Very Cool!
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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
Btw. I don't know if its legal in your competition, but if you take the mousetrap apart and just use the spring, you can extract alot more energy from it because you can rotate it further. The stock setup goes only 180 degrees. I've found that they will go at least a full rotation without yeilding. That gives you 4x the available potential energy.
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I've found that when you use a mousetrap over and over, the U-bars that hold the spring in tend to pull out... ruining the mousetrap. If you could get a (legal) setup like that, you'd blow away the competition!
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