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Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? #6523347
04/22/19 01:16 PM
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Need help. Could some one give me the length of the dog on A Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring trap? Need from center of the eye to end of dog please. Thanks

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6523980
04/23/19 03:07 PM
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I have the longspring, not the coil spring which was requested. If they are the same dog i can measure the longspring


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Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6523987
04/23/19 03:16 PM
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ya could just call Sleepy Creek or email them too


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Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6524066
04/23/19 06:17 PM
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Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6524843
04/24/19 07:23 PM
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the #3 & #4 long and coil are all the same size dog,

sorry I dont have any here to measure

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6525299
04/25/19 02:27 PM
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I use a lot of #3 Sleepy Creek coils and with very good success. I prefer to bend the end of the cross piece up much closer to the jaw and cut the dog off accordingly. I also crimp the eye of the dog tighter. I get much less slop and travel in the trigger when I do this. Hope this helps.

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6525445
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Still in search of = center of the eye to end of the dog measurement. For Sleepy Creek #3 offset trap

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6527309
04/28/19 01:35 PM
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Steel Traps,if it is true that the 3 and 4 have the same size dog,I have one number 4 and the dog is 1 7/8",center of eye to tip.

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: Taximan] #6527311
04/28/19 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Taximan
Steel Traps,if it is true that the 3 and 4 have the same size dog,I have one number 4 and the dog is 1 7/8",center of eye to tip.

Thank you . Taximan. Its for a big pan project a friend and I am working on . MAY replace dog with MB-550 style? And large pan, my friend has built

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Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6527319
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https://www.fntpost.com/Products/Universal+Coil+Spring+Trap+Parts/Paws-I-Trip+(PIT)+Stainless+Steel+Notched+Sloped+Rod+Replace

I like those dogs.

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: Taximan] #6527350
04/28/19 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Taximan
https://www.fntpost.com/Products/Universal+Coil+Spring+Trap+Parts/Paws-I-Trip+(PIT)+Stainless+Steel+Notched+Sloped+Rod+Replace

I like those dogs.

I will have my friend look at those. I sold him 2 dz Sleepy Creek #3 off sets Years ago. Now He wants a Big square pan and MB -550 syle dog. I have a small welder , that we will be putting the Laminations on with

Re: Sleepy Creek #3 offset coilspring ? [Re: steeltraps] #6527505
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Using calipers, 1.9 inches

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