Making jaw laminations?
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For those that use jaw laminations,do you buy them prebent or make your own? Do you use round or square stock and what is the best way to form them?
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Re: Making jaw laminations?
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I just went to the scrap yard yesterday and dug through a scrap bin to find 2 16' lengths of 3/16" x 1/2" flat stock steel. Both had one rolled edge too. Perfect. I cut them to 3.5" lengths and bent them in a vise with the aid of a large adjustable wrench. I don't own a welder or know how to use one, so I C-clamped the lamination top dead center on the trap jaw, drilled a hole in each end of the lamination, and fastened it with an 8-32 machine screw and nut. Then I ground down the nuts seal the threads and pretty them up. Makes for a beafy little #1.5 Bridger.
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loos good, that is why I want to go with square stock and bend my own, just not sure how to bend material cheaply.
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loos good, that is why I want to go with square stock and bend my own, just not sure how to bend material cheaply. If you want to do it that way get a piece of 3"-4" diameter pipe.Clamp your pieces on the end of the pipe with a vice grip,then use a hammer and pound it down against the pipe until there curved,it won't be exact to the trap jaw but it'll be easy to camp it on the jaw and clamp it to fit,then weld.
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Re: Making jaw laminations?
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The beater end of an avvil works wonders. A planetary ring roller is the best Ive seen for the job though. They dont cost much either.
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Oh yea, the piranha iron worker I used with a die does one in about half a second but I aint got 35K to drop on one,lol..I was thinking in reg joe terms. That iron worker would pinch off 1" coldroll like a twig, boy it was a sweet machine.
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Re: Making jaw laminations?
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Cletis, I think I will try your method, did you have to heat the rod much? If I measured right a 4" OD pipe should be about right for a Duke 1.5.
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longgear, did you weld those in with the trap jaws open or closed, and did you use vise grips to hold in place, my welding is not the best even with a wire feed machine in close area's.
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They are cut off 20 penny nails I weld in with the jaws closed hold with vise grips. make sure there is enough room between chew guard and pan/dog. I'm not the best welder either Later Longear
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TexA, yes I have to check that out . I don't think th 3/16" rod is too much of a issue, but have a bunch of 1/4" square stock that might be a issue. I find with a good lam. on a coil spring trap, seems to make coons chew less. Used 1.75 SC with lams last year, 6 land coons no problems.
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Re: Making jaw laminations?
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T 20, how do you bend yours?
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