Tractor & Farming Heritage

NUFFIELD PANEL WORK

I showed the making of hinge repair sections several years ago. The tractor has been minus its bonnet ever since. I was waiting till a consignment was going to the sandblasters. All the major rot areas had been repaired (or so I thought), but on the panels’ return, some places were like a colander. As they had been given a coat of red oxide, they were hung up in the workshop out of harm’s way and been overlooked ever since.

Rust

Nature is wonderful, but it has its downside too. Although man has learned to extract iron etc from the rocks, nature will always try to return it back to its most natural stable state. In the case of iron and steel, that is iron oxide - rust.

How we eliminate the rust will determine how long before it starts its pernicious cycle. The top coat

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