I’m sitting at the airport watching this, and when you showed the painted tin work, I audibly said “oh NO” and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. That’s awful, but I know you’ll find a solution! Been following this build from the very beginning!
Fuel line fabrication is my kryptonite. And the usage of steel has elevated your status as a Demigod level Builder Of The CAT 5J1113. Mounting the toolbox had me thinking, "Gee, that would be a great place for foldover locks."
@@humancattoy7767 yes, I'm familiar with them and thanks to my Dad (electrical engineer) I believe I have seen and handled them (Neodymium iron boron magnets). My q to Wayne p was why you'd put them in a fuel tank.
I don't know how big or poisonous the spiders are there, what really scared me was how big was the cost of that "tiny" piece of sheet steel, I have a feeling that on this side of the Atlantic the steel prices will become even higher, it seems that a refill of Argon+CO2 mix or pure CO2 already costs more than twice as much as it did a year ago 😰
I’ve just spent 2 days watching this full series I’m totally blown away. I have learnt so much. Just love this old iron Love the tools you make Cheers for the best content
I've been through something like this before on a Tri five Chevy. Take an old panel to a quality paint supplier, have them color match and mix up a gallon of enamel. Chemically strip those panels back to bare steel, the chemical stripping will lightly discolor the steel which helps with the overall effect you are going for. Super light coat of red oxide primer. Let the color cure for several weeks, put it in the sun as much as possible. Throw some general clean dirt in your truck, place the panel on top, throw dirt on panel then go for an off road adventure a few times. Also splash some hydrogen peroxide on the panel's surface occasionally. The last and best result (in my opinion, which isn't worth anything), try to talk a powder coater into to running the panels at 400deg for a few hours. The heat will darken and further discolor the paint, the edges where the paint wore through to substrate will darken even further, one more hydrogen peroxide wash and your as close as you are ever going to get to the original "patina". I am sure there are 1000 ways to do this, the one time I really needed to help bring a certain look back to a car this worked. The look wasn't exact, but over the years it will wear in.
I miss the John Phillips Souza band playing in the background.! 11:00 I also prefer to think a 5-year-old child rode on that toolbox, to help with the wear marks on the fender.! Because that was me, in CA.
Rub the panels down unevenly with rough sandpaper down to bare metal and mess up most of the paint, spray the metal with vinegar and leave it outside in the rain. Then rub the rust with steel wool, spray some of the correct yellow paint straight over it, let it dry then attack it with a rough cloth and leave it outside until it starts to look the part I've done some corrugated iron like that, but I'm no expert Good luck 😊
Taking that pipe cut on the bent and fitted fuel line must have been nerve wracking - just to make absolutely sure it wasn't 1 inch too short! Got a kick out of the sheet metal 'damage control' comment.
Man that d2 is looking better and better each time you put some new reworked parts on it! I’m pretty sure we all have learned a lot from you tinkering with her! Great job! Looking forward to seeing the next chapter!👌😎👍
If you want to have real cool paint chipping, you can apply a mixture of salt and water to some spoots before painting. When you wash of that salty crust with water you have beautiful weathered paint chipping with jagged edges. Saw this in a model building magazine, where they made the paint chipping for WWII Plane wing edges.
Awesome video the D2 is looking really nice when you got the fuel tank and line on with the fenders the belly skid pan and tow hook are going to be nice additions to it
When you were setting the gas tank down I was telling you my fingers were in the way and you didn’t even hear me, did you? See if I help you out again ! 🤣😂🤣👍 Just started the video I’m so excited 😆.
All of that old handwriting is super cool, on the roof of my grader inside someone wrote in pencil “back down” and I’ve always wondered what it was for
She's gonna look killer with the wide pads bud. I've been watching for a long time and just realized I was not subscribed. That has been remedied, Thanks!
Before using an aggressive stripping method on all that canary yellow, I’d use some paint thinner and gently remove some of it to confirm that they didn’t just spray over the original paint.
Man, you weren't kidding with the shine. You panned and i instantly flinched. On the one hand, you hate to see good condition parts like that 'vaporize' but on the other, some kids got their start, since the skins look to be decently shined over (camera lies, so just from a video perspective). You've got your work cut out for you.
Dam if it ain’t one thing it’s another. I’m actually looking forward to the fabrication of the belly pan. Love this build, like everyone else, been following from the start. Love these vid
Riding the fuel tank reminded me of my time in the military, riding on the Naval ships. Looking off the side of the boat while under way. Still get a quezy stomach from looking over the edge. Be careful mounting that tool box, don't want to scratch the paint job!!! LOL!!!
You know, hyping yourself up to crawl under that tractor with spiders on the prowl reminded me of something: it's amazing how fast one can move from underneath a piece of machinery when you see a critter you want to distance yourself from (for me, it's wasps and snakes). Maybe they should make that an Olympic event....
Hey Squatch. For weathering paint look to the scale modeling community. There are numerous techniques like sponging, or soap flaking that produce very good results.
Great video squatch253! My heart sank when you showed us the painted hood and track guards. And it's not just the price of steel that went up. Everything did. Everything is stupid expensive now. Where I live we are paying over 8 dollars a gallon for regular gas. Looking forward to the next video squatch
I realize that they wouldn’t be original to 5J1113 but if you could find someone who is restoring a similar D2 maybe they would be willing to trade their sheet metal for your canary yellow parts. Thanks for the great videos!
On camera other than being the wrong color it looks like they did a really good job on the paint. I think you should paint them the right color and not worry about patina, just adds character like the sharpie marks.
Well those Canary yellow pieces are in pristine shape so I would repain them paint them into your magic to make them look like they were there for a 100 years or more
Reckon the best thing is to get those painted pieces dip-stripped, then spray them with a fast oxidising solution - Project Farms uses summat similar for his steel test pieces - and go from there.
absolutely loving this build, 6yr old step grandaughter said "awwwww a baby tractor, its cute" and I agree and been lucky enough to find a Cat D2 3J cutaway drawing that i am going to put onto an "antiqued" metal sign, Squatch you have me hooked on finding a D2 here in Australia to resto-build
I had to do some welding for a guy once on a rented grader. Welded it and painted then with my dirty welding glove on I just run my hand over it a couple times, worked out very well. Keep smilin.
Seeing that painted sheet metal, I remembered I had a foreman at a previous employer who had a shirt that was about that color. He was a fairly large guy, and one day when he was wearing it I told a coworker that he looked like the canary that ate the cat!
I wonder what happens when a spider -- or three -- make their presence known once you're under there. Would we all see how fast a Squatch can move? Once on his feet again, would we see a Squatch do the dance of his people trying to rid himself of the spiders?
It's hard for me to imagine how badly the beer can D2 was treated to cause the level of damage you found. I'm not even sure that exploding an IED underneath the belly pan would produce as much destruction as those guys caused. Whoever they are, I pray that they are no longer involved in operating equipment or handling acetylene torches. Honestly, if Cat D2's had a Post Office, they would be on the 10 Most Wanted List for Assault and Battery on a Crawler Tractor.
That fuel line fabrication was just elegant. I didn't know you could solder steel, but I was already impressed with your tinning the bare end so well. Looks great, works great. If you're pulling stuff off the donor tractor, like the belly pan, weren't those a set of the upper carrier rollers that you were saying you probably wouldn't be able to find for 1113. I know you don't want to diminish one running tractor for another, but would you be able to put those on 1113 to make it more complete? It will obviously be a completely superior tractor to the donor tractor. Nice job all around.
Yep steel solders just like copper. I solder all my grounds on my vehicle and trailers which give you a very stable wiring set up for trailer lighting. 👍
Toby two things? Fuel straps, you have said it a couple of times (yea right) that the Sweet Swamp onion will not a have enough usage time on her to wear things out but did you put rubber or cork material between the fenders/ pipe/ strap to stop the Michigan Mice issues (rust)? Secondly, why strip the school bus yellow off sloppily, spray some Cat yellow from a further distance, let the tin stay outside and weather for a month, and then finish with the Sasquatch523 special tricks? "So bright I need to wear shades"
As for getting the sheet metal back to match, strip back to bare metal spray with various shade of matte rusty red paint, then wet and apply various sizes of ground salt to the surfaces in spots, let dry 24 hrs then begin to fog the cat yellow heavier in spots lighter in spots, let it dry then rub off salt spot, weather it with a airbrush to feather it out have done new metal on rat rods
One thing to try (which I use this trick on antique motorcycles) is with new paint, once it starts to tack up, get some wood ash and rub the tacky paint down with it, gives it that sun faded / well used look
Copper does that because of work hardening. Maintenance against it would be to take the line out every... year end (depends on copper quality and thickness of material) and to anneal it. Modern formulations of copper based alloys kinda work around that, but you really have to know what you're asking at the counter.
That's an easy paint fix... all you gotta do is tie a rope around each one of those Canary yellow pieces, behind the Caterpillar you drive and drag um down the field, through the driveway, let him really wear some paint off!!!! let them spin and twist and scratch and bang-up we'll don't bend them... and then when you bring them back after it's had some wear and tear, then take your little spray paint cans of Caterpillar Yellow and make some age appropriate paint jobs...ya just need some dirt and rust...
Your expertise and help are sorely needed @ SALVAGE WORKSHOP......he posted a vid late yesterday on a barn find....RARE 1950s CAT No 6 Shovel in PRISTINE condition.....he has no clue what he has how to get it goping or what the actual parts are and is gonna ruin a once in a life time find without your help......YOU be da man on the old girls..... and he needs severe guidance.......
