Friendly mousetrap, fully printable
Description
One thing I hated from existing mousetrap designs is the inability to easily add bait to the trap. So I made an easy sliding lock door with a hook for the bate.
It took my quite some time designing this thing. So if you print one yourself, please share a pic. I always like to see things I designed used by others and it encourages me to share more 3D designs.
Printed with 0,25mm layer height on a Felix 1.5 3D printer with 0,15 infill. Used 140 gram PLA.
Instructions
Almost everything is printable without support material, only part “mousetrap [Top-door] [V2].stl” needs a tiny bit of support otherwise the hinges are floating.
The size is 20 x 70 x 71, if it doesn’t fit on your print bed, try to fit it diagonally. Otherwise you can shrink the complete design. I’ve printed one at 80% size and it’s fully functional, but I don’t think you should go smaller. The bigger it is, the more comfortable the mouse will go in.
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I also had to do a little sanding. I think because PLA Is stiffer than ABS. The notches were a little too tight to press together. It's really a nice design, I didn't appreciate it until I had one in my hands.
Nice design, printed a couple already, time for my house friend to move on, next stop nearest field.
Printing this on medium resolution with the Makerbot 2 took quite some time (~~ 12 hours) and needed a little bit of filing/sanding before things came together properly. However, last night we caught our first mouse with it - worked great!
Thanks for sharing! Ive already caught almost a dozen mice with it. And although they probably can chew trough the bars, they never do. They just give up.
I'm curious what needed sanding, for tolerance calculation for future models. I would love to see your print, can you share a picture?
Satoer, what software did you use to design this? and to make that screenshot with all the dimensions?
I use 3D studio max for my designs. But It’s not the most convenient way for Industrial designing. I’m a motion graphic designer so that program suits me the most.
The exploded view I also created in 3D studio max and rendered it with V-ray. Everything you see I made myself, so sadly there’s no automated way the measurements, grid andarrows magically appear. But if you if you want to create arrows easily in a 3D program, use the “windings 3” font.
It looks like it should work, but like CodeCreations said, it better be noisy when it goes off so you can go empty it. I don't think it much matters what kind of plastic it is, a mouse will chew its way out pretty quickly. It will probably take it a while to figure out it can chew it, after that I give it 1/2 hour, definitely not overnight. Maybe you could bait it with peanut butter mixed with benadryl. A sleeping mouse wont chew anything. :)
Wow, this is awesome! I wonder if the mouse would chew through it given enough time or if ABS is less tasty than PLA. I'm tempted to make a derivative for which you put the peanut butter on the print bed and then just print the trap over the mouse. :)
It's a beautiful design -- thanks for sharing it!
License
Anyone have the gcode file for the cage? Slic3r keeps crashing on me at about 60%, which I didn't realize until I had printed out half a cage and it just stopped. Annoying.