, no obvious signs to be concerned about. When I went to mount it on a model T rim (about twelve years ago), the bead ripped. And again, and again, and again.  Finally accepting that it wouldn't work even as a shop roller (all that I wanted it for at the time), I took it off and looked it over carefully. Then I grabbed the tire with my bare hands and ripped the sidewall like a cheap catalog! 

    I know a lot of people disagree with me. But for me (a broke cheapskate!), whether an old tire should be used or not depends mostly on what the casing is made of. As long as it hasn't sat in the sun too much or been damaged in other ways.

    A lot of Allstate tires were nylon cord, many of them labeled as such. Unfortunately, many tires (Allstate and many other companies) are not labeled what material cord they used.  

    I agree with you.  Older tires were made from better material and as long as they are soft and pliable and not dry rotted, I think they are good to use.  New tires are junk!

    Restoration Shop Paint TCP

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    I am looking at the Base coat clear coat 2 stage system.  I just called them and asked if they could do a spray out and he said they don't do that anymore.  He did say there paint compares to PPG and Sherman Williams.  He also stated that it would work fine over my primer.  

    Restoration Shop Paint TCP

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    2 minutes ago, mike6024 said:

    I thought the code tells them how to mix it? The PPG and Dupont codes are listed. Are you saying with those codes they still don't know how to mix it?

     

    1936 Apple Green, code = 257, Ditzler/PPG code = QDE379    , Dupont code = 93-1650    , Sherwin Williams = 8360, Martin Senour = 115

     

    http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?color=Apple Green&tditzler=QDE379&rows=50

    With those you need a mixing fomula, Valspar doesn't have one.

     

     

    Restoration Shop Paint TCP

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    Posted · Edited by dalef62 (see edit history)

    I am trying to buy paint for my Farm O Road restoration and local paint stores do not have a formula for the 1936 Chevrolet truck Apple Green that I am looking for.  I have checked online and found that I can get the paint I need from Restoration Shop paint.  

    My question is, Is the paint any good?  Also I normally use Valspar paint products and wondered if I could use Valspar reducers and clear coat with the Restoration Supply basecoat paint?

    1950 Crosley Farm O Road Restoration and more

    in Our Cars & Restoration Projects

    Posted · Edited by dalef62 (see edit history)

    Flipped Farm O Road...  Today was the day to flip the body over and sand the bottom.  There are some imperfection on the bottom but it is good enough for me.  

    Stopped at the paint store and had some paint mixed up, 1 pint.  Unfortunately it was the wrong color...  Tomorrow I will try again, I think I have it figured out what went wrong.  So close...

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    Distributor problems

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    Give us a few pics of the distributor and if you can get one down the hole, with and without tape measure.  Remember, pictures are worth a thousand words.  When you measured down the hole and the distributor shaft were the measurements the same?  Maybe it will take a bigger hammer????  LOL

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