OT:Mousetrap cam

[Ext User(Clockmeister)]

Selfmade IR cam under the oven...

www.users.on.net/~clockmeister

Suggestions for bait welcome!

Currently peanut butter because that worked last time.

[Ext User(Crash Lander)]

Sunflower seeds. Stale bread with honey smeared on it also apparently works
well.
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"Clockmeister" <whowhere@andwhy.com> wrote in message
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> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>
> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister
>
> Suggestions for bait welcome!
>
> Currently peanut butter because that worked last time.
>
>

[Ext User(Sir Lex)]

Clockmeister wrote:
> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>
> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister
>
> Suggestions for bait welcome!
>
> Currently peanut butter because that worked last time.
>
>

This would be useless for under an oven, but I've found the best mouse
trap to be a metal garbage bin with a bit of meat or cheese in the bottom.

We've got a family of mice in the garage and roof. Put a few traps in
but they rarely get caught in them. At one stage though we were getting
one or two a week going for the food in the bin and not able to get out
again.

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[Ext User(feral)]

Clockmeister wrote:

> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>
> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister

Where?

> Suggestions for bait welcome!

Show me the pics first.

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[Ext User(atec77 #)]

feral wrote:
> Clockmeister wrote:
>
>> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>>
>> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister
>
> Where?
>
>> Suggestions for bait welcome!
>
> Show me the pics first.
>
web cam ysop

[Ext User(feral)]

atec77 # wrote:

> feral wrote:
>
>> Clockmeister wrote:
>>
>>> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>>>
>>> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister
>>
>>
>> Where?
>>
>>> Suggestions for bait welcome!
>>
>>
>> Show me the pics first.
>>
> web cam ysop

You have hidden talents.
How did you make it come online? :-P

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[Ext User(Noddy)]

"Clockmeister" <whowhere@andwhy.com> wrote in message
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> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>
> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister
>
> Suggestions for bait welcome!
>
> Currently peanut butter because that worked last time.

Love it :)

Peanut butter has always worked well for me also.

One of the engineering groups I frequent had a contest of sorts for workshop
mousetraps recently, and being mostly an American group some of the
"inventions" were a tad over the top. Some included high voltage and
ingenious drowning methods, but my favourite was the guy who rigged up a
cylindrical "cage" with a high pressure pneumatic ram at one end of it
triggered by a microswitch.

The idea being that the mouse entered through an opening in the side of the
cylinder, walked over the switch on it's way to the bait and had a 4 inch
diameter air ram push it's arsehole through it's ears in a nanosecond :)

Apparently it worked quite well, but I would have liked to have seen that
hooked up to a camera :)

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[Ext User(feral)]

feral wrote:

> Clockmeister wrote:
>
>> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>>
>> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister
>
>
> Where?
>
>> Suggestions for bait welcome!
>
>
> Show me the pics first.
>
Now we're right.

1. The bait holder is way to high. Set it as close to
horizontal as possible (put a little kink in the plate if
needed) and bend the two ends away from each other so that
there's only a couple of mill between the bait-plate and the
wooden/plastic base.
2. Then when you set it, think of it as a hair trigger,
balanced on the finest edge. If it's not fine enough, they'll
beat you every time.
3. The mice cannot now get under the bait and the slightest
downward pressure will snap them.
4. It won't hurt like a rabbit trap, promise. :-)
5. Pumpkin seeds work, as does soft cheese.

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[Ext User(feral)]

atec77 # wrote:

> web cam ysop

You take every opportunity to reinforce who really is the sop,
eh dumbo. :-P

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[Ext User(Athol)]

Noddy <dg4163@dodo.com.au> wrote:

> The idea being that the mouse entered through an opening in the side of the
> cylinder, walked over the switch on it's way to the bait and had a 4 inch
> diameter air ram push it's arsehole through it's ears in a nanosecond :)

Did it actually squash the mouse, or just pressurise it to several
atmospheres?

> Apparently it worked quite well, but I would have liked to have seen that
> hooked up to a camera :)

I guess that the camera would have to in the fixed end of the cylinder beyond
the bait. You'd also need a high-speed camera that would be replayed in slow
motion. :-)

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[Ext User(atec77 #)]

feral wrote:
> atec77 # wrote:
>
>> web cam ysop
>
> You take every opportunity to reinforce who really is the sop, eh dumbo.
> :-P
>
whoosh

[Ext User(feral)]

atec77 # wrote:

> feral wrote:
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>> atec77 # wrote:
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>>> web cam ysop
>>
>> You take every opportunity to reinforce who really is the sop, eh
>> dumbo. :-P
>>
> whoosh

There ya go ag'in.
Do I have to explain it?
Nah, have another read. ;-)

OK, a hint.
Why did I ask "where"?

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[Ext User(Noddy)]

"Athol" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Did it actually squash the mouse, or just pressurise it to several
> atmospheres?

Squashed it into jelly apparently :)

> I guess that the camera would have to in the fixed end of the cylinder
> beyond
> the bait. You'd also need a high-speed camera that would be replayed in
> slow
> motion. :-)

Be interesting :)

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[Ext User(atec77 #)]

feral wrote:
> atec77 # wrote:
>
>> feral wrote:
>>
>>> atec77 # wrote:
>>>
>>>> web cam ysop
>>>
>>> You take every opportunity to reinforce who really is the sop, eh
>>> dumbo. :-P
>>>
>> whoosh
>
> There ya go ag'in.
> Do I have to explain it?
> Nah, have another read. ;-)
>
> OK, a hint.
> Why did I ask "where"?
>
SO you are confused and blind ?

[Ext User(feral)]

atec77 # wrote:

> feral wrote:
>
>> atec77 # wrote:
>>
>>> feral wrote:
>>>
>>>> atec77 # wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> web cam ysop
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You take every opportunity to reinforce who really is the sop, eh
>>>> dumbo. :-P
>>>>
>>> whoosh
>>
>>
>> There ya go ag'in.
>> Do I have to explain it?
>> Nah, have another read. ;-)
>>
>> OK, a hint.
>> Why did I ask "where"?
>>
> SO you are confused and blind ?

Haven't got time for your idiocy.
It was *offline* (black screen) when I looked first time.
That's why I asked "where". Couldn't expect you to work that
out with your feeble little brain.
<flick>

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[Ext User(the_dawg)]

Clockmeister wrote:

> Selfmade IR cam under the oven...
>
> www.users.on.net/~clockmeister

How often is the image updated, and you
keeping a copy of the footage?

[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

the_dawg wrote:

> How often is the image updated,

Looks like about 1 frame per minute.

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[Ext User(feral)]

Diesel Damo wrote:

> the_dawg wrote:
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>
>>How often is the image updated,
>
>
> Looks like about 1 frame per minute.
>
> --
> Damo - with not much to do today.
>
Me either. I've got my cams trained on the two nesting boxes
that four pair of Eastern Rozella's are squabbling over. :-(

Mine cams don't go online, though I'm getting a bit of footage
of the "picky picky" behavior of the females. Fussy, all of
them. :-)

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[Ext User(feral)]

feral wrote:

> Diesel Damo wrote:
>
>> the_dawg wrote:
>>
>>
>>> How often is the image updated,
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like about 1 frame per minute.
>>
>> --
>> Damo - with not much to do today.
>>
> Me either. I've got my cams trained on the two nesting boxes that four
> pair of Eastern Rozella's are squabbling over. :-(
>
> Mine cams don't go online, though I'm getting a bit of footage of the
> "picky picky" behavior of the females. Fussy, all of them. :-)
>
My cams don't go online, .......DUH.
And no, they aren't German.


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[Ext User(Diesel Damo)]

feral wrote:

> Me either. I've got my cams trained on the two nesting boxes
> that four pair of Eastern Rozella's are squabbling over. :-(

No cams on the froggies then?