- Perfect mousetrap vehicle kit for beginners and seasoned veterans alike. Designed and engineered for success by a former award winning Texas physics teacher. Comes ready-to-assemble with pre-cut and pre-drilled lightweight balsa wood.
- This mousetrap car kit comes with light-weight brass tubing axles that spin with less friction for increase speed and distance, and do not warp like wood dowels, for a smoother ride without wobble.
- Includes Doc Fizzix's flexible rubber CD/DVD wheel spacers that are designed to act as shock absorbers to damper small bumps and imperfections in the road surface providing for a smoother ride that will increase both the speed and distance of your vehicle project.
- Includes Doc Fizzix’s Ultra thin, low-inertia wheels that are half the thickness of a normal CD/DVD and have only half the rotational inertia. Less rotational inertia means your vehicle will travel further and faster when compared to a normal CD wheel.
- Features Doc Fizzix's easy-wind, snag-free propulsion system designed specifically for mousetrap powered racers
- Engineered to be a top performing long distance traveler but can easily be adjusted and modified to meet any mousetrap vehicle contest and/or STEM challenge
- Finished vehicle measures approximately 5 x 4.5 x 21.5 inches (H x W x D)
- All our products are 100% made in the U.S.A by Doc Fizzix in Spicewood, TX
DESCRIPTION:
The Basic Kit is the perfect mousetrap powered car kit for beginners and seasoned veterans alike. The Basic Kit is an easy-to-build, top performing, mousetrap powered vehicle that can be assembled in a variety of different ways making the Basic Kit the perfect mousetrap racer for just about any type of mousetrap vehicle contest. The Basic Kit comes ready-to-assemble with pre-cut and pre-drilled parts so you can be ready for action and racing on the same day. As with all our kits, The Basic Kit comes with step-by-step instructions that are filled with tons of top secret performance tips and tricks that have been developed exclusively by Doc Fizzix so that you will have all the information you need to make your Basic Kit a winner.
The Basic Kit can be assembled in less than 30 minutes for most first time builders and when finished it will travel from 30-45 meters (actual results may vary). As with all our top mousetrap racer kits, The Basic Kit includes our "easy-to-wind" and "snag-free " string release system that will not tangle and/or snag, a technique that was designed exclusively by Doc Fizzix to increase the performance of your vehicle.
The Basic Kit comes with ultra-thin, low inertia, DVD layer wheels that are the same diameter as a normal CD/DVD but only half the thickness. Because these wheels are only half the thickness compared to a normal CD/DVD they have only half the rotational inertia and your vehicle will have a greater acceleration and a greater travel distance compared to a similar vehicle using normal CDs/DVDs. The travel distance will increase from 5-15 meters further compared to a similar vehicle using normal thickness CD/DVD wheels.
TRAVEL DISTANCE:
30-45 meters (98 - 148 feet)
INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:
Victor mouse trap
Kevlar high-tech string
Pre-cut and pre-drilled balsa wood frame
Low inertia DVD layer wheels
DVD wheel adapters
Brass tubing axles
Thrust washers
12" lever arm
Doc Fizzix's easy-wind, snag-free propulsion system
TOOLS REQUIRED:
Needle-nose-pliers
Super glue
Size: length = 21 inches, width = 6 inches
This product is not a toy, it is a science hobby kit that requires the use of tools, glue, and problem solving. This product is intended for ages 13 and up only. This product is most often used in high school science classes.
