How To Build A Mouse Trap Car?

A mouse trap car is a miniature vehicle made with a regular mouse trap and using the trap itself for force

. It is rather simple to make a mouse trap car from scratch and the materials needed are easy to get so here is a outline on making a mouse trap car of your own.

Required Tools

Pliers

Drill

Saw (optional)

Scissors

Required Materials

A mouse trap

4 eyehooks

6 balloons/rubber bands

Epoxy

2 bic pens/metal rods (axles)

2 tops from pop cans/2 washers

String

4 CDs/DVDs/plywood (wheels)

Instructions

Firstly drill 2 tiny holes into either end of the mouse trap and screw the 4 eyehooks into them.

For wheels you can use 4 CDs/DVDs or you can cut 4 circles out of plywood using a saw. If you use CDs/DVDs, cut the top and bottom off 2 of the balloons with a pair of scissors and extend the middle section over the rim of the CDs you will use for the back wheels to rubberize them for traction. You may still do this if you are using plywood but this it is not a necessity.

If you use the pens for your axles, take out the top and bottom of the pen leaving only the bare barrel. The eyehooks you have should fit closely over the pens or over the metal rods if you use them instead. It should not be so close though that the axle cannot turn easily.

Make a hole in the middle of one side of the axles, big enough to get the string through. Put the string through the hole in the axle and out one end of the axle. Make a knot in the end of the thread you drew out one end of the axle or knot it around something little and then draw it back inside the barrel of the axle until the knot is within the barrel (this is your back axle).

Then, push the front axle through the eyehooks on the front of the mousetrap (the side away from where the bait holder is) and use pliers to pinch the pop can tops or washers onto the axle to prevent the axle from shifting about a lot or sliding out sideways. See to it that the washers are not brushing the eyehooks or the wheels will not spin correctly. Go ahead and additionally put in your back axle.

You can use epoxy to secure the wheels to the axles or you can wrap a balloon or some similar kind of rubber around the axle and next slowly push the wheels you are using over it. The balloons or rubber will function as a wedge and keep the wheels from shaking while the car is moving.

Now for the movement of the car; secure the string in the back axle to the middle of the jaws of the mousetrap (the U-shaped section which really snaps on a mouse) and draw the jaws backward as if you are setting the trap. Grip the jaws tightly in that spot and reverse the car until the excess string is totally wrapped around the back axle, set the trap as you would to catch a mouse and your mouse trap care is ready to run.

Put it down and use something to fly the trap and watch it go!

Tips and Warnings

Make the eyehooks as flush as you can so the axle is straight when you put it through the hooks.

Remember to put the rubberized wheels on the back of the car, not on the front.

Be cautious to keep your hands away from the jaws when you are setting the trap because carelessness may be really agonizing.

by: sadie.backhurst

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