Introduction: The Vehicle of Mouse Destruction
Materials Needed:
-4 Pens
-4 CD's
-3 foot long wood sticks
-Mouse trap
-Hot glue
-Plastic Hanger
-Fishing wire
2 large balloons
Step 1: Step 1: the Axles
To begin the building process
-Cut a large balloon in half and place over 2 CD's
-Take a pen and remove the head of it
-Place the 2 Cd's on the pen (as shown above)
- And take the pen tops and hot glue them to the outsides of the CD's
-Take a toothpick and cut 1/4 off of it
-Hot glue to middle of pen
-Repeat these steps without using balloons over the other 2 CD's
Step 2: Step 2: the Body
-Take 2 footlong wood sticks and the front and back axles and place between the wooden sticks (This is to determine how wide to make the body)
-Mark where the end of the wheels are on the wood
Step 3: Step 3: the Body
-Place the pen caps on the marked places of the wooden sticks and hot glue them down
-Take the other footlong wooden stick and cut it in half
-Place the 2 half sticks on the 2 large sticks
-Place the 1st one in the middle of the 2 sticks and the 2nd one in the front/close to the back of the front axles
-Hot Glue them down
Step 4: Step 4: Putting It Together
-Place the 2 axles in the pen caps
-Hot glue them down without trapping them from spinning
(Make sure the wheels with the balloons are the back axles)
Step 5: Final Step
-Take the mousetrap and cut off half of the lever arm
-Take the plastic hanger and cut it so the straight part is the only thing left
-The hanger should be hallow/ place one end of the hanger into the cut lever arm of the mousetrap and hot glue it in
-Take the piece of mousetrap ever and hot glue into the other end of the hallow hanger
-Cut off 2 feet of fishing wire
-Make a hole in the top of the fishing wire and hot glue it to the lever placed inside the hanger
Step 6: How to Work
With the finished product take the fishing wire and hook the loop made at the top to the toothpick glued at the middle of the back axle
-To make it move wind the back wheels and tighten the wire/pulling the hanger back
-Place car on the ground and release the back wheels
