I am attaching a pic of my engine before the restoration. Hopefully we will all learn something from this thread. This engine has been frustrating to me as I am kind of a stickler for making it right. I don't know if that is original style or not. Is this correct? I am still undecided about the pinstriping. 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. 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 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.
They had no idea how to match them to modern paint codes so I had to find another alternative. I searched for several days and only found the above paint codes which were of no use at the local Dupont store. I have a 1928 2 hp KA that I just went through the nightmare of finding the paint color for. 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. So that was a little confusing as to the relationship of the 2. I thought was odd, being that the engine was red, but had a black crank guard. It was painted black with red pinstripes down the side of 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. 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. It was painted silver by the my great uncle as it was sitting in his driveway. If you fellows have better formulas or thoughts, please let me know because there are allot of fellows out there painting Stover engines. I don't know if you have to put eye of newt in with these or not. 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. Also, some equipment manufacturers painted their Stover engines to match the color of their equipment. I have a 1902 and a 1909 that were always green. However, I have seen early Stovers painted black, red and green. Generally, Stover painted engines red until about 1916 and brewster green after that with some black thrown in for confusion. You need to try and find the color in a hidden place if it is not obvious. While Stover built relatively standard engines, nothing is absolute when it comes to paint and other details.
Having started a Stover registry and having offered the service of looking up Stover serial numbers in the shipping records, we have received many requests for paint colors and paint formulas.