CAT 299D Front Stripping and Repainting - Man Vs. Rust

[@WeGoOutdoors]

Awesome work! Such a great machine. Very Cool to see you bringing yours back to life.

[@MakersAcres]

Thank you. I have had this machine for a few years now and I love it. I can’t imagine having a farm without one. Just yesterday I used it to pull my truck out of the mud!

[@EastyUK]

Great video, I just picked up a 279d3 that I may have to do similar work to. a couple of things to try for rust, a pin gun to get off big chunks or flaking paint and Muriatic acid($10 a bottle at ace), just wear gloves and glasses for the acid and don't let it touch anything but the steel. Look forward to your future videos.

[@MakersAcres]

Thank you and congratulations!!! Let me know how it comes out.

[@Theemersonday]

awsome video. you gave me a few new ideas for mine

[@MakersAcres]

Ya, it turned out pretty nice and would highly recommend it! If could powder coat everything I would!

[@The_Jacobian]

@@MakersAcres Powder coating makes everything better.

[@JaredBeaucage]

What would you suggest, using a sand blaster or paint stripper, we are coming into the winter months and I may let some stuff wait.. i am wondering if I can sand down some minor scratches that are rusting, hit them with paint and then next year focus on painting it all,. i have touch up paint, but for tiny scratches would using sand paper by hand get most of the rust neutralized

[@MakersAcres]

@@JaredBeaucage If you just want something quick to hold you through winter, maybe use Rust Reformer on those spots to protect them for now, then come back next year and strip everything and repaint it. If I had an outdoor sand blaster I would have used that. The stripper was a a bit of an awful process.

[@TalibanNinjaBoy]

a little tip to prevent dust entrapment in the paint would be to soak the surrounding area with water and wet the floors. other than that it was a job well done.

[@MakersAcres]

Thank you! That is a a great tip!

[@dvdgnzlz25]

That would increase the humidity. Not sure that's a good thing for wet paint.

[@The_Jacobian]

so much painting!

[@MakersAcres]

I need an intern for all this painting!

[@dustinwhite5374]

What is the part number for the paint????

[@MakersAcres]

Sorry I missed that in the description… Here you go: 458-9586: Black Caterpillar Paint 458-9587: Yellow Caterpillar Paint

[@vzo8049]

How many cans?

[@MakersAcres]

I want to say it took about 8 cans.

[@vzo8049]

@@MakersAcres cheers, hows it holding up against rust?, want to know before i get a few genuine Caterpillar cans myself, also someone told me the aerosol can says can be applied without primer?

[@3Beehivesto300]

Sand blaster… you should have got a sand blaster…

[@MakersAcres]

Agreed! I discovered that tool too late.

[@Raptortalkk]

I almost never comment, but there are some critical elements here regarding your safety for the future. I am not exactly sure what chemical agent you are using to "strip" , but It would have to extremely corrosive to dissolve that coating which is actually construction grade enamel. The off gases produced by that mixture can be fatal in a very short amount of time, and it happens without warning as they are VOC/VOIC's in high concentration. NEVER interact with any form of chemical etching agent or enamel without a multi stage respirator, preferably full face, as a large amount of particles actually enter through the eyes/ears. And secondly (and far less scary, haha) bringing it down to bare metal is actually working against yourself... instead, take some 220-600 wetsand to knock the paint down and level it where it has degraded, and then apply your next layer so you build up as much as possible. You'll notice the area you redid will be the first to go again in the future...Great job though. Doze on!

[@MakersAcres]

Thank you for the info! That is great feedback and you are right, I should have been using a full face mask respirator. Something that wasn't clear in the video, was the reason why I took areas to bare metal. It appeared that someone before me tried to "touch up" a lot of the front areas. Mostly painting over rust. Some of the rust was so bad that it was starting to make divots or pockets in the metal. This machine came from the east coast, so it was probably exposed to salt. I figured I needed to get it back to "zero" and start over on some of it. Some of the panels in a video I did a couple weeks ago, I did as you suggested. I left most of the original paint and sanded down just want needed to be painted. Once again, Thank you for the great info and keep the great suggestions coming! I am learning a lot as I go, and I love the feedback.

[@JaredBeaucage]

Just a question for you,can I use sand paper to etch out the rust, and then paint over it, trying to stop some rust thats started on a 2019 machine, want to protect my investment without doing a complete overhaul on paint. . i dont have access to a sand blaster and being fall time I think Im screwed till next summer, inless my boss allows me to get it done inside his heated shop but I doubt ill be able to paint the whole machine.

[@bpet2237]

@@JaredBeaucage same question here