Bucket Spinner Live Mouse Trap

This is a live bucket trap for catching mice. I am currently using it in my attic and have caught 4 mice with it in a couple of days using peanut butter as bait. The mice venture out onto the spinner to get the peanut butter and then their weight causes it to rotate dumping them into the bucket. The sides are there to make sure they have to enter near the axis of rotation. My spinner vanes didn't print perfectly, they would be better if I printed slower, but the mice don't care. I probably could have made it over all a lot prettier, but it functions and it sits in my attic so …

To make it you need

A bucket

1 spinner

2 sides

2 filament clamps

1 circle aid

Some M3 bolts and nuts

To assemble this you need a big bucket. Poke a hole in the centre and use the circle aid to draw a circle on the top of the bucket. Then you can use the sides to mark where the flat parts should be. Cut out the hole in the top. Not the whole circle! See the picture. (Usual discla