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Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 23rd, 2018, 7:29 pm
by bernard
Fridaychimp wrote:Apparently at nats fossil ridge was running with animal traps that weren't specifically meant for mice, but were still within the size specs, and the ES let them run without construction violations. Don't think they medaled, but from what I've heard they were insanely fast. This is all secondhand though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 24th, 2018, 7:46 am
by bearasauras
bernard wrote:Fridaychimp wrote:Apparently at nats fossil ridge was running with animal traps that weren't specifically meant for mice, but were still within the size specs, and the ES let them run without construction violations. Don't think they medaled, but from what I've heard they were insanely fast. This is all secondhand though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 24th, 2018, 12:08 pm
by Fridaychimp
bearasauras wrote:bernard wrote:Fridaychimp wrote:Apparently at nats fossil ridge was running with animal traps that weren't specifically meant for mice, but were still within the size specs, and the ES let them run without construction violations. Don't think they medaled, but from what I've heard they were insanely fast. This is all secondhand though, so I'm not sure how accurate it is.
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 24th, 2018, 12:31 pm
by bernard
Fridaychimp wrote:bearasauras wrote:bernard wrote:
The team presented the original packaging and it was marketed as a mouse trap.
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Knowing the brand may satisfy your curiosity but will not be helpful for the event.
Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 24th, 2018, 1:06 pm
by Fridaychimp
bernard wrote:Fridaychimp wrote:bearasauras wrote:
Yah, it said mousetrap on the packaging and we looked it up to make sure it was commercially available. Oh, just a quick note, they did medal in this event.
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Knowing the brand may satisfy your curiosity but will not be helpful for the event.
Wouldn't it help to have more powerful mousetraps, at least speed wise?
Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 24th, 2018, 1:08 pm
by bearasauras
You're absolutely right, but you can almost be certain that it'll also incur a construction violation next year
Re: Which Mousetrap?
Posted: May 24th, 2018, 4:54 pm
by Things2do
Fridaychimp wrote:bernard wrote:Fridaychimp wrote:
Any chance you can drop the brand name?
Knowing the brand may satisfy your curiosity but will not be helpful for the event.
Wouldn't it help to have more powerful mousetraps, at least speed wise?
Not if it makes your wheels spin.