How long is too long? I haven't noticed a problem

Man, you guys weren't kidding about using vinegar to get an old trap back to bare metal!! I got some #1 long springs from a couple of you guys on here, and some of them looked like they were with Noah on the ark! I soaked them in straight vinegar for 2 days as was recommended in another thread. Took them to the car wash, dumped them out on the ground, put power washer on "rinse", and went to town on them. SPOTLESS!!!! Well, almost. Maybe a small spot on a few of them, but to go from COVERED with hard rust, to bare metal, looking like new. I would have never expected this kind of result.

Pretty cool trick!!!

Yes, I already took these to the carwash cause I didn't know how easy / hard it would be to get the rust off. I now see that it would have come off just fine in the dishwasher after a soak in the vinegar. I'm learning as I go here, and this is pretty dang interesting!! My next set are new traps, so those will go straight to the dishwasher.

AJE- have you used that dip from Dakota Line? If so, what did ya think? I was thinking about just using paint, but is this dip better than paint? I'd be willing to try it if someone has good experience with it.

AJE- have you used that dip from Dakota Line? If so, what did ya think? I was thinking about just using paint, but is this dip better than paint? I'd be willing to try it if someone has good experience with it.

For water traps paint is the way to go in my opinion

I can tell you that vinegar will dissolve chunks out of Duke body grip springs. Just the springs. Had that happen to several. Kinda looked like maybe some pockets of impurities of the metal in different spots just fell out. This was after a week/10 days in a vinegar water mix. I had to replace the springs on all of them.