Mousetrap
Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆
Time: About half an hour
From scrap: ██████████ 100%
PreambleOne day, my grandfather told me about unusual design of diy mouse trap, and in this short article you'll learn how to make a mousetrap.
Materials- Thick steel wire
- Thin steel wire
- Leftover of PVC tube
- Strings
Tools- Pliers
- Hacksaw
- Drill
- Construction
Mousetrap includes next parts:
Spring(1) made of strong steel wire with attached loop (2) made of wire too. Piece of PVC tube is a body of mousetrap (4) is closed with cap (3). All sizes is free.
- Step 1
Make a cap for tube of any material, mouse just shouldn't pass on this end of tube - Step 2
Make a spring out of thick wire - Step 3
Make a loop of thin wire and attach it to spring - Step 4
Make a holes in the tube - Step 5
Assemble mousetrap
Assembled, but unarmed
- How it works
Compress spring, put loop down in the gap in body (6) and tie spring to the lower part of body by thread (5).
Put a bait between cap and thread. Mouse comes into tube and approach to thread, which is a problem to go on. Mouse starts to gnaw the thread, so then spring contract and lift a loop with mouse inside it, and mouse choke to death, and you are saved.
Some view on this diy mousetrap from frontside (you can see thread and loop)
Author: Dezertir1996
DIY mousetrap
VideoI suggest you to see how to make another version of a mousetrap, it is pretty simple too. Mouse still alive after catching. Basic material - plastic bottle.
Results and tips- DIY mouse trap is very "soft" for mouse, there isn't splatter brains on the walls or smth.
- You can tune power by tuning spring
