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I have been looking around trying to find an easy way to make a plug spinner. All of the DIY spinner instructons i have found require saudering and complicated instructions. So i brainstormed and this is what i came up with.
Materials Required:
1 Victor Brand Mousetrap
Pair of Plyers
How to:
Step 1: Get the spring off of the mousetrap by any means possible. I used plyers.
Brilliant idea, would be incredibly useful if you didn't have to carry pliers around to use it. Time to figure out a way to attach handles to the spring...
The pliers are not necessary. I use them to hold on to the tension wrench inside the spring because it has a sharp corner that cuts my finger when i let go of it. It works very well on my kwickset lock with or without pliers
did anyone try this and if you did, did it work well.
I made an impovement on the original design by making a tension wrench with a longer end so there is no need for the pliers.
Very nice. before I was trying to use a lawnchair spring I'll be picking up mousetraps tonight. May I reccomend not using used mousetraps for obvious reasons (health and safety risks).
quickpicks wrote:Very nice. before I was trying to use a lawnchair spring I'll be picking up mousetraps tonight. May I reccomend not using used mousetraps for obvious reasons (health and safety risks).
Do you think I'll be ok as long as I make sure to wash my hands afterwords?
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If you are not kidding, put the spring in some boiling water for 5 minutes in a pot you dont use for cooking and then figure out how to get it out afterwards, Ie: dump water on neighbour's lawn ,jk
I should really use the smilies more often. Of course I was joking .
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Unfortunately 5 minutes at 100C isnt enough to sterilize something, just FYI. But, why not get a new mouse trap to experiment with, or even better a rat trap, with its larger spring.
chuck you must have waek rats by you as there is no way you coud use one easy as they are way to strong. if you realy need the steralise a spring put it in the oven at about 150 deg C for 15mins that would steralise it.
got to say tshock very good idea im going to try it today. has anyone else tried this nd got it to work yet ?
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