Do-it-yourself mousetrap
Modern standard mousetraps, the production of which has been established by many enterprises, have a significant drawback: after the mousetrap has slammed shut, to catch the next rodent, the mousetrap must be re-tuned.
If the owner is absent and arrives quite rarely, the mice feel great in this house. We offer a design that is a continuous device.
This do-it-yourself mousetrap destroys all the rodents of your house, and in the absence of the owner.
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The principle of the mousetrap
The proposed mousetrap is a continuous device.
The work of the miracle-mousetrap is based on the principle of an unbalanced swing.
Of fundamental importance is the temperature of the room in which the mousetrap is installed. Since the mousetrap is installed on a bucket of water, in which the mouse that got there will drown, the room temperature should be positive so that the water in the bucket does not freeze.
The main part of the mousetrap consists of an open box made of tin or a thin steel sheet. The bottom of the box can rotate from light weight. A mouse running up to the closed end of the box (the bait is suspended at the end) rotates the bottom of the box with its weight, the mouse cannot be held on an inclined surface and slides down into a bucket of water. Everything, the trap slammed shut.
After the mouse falls into the bucket, the bottom of the mousetrap returns to its original position. The mousetrap is once again ready to repeat the act of capturing another mouse. Water interferes with the dispersal of the rodent, the mouse flounders in the water and drowns.
An inclined board is attached to the box, it goes down to the ground. In principle, an inclined board is a kind of ladder. This ladder must be rubbed with lard or sweet sausage, in principle, you can use any food products that can lure mice with their smell.
The practice of using such mousetraps in summer cottages shows that in a short time, almost all mice can be caught in the summer cottage. Considering that the family of mice, in its composition, has about 20 individuals, this family, as well as families of neighbors, the total number of which can be hundreds of pieces, can be caught completely in a summer cottage in a short time.
The figure shows a mousetrap in working position.
When making a mousetrap with your own hands, you must understand that the movable bottom of the box, when turning, should not touch the walls of the bucket and the surface of the water in the bucket. A small section of the bottom of the ladder rests on the plank, so that the bottom is always set in a horizontal, initial position.
Component procurement
The box is made of sheet metal according to the pattern, which is shown in Figure 1, the place of the bend on the pattern is shown by dashed lines.
At the end wall of the box, from below, by bending the tin, form the visor necessary to install the mouse trap box on the upper edge of the bucket. To make a mousetrap with a rigid box, the free sides of the box at the open ladder are fastened with carnations to the plank inserted between the sides.
The shape and dimensions of the mouse trap box are shown in Figure 2.
In order to conveniently attach an inclined ladder to the bucket edge, the plank-emphasis with its lower surface rests on the upper edge of the bucket and should slightly protrude beyond it. To obtain a single whole, the ladder and the plank are connected with a piece of tin from below. Depending on the size of the bucket of water on which the mousetrap will be installed, the gangway can have a length of 400-450 mm.
The bottom in the box forms a small gap with the side, and at one end it is superimposed on the plank.
In figure 3, shows the layout of the bottom in the box.
To suspend the bottom in the box on the axes, holes with a diameter of 2-3 mm are drilled in the sides of the bottom. The bottom itself is made of organic glass, 5 mm thick. From the middle of the bottom, i.e. from the line of equilibrium, these holes are at a distance of 2-3mm. and divide the bottom into two parts of unequal weight.
In the sides of the box, in the lower part, the same holes are drilled for the axes, with the same diameter of 2-3 mm., These holes determine the location of the moving bottom in the box.
The axis of the connection is made of rigid wire. in the form of a frame with an incomplete rectangular contour. The bent ends of the incomplete side of the frame are the axes for the moving bottom, and the opposite (full side, the crossbar of the frame) is the limiter of its rotation.
Assembly
The wire frame is put on the box, and using the axes, through the holes of the sides of the box and the holes of the moving bottom, connect the structure.
First, thin washers are put on the axis between the bottom and the side. The frame is tilted by the crossbar (limiter) closer to the ladder, fixed in sawtooth cutouts on the upper edges of the box sides, this is shown in Figure 4.
The inclined position of the frame on the box mounted by the mousetrap is necessary so that the bottom, when turning, returns to a horizontal position, rather than occupying a vertical position.
There is also a crossbeam for this. The designer, in the production of the mousetrap, must take into account that the bottom should easily rotate on the axes, and then under the weight of the longer part, it must itself return to the horizontal position.
In the far, closed end of the box, two holes are drilled in which a wire hook for the bait is fixed.
Setting a mousetrap
After you have made a mousetrap with your own hands, it is installed on a bucket of water, then the bait is fixed on the hook, the rotation of the bottom and its ability to return to the originally planned, horizontal position are checked.
As a result, the ladder should touch the surface on which the bucket of water is installed, i.e. provide unhindered access of the mouse to the bait, as a result of which the mousetrap slams.
High-quality work and proper assembly ensures reliable operation of the above design, its performance and is guaranteed to save you from annoying mouse neighbors.
This article describes the classic version of making a do-it-yourself mousetrap on the principle of an unbalanced swing. Given that the principle of operation of this mousetrap is that the swing after, after the mouse falls, should return to its original horizontal position, the design can be simplified as much as possible, as shown in the video.
Good luck.
