Vinegar for rust removal...

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I caught a raccoon and when I removed him from the trap I found he had uncovered this abandoned trap from years before. As you can see it was rusted pretty bad...





I put the trap in a container and covered it with plain white vinegar, let is soak in there for 4 days, removed it and with a soft brush to remove the bits of loosened rust it looks like this...





I took a small file and smoothed out the tip of the dog and the pan notch and it is as good as new.

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when i'm cleaning up traps it's usually on a somewhat large scale ... never just a few

i've heard of folks using vinegar and never doubted it just never tried it because of the volume i would need ... so i just stuck to my cold soak in sani flush

i have some sleepy creek #11 dj that i wanted to clean up so i decided since it was only a dozen i'd try vinegar

dang if it didn't do a great job ... i let them soak about two days in a 50/50 blend of vinegar and water

these weren't rusted too bad and could have probably just been dipped ... but i'm glad i gave this a try ;D

here are a few pics of how it turned out