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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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
"...and the world will beat a path to your door."