Make a Catapult out of a Mousetrap
Has your mousetrap let a mouse run free yet again? Don't throw it out just yet - instead, recycle it into an awesome catapult that can launch pencils with serious force! As with any item that fires projectiles, use common sense with your mousetrap catapult - never point it at a person or animal.
Steps
- Get a spring-loaded bar mousetrap.
- Put two small nails about one and one half inches long into the sides of the mousetrap. Must be right by springs.
- Put a bolt going across the gap between the two ends of the nails and hot glue in place let glue dry well.
- Get a pencil and take off the eraser and notch the end of the pencil.
- Hold back the part of the mousetrap that traps the mouse.
- Put the notched end of the pencil on the part of the mousetrap that your holding back.
- Once you have the pencil loaded, release and watch it shoot through the air.
Tips
- Don't release the catapult until the pencil is loaded.
Warnings
- Be safe. Never aim for a person's eyes or head.
- Pencil may embed itself in the wall.
Things You'll Need for mousetrap catapult
- Mousetrap
- 2 nails
- 1 bolt
- Wooden Pencil
- hot glue gun
- door hinge
- key
- tuba mouthpiece
- wd-40
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