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Genius critter or human sabotage? Perplexing finding!
coppercone2:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 15, 2020, 07:51:22 pm ---When I was a kid mice got into our garage and stashed a bunch of dog food somewhere in the exhaust system of my dad's classic Jaguar. They also ripped a hole in the leather and pulled some of the stuffing out of one of the seats, which I remember he was very unhappy about. He found out about the stash after he started up the car and it backfired and shot a bunch of kibbles up the driveway.
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I left the shop vac outside unplugged for 3 months and it turned into an acorn shot gun when I turned it on.
NiHaoMike:
Time to build a high voltage trap? Could probably build one out of an old CRT TV or monitor, with the capacitance of the CRT delivering the fatal jolt. Even the fastest animal is not going to outrun a miniature lightning bolt.
coppercone2:
you must really take your crappy cheap spaghetti stores seriously if you do that
99 cent structural dough from walmart
maybe the mouse will die of heart disease if it keeps eating that stuff lol. i think you can throw it in cement to make it reinforced
james_s:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 16, 2020, 05:19:34 am ---Time to build a high voltage trap? Could probably build one out of an old CRT TV or monitor, with the capacitance of the CRT delivering the fatal jolt. Even the fastest animal is not going to outrun a miniature lightning bolt.
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Not likely, the zap from a CRT (been there, done that) is painful but unlikely to be lethal. Add to the fact that with CRTs well out of production devices using them are quickly becoming valuable vintage gear. You'd be a lot better off using a lower voltage with more current behind it, although in my experience it's pretty hard to beat the simple spring loaded mouse trap.
CJay:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 16, 2020, 06:11:08 am ---
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 16, 2020, 05:19:34 am ---Time to build a high voltage trap? Could probably build one out of an old CRT TV or monitor, with the capacitance of the CRT delivering the fatal jolt. Even the fastest animal is not going to outrun a miniature lightning bolt.
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Not likely, the zap from a CRT (been there, done that) is painful but unlikely to be lethal. Add to the fact that with CRTs well out of production devices using them are quickly becoming valuable vintage gear. You'd be a lot better off using a lower voltage with more current behind it, although in my experience it's pretty hard to beat the simple spring loaded mouse trap.
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I ripped apart a couple of NOS electrics mouse traps that'd been in stores at work, they're really simple, made me think of a flash gun boost converter, charging up a 450V capacitor which was connected to a couple of wide strips of foil across the 'floor' of the trap.
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