53 year old Ex military Caterpillar D7F dozer gave us problems! 

Thank you for being a parent that cares...seems to be a rarity these days.

What did you use, an airless paint sprayer or something like an undercoating gun, because a regular paint gun would never spray paint that thick through it?

Hopefully you didn't paint 'em green. :)

It is the quick strip paint. All you need is a good putty knife and you can field strip it in just under an hour.

Interesting. I remember all the gas masks on the news at that time

Always remember CARC dust should not be inhaled! Always use a really good respirator!

No one should ever pick on Kevin. He has a GREAT name.

My family is the same way!! No pick, no love!!👍🏻🍀

Thank you for your service

Hey big brother - my nephew Max is a hard charging 12B SGT who is heading to his first combat zone for the next 13 months. He pretty much enlisted because he admires his crazy former grunt uncle for some reason, haha.

Thanks for your service!

Those are post re-engineing hours.

@@taloniilm `10-4 I copied that. My neglected statement still stands though. :)

You to do good work

Hey, what's the cost of that d7.

Your comment brings back the memory of a friend of mine who bought a surplus Coates tire changing machine, and being the particular guy he was he stripped off the many, many, many coats of paint on it and of course repainted it original color. He said the thing had been painted so many times that it would not even operate due to the paint buildup. I do not understand why, oh why some outfits get so carried away with painting everything all of the time, and generally with poor preparation for proper paint adhesion. The only way to properly prepare the surface is to bring it down to the bare metal and refinish it as was done here. You get more mileage out of your paint job that way.

Yes using Snap-On saves your knuckles as most never break, have several 30 years old and still going strong.

Also, as a former MAC Tools dealer I would tell my customers that they would only have to buy a wrench made by Mac one time as we would warranty them for the lifetime of the tool for defects in materials and workmanship. The only time they would have to pay for a wrench is if they lost it or someone stole it. I had a man come on my truck here in the Jacksonville Fl area who had an inch and a quarter combination wrench that he bought in Alaska in 1962 that had the chrome peeling off of it (MAC would warranty this due to the danger of the chrome cutting the hands). I reached for a brand new one (that costs considerably more in 1983) and handed it to him. Grant you those wrenches cost quite a bit, but I also tried to carry a stock of tools and such that fit the demands of the workplace and there were many times I was able to get mechanics out of a jam by having something on the truck to enable them to get the job done.

Yes sir it seems as though those sailors painted everything.

You will loose about 700lbs in the weight of dozer if you get rid of that old paint

Every shop needs a mascot.

How much is it