How To Weaponize Mouse Traps
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Mouse traps come in various sizes. Especially the bigger types (that are also suitable for catching rats) use seriously powerful springs. This sparked an idea: Is it possible to make a slingshot that uses mouse traps instead of rubber?
Yes, as this video clearly proves. But it gets even better when you add rubber bands - because then the power of the springs add to the power of the rubber.
As a little extra bonus, a new enhancement for the large CO2 injector is shown and tested.
A "The Slingshot Channel" production!
I don't know how big mice are in Germany, but in the UK those would be sold as Rat Traps.
In Germany, mice eat cats. That's scary.
In Texas, those are ant traps.
Johnny Bow Made my day :D #lachflash :)
watcherjohnny lol
Mitchell Stump I’m sensing a bit of “performance anxiety”, Mr. “Stump”.
If I were to become a super villain, I would want Jeorg to be my mad scientist who makes all the cool stuff!
and laughs maniacally after explaining your malicious plans.
+ZobbyBull JOERG*
Jörg's already a supervillain anyway, why would he want a demotion?
ZobbyBull an evil Bruce Wayne and he'll be your lucious fox. Lol
Me: I want to hold the world for ransom
Joerg: how much plywood and theraband gold do you have?
What about weaponize bear traps ?
I thougt the same thing Haha :D
that would made an epic balista anyway
Lol! I suggested something similar, the Conibear 320-2 traps! www.oneidavictor.com/our-products/conibear-brand-traps.html
its weaponising something that is already deadly. Like weaponising a gun.XD
You must have some giant mice in Germany!
Not so big that my cat wouldn't chase them :)
Also, hi Tao :D
***** They have special 50 ton cats for that
+dutchglorygs yes thats completely right
@@dutchglorygs tiger and panther :)
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I love how positive this dude is
1:13 you thing has a face on it and t made me smile.
OMG.
Weapons of mouse destruction
"It's fairly accurate" said the man in the room with a broken window.
SinepFilms Not all of my weapons are accurate, obviously... this one is OK.
JoergSprave ay boss, could you put the traps bottom to bottom and have same energy with more accuracy
Can you bulit a slingshot only with ductape?
I don't think it has the elasticity.
I don't see a Slingshot happening but you could make a Sling to launch rocks or steel balls or w/e.
piranha031091
you doubt the abilities of Joerg?
I think it is possible, but you of course have to add rubber. But if he doesn't we will see what he comes up with, his ideas are always interesting x3
Find his SHTF video, not completely duct tape but it is an essential part!
RE: BLOOPER: Safety should be your number one priority, now where did I hear that?
CrazyRussianHacker, in case your question wasn't rethorical.
unicusDOTcom Not here, anyway.
JoergSprave I know I was just kidding. I thought everyone knew that saying.
Don't forget the safetyglasses!!!!
manupee The safety glasses for the magic card trick was funny as hell. At the end of the video I was like "WTF were the glasses for?"
I love it you make the coolest stuff and it's all original. Thanks for filming it and entertaining so many people.
I enjoyed the building part of the video along with the normal performance part. It was nice for a change.
I love the noise it makes as it bounces of his bonce, i watched it over and over. tears running.
I do like the zombie stuff as well, but it's nice to see you getting back to your roots.
Maybe some rubber connecting the metal part of the trap to the board. Get the spring power, coupled with rubber power, along with the rubber band you already have on it.
When I first looked at this video I thought you would be using the mouse traps as ammo. Still quite entertaining though! Thanks Joerg!
The acceleration would probably cause the mouse traps to close before they reach the target. But it would still be pretty painful! :P
I always get lost in this guy's videos for such a long time. It's really counterproductive, but very, very entertaining lmao. What a character.
This is the practical extension of the slingception project. I think this is how you may finally exceed the maximum velocity of rubber!
Can a slingshot break the sound barrier?
Another thought, a bull whip makes a cracking sound because the tip exceeds the sound barrier. Can this be applied to accelerate a steel ball?
The thing about whips is that they get smaller and smaller towards the tip. Thus the mass that needs to be accelerated gets smaller and smaller as well. If you add a heavy steel ball to the end, I suspect that the whip wouldn't work properly anymore. But an interesting thought nonetheless!
A whip does not crack because the tip breaks the sound barrier. In fact, the 'crack' sound is heard when the tip is actually travelling at about twice the speed of sound.
What makes the sonic boom is the propagation of a wave down the length of the whip.
As DaveMoustache said, the extreme speed of the whip comes from the fact the kinetic energy of something heavy (the thick and wide base of the whip) gets concentrated into something much lighter (the thin tip of the whip)
If you wanted to apply that to a steel ball, you'd have to accelerate something heavier than a steel ball, and than get it to transfer all its energy to the steel ball. I'm not sure how that might be done.
Rubber-powered trebuchet maybe? It would certainly have to be made of really resistant materials.
PandaManMk2000 Travelling at twice the speed of sound is breaking the sound barrier...
BmanUltima True. What I meant is that the sonic boom created by the tip of the whip is negligible. The one you actually hear is from the acceleration of the wave travelling down the whip.
Glad the washer worked! Maybe have the mouse traps angled away from each other, that way it pulls the bands apart as it pulls them forward. I see this working better than parallel mousetraps.
When you added the rubber band it kind of worked like a compound bow, cool.
You are the coolest grown man i have ever seen
Dear slingshot guy
I wanted to just say that your inventions are always awesome and never cease to amaze. I also appreciate how often you put videos on CZcams. It seems there is a new bringer of death every week on your channel. Your videos are smart, funny, informative and most importantly entertaining!
Your craftsmanship is amazing and you inspire me to continue on my own projects. Keep up the master level work!
Maybe you should start wearing a helmet? :D
Face shield as well. Hes going to get hurt one day for real.
unicusDOTcom
Yeah, or at least goggles to protect his eyes, like he did in the past.
he had a video about safety and he really knows what he is doing he is like 100% safe unless the slingshot breakes
NotIrishRider tell that to his window he broke...............
NotIrishRider
As can be seen at the end of this video. Could've just as easily hit his eye.
Auf der Flasche war bestimmt noch Pfand drauf XD
I for one hope you don't stop with your other ideas and weapons, Joerg.
Don't let the haters that "unsubscribed" because you aren't focusing purely on sling shots make you change the way you run your channel. Not only that, but let's be honest, you are a smart man with many ideas and clearly sling shots have a limitation.
It's nice to have different ideas and different things to show off. Sling shots only would become extremely boring and probably hurt your channel more than the cry babies that whine because they don't get their way.
me again. pennsylvania rat traps have plastic or copper bait plates. but here's where the fun comes in. take a slat of oak from a commercial pallet and cut it about 10 inches(25 cm). then round out a nice handle at one end. take the assembly from the rat trap, and mount it on the other end of the slat. leave 2 inches(5 cm)for the action, and bore a hole for the brass. twist a small wire around the brass'es groove, and let it outlay about a 1/4 inch(6 mm). make a small notch for the outlay, and use 2 drywall screws to lock it in place. we're almost done. snub a thumbtack and tape that over the primer to complete the mechanism. for a silencer, use a wide mouth half pint(1/4 liter)plastic bottle, and fix the cap with several layers of a whoopie cushion, hot water bottle, or rubber web. just turn the bottle into the cap when ready to use. silent but deadly. only effective within 6 inches(15cm)of target, however. joergsprave has my permission to make this device, and upload his video of it in action to his joergsprave channel. -M kusanagi
When I read the title, I thought perhaps you were going to use mousetraps as projectiles. That would have been fun. This was good, too, though. :)
Wow, this is possibly the safest slingshot ever to be created by Joerg.
my favorite channel so far
Yes! This is what I always wanted from this channel, video showing it being made!
Getting hit in the head at slo mo and watching the head jiggle... That was the second most funniest thing I've seen in years. XD
That small blooper was priceless, but be careful, Joerg!
The slo-mo was really cool, I enjoyed you showing us how you built it. I hope your head is OK. Thanks Jorge!
It's interesting to see in the high-speed how the trap levers act like an accelerating fork to add distance to the rubber's path of direction. It reminds me of the slingshots with pulleys on the fork that allow the bands to extend very far down onto the handle.
You should consider making a narrow version of this, where the the mousetrap's arms swing on the outside. The rapid expansion in width in the middle of the mousetrap's swing should kick the puch forward more quickly, I imagine. Would also be interesting to see, if elastic bands would dampen or even neutralize that effect. Cheers, Martin.
The accent, the great contraptions, and the laugh made me suscribe to this channel before watching one single video.
Wind the springs on the traps one extra time around. Also, angle the traps outward so the springs have more tension.
Very nice Joerg :) My fav part of EVERY video is "Let me show you its features" haha
Finally a video without zombies! Really nice slow motion footage!
there was a zombie did you not see it
If you'd make the string shorter, so that it is almost under tension whilst the mouse traps are closed, it should maximize the force on the ball.
Also the speed increase in the rubber band version wasn't quite so big, because the rubber bands take away some of the force of the mouse traps. As the traps close, the bands are in the movement of relaxing. Then the mouse traps spring, so the rubber bands can be strained again. So the force of the mouse traps is swallowed by about 80% by the rubber bands.
I love how happy he is with his work :D
you have basically explained to everyone why i like my "JUDGE" soooo much even though it cost me £100+ and you can now get cheaper alloy same shape catty for £50 now WELL DONE :)
Its cool to see you actually working the materials, kudos Joerg
Weapons of mass destruction. That blooper had me thinking, were you standing at an angle? I remember your fake head shot video where you were bleeding.
Your process is always a joy to watch.
The local hardware store must LOVE you!
This design looks like it'd work a bit better in a crossbow kind of setup with a more controlled release. You could condense a lot more power into it, especially with bigger torsion springs.
Good and creative idea Joerg! The trap springs act sort of like a compound system! Now, let's see that boomerang shooter!
Oof! Be careful Jeorg! We don't want your prank video becoming real! Also, I would say that your CO2 cartridge modifications were a 'smashing' success. XD I couldn't help it. Now just expand on the tension spring accelerated slingshot idea! XD
I think the string might actually work quite well if it was much shorter. If it was the same length as the distance between the mousetraps, then when they snapped shut the string would be pulled taut, which would fling the ball. This would add to the speed exponentially, as the traps would first pull the string forward but then start pulling the string perpendicular to the direction the string is moving.
that is an awesome idea joerg! now you should run with it and think of more powerful springs you could use instead of mouse traps!!
Joerg - I was pretty certain the rubber would constrict before the mouse traps started moving - How wrong was I. Good work there
Try to make the space between the mouse traps a little bigger so the rubberband wont meet.And perhaps make someting like a wooden hand to hold a part of the rubberband.(so a part would be tighter than the other one.).This way you would eliminate internal turbulance of the rubber band and the energy would not be consumed by that.The secret to high speed velocity throw a fluid medium(the atmospher/air in this case)is to eliminate the turbulance or air friction with the metal ball.The second you cannot do, but the first is fairly easy.You do that, the rubberband will not vibrate and will not touch eachother ( 06:36) and you will gain much more speed.
Here's an idea, when I was a child my father made me a rubber operated model airplane, basically the inside was a rubber attached to the rotor and you would simply wind up the rotor, so that when it released, the rubber did operate the rotor and that was to propell the small plane. Probably you could use this technique to propell a small drone and possibly you can acellerate the winding process with a drilling machine. If that works, you can try upgrading the drone to bomb zombies with steelballs.
Very cool experiment. The high speed camera view was great
My name is b seidler I just wanted to say I love everything you do on the channel the creativity, innovation, and last but not least the many inventions. Thank you for doing what you do hope to see more from you soon
That's sick, it's like a compound slingshot
great watching old videos your cinematography has got s much better!!!!!!!
You should increase the distance between the traps and extend them in such way that they almost touch in the middle. It will mean a more efficient conversion of energy of the stored potential energy into kinetic energy.
you can probably get more force if you put the mouse traps at angles so that you use their full draw length. then, you can continue drawing with the rubber straps
This Joerg Sprave and Shawn Woods Colab is terrifying.
Hello Joerg, I wonder what would happen if you changed the band length so the mouse traps closed while the bands reached the center point, To create more of a whip effect?
I like that you included the build video into this one -- it's very interesting and informative to watch! If you have the time, please include the build footage on more slingshots :)
Nice, glad to see some sound methodology on testing the improvements
I imagine you would get more of an effect if you mount the traps so that the elastic bands are in line with your hand/grip when being pulled back, as they would be with a regular slingshot. With your current design your arms are at full draw but you are losing 10\15cm of stretch in the bands because of the mechanism of the trap
You must just LOVE what your doing with your life huh? This sounds likea dream for the mechanically minded fellow who isent lazy.
thelostangel1020 Yes, I love what I do. But I haven't had a free weekend forever and I am starting to long for a lazy Sunday.
why not take one? plan ahead for one.
holy balls dude chill your the only one here who's mad.
+Lord Tony And what exaclty makes you think that?
+thelostangel1020 "L- ikea" ? :DD
Dude, you should make a bigger hammer that can house the Co2 cartridges with the spike exposed at the front. it may be possible to modify the handle so that you can not only hold the cartridge in place and release the gas on impact, but to also increase the speed of the swing! The gas effect coming out the back would be a plus!
Spiked CO2 injection hammer... all I could think of while watching it .. "Instant Brain Freeze" ... nice job on getting it worked out .. I look forward to seeing how it reacts in different materials
Eine Idee die mir so kommt: Montier doch die Mäusefallen andersrum und lenk die Gummibänder über Rollen. So könnte man die Schleuder schmaler machen und die Zuglänge würde sich erhöhen. Hattest du schon gemacht mit ganz normalen Bändern ohne Mausefall, finde nur leider grade den Link nicht.
You should have created a larger slingshot with multiple mouse traps on each side (one on top of another), so for 3 mouse traps on each side the ammo pouch has 6 ropes attached to it, one for every mouse trap.
This way you can make a stronger slingshot without using rubber :)
the rubber band on mouse traps kinda contradicts what i was taught at physics class about spring functions. i was taught that when the springs are held by one another [kinda what you did], they give out a weaker result.
8:11 HEADSHOT
+FratzenHudson HAHAHAHA
it works kinda like a compound bow. maybe you can perfect this with useing springs and a cam with rubber, see if you can increase the rubbers force by 75% more, or so that you dont have to draw as hard
I really like the design of the new CO2 spike. But It looks as if you could turn that into a bolt. Or some sort of projectile.
I wonder if anyone ever drove by your house while you were testing your crazier inventions
so, you essentially built a handheld torsion ballista..
i am both, impressed, and slightly unsurprised that the torsion ballista idea was reinvented
perhaps scale it up?
The mouse traps firing at the same time looks really cool but it doesn't seem too useful yet! I would like to see a huge version though.
Your videos make my man sooo happy, I'm not sure why... but keep up the good work! Ear to ear grin happening right now with your channel.
his laugh always makes my day better
My goodness you did a prank pretending you got hit with a ricochet just like what has actually happened. You make some sketch things but luck seems to be in your favor. More power to you. Always waiting for a new video. Thanks.
This is one of the first video on this channel that i watched b4 i got really intrested
This is why you are my favorite non-gaming youtubere!
I like you showing the process of how you build stuff you should do more of these kind of videos.
That blooper... good thing you were wearing your safety sunscreen!
that was awesome!!! especially that CO2 spike
I recall making some mouse trap powered toy cars in school. You can tie a piece of string to the arm and wind it around the back axle of the car. Over time the traps weakened and I wonder if it will happen with this slingshot design.
Hello Jeorg, I see you specialize in making various weapons which reminds me of one i made when i was 12. Its called a katarro which consists of a Y stick like the catapult which has a bridge with a notch in the centre which is attached between the Y and fitted with a strong rubber sling which fits into the notch of the arrow. It shoots arrows just as well as any bow but is much easier carried. I think you might like it.
Nice video. The mousetraps reminded me a bit of cams in a compound crossbow. Would it be possible making a compound slingshot?
This is why Norm Abram said there is no more important rule than to wear those safety glasses.
I was like, how is this guy firing against hard objects and not getting hit in the face... and then at the end, boom, off the noggin.
i think you could make a very powerful sling shot on a much larger scale related to this one, maybe with larger springs and thicker rubber with a pump action or winch mechanism to draw it. Just a thought, great video though
How about an angry birds episode where you'll be shooting birds with your slingshots.
I love the concept of accelerating the projectile. Have you ever made a compound sling shot? Something similar to a compound bow, using pulleys with rope and rubber tube. The rubber would act as the bow. Just a thought........
I agree with the RAT TRAP appearance of the ones Joerg is using now...maybe he should use bear traps next time LOL!!.
I got an idea! If you melt loombands in a thick rubberbandform! And then make a slingshot! Wondering if it's going to be strong😎
That is such a cool slow motion shot.
That blooper was a cute one...
Hey Joerg! Just wondering, what do you do with your time outside of making these videos? I love your channel btw
i like these videos showing the building process, you should do it more often !! nice and entretaining as always. cheers!
Hier noch eine Idee (wird nichts weiter bringen aber einfach so aus Spass): Mach doch mal eine ,,deadly Triangel''. Eine grosse Triangel aus multiplex, unten einen Griff und dann noch innen drei Mäusefallen mit Gummi. Sowas ähnliches hattest du ja schon, nur mit 8 Gummibändern denk ich.
Schönen Sonntag noch :)
The slowmo footage at 7:48 sounded like the Ivan head was growling. Like a real zombie!
I would have gone for a design more like a roman scorpion. With the arms on the outside. Seems more efficient. Fun to watch anyway. ^^