330 spring has slide around the corner and is now on wrong side

[treeroot]

Can't describe it very well and I'll try a picture later today..

But I have 2 330's where the eyelet of the spring slipped past the corner of the trap.. so that eyelet is on the horizontal part of the trap and no longer on the vertical part. Both traps did this when they snapped on a beaver on their first use from new.

How can I get the eyelet back to the correct side and how can I make sure it doesn't happen anymore?

I've tried everything and its like the eyelet is too small to get around the corner and on the right side. I'm sure the force the trap was enough to get it around that corner, but i can't get it past..

looked for youtube video's and couldn't find any...

[1886]

You should be able to push the spring around to the center of the trap (up against the beaver) then push the eyelet back into position

[treeroot]

Originally Posted by 1886

You should be able to push the spring around to the center of the trap (up against the beaver) then push the eyelet back into position

I've tried to get it to the right side quite a few times...

I went out after I made the post, got very frustrated, and muscled it over.. In the process it made the eyelet bigger AND it bent the eyelet so it's no longer closed..

After I got it on the right side, I bent the eyelet closed and made it a bit smaller..

I have zero faith it's not going to happen again..


I'm thinking I got a bad batch of 330's..

I bought 12... 1 spring snapped in half on a log the beaver pushed through the trap on its first use.... and then these 2 where the eyelet sprung around to the wrong side of the trap.

The only way I can see the eyelet springing around to the wrong side is if the eyelett was too big from factory..

I'll give halfords credit, when I emailed them a picture of the 330 with the snapped spring and a pic of the receipt, they shipped me a replacement for free. It happened within a month or so of purchase.

[kingrat]

Do yourself a favour and next time spend a little more and get belise 330s.

[treeroot]

Originally Posted by kingrat

Do yourself a favour and next time spend a little more and get belise 330s.

They are Belise's

[kingrat]

Wow I didn't think it was possible to do that to the springs. I've never seen it.

[H380]

Its no big deal ,he's happened to me lots ...just slide it back . Breaking a new one is a problem tho, I've never had one do that and that is with 45 years experience . Glad they replaced it

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[treeroot]

I should mention this happened on 2 traps on their first beaver out of a dozen bought new. I can't find the 2nd one though. It's in my garage somewhere. I couldn't find it yesterday. When I find it, I'll put a picture up of it before I try to force it over.

[kingrat]

I've seen it on dukes and victors but never on a belise.

[treeroot]

Originally Posted by kingrat

I've seen it on dukes and victors but never on a belise.

Like I said, I'm wondering if it was just a bad batch..

[Big Grey Wolf]

My guess is even Belise is now using recycle steel from car bodies. What happens is all the other metals migrate into middle of steel billet and provide much weaker steel. Same reason why lot of truck springs fail now.

[treeroot]

Originally Posted by Big Grey Wolf

My guess is even Belise is now using recycle steel from car bodies. What happens is all the other metals migrate into middle of steel billet and provide much weaker steel. Same reason why lot of truck springs fail now.

interesting...

So I'm guessing the eyelet was too weak to stay small enough not to slide over to the horizontal side?

[CBintheNorth]

A month late to the party, I know...

I've had this happen on old 330s. A pair of spring compression pliers works great to resolve this.
Once you get the spring compressed and the safety on, you will be able to work the spring around to the appropriate side again.
It is near impossible to compress the spring enough when that happens, without the pliers.