It worked great! Used Rustolium oil base heavy rust primer 1 gallon to 2 gallons of acetone and it dried fast with good coverage. I was so happy I did a bunch of RBG's and body grip stabilizers too.

Looks good, did they all have some rust or were there some that were new?

The longsprings had been rusted and dyed, the MB 750's didn't have much rust if any, they all did great. I did some new 1 1/2's and it worked great. The RBG's were not rusted and they look good too.

Be interesting to see the durability of it. Give it a day or two to dry and see if you can rub it off with your thumb. I have used a commercial trap dip that covered like that but rubbed off easily.

Looks good.

Flipper, I used a 1:1 paint/acetone, it has held up very well. Curious how 1:2 holds up? They do look great! Getting it done cheaper and drying faster a big plus too.

I hate guys with clean and neat trapping areas ! LOL Someday I'll take a picture of mine so you can really see a "cluster"............... the mike

I checked the paint and seems to be like rustolium that has dried but is not sticky or tacky like if you painted with straight rustolium on the next day.

Here's the traps I was speaking off. See how the dip rubbed right off?...



Glad your dip is holding up better than this stuff Flipper!

It seams like it is sticking well. I thought it would retard the rusting on water traps and they can always be redipped later. Seams like it will protect them well in the off season too. A surface that has a light coat of rust might hold the paint better than the smooth shiny metal. I have a couple dozen 220 Belisles i might dip too. I don't think it will clog things up, it is a nice light coating.

I did my #155's, they come out as if they were waxed. Took a little work to get them to set properly, but all is good.

I did the paint dip last year. I went back to the speed dip this year for my water traps.

I don't remember the mix ratio but you all need to take a look at AKHowler's post on wilderness trapping and living he does about the same thing to his wolf traps .

Looking good compared to when I rattle can painted my conibear traps even with a coating of rust on them.
Be sure to give us a update after you have made some catches .
Allan

Ended up doing a lot more and some body grip stabilizers too.