Bargain or not ?

[britainswomble]

Yeah, bit of a bargain alright, shouldn't be too hard to renovate either. Getting a good paint finish would be the trickiest part.

I wish I could buy one or two of them at that price as they seem to fetch silly money even in that condition on E bay.

    I recently restored one which my brother mutilated as a child, and managed to replace the linkage without splitting the two halves of the tractor as I was scared I'd damage the castings. I removed the wings by filing off the rivetted heads of the wing mountings, leaving the spigots to accurately locate the wings when refitted, using an epoxy adhesive to re-attach them, thus avoiding the hideous allen bolts often seen  on so called restored tractors. I removed the wings to paint the skid unit effectively to try and get the factory finish on the paintwork.

      Believe it or not I painted mine initially with an aerosol of red oxide primer on a warmed up casting to prevent runs, and to prevent paint collecting in the corners of the castings and masking detail. I then used genuine New Holland enamel paint (brought in a two litre tin), brought a selection of cheap artists brushes from a pound shop and picked one with long flat bristles to paint it with. I painted it with the enamel paint leaving items like the bonnet till last and found that as this paint is fairly slow to dry, a really good finish can be acheived by either painting it somewhere cold (ie an outbuilding) or leaving it in the fridge overnight and painting it while it is still cold; the paint brush marks amost completely disappear as the paint has time to "Flood out" before it dries. To finish it off I suspended the parts with wire on a radiator to bake the paint on The results were very pleasing for me.

    To finish the tractor off, I fitted some Scaledown 14 x 30 rears and orange 6600 front wheels for the pressed steel wheel look and a repro cab modified so it didn't look like a top hat. The orange I used for the wheels was Howard orange with a dash of black to darken it up and look more like the original Fordson orange.   If any one has some of them even in that condition for Two quid then let me know

[starbrush]

a mate got a white wheel version for ?15 at local carboot sale, very good condition, i was gutted.

[super6]

a mate got a white wheel version for ?15 at local carboot sale, very good condition, i was gutted.

I bought one of these, with the early style rear wheels and about 95% mint, at a toy fair last year. I asked the seller the price and he replied 5, I asked ?500? and he said no ?5. It came inclusive with the implement lift. He also had some implements, these being tipping trailer;3f plough;hay tedder and discs. I bought the whole lot for ?20 including tractor

Asking what it was worth I told him and he replied that he had only paid 50p, for each item I presume. You win some times and it don't half feel good

[FW]

I bought one of these, with the early style rear wheels and about 95% mint, at a toy fair last year. I asked the seller the price and he replied 5, I asked ?500? and he said no ?5. It came inclusive with the implement lift. He also had some implements, these being tipping trailer;3f plough;hay tedder and discs. I bought the whole lot for ?20 including tractor

Asking what it was worth I told him and he replied that he had only paid 50p, for each item I presume. You win some times and it don't half feel good

My Dad found me one at a Furniture auction where he sells every other saturday about 5 years ago and was justing lying in a box of rubbush from a house clearance and had it first bid, ?3!  Mint in box, however has lost the lift bar. 

[powerrabbit]

Found this 5000 'Force' at the last Exeter toy fair in January, it was a scrapper that was in a box of junk under one of the tables, got it for ?2.50. needed a good clean, exhaust, air cleaner, drawbar pin and driver, decals, all the usual bits, fortunately the mudguards and the back wheels were ok as the wheels usually melt. I did re-paint it as there was'nt a lot of the original paint on it, I used some paint in a tin that said 'Ford blue' on the lable, had to thin it a bit and using a soft artists brush done it by hand, not difficult when you've done several.

[Old Ford]

you done well there mate looks good now

[super6]

My Dad found me one at a Furniture auction where he sells every other saturday about 5 years ago and was justing lying in a box of rubbush from a house clearance and had it first bid, ?3!  Mint in box, however has lost the lift bar. 

A nice bargain there

Which version, spade lugs or rubber tyres? Do you mean implement lift?

[FW]

A nice bargain there

Which version, spade lugs or rubber tyres? Do you mean implement lift?

Rubber tyre version. Yes the implement lift bar. Do they come up often? 

[super6]

Rubber tyre version. Yes the implement lift bar. Do they come up often? 

Occasionally seen on ebay, there have been a couple over the last few weeks, I missed them---------poor memory