I'm looking at doing the same thing this summer. I thought something like "coal tar epoxy" would be good. I think it's cheapand pretty corrosive resistant. Under $100. As far as the rust, I was just going to use wire brushes and phosphoric acid I don't know about the springs and wheels. From: David Grah via montgomery_boats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> To: For and About Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, June 3, 2018 5:15 PM Subject: M_Boats: Advice Repainting Reburbishing Trailer The Trail-Rite trailer for our 1986 Montgomery 15 has thick (it must have been repainted at least once before we had it), chipped, and peeling paint and spots with surface rust. We'd like to repaint it but wonder what sort of preparation work the old paint would take to get new paint to stick properly at last a long time. Plus it would be good to get the rust off of it. It looks like a lot of work to do entirely ourselves! Can anyone share any experiences, good and bad, repainting old trailers like ours? I can imagine taking off the removable stuff, taking it somewhere and somehow without wheels, having it dipped to remove the old paint, and then sand-blasted, and then repainting it, but that might be a bit more work than the trailer justifies. Thanks! David GrahBishop California