Restoring a 35 Year Old Kubota Mini Excavator | Part 1 

I do auto repair, please buy a respirator for your lungs sake some of those older paints are deadly. Some advice on the spray gun less pressure/more fluid,spray a piece of paper with a quick burst it should make a neat oval. When you spray hold your wrist straight and move your whole arm to keep even distance, you will leave a noticeable "stroke" of paint similar to if you were using a roller but smoother. That will matter more for the paint than the primer. The repair area on the cab just sand by hand with 80 grit, the grinder is to aggressive and will rip the bondo off every time. Good luck, can't wait to see the finished colors.

I would say running the excavator is fun, repairing the excavator is fun, maintaining the excavator is fun, even putting a track back on in the mud with the right friends can be fun; grinding, sanding and painting anything in never my idea of fun. Don't make it too pretty you will be afraid to scrap it up. Thank you for sharing.

Love the music choices! Such a beautiful day! And, when the contrail caught your eye... our Spartan! Squirrel... we do so love you! That machine sure has come a long, long way, but it's a testament to how hard you work on things you care about. Those dings and dents just give it character. It's beautiful because it's yours and it does its job very well. These videos are a pleasure to watch! Thank you so much for sharing them with us.

Who'd have thought watching a guy using a grinder would be so relaxing

Nice work - nice music :)

@6:16 It's always 3:30 somewhere. Also, I'm so glad you left in the shots of you reading the manual. Even Spartans stop to measure twice before cutting once. Excavator is looking great!

The excavator is to be coming along nicely and your right it does look allot better with the new primer. Keep up the outstanding job, everything appears to be coming along nicely.

Best thing you ccould have done is get some paint stripper, slap it on there and just scrape the paint off and the remaining paint hit with the wire wheel, at least thats how i did mine and it went quite fast.

Most won't realize how much work that painting is. The prep work to paint is a LOT of time. I look forward to seeing all the matte black going on sir.

Primer coat looks good! You make back-breaking work seem easy. Lots of water still pouring out of your bridge! 🌈

You should use a dual action sander to remove the paint.

Music is great as usual! Mister Great Vivaldi... Or Mozart Spartan 😁 Anyway, thank you for the video!

Lighter fluid to get decals off makes life easier

Great update vid. I agree with the other commenters. The added music to the painting montage was a perfect touch. Well done, good Sir!

I loved the music today, I grew up listening to classical and going to symphonies! So relaxing! Great work today Sir Spartan!

Love the music!

Only the ZMBIES are missing :)

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So exciting 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 excellent job Grand Spartan 😎

Looks awesome can't wait to c the finished product thanks for sharing with us my friend stay healthy

A couple of well places larger boulders would go a long way to support that crush rock ... would also help with the erosion. Not massive boulders but medium-sized... you get what I mean 😏

Just spray the undercoat over the glass it's ok

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Hey GS! Nice vid again bro. I have one suggestion for ya. Place some concrete/boulders (or both) at the bottom of the collapsed part of the bridge so the bridge can't wash away. We in the Netherlands (Dutch Viking ;) ) do it like that so the water can't beat us. Keep up the great content bro!

I did enjoy the music during the montage.. great job GS!!

Oddly satisfying video! Love watching the process of scrubbing her down and painting her. Very impressed the bridge held up so well. 👍. Keep these awesome videos coming !! 🌈

IT IS LOOKING GOOD

GS, hold the spray gun flat the surface & move your arm right to left. You will get better coverage that way. Good job, looks great

Yeah,we use a 2cylinder air compressor.blasting needs alot of cfm

What a difference in 2 days wow. Have a great day

Nice work GS, you could add a small amount of thinner to the primer help with spray but have to move faster with the gun. Great music choice lol

Looking good, loved the epic music during the painting montages.

Hope you didn't get any primer specks on that green John Deere 😬 was parked a bit close while you were priming

I have an 86 KH60 that I am in the middle of getting it operational. Mine has steel tracks, I really like the looks of yours with the rubber tracks. Did it have the rubber tracks on it or did you put them on? Great job by the way restoring it.

another awsome vid

Looking good! At some point, you're gonna need to put some outdoor lights on the shed so you can work into the night. Mosquitos have to eat too you know :)

The excavator looks really good!! Are you going to paint it pink....lol

Mother Nature just wants you to throw down some more frames and upgrade.

hope that primer is high heat i think you may have painted over your muffler

Very Nice good job.

I wonder whether you could've used a chemical paint-stripper to remove that orange paint, before priming it? I'd be a bit worried that if you paint over the top, it'll start to peel in a few months or so. It does look good so far though :)

Hello, I also own a Kubota Kh 60 with steel tracks, could you tell me the mass of your rubber tracks. Thanks

there where no Zombies hurt in the making of this Video

Yellow and black ugh lol. You thinking of goop?

Oh my goodness, your bondo skills are lacking sir, but the rest was well done :) wish i was there to bondo for ya

Looks so much better, just with the primer on. Your hard work is paying of mate great vid.