Defeate

Although I am not going reach any of my goals for my project I still have learned a lot of stuff. First after you have bought some traps before even use them you have to prepare them. Traps new come in with an oil finnish to keep them from rusting during transportation. You have to remove this coating because fur bearers have a very acute sense of smell. To remove the coating you boil the traps in water then let the water cool, the oil will settle on top. To prevent you from lifting the traps back through the oil you pour more water into the pot so all of the oil will spill over. Problem, now you have traps that have no protective coating that will rust easily. You can solve this by purchasing  a rust inhibitor made for such a purpose, but a simpler method is using a natural oil like peanut or walnut. To extract the oil you need to re boil the traps in water with your peanuts or walnuts. After you boil the traps you don't pour in more water to pour off the oil, you want the oil on the traps, so you just lift the traps through the oil.