The International Cessna^® 170 Association

bagarre wrote:Kind of on topic... has anyone every done an aerosol overhaul?
IE, try to re-paint the motor while still on the plane for cosmetic reasons?

Not an airplane but 260 V8 in my 64 1/2 Mustang, small block Chevy in my '57 210, 326 and 400 V8 in my 67 Pontiac Lemans, yes.

All ,

Thank you very much for your time and support .,i will , for sure send you some pictures of the engine. I will post them in the topic I opened in he Hangar section under N2475D restoration .

Thank again !
Fred

Fred,

The paint is Randolph enamel. Just mix with the Randolph thinner to shoot. I left the case out in the sun in the summer in Texas to bake it on a little. It has been 2 years and the paint still looks like I just painted it.

Tim

tps500 wrote:Fred,

The paint is Randolph enamel. Just mix with the Randolph thinner to shoot. I left the case out in the sun in the summer in Texas to bake it on a little. It has been 2 years and the paint still looks like I just painted it.

Tim

Thank you very much Tim!
I will call them this week .
Fred

Here is my engine with it's new paint. I tried to match the picture in the original manual as close as possible (considering the picture was black and white).
Rusty Morris
N2935D

I am thinking about using the gray that Kubota uses on their engines. It's similar to the dark gray above.

With this Grey and black color schemes ,I am a little confused because when we used to overhaul Continentals ,THey [OEM]used to supply the paint and the parts. And the paint was called Continental Gold. All their engines [exchange]were painted in this color also.

Aryana wrote:They switched to gold sometime in the 1960's...so I've been told.

Prior to that they were Type I cad, after that they were type II, Type I turns dark quickly, type II is golden in color and stays that way for up to a year or more. Type II is what you see on common hardware.

If you clear coat them, they stay pretty longer. This engine was from a late 1950s C-172 so we stayed with those colors.

rusty wrote:Here is my engine with it's new paint. I tried to match the picture in the original manual as close as possible (considering the picture was black and white).
Rusty Morris
N2935D

Hi Rusty,

I want seriously to congratulate for you plane ! Finally ! we have a first chance to talk via email together. !
Believe it or not , but you're responsable for my buy on a C170 !

When in started to look more in detail on this ship, after talking with some fellows at Oshkosh 2012, I jumped into some pictures of your plane I found on internet and than I said to me ! Man ! That's a piece of beauty here !!

This is the picture which really convinced me to buy this type of plane , it was on my computer screen forms long time .
And than when Mike Roe sent to me some pictures of his project, I was knock down ....,
So, finally , some valve covers was not black !
But it looks like it's a 54-55'model on the picture
My airplane is a 52 model , so I guess I will stay to he gloss black covers even If I love more the way it is on your engine.

I love your interior on your plane and I might ask you later , when I'll be at this point some questions about it.

Thanks again for your comment .
Fred

Prior to Cadmium plating they were simply painted black from the 1940s to the late 50s during the 172 production.

gahorn wrote:Prior to Cadmium plating they were simply painted black from the 1940s to the late 50s during the 172 production.

Thank You !

rusty wrote:Here is my engine with it's new paint. I tried to match the picture in the original manual as close as possible (considering the picture was black and white).
Rusty Morris
N2935D

Rusty, can you read any printing on the orange battery box placard?

Dave, no printing at all on the placard. Several people have tried to come up with the answer no luck at all. Everyone thought the battery boxes were shipped to Cessna with the placard on the box. Cessna does not show a part number for the placard.

after reading these posts I seem to recall purchasing aerosol paint that was named Continental Gold.

Painted cylinders and rocker covers.