My Father drove a belly dump when I was 4 for a company called Fedderly-Marion freight lines in the Seattle area during late 60’s their trucks were almost the same shade of Yellow. I had this toy and used to pretend I was my Dad at work when playing in the sand box in my back yard ...good memories...thanks for the share!
I have this exact model. I moved many yards of dirt with it. And maybe someday I'll restore it. Tonka and Buddy L were awesome toys. I spent a lot of hours in the sandbox. Nice job!
@@charchee1950 Thanks. I actually have 3 brand new ones. I also have some new ones in the works as well. Watch for my scheduled streams and hit that reminder.
I'm 63 years old and I had this same gravel spreader truck as a child. Mine was refrigerator white. I was shocked when you painted it yellow. At least I got to see it in white primer. No rust addition please. The truck is pretty as it is. I always thought it looked futuristic. Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
A 1/18 or 1/24 resto or custom would be cool. Diecast Resurrection has done some 1/18 restos in the last few months that turned out nice. I'd love to see what Baremetal could do with one.
What do you do to break up the yellow? I think it looked better before. Not dissing the restoration job at all. I think he did a nice job. But it just doesn't look right all that yellow. Like it needs pin striping or maybe some lettering or something.
Amazing work buddy! That was an amazing tip about folding the tabs with special pliers; and putting it back together fast before paint dries to a crisp so the paint doesn’t crack... great job indeed!
I'm a big fan of powder coating these toys. I follow a channel called "Restoration & Restore" that specialises in these pressed metal toys and while they all distil down to media blasting and powder coating, they are still a nice relaxing process to keep watching.
Great! A friend of mine had TONKA-Trucks in the 1980s and we used them as Supertanks for our Toy-Soldiers. I loved the design. Greetings from Ulm, Germany
Nice work. I had one of these, and several other small Tonka trucks when I was a kid. I even had the Winnebago version of that truck. They are from the '70s not the '80s. Love this vid, lots of memories.
A few tips that may help when restoring these Tonka trucks: Source replacement decals, pop the tires off the rims and treat them in peroxide the same way you did the interior, and invest in a powder coating setup. There is even a powder coat primer that would help eliminate more of that pesky pitting. I watch a channel called Rescue & Restore and they specialize in metal toys like this. The videos are silent, but the guy is able to pull off some miracles!!
I did have a few different Tonka trucks when I was a kid, they are long gone now. That truck was happy as hell you found it at the flea market, went from Rags to Riches. Great job my friend.
I have never really knew how good the audio quality is until watching this on my PC with some decent headphones instead of just watching it on my phone.
I am a longtime 62 year old scale modeler, and have done plenty of weathering on plastic models. But I prefer this Tonka truck in like-new paint condition. It looks really good. Wish I still had my old steel Tonka trucks.
Great job with the restoration! Personally, I think a sightly darker yellow would have looked a little better, but it looks great as is. Thanks for putting up another video! :-D I look forward to the poll!
I've never restored hot wheels, or anything similar, but I love your videos. I work on and restore old motorcycles, and in doing so, have used sandblasters quite a bit. I've personally never had a problem with small amounts of paint on parts I'm blasting. The only problem are oil soaked parts, which I'm assuming is not much of a problem for you. I'm no expert, but I'd guess you would be fine to remove paint with your blasting set up, and should only need to filter the media after quite a few jobs. I dont know your exact set up, but I think you should be ok. Anyway, love your stuff man, keep em coming.
You are the coolest person on the planet if you ask me. I'd like to see you add rust how the truck would rust if it were real and being used daily for 30 years with BM & Co gravel spreaders on the door.
I've said this to other people I follow. If you enjoy the process and express your feelings and thoughts throughout of the process, go for it. I would say that most people watch for the process as much as they watch because of what you restore.
Very nice restoration and yes....your statement "man, these things take a lot of work" is both true and appreciated. I restore toy trucks from the 1920s and 1930s so just bear in mind that in all labor....there is love.
Since I watch your videos I don't ever use the phrase "build like a toy." Good toys are the result of good engineering! It deserves much more appreciation than we usually give!
Lovely job! I love pristine restorations normally, but I reckon that fake 'Ratted' rusty look would be cool. Those Tonka toys were beasts alright....built to last!
I have a few of these as well...some in same or worse shape. You did the right thing by trying to restore this. 😃Anything worth having is worth the time to get it into go working shape. 🧐You took a couple extra steps, but it was better to...love the sandblaster. Those are wonderful! The right tools make things much easier. 😍I think it turned out rather nicely! Weathering...I don’t think it’s really necessary, unless you plan to build a working scene that includes dirt or something like that.🤩
Love the old Tonkas.I still have a lowboy with the dozer in its original box IV only taken it out just to look at its never been played with.Also have the larger lowboy with the bulldozer and it's in nice shape and all original.Really like the restoration vidios.Keep up the good work.
A year late, but I have to say I kinda dig the tapered screw. I've always liked leaving signs of a restoration, even though most restorationists would like to make the end result look as original as possible. I think it's more authentic to show off that 'hey, this ain't the original.' Even though the bright yellow paint should be more than enough for a sign, lol. If you ever revisit this one, I'd like to see you rust it like a real truck, man. I don't think you need to, though. I kinda dig the pristine look... although the rusted original is admittedly cooler.
I found my grandpa’s old Tonka Ferrari in my great grandpa’s hay barn and I’m going to surprise him with it all restored. Unfortunately the base has holes and tabs that have been dissolved by rust.
This video was very enjoyable to watch & thankya for sharing. i was disappointed in the fact that ya did not clean up the wheels & tires as well. I liked how the clear plastic window turned out after cleaning. With the plastic interior/front grill piece cleaned, you should've painted it a semi-gloss white. A semi-gloss black paint touch to the tires as well as a semi-gloss white touch to the wheels would've added real nicely. i have a full, complete, unrestored, perfect conditioned, set of these small tonka trucks. . . . which includes the belly dump gravel truck, a cement mixer truck, a dump truck, & a tonka truck with the lowboy heavy equipment transport trailer & a tonka catepillar bulldozer to complete the truck's load. I have some of the bigger Tonka trucks including the workable clamshell type bucket crane truck that all need restoring. Hopefully a summer time project. thankyou again for your video. Nice work on the belly dump tonka truck.
Hey man, I love how genuine you are. If you don't know something, you admit it and ask for tips. You don't see that a lot nowadays. The restoration process looks so rewarding!! Love the videos man.
I realize the extra effort involved in working on the larger scale models, however they do look amazing!!! And the different construction techniques from different manufacturers really peaks my interest. I can only hope you can do more of these in the future. Best wishes and hope the local weather has improved. Cheers.
The Rescue and Restore channel has some very good Tonka restorations. He uses a powder coating method which looks great. I like this channel more for the 1/64th scale restorations, but this was a good video.
Another cool restoration. The Rescure and Restore channel does a lot of Tonka and classic metal toys. I've enjoyed watching those as well. I agree the rust adds an authentic look but if one was trying to pass on a favorite toy to a child painting it seems a good idea. Unless you think tetanus builds character😀 Keep up the great work!
I played the hell out of my Tonka trucks as a little boy in the 1960s. I hated that they started introducing more and more plastics into these over the years, making them appear cheaper and hastening their demise. Before metals, toys were exclusively made from wood by craftsman. And you bet many of these lasted a very long time, in fact being handed down throughout a family for decades. Nothing made today could ever hope to claim as such. Planned absolescence is all around us and why we have so many landfills maxxed out in America today. Anyway, that was one helluva fine restoration on your part, sir. I would never have the patience to take on such an endeavor.
I had this toy! Along with a tractor with a bucket I just watched on another channel! Hours of fun in my huge sandpit, which was inside a very large old tractor tyre. :)
That FTC callout right there man. Nice. Still wanna watch out though. They are less specific about actual content and more just 'hurdur look a toy' sadly enough. Took all my own old gaming vids from when I was like 16 offline just in case they mistook that for something aimed at kids. Hope they will leave you entirely alone. Love the content and keep it up
I have pretty diverse content myself. I restore vintage motorcycles and such, but also do a lot of "toys" they are aimed at adults, but not sure if the FTC will see it that way
I do really appreciate the time and effort for the restoration but you are very right about them looking cooler and more natural when rusted. But good job all up👌
The truck looks great! I had that truck - along with many other Tonka trucks - as a child. Like other children, I left it out in the yard a lot...as I recall, they rusted fairly quick. I like the new just out of the box look ..but that's just me.
I've never had the slightest bit of trouble with paint flakes clogging the gun, and if you are particularly concerned about it, it's pretty much trivial to just run the media through some window screen and remove all the chunkies. Congrats on getting a blast cabinet, man, you're going to LOVE the capability there!
When i was 4 i would ride my then ginormous Tonka dump truck down a hill. Fun times :) I love watching the new techniques that you brimg to theae awesome restoration....Looking forward to the next one.
These are the trucks I played with, I even made my own trailers for them. Even had the low boy with the dozer. Because of these trucks and equipment I became a heavy equipment operator in the Seabees.
Most CZcamsrs with channels on here restoring this kind of thing tend to go down the media blasting route for cleaning up the metalwork and removing paint. Cleaning out/replacing the blast media occasionally is necessary as what gets blasted off does get mixed in. Nice to see you tackle something different. Rescue Restore does some great restorations on items like this and you may want to check out his channel.
Well done! I make vintage signs from scratch which I "paint" rust on -- I have also had clients bring me real vintage signs that were pretty well rusted, some were missing corners and such. I would then redo them and then add back in some rust in places that could not be fixed. I too like the character of the rust. I definitely think the truck will look better with a little rust here and there.
That is a nice restoration there mate, specially as a first time. I am fully onboard on some customization, be it via rust painting or whatever. I think they used the long rivet rod thing because it requires less tooling in assembly. Put it in, crumple one side, done. If you use two rivets, you need to do that twice. Also style. Tonka seems to have favored solid rivets (needs access from both sides), and the rod is basically one long solid rivet, while it would be harder two shorter solid rivets instead. If you're looking to get into the larger tonka models, check a channel called Rescue & Restore. The guy over there does general restorations, but he has done plenty on larger tonka toys. Guy is a beast, bet ya can pick up plenty of tricks from him too.
I would have liked to see the wheels whitened with the Hyd Peroxide method...and maybe go further with pitting repair before paint. Just because your smaller scale cars are always so perfect. Love it as always
Nice resto, a few other 1:64 restorers have tackle similar Tonka's recently. On the subject of media blasters and blockages I used to use them a lot in my work years ago to clean up steel and aluminium parts either for painting or polishing and have found that while paint can be a factor in blocking the nozzle in high enough percentages, grease, oil and other liquid contaminants are far more likely to cause issues. Another thing to keep in mind is that especially with glass bead media the media itself as well as fine pieces of metal from the work and the oxide layer on it which can break down into talcum powder like fine particles which can cause blockages in and of itself. If you feel at any time that the media has become contaminated with oil/grease/moisture or has become so fine that it looks like talc it's probably time to empty the cabinet and replace the blasting media. P.S. we used to regularly change out the blasting media every 3-4 weeks due to the volume of parts cleaned in the cabinet and general poor condition of parts which arrived for blasting.
Friend, I loved your restoration. I only have one point to clarify. I had that truck and its choir was not yellow, but orange. Congratulations on the job.
Good choices going with both a sand blaster and a soda blaster. One tip for Tonka toys. If you’re going to “restore” many more, they are powder coated, not painted. Also you can get Tonka yellow in spray paint and powder coat.
Actually that came out really nice! :-) I really like how you do the windows. Every video I watched of yours I'm always impressed with how the windows come out so shiny and scratch free! thumbs up
It looks great and you have preserved a piece of toy history! I learned a lot from this tutorial so I will be watching it again. Thanks for the information.
I wish 400 grit sandpaper removed the imperfections from my life
If only...🥺
your face
For a lot of us, a simple divorce will do that. Or a hitman.
Lol. I feel your pain. 😂
Id love to see you do a paint job on the truck to make it look like a real life truck, that would be amazing
My Father drove a belly dump when I was 4 for a company called Fedderly-Marion freight lines in the Seattle area during late 60’s their trucks were almost the same shade of Yellow. I had this toy and used to pretend I
was my Dad at work when playing in the sand box in my back yard ...good memories...thanks for the share!
I have this exact model. I moved many yards of dirt with it. And maybe someday I'll restore it. Tonka and Buddy L were awesome toys. I spent a lot of hours in the sandbox. Nice job!
I had one similar yellow Tonka truck. This video brought tears to my eyes.
Yea, I had one too!
EvapoRust and Retrobrite
(Hand Tool Rescue and 8-bit Guy flashbacks)
Came to the comments to see this, and was not disappointed :D
8 bit guy, i like his stuff too.
Love both channels
Is that JonMan!? I want another how to video and love the videos and streams if I'm lucky enough to catch them
@@charchee1950 Thanks. I actually have 3 brand new ones. I also have some new ones in the works as well. Watch for my scheduled streams and hit that reminder.
I'm 63 years old and I had this same gravel spreader truck as a child. Mine was refrigerator white. I was shocked when you painted it yellow. At least I got to see it in white primer.
No rust addition please. The truck is pretty as it is. I always thought it looked futuristic. Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
I love Tonka toy restorations, I would like to see larger scale die cast restorations maybe? 👍🏼👍🏼
There are a couple other channels that specialize in the metal toy restos. TRG and Toy rescue and restore come to mind. I found them through Tyse Tube
A 1/18 or 1/24 resto or custom would be cool. Diecast Resurrection has done some 1/18 restos in the last few months that turned out nice. I'd love to see what Baremetal could do with one.
What do you do to break up the yellow? I think it looked better before. Not dissing the restoration job at all. I think he did a nice job. But it just doesn't look right all that yellow. Like it needs pin striping or maybe some lettering or something.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen one of these Tonka trucks but I get you the rust gives the cars/trucks a lot more character.
I have have 3 different models in staging to do restorations on. One is a flat bed
Rust sucks.
You can always get some weathering pigments. chipping medium, washes etc. to bring back the rusted look without it being actual rust
I had that exact Tonka.
Hah I remember this one. It was always in the sand pit. The restoration you did is pretty amazing. It looks brand new.
Same. Perfect sandbox toy.
9:12 Love it! Screw the FTC! #saveourchannels
Nice, brings back good memories, playing with the Tonka Toys. Your restoration was awesome and gave good ideas, if you wanted to get started.
Amazing work buddy! That was an amazing tip about folding the tabs with special pliers; and putting it back together fast before paint dries to a crisp so the paint doesn’t crack... great job indeed!
I'm a big fan of powder coating these toys. I follow a channel called "Restoration & Restore" that specialises in these pressed metal toys and while they all distil down to media blasting and powder coating, they are still a nice relaxing process to keep watching.
Had one of those back in the day. Appreciate the methodical, loving restoration.
Leave it just how it is now, I think it looks great.
Nice job buddy. 👍👍
Yep it definitely looks great!
Great! A friend of mine had TONKA-Trucks in the 1980s and we used them as Supertanks for our Toy-Soldiers. I loved the design. Greetings from Ulm, Germany
Great to see you tackling Tonka Toys, good work.
Nice work. I had one of these, and several other small Tonka trucks when I was a kid. I even had the Winnebago version of that truck. They are from the '70s not the '80s. Love this vid, lots of memories.
That looks great, aside from being a shade or two too yellow. Great work as always
Amazing work! Tonka toys from that time were incredibly well-made. Really enjoyed seeing you bring this one back to life.
A few tips that may help when restoring these Tonka trucks: Source replacement decals, pop the tires off the rims and treat them in peroxide the same way you did the interior, and invest in a powder coating setup. There is even a powder coat primer that would help eliminate more of that pesky pitting. I watch a channel called Rescue & Restore and they specialize in metal toys like this. The videos are silent, but the guy is able to pull off some miracles!!
very nicely done. these vintage toys are full or memories..being a kid who once had these toys.. it really brought back sweet memories..
I did have a few different Tonka trucks when I was a kid, they are long gone now. That truck was happy as hell you found it at the flea market, went from Rags to Riches. Great job my friend.
I have never really knew how good the audio quality is until watching this on my PC with some decent headphones instead of just watching it on my phone.
I had that same Tonka truck which was one of my favorite toys for years. Seeing this restoration brought me back to those good times.
Reslly nice looking restoration. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful. I can't believe how good the window unit turned out.
I am a longtime 62 year old scale modeler, and have done plenty of weathering on plastic models. But I prefer this Tonka truck in like-new paint condition. It looks really good. Wish I still had my old steel Tonka trucks.
Great job with the restoration! Personally, I think a sightly darker yellow would have looked a little better, but it looks great as is. Thanks for putting up another video! :-D I look forward to the poll!
I've never restored hot wheels, or anything similar, but I love your videos. I work on and restore old motorcycles, and in doing so, have used sandblasters quite a bit. I've personally never had a problem with small amounts of paint on parts I'm blasting. The only problem are oil soaked parts, which I'm assuming is not much of a problem for you. I'm no expert, but I'd guess you would be fine to remove paint with your blasting set up, and should only need to filter the media after quite a few jobs. I dont know your exact set up, but I think you should be ok. Anyway, love your stuff man, keep em coming.
I've had no issue with paint particles as of yet.
Got some video of your work? I have whole series dedicated to motorcycles and restos.
You are the coolest person on the planet if you ask me. I'd like to see you add rust how the truck would rust if it were real and being used daily for 30 years with BM & Co gravel spreaders on the door.
Oh and I'd love to see you make a custom hearse
I've said this to other people I follow. If you enjoy the process and express your feelings and thoughts throughout of the process, go for it. I would say that most people watch for the process as much as they watch because of what you restore.
Cool to see both you and Matchbox Garage trying something outside your wheel houses
Very nice restoration and yes....your statement "man, these things take a lot of work" is both true and appreciated. I restore toy trucks from the 1920s and 1930s so just bear in mind that in all labor....there is love.
Those are the trucks I grew up with. Can't wait to see you redo a metal Tonka dump truck. Great restoration job on this one
Since I watch your videos I don't ever use the phrase "build like a toy." Good toys are the result of good engineering! It deserves much more appreciation than we usually give!
Lovely job! I love pristine restorations normally, but I reckon that fake 'Ratted' rusty look would be cool. Those Tonka toys were beasts alright....built to last!
Amazing restoration turned out Perfect well done 👍
I have a few of these as well...some in same or worse shape. You did the right thing by trying to restore this. 😃Anything worth having is worth the time to get it into go working shape. 🧐You took a couple extra steps, but it was better to...love the sandblaster. Those are wonderful! The right tools make things much easier. 😍I think it turned out rather nicely! Weathering...I don’t think it’s really necessary, unless you plan to build a working scene that includes dirt or something like that.🤩
Man that cab came out awesome. Nice.
Thanks for what you do. You're a social historian, keeping alive recent history.
I've seen a lot of tonka toys but a gravel spread is new to me lol
Love the old Tonkas.I still have a lowboy with the dozer in its original box IV only taken it out just to look at its never been played with.Also have the larger lowboy with the bulldozer and it's in nice shape and all original.Really like the restoration vidios.Keep up the good work.
A year late, but I have to say I kinda dig the tapered screw. I've always liked leaving signs of a restoration, even though most restorationists would like to make the end result look as original as possible. I think it's more authentic to show off that 'hey, this ain't the original.' Even though the bright yellow paint should be more than enough for a sign, lol.
If you ever revisit this one, I'd like to see you rust it like a real truck, man. I don't think you need to, though. I kinda dig the pristine look... although the rusted original is admittedly cooler.
I found my grandpa’s old Tonka Ferrari in my great grandpa’s hay barn and I’m going to surprise him with it all restored. Unfortunately the base has holes and tabs that have been dissolved by rust.
I HAVE the exact same tonka with the perfect amount of rust on it. Gives it character.
Yay! A tonka! I have some of these that I am going to do in the future. You beat me to it. This is what my forte is really.
Great restoration on this 1980's Tonka gravel spreader truck, Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My continued thanks for saving the toys of my youth.
Beautiful piece. Well done.
Keeping the toy memories alive
oh wow, I played with several of those as a kid as there were 6 brothers and we had those trucks all over on duty in the sand box. Great video.
This video was very enjoyable to watch & thankya for sharing. i was disappointed in the fact that ya did not clean up the wheels & tires as well. I liked how the clear plastic window turned out after cleaning. With the plastic interior/front grill piece cleaned, you should've painted it a semi-gloss white. A semi-gloss black paint touch to the tires as well as a semi-gloss white touch to the wheels would've added real nicely.
i have a full, complete, unrestored, perfect conditioned, set of these small tonka trucks. . . . which includes the belly dump gravel truck, a cement mixer truck, a dump truck, & a tonka truck with the lowboy heavy equipment transport trailer & a tonka catepillar bulldozer to complete the truck's load.
I have some of the bigger Tonka trucks including the workable clamshell type bucket crane truck that all need restoring. Hopefully a summer time project.
thankyou again for your video. Nice work on the belly dump tonka truck.
Hey man, I love how genuine you are. If you don't know something, you admit it and ask for tips. You don't see that a lot nowadays. The restoration process looks so rewarding!! Love the videos man.
I realize the extra effort involved in working on the larger scale models, however they do look amazing!!! And the different construction techniques from different manufacturers really peaks my interest. I can only hope you can do more of these in the future. Best wishes and hope the local weather has improved. Cheers.
It really looks great!
Excellent work! Great video. Thanks!🚚🚛🚂
Very cool! As a child of the late 60s and early 70s I loved my metal Tonka trucks. Nice work. I would love to see you do more Tonka restorations.
The Rescue and Restore channel has some very good Tonka restorations. He uses a powder coating method which looks great. I like this channel more for the 1/64th scale restorations, but this was a good video.
Another cool restoration. The Rescure and Restore channel does a lot of Tonka and classic metal toys. I've enjoyed watching those as well. I agree the rust adds an authentic look but if one was trying to pass on a favorite toy to a child painting it seems a good idea. Unless you think tetanus builds character😀 Keep up the great work!
You made this look easy. Great work and perfect narrative.
I played the hell out of my Tonka trucks as a little boy in the 1960s. I hated that they started introducing more and more plastics into these over the years, making them appear cheaper and hastening their demise. Before metals, toys were exclusively made from wood by craftsman. And you bet many of these lasted a very long time, in fact being handed down throughout a family for decades. Nothing made today could ever hope to claim as such. Planned absolescence is all around us and why we have so many landfills maxxed out in America today. Anyway, that was one helluva fine restoration on your part, sir. I would never have the patience to take on such an endeavor.
I had this toy! Along with a tractor with a bucket I just watched on another channel! Hours of fun in my huge sandpit, which was inside a very large old tractor tyre. :)
Great job! Leave the truck as it is now, it was played with hard and survived.
That FTC callout right there man. Nice. Still wanna watch out though. They are less specific about actual content and more just 'hurdur look a toy' sadly enough. Took all my own old gaming vids from when I was like 16 offline just in case they mistook that for something aimed at kids. Hope they will leave you entirely alone. Love the content and keep it up
I have pretty diverse content myself. I restore vintage motorcycles and such, but also do a lot of "toys" they are aimed at adults, but not sure if the FTC will see it that way
@William DOSSETT and kill the channel with limited ad rev and probably limited distribution.
@@thejunkman better then unbelievably massive fines though...
@@echozy1292 right. I am torn if I want to continue with toy restorations. I might have to go back to motorcycles. They just take so long to do.
@@thejunkman what is this FTC thing?
Amazing job on the windshield and interior. Nice job
You are moving up through the model scales. Skills are transferable and that is a great restoration!
What a nice change, the resto turned out a real treat.
I do really appreciate the time and effort for the restoration but you are very right about them looking cooler and more natural when rusted. But good job all up👌
An awesome restoration. You do ecellent work. Enjoyed your video.
The truck looks great! I had that truck - along with many other Tonka trucks - as a child. Like other children, I left it out in the yard a lot...as I recall, they rusted fairly quick.
I like the new just out of the box look ..but that's just me.
I've never had the slightest bit of trouble with paint flakes clogging the gun, and if you are particularly concerned about it, it's pretty much trivial to just run the media through some window screen and remove all the chunkies. Congrats on getting a blast cabinet, man, you're going to LOVE the capability there!
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Voice got deeper
When i was 4 i would ride my then ginormous Tonka dump truck down a hill. Fun times :) I love watching the new techniques that you brimg to theae awesome restoration....Looking forward to the next one.
These are the trucks I played with, I even made my own trailers for them. Even had the low boy with the dozer. Because of these trucks and equipment I became a heavy equipment operator in the Seabees.
Watching this video makes me want to fix up some of my old Tonka trucks for my son
This video is very satisfying to watch. Well done
Most CZcamsrs with channels on here restoring this kind of thing tend to go down the media blasting route for cleaning up the metalwork and removing paint. Cleaning out/replacing the blast media occasionally is necessary as what gets blasted off does get mixed in. Nice to see you tackle something different. Rescue Restore does some great restorations on items like this and you may want to check out his channel.
That job LOOKS PHENOMENAL...
Well done! I make vintage signs from scratch which I "paint" rust on -- I have also had clients bring me real vintage signs that were pretty well rusted, some were missing corners and such. I would then redo them and then add back in some rust in places that could not be fixed. I too like the character of the rust. I definitely think the truck will look better with a little rust here and there.
nice I would leave just like it is. You did all that work and the truck looks awesome
Nice, clean restoration. I do agree though that rust gives trucks character.
Ooh a Tonka restoration, nice.
Nice restoration.
Best voice of any YT channel.
As a kid in socialist Bulgaria I had just the same toy truck, obviously stolen technology from Tonka!
How bout a custom Tonka truck restoration. I'd love to see one of these with some crazy paint job.
Blasphemy! TONKA Yellowonly Except when it is TONKA Orange or Green originally decade depending.
That is a nice restoration there mate, specially as a first time. I am fully onboard on some customization, be it via rust painting or whatever.
I think they used the long rivet rod thing because it requires less tooling in assembly. Put it in, crumple one side, done. If you use two rivets, you need to do that twice. Also style. Tonka seems to have favored solid rivets (needs access from both sides), and the rod is basically one long solid rivet, while it would be harder two shorter solid rivets instead.
If you're looking to get into the larger tonka models, check a channel called Rescue & Restore. The guy over there does general restorations, but he has done plenty on larger tonka toys. Guy is a beast, bet ya can pick up plenty of tricks from him too.
I would have liked to see the wheels whitened with the Hyd Peroxide method...and maybe go further with pitting repair before paint. Just because your smaller scale cars are always so perfect. Love it as always
I had one of these as a kid in the 70's. Great videos 👍
Nice resto, a few other 1:64 restorers have tackle similar Tonka's recently. On the subject of media blasters and blockages I used to use them a lot in my work years ago to clean up steel and aluminium parts either for painting or polishing and have found that while paint can be a factor in blocking the nozzle in high enough percentages, grease, oil and other liquid contaminants are far more likely to cause issues. Another thing to keep in mind is that especially with glass bead media the media itself as well as fine pieces of metal from the work and the oxide layer on it which can break down into talcum powder like fine particles which can cause blockages in and of itself. If you feel at any time that the media has become contaminated with oil/grease/moisture or has become so fine that it looks like talc it's probably time to empty the cabinet and replace the blasting media.
P.S. we used to regularly change out the blasting media every 3-4 weeks due to the volume of parts cleaned in the cabinet and general poor condition of parts which arrived for blasting.
Nice restore. Would have liked to see the decals on the trailer however.
Friend, I loved your restoration. I only have one point to clarify. I had that truck and its choir was not yellow, but orange. Congratulations on the job.
Awesome restoration.. hope to see more tonka's and other bigger brand models.. :) :D
Excellent looking restoration. No need to put the "rust" back on. It looks great in near new condition.
I love this restoration good job
Good choices going with both a sand blaster and a soda blaster. One tip for Tonka toys. If you’re going to “restore” many more, they are powder coated, not painted. Also you can get Tonka yellow in spray paint and powder coat.
Actually that came out really nice! :-) I really like how you do the windows. Every video I watched of yours I'm always impressed with how the windows come out so shiny and scratch free! thumbs up
I agree wholeheartedly!
It looks great and you have preserved a piece of toy history! I learned a lot from this tutorial so I will be watching it again. Thanks for the information.