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Post by tbass on Jan 26, 2009 18:39:16 GMT -4
Does anyone know an easy way to get the rust off my traps?
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Post by guru on Feb 13, 2009 17:35:40 GMT -4
You dont want to get rid of all the rust. Just the loose stuff. Rust helps to hold dye when dying waxing or dipping traps.
In fact, when traps are bought the best thing to do is degrease them, then keep them wet to get some rust on them.
If you have lots of loose rust, wire brush them some. Then I dye them by boiling in walnut hulls or staghorn sumac tops. I also then wax my traps. It makes them faster by lubrication, it also protects them from continued rusting.
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Post by tbass on Feb 13, 2009 19:05:30 GMT -4
I have a lot of excess flaky rust. I boiled them this spring with walnuts from the neighbor and hung then high in a pine tree but forgot to wax them. Bought them brand new and man were they ugly. All my other traps are a smooth rusty brown like I like them. First time I ever bought new traps. They are too rusted to work smoothly. I found a faster way to get the excess rust off them. I boil them in a 33Gallon drum over my turkey fryer. I emptied my walnut water into jugs and then put gravel off the berm of the township road in the drum with my traps and had my kids roll it all over the yard. They thought it was the neatest thing.
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