Mouse Vapor

[Owly055]

Dear Mister Owly,

Will you marry me? I am smitten even though I am straight, male, and married.

I'm flattered...........but I'm not sure how that works..... two straight males??? Somehow that just doesn't compute.


H.W.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

I'm flattered...........but I'm not sure how that works..... two straight males??? Somehow that just doesn't compute.





H.W.

It could just be two cool dudes living together.

(Thank you always sunny)

 

[grathan]

The Victor electric mouse traps kill over 100 mice with only 4 AA batteries. Not sure how large the capacitor is, but definitely less of a fire hazard.

 

[Owly055]

The Victor electric mouse traps kill over 100 mice with only 4 AA batteries. Not sure how large the capacitor is, but definitely less of a fire hazard.

This was supposed to be a fun, mad scientist project............ There is zero fire hazard the way it is built. A 5000 ohm resistor on the mains limits the current to such a small current that it simply cannot do anything without the capacitor. Once the capacitor is discharged, it recharges slowly, and if shorted, not at all. There is no way realistically for it to start a fire. Perhaps if you had gunpowder on the surface and shorted it with a screwdriver, that single spark could be used to start a fire......... Of if there were a gas leak, that single ignition spark could set it off. I've played with far more dangerous things that this.


H.W.

 

[Airplanedoc]

This AM, I heard a mouse rustling under the kitchen sink, opened the door, and he darted into the trap. There was a sharp crack, and he was flung backward, and lay there twitching like he was dying............ A few minutes later he got up and staggered away. That explains the times I have heard the trap fire, and not found a body in the morning. It's not 100% effective for some reason.


H.W.

More Power!!!!!!!

 

[estricklin]

This AM, I heard a mouse rustling under the kitchen sink, opened the door, and he darted into the trap. There was a sharp crack, and he was flung backward, and lay there twitching like he was dying............ A few minutes later he got up and staggered away. That explains the times I have heard the trap fire, and not found a body in the morning. It's not 100% effective for some reason.


H.W.

Mice actually have the ability to restart their own heart after some electrical shocks! That's why the store bought electric mouse traps actually shock the mouse again after a few seconds, or holds a steady 60 second shock.

I really love the low tech mouse trap my cousin built a couple years ago. He used a mop bucket and a make shift ramp out of a 2x4, on top of the mop bucket he placed a close hanger wire with an empty toilet paper roll covered in peanut butter. The mop bucket was half full of water, when the mice ran up the ramp and across the wire they would slip and fall off the cardboard into the water and.......well you get the idea. Believe it or not VERY effective low tech mouse trap.

 

[Strut]

Love it!

Ever try mouse launching?

 

[DrunkleJon]

Mice actually have the ability to restart their own heart after some electrical shocks! That's why the store bought electric mouse traps actually shock the mouse again after a few seconds, or holds a steady 60 second shock.

I really love the low tech mouse trap my cousin built a couple years ago. He used a mop bucket and a make shift ramp out of a 2x4, on top of the mop bucket he placed a close hanger wire with an empty toilet paper roll covered in peanut butter. The mop bucket was half full of water, when the mice ran up the ramp and across the wire they would slip and fall off the cardboard into the water and.......well you get the idea. Believe it or not VERY effective low tech mouse trap.

Kinda cruel, maybe should add a bit of soap to the water to make it harder to stay afloat in, speed the process some. That or leave it dry, and dump the bucket out outside every time it catches one/a few

 

[Owly055]

Love it!

Ever try mouse launching?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-d3rZZ-_M

Looks pretty cool.......... They need more thrust though. I'd love to see one that would launch the squirrel across town. Unfortunately it would be difficult to launch a mouse from inside the house...... I've considered "mouse flushing" though............

The squirrel launcher reminds me of the propane actuated wood splitter I once built.......... Used a small compressor with a propane carb attached. You fill the cylinder with propane air mixture up to 100 psi, and touch it off. Used a sparkplug and a coil. A rubber bumper kept it from self destructing at the end of the stroke, and it was returned with a couple of very strong springs. Worked fine most of the time, but it was a bit scary.... It would throw the wood. The problem was that if it didn't get a full split, it wouldn't return until you cleared the wood, and with spring tension that could be a bet tense. Definitely not a toy for everybody! Not something I would recommend trying to duplicate. I did use it for quite awhile until I mounted a cone splitter on the end of my knuckle boom with hydraulic drive. With almost 30' feet of reach and 2500 lbs lift at full extent, it works great. You reach out and screw into the block a little way, then lift it and swing it over the wood pile, then hit the control and it screws into the block and splits it. All this will sitting in a lawn chair next to my truck running the controls. I use an 18 HP kohler to run the hydraulics....... I really don't want to have a 3126 idling just to run the splitter!

H.W.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

Looks pretty cool.......... They need more thrust though. I'd love to see one that would launch the squirrel across town. Unfortunately it would be difficult to launch a mouse from inside the house...... I've considered "mouse flushing" though............

The squirrel launcher reminds me of the propane actuated wood splitter I once built.......... Used a small compressor with a propane carb attached. You fill the cylinder with propane air mixture up to 100 psi, and touch it off. Used a sparkplug and a coil. A rubber bumper kept it from self destructing at the end of the stroke, and it was returned with a couple of very strong springs. Worked fine most of the time, but it was a bit scary.... It would throw the wood. The problem was that if it didn't get a full split, it wouldn't return until you cleared the wood, and with spring tension that could be a bet tense. Definitely not a toy for everybody! Not something I would recommend trying to duplicate. I did use it for quite awhile until I mounted a cone splitter on the end of my knuckle boom with hydraulic drive. With almost 30' feet of reach and 2500 lbs lift at full extent, it works great. You reach out and screw into the block a little way, then lift it and swing it over the wood pile, then hit the control and it screws into the block and splits it. All this will sitting in a lawn chair next to my truck running the controls. I use an 18 HP kohler to run the hydraulics....... I really don't want to have a 3126 idling just to run the splitter!

H.W.

I wish I understood half the stuff you were talking about.

I will say I got this. Exploding log splitter cannon :rockin: which sounds like an amazing way to die.

 

[Owly055]

I wish I understood half the stuff you were talking about.

I will say I got this. Exploding log splitter cannon :rockin: which sounds like an amazing way to die.

My email is [email protected] That's right, I've writing from "the other side". It's only recently that we've had email in Hell....... ;-) It WAS an amazing way to die!!

Homebrew in Hell is a relatively recent development. (completely against the rules) The biggest problem we have is wort chilling.... and of course finding ultra high temp yeasts. ;-) I was a little uncomfortable down here at first until I realized that all my friends where here too, and learned that we are EXPECTED to misbehave, and break the rules, in fact we are rewarded for it. Plotting and scheming ways to break and circumvent the rules down here is a full time job. I am good at it, having a lifetime of experience. As a result, I've worked my way to a more temperate level, in fact it's quite comfortable. You can't really homebrew in the lower hotter levels, but those of us who have learned to "game the system" rapidly move to the more temperate levels. I suspect if we show enough rebellion and criminality, we will be reintroduced to "life". They claim that this is how Charles Manson came to be.......... ;-)

H.W. ( Posting from Hell )