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Full Metal Jacket #6223983
04/22/18 04:12 PM
04/22/18 04:12 PM
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eastern, CT
scott k Offline OP
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What has your experience been with the FMJ when winter trapping using flaked antifreeze? Does it hold up better than wax?

Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6224112
04/22/18 07:33 PM
04/22/18 07:33 PM
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Ohio, USA
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In my opinion, it holds up better than wax. It doesn’t chip like wax does and it did a pretty good job of protecting my traps. After a lot of use and abuse, they did start to rust a little.


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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6225007
04/23/18 08:37 PM
04/23/18 08:37 PM
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Can't say I had that good of experience with it. Double coated some like they said to due for new traps. Compared to my waxed traps they did not hold up well at all.
I don't have any problem with wax chipping off. Been using regular canning wax, but I add some pine pitch that you'll find leaking out of most pine or spruce trees. Ends the flaking problem.

Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6225031
04/23/18 09:01 PM
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I have never had wax chip off a trap. You might be getting it on too thick if it chipping off.

Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6225240
04/24/18 03:03 AM
04/24/18 03:03 AM
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I use it and like it.


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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6228453
04/27/18 09:16 PM
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I thought this would be the ticket.
, but had every trap i used it on Dug up. Went back to wax and no more problems.i wont use it anymore.

Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6228476
04/27/18 09:58 PM
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Any one know a good way to remove it from traps? Bought some a while back an think
that's what they are coated in.


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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: Hunter23] #6228479
04/27/18 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted By: Hunter23
I thought this would be the ticket.
, but had every trap i used it on Dug up. Went back to wax and no more problems.i wont use it anymore.
The FMJ wasn't your problem.


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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6265347
06/23/18 01:10 AM
06/23/18 01:10 AM
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I would imagine FMJ comes off in ammonia and hot water bath with a little scrubbing action. It sort of smells like the floor wax we used to wax a sales room show floor with every other night. A thousand feet walking on this floor wore some off and we scrubbed the rest off with an ammonia based floor cleaning solution and power scrubber.


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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6265818
06/23/18 11:39 PM
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Soak them in clean water for 72 hours the coating becomes white and tacky .Pressure wash the crap out of them, after doing so mine usually start rusting over nite. The directions say not to use it on water traps lol kind of a dead give away. On new traps I dip mine up to 4 times but I dry mine for a week usually. Love it no issues yet even after a 24hr dipped trap. I love that once its dries it cant be contaminated by other foreign scents. Unless they get wet for a prolonged period on hot sunny day you can go thru a mountain of traps using fmj! But im a rustoleum fan myself. Didn't aim for that to sound smart arsed!

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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6266348
06/24/18 07:08 PM
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It doesn't chip like regular wax?? If you get your wax hot enough and leave the trap In the hot wax till It becomes the same temp as the wax you will en dup with a perfect wax job.
A lot better then that FMJ stuff.


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Re: Full Metal Jacket [Re: scott k] #6266874
06/25/18 05:22 PM
06/25/18 05:22 PM
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I would agree,wax chipping means it wasn't doe properly.

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