I painted my supercat rudder castings with rustoleum white last season because they were starting to oxidize and pit unattractively. my one mistake was that I used gloss paint, which evidently required a lot more prep work than I was willing to do for a smooth finish, so I tried to smooth it out with additional coats of paint, which wound up gunking up the release mechanism a bit. in retrospect, i should've left well-enough alone.



anyway, speaking as someone who screwed it up the first time, my advice is to use a flat-finish paint which will sufficiently hide surface imperfections, and be mindful of how much goop you're accumulating on the working parts.