I told you they’re perfect and I love em!!!

Lol just like everything a man touches it needs a little tweaking to get back on track lol

I cannot agree more. Chuckie breaks everything

As stated above. The piece attached to the frame that also holds the dog has two places you can bend that will resolve your issue. By raising the bottom or flat portion you raise the level of the dog. By bending the upright section where the dog is attached you also raise the level of the dog but you also put the dog closer to the pan notch. If that gets too long you can grind off the end of the dog to fit. If it were me I would lift the level of the dog enough so the dog sits level and not have to bend the dog down a bit as I believe it is easier to set the pan tension you want by doing that.

Bryce

Maybe you'd have enough hand strength to bend traps if you made more sammiches

Knuckle sammiches?

Every Duke I owned it was constant adjusting.

I’m having a terrible time. Soon as I got the pan level it wouldn’t fire. Too close. I’m putting this one away for a while before I throw it in the koi pond.

Anytime you mess with the dog, it's a constant battle till you get everything right again. If you choose to eliminate the floppiness of the dog, you'll have to adjust things all over again or simply just cut the dog down.

Finally got the god blessed thing. What a job!

Looking at that last Pic Smash, I'd clean up the end of that pan notch and dog.
Glad you got it resolved.

How do ya mean, Dave… clean up..?

File off the burs left from your prior work

Besides that, I would square up the pan and dog ends. If you look closely at yours, especially, from what I can see, the pan, see how the end of it's kinda rounded? You want it more like this pic. This pic isn't of a fully adjusted trap, but it shows what I mean by squaring it up.



Or you can do what i do, say screw it, throw it against the wall, and leave it there until you wax it the night before trapping season, then cuss it all season for not being properly adjusted, lol.

Get some more dukes,,,,and a bigger tool box.

Smashley....impress the pee-ons here...and night latch that puppy.

While your tuning up your trap.

i was wondering when someone was going to mention night-latching. All my land traps are night-latched.

To heck with NL, throw a Vic pan on that Duke
and watch upstate vapor lock lol.

Smashley...just file a notch ...where the dog hits the pan