Laminating and base plating is a piece of cake compared to welding chew quards on.
My hat is off to the trap mod people.

Formed and welded these chew guards on some #2 double longsprings . We will see how they improve preformance on coons, ect.

Makes the already modded trap seem more attractive.

Heres a couple of pics.







Ready for those ($ 50.00 coons) LOL

Cletis

Looking Fine!

Normally I use no 11's, had these no 2 's and thought what the heck give it a try.

look nice ... i have no doubt ya will be happy with them

Looking good Cletis! Be sure to mke a copy of that post on the archives forum.

~ADC~

Sweet..............

Here are some made from 20 penny nails. Holds almost as good as the grizz.

cletis, what type of rod did ya use

nice

I wonder it you could just use baseplates and maybe cut them down a little

Cletis
The mod looks great.
One thing I can't tell from your photo is how the guard is place. I have found they work best set flush to the outside of the main jaw. The slight recess gives you a small space between the guards when the trap is closed. This works like and off set and lets the main jaw close farther.
JMTCW

Mac

I used 20 penny nail which are about 3/16 of an inche. I bent them on a jig that I made to form baseplates.

Longear it looks like you were able to use straight guards on whats looks like a 1 1/2 montgomery or the new montana. I had to use a formed guard to clear the pivot portion of the pan.

Macthediver the guard wouldn't clear the pivot portion of the pan positioned at the outside of the jaw, had to adjust to the inner position, still ended up 1/8 to 3/16 from edge which should give me ample bite with the edge of jaw. Some of the welds much to my dismay came to the edge of the jaw which makes the guard look flush.

Have a few more 1 1/2 s to reform the jaws and add a new second spring.

Cletis

Looks good Cletis,should do fine.Your right,they are tricky to put on and get the straight and aligned with eachother.

They are 1.5's but you have to be careful about thet pan clearance. And like Mac said put they away from where the jaws close. It was fun moding these traps but I might have gone a little overboard on the baseplates. Later longear

Adc moved as you requested. , liked your jig you came up with, good idea.

I was thinking you need to make some type of jig similar to hold that style in place as well, shouldn't be too hard to design if someone would put their little pea-brain to work on it....

~ADC~

How about two pairs of vice grips and a large vise........plus a few words of encouragement over each trap. LOL

LOL, if that's what it takes...

~ADC~

I just used one pair vise grips and bowed the nail in the middle a little seemed to work ok. Later Longear

I also used one pair of grips per guard, elected to position both sides so I did not have to deal with installing second guard while welds where hot or waiting for trap to cool.


Cletis