Identification please for my new CMP

[Vincent BLASSIC]

Great !!

Ok for 2 data plates.
-publication
-manufacturer

Other plates on engine cover ???
Holes on mine but no plates...

[Vincent BLASSIC]

Hello Friends.

I'm still looking for missing parts in Europe with internet.

So,

I think I will paint all the truck with SCC2 color and camo pattern in SCC14 color, I will make it in 1944 Normandy campaign profil.


My question is :

what is engine color ??? SCC2 or Ford Grey (as for GPW Jeeps) ???

[Jacques Reed]

Originally Posted by Vincent BLASSIC

Other plates on engine cover ???
Holes on mine but no plates...

Hello Vincent,

These are the data plates on the engine cover of my Australian assembled Ford F-15A.

Not sure if Canadian sourced vehicles used the same plates. Perhaps another person can confirm.

Cheers

[Vincent BLASSIC]

Great Jacques !!

🙌

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Vincent,

This may be of interest:
Weather has not been great for being outside so I thought I would revisit doing the graphics for the Cooling System Drain Notice plate located on the engine cover of my truck. I had started it a while back because that plate is the one in the worst condition. Posting the photo of it here reminded me of it.

Didn't take too long to do it. Couple hours here and there the last two days at the computer. Getting more familiar with Paint.net helped.

This is the first draft so after a bit of a double check and tidy up I will print and decal a piece of sheet steel the same size as the original and see what it looks like. Original plate scan on right.

Does anyone know how the original plates were printed? Offset, like paper printing? Screen printing? It is darn good ink or paint, whatever it is, to last as long as it has.

My apology for going a little bit off thread topic here.

Cheers,

[Keith Webb]

These are the same on all Ford CMPs

They were supplied with the kits ex-Canada.

The data plates we see on top of the dash (which I have NOS) are also of Canadian manufacture.

I don't know what the process is to make those black and silver plates, but I know there are people who can reproduce that process.

Originally Posted by Jacques Reed

Hello Vincent,

These are the data plates on the engine cover of my Australian assembled Ford F-15A.

Not sure if Canadian sourced vehicles used the same plates. Perhaps another person can confirm.

Cheers

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

I don't know what the process is to make those black and silver plates, but I know there are people who can reproduce that process.

Anodising, I think. The plate is coated with a protective layer (photoresist as used for making printed circuit boards for small runs, or printed with a waterproof coating for mass production) where it needs to remain silver, then put in a chemical bath with a dye and connected to the positive supply. The electrolytic action etches the surface of the plate where it's in contact with the solution, and the dye is absorbed by the layer of aluminium oxide the immediately forms.

Same process as used to produce coloured aluminium cookware, etc.





(More complex than I first thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing .)

Chris

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for that info and link. It sounds like that's similar to the process to make photo-etched parts as used in model making.

In any event the process is probably outside the expertise of the home handyman. Having said that, I remember a cousin back in the sixties who was an electronics geek who made his own PCB's at home so anything is possible with enough research- and chemicals!

Cheers,

[Vincent BLASSIC]

Thanks for infos !!


Do you know how to paint Engine ??? OD ?? Ford Grey ??

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Vincent,

Here is a link to one thread on MLU about Ford V8 engine colour. There may be others.

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=12728

As can be seen there is plenty of debate about correct engine colour.

I painted my engine "engine gray" simply because the original colour was gray but since then have learnt that gray paint could have been applied to a reconditioned motor. I have seen at least three other original military engines painted gray but they too could have also been rebuilt. If so, and done in service, it still could be considered a "correct colour"

I am happy with it anyway. Light colour makes it easy to see. My marine engineering shipmates told me their equipment in the engine room was always painted a light colour to make it easy to spot leaks. Good a reason as any to leave it gray!

In the absence of wartime colour photos, or sighting Ford Canada production specifications to end the debate, all that matters is what pleases you.

Cheers,