🐭 Mousetrap with their hands out of scrap materials: Instructions

One of the most popular tools for rodent control in private households - mousetrap. With their hands, such devices can be made in just a few minutes. At the same time, they are not less effective than the factory products. Such trap in most cases left mouse alive, and if you are against the killing, you can release the rodent somewhere in a forest or field. In this review, revision HouseChief prepared for you a few options available from the materials that you are sure to find at home.

The secret of success - good bait

Homemade or factory mousetrap to work successfully in need of high-quality bait. One that would attract rodents so that they forget about their inherent caution.

For many will be the opening of the cheese - not the best option. Such a belief - the result of the film soon. Much more interesting rodents other products with a rich aroma: sunflower and pumpkin seeds, crackers with butter, fried sausage or bacon, nuts and raw meat.

The mousetrap of plywood and springs

Trap plywood is very easy to assemble. This requires a piece of plywood length 15 and width 10 cm, the frame of the solid wire and a spring tight. Bait on the hook is attached to a rodent had to draw for her. Then work a spring that slam the metal frame. This is a classic model of a mousetrap, and here for an example circuit:

Trap for rodents from a bar

From a bar can make a house-trap. This requires a piece of timber 6 × 10 × 18 cm. In it are drilled hole of diameter 3 cm, are placed in the bait. To catch pests made loops of a thin wire, which are fixed by springs. On each hole - hinge and spring. The spring is fixed thread, which prevents the mouse to reach the bait. When the tear thread teeth, the spring operates.

And here is a practical course for the manufacture of the device.

Illustration	Description of the action
	A piece of rod and wire, in this case - the spokes of the bicycle wheel
	In the tool bar to be drilled round holes of said diameter and a depth of about 7 cm
	From the workpiece need to cut off a piece of 1 cm in width along the entire length
	Prepare several pieces of chipboard for laying
	Return the sawed-off piece in place and screw it through the pieces of MDF. It is supposed to be a small gap between the two parts
	Of the metal spokes must produce a loop of the same diameter as the holes
	At the tip of a large loop - for fastening small
	The loop should easily enter into the gap between the two parts
	On the opposite side of the drill holes and insert the wire from which the spring turn
	Fold the other end of the wire hook so that the locking ring trap
	Approximately 2.1 cm of the nip drill two through holes to thread the needle and thread
	While threading, use a temporary clamp
	Mousetrap is ready, pour into it the seeds and wait for the catch

Mousetrap with his own hands from the glass jars per minute

Elementary trap can be made of a glass jar with capacity of up to a liter. It turned upside down, is fixed to the inside thread twig or bait. Under the neck of the banks put on the edge of the coin - it is better to take pyatirublovuyu to mouse could easily slip under it. The slightest pressure on the bait he knocks out a coin, and the rodent will be in the bank.

Traps with water from the bucket

This option makes it easier to catch mice, your task to get rid of them. Mice will drown in a bucket and you have to just recycle them. How to make such a structure from a pair of cans from lemonade, wire and buckets see below.

Illustration	Description of the action
	The banks need to punch two holes in the middle. This can be done with an awl or nail usual
	Pick the piece of steel wire of diameter larger than the bucket
	Fight low from the edge of two holes and thread them through the wire
	Place the wire on the banks of lemonade
	Place the bucket in a place where often see mice and make him a small ramp of the board
	Fill one-third the volume of a bucket of water, and on the edge of the banks put a smelly bait

Traps from plastic bottles

Plastic "poltorashki" - a popular material for different homemade. Of them can make some choices of mouse traps. Here's how to do the simplest of them:

Illustration	Description of the action
	You must select a bottle from the "waist" that is, with a narrower part of the center, and cut so that one half is easy to enter other. The bottom cut a small hole for the passage of the rodent
	Hot wire pierce opposite the opening hole, and then bend the wire with the letter "d"
	Push the wire smelly bait
	Insert it from the inside, so that the tip protruded outside is literally a couple of millimeters
	Install the second part of the top of the bottle so that it rests on sharpening the tip of the wire
	That's the trap works. To accelerate its action with a bottle cap must be removed and slightly heavier

And here's another simple and absolutely brilliant idea, based on the principle of "swing":

For the complete collection - is another simple option to perform with his own hands:

Illustration	Description of the action
	Cut the bottle about 10 cm from the neck, but not until the end
	Pass the two rods or wires through the walls, as shown in Figure
	Fasten the thread on the neck of a loop so that the bottle was open
	Push to clip the bait and make a hole for the tip of a paper clip at the very bottom of a bottle
	On sticks put gums, such that children use for weaving baubles
	Charge trap by placing bait inside and fasten thread on the tip of a paper clip
	Traps triggered almost instantaneously

Production of adhesive trap

Glue for catching mice can be purchased at specialty stores. It is applied to the cardboard or plywood, placed in the center of the bait and put in places where you do not fall into it.

Produce sticky traps can be on its own, mixing the bitumen and pine resin.

electric mousetrap

Finally, you can take the path of progress, having made the electronic trap. There are two versions of the device: that kills mouse discharge in contact with her, and the mechanism that sends a signal that the rodent is caught. Here is a small version of the production of such a trap:

Which option you like the most? Maybe one of them is already working in your home? Share your experiences in the comments!