Thanks Lloyd and Richard. I followed Lloyd's advice and went to a paint store today. There is an added problem, that there is some old paint already on the 8 frame electric extractor. The people inform me that there's a sort of primer that I can use first, that should bond (to an extent) the original paint, which is flaking in places, so I shouldn't have to strip everything first. The manager feared that the epoxy paint would be too "hot", and lift the previous coat; he's checking into now, and we have an appointment tomorrow to see what he came up with. When I disassembled the extractor just now, I saw in addition to some rust and flakey paint, dried grease tucked away here and there, which also wasn't helpfull. I've got 80 hives on over 100 acres of lemons, and there's still lots of nectar out there, so the advice is really helpfull. Thanks one more time Tim