How Do You Build A Mousetrap Car?
Building a mousetrap car is fun and easy. Mousetrap car competitions are common in schools, clubs and colleges. Properly designed mousetrap car plans go a long way to making your car a winner. But if you don’t want to design your own, you can find mousetrap car kits on the Internet. Designs can vary widely, so use this basic plan to build a mousetrap car and improve upon it anyway you see fit. Step 1 Assemble the chassis. This platform will serve as the base for the mousetrap, the wheels and any gearing mechanisms that you may use in your mousetrap car design. Use lightweight pieces of wood and install eye hooks as axle carriers. Step 2 Mount the mousetrap onto the chassis. Pre-drill holes in both the platform and the mousetrap base, and screw the mousetrap to the chassis. The spring mechanism on the mousetrap serves as the power for the car. Step 3 Build your wheels out of lightweight materials, such as foam board, or use old CDs. Attach rubber bands, balloons or other rubber material
