You need to try and find the color in a hidden place if it is not obvious. Generally, Stover painted engines red until about 1916 and brewster green after that with some black thrown in for confusion. However, I have seen early Stovers painted black, red and green. I have a 1902 and a 1909 that were always green. Also, some equipment manufacturers painted their Stover engines to match the color of their equipment. Lester Roos' old formulas were as follows:Įarly Red - Dupont Dulux Enamel #93-2564-H There are many green Stovers with original paint but they all appear to be a different color due to age, I guess. I don't know if you have to put eye of newt in with these or not. If you fellows have better formulas or thoughts, please let me know because there are allot of fellows out there painting Stover engines. It was painted silver by the my great uncle as it was sitting in his driveway.
When I got the engine I started stripping it down and it had the red underneath of the silver, and noting that the pre 1916 engines were red, that's what I painted it. But, then a few years ago, I went up to the mountains where the engine was originally used, and be damned if I didn't find the crank guard for it that had been missing. It was painted black with red pinstripes down the side of it. I thought was odd, being that the engine was red, but had a black crank guard. So that was a little confusing as to the relationship of the 2. that had some green paint on it, and then again referring that the post 1916 engines were green, I figured it was originally green, but as I was stripping that engine down, there was some hints of red underneath of the green, so that was also confusing as to the original color of the engine. I have a 1928 2 hp KA that I just went through the nightmare of finding the paint color for. I searched for several days and only found the above paint codes which were of no use at the local Dupont store.
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They had no idea how to match them to modern paint codes so I had to find another alternative. #Stover hit miss engine rebuilding how to# I remembered reading somewhere that Ford model A engine paint was Brewster Green and a good match so I found a vendor of old Ford model A parts and ordered the paint. I had planned on leaving my engine as is but as I was cleaning it up I found it had been repainted at some point and not very well either! Whoever repainted it went to the trouble of restriping it with yellow but not to the trouble of cleaning the dirt and grease from the engine! I now have the engine mostly repainted with the Ford Brewster Green paint with the exception of the flywheels. I am planning on leaving the outer rings of them unpainted as that is how it appears they were in Wendels Power in the Past 3. Is this correct? I am still undecided about the pinstriping. I don't know if that is original style or not. This engine has been frustrating to me as I am kind of a stickler for making it right. Hopefully we will all learn something from this thread. I am attaching a pic of my engine before the restoration. #Stover hit miss engine rebuilding serial numbers#.#Stover hit miss engine rebuilding how to#.
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