Mouse funnel mousetrap
After thinking a bit more about my design for a Peanut Butter Jar Mousetrap, I decided it could be even more minimal/adaptable.
This new mouse funnel mousetrap design requires four bolts, four nuts, and some kind of container with a 4cm hole in it.
Peanut butter is still a really good idea.
Some might consider it cheating to enter a mouse trap that is probably 95% not printed in the Mouse Get! challenge. I disagree.
If your mouse trap requires anykind of bait/lure, then it’s not really 100% printed, is it? And, if it is 100% printed chances are a mouse isn’t going to be that interested. My point is that once you deviate from a 100% printed mouse trap, we’re just quibbling about percentages. 1
Some use cheese to trap mice. I’ve found peanut butter to be far more effective. To extend the above thought further, if you’re using peanut butter (or cheese) – just how much can you use in the trap? If you’re using a lot of peanut butter, why not the whole jar’s worth? If you’re using an entire jar of peanut butter, why waste the jar itself? Chances are you were going to throw the empty peanut butter jar away anyhow.
This isn’t so much cheating as it is… recycling/repurposing. 2
Peanut Butter Jar Mousetrap Insert
Here’s my entry in the Mouse Get! Challenge from Cathal Garvey. I call it the “Peanut Butter Jar Mousetrap Insert.”
The idea is pretty simple. Mice probably like peanut butter enough to squeeze into a small opening for a chance to eat it. If the opening is difficult to wedge back open they might not be able to get back out.
So, buy a jar of peanut butter, eat most of it, leave some peanut butter at the bottom, cut out most of the top from the lid, print the “Peanut Butter Jar Mousetrap Insert“, put the insert with the pointy bits going inside, close the lid, prop it up somewhere so it doesn’t roll away, and wait for your peanut butter covered mouse!