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Hamsters have been known to keep running on an exercise wheel until they die of exhaustion. Hamster's Corkscrew Wheel solves this problem.
The wheel operates in the same way as the conventional device apart from one main difference, that being the corkscrew variation.
This means that the wheel
is much longer than it is tall, and as the hamster turns it by running forward, the corkscrew forces it to also travel sideways, traversing the width of the device until it is gently ejected out the other side.
It can of course run back round to the entry point, but the still spinning wheel will prevent it from entering until the speed declines, compelling it to take a short rest.
Greyhound racing version under consideration.
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Have it at an angle, and have a little chute for the hamster to be ejected into, to slide it down to the bottom again. |
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Ohhh..... Nice... Until a poor little fella gets lost and
confused in there and dies... Slim chance but... hamsters
definitely obey Murphy's law. Still like it though. + Now
someone needs to try and find one, shirley? |
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This could simply be a disc that is on a threaded axle.
As the wheel spins, the disc makes the wheel
narrower until it is impractical for the hamster to
use. The hamster would then have to go round the
other side and run in the opposite direction. |
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Do hamsters always run in the same direction? |
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Yes they do. It's called "forwards". |
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// to keep running on an exercise wheel until they die of exhaustion. // |
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It's called "Natural Selection". Any creature that's that stupid doesn't deserve to live. |
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Brilliant but I'd play up being able to watch the
hamster do a sideways moonwalk effect more than
keeping Skittles from popping a gasket. (That was
my hamster's name) Skittles, not gasket. |
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You could also do an Archimedes screw effect that
raises it from one level to another. |
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Hamster gaskets...hmm, some ideas in there,
methinks. |
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My pet hamster, Gasket (we called him that after he
got stuck in the sink drain), died from popping
Skittles. But, his wheel kept on going around for a
couple of hours...the 'motor effect' thing. Sad. |
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Don't make us come over there, [bigs]. |
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In case of hamster jam you could have a hamster
jam dislodge motor to run up the system and purge
it clean. Two, three horsepower should do it. |
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//...a hamster jam dislodge motor...// |
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Where was this motor when poor Gasket (previously
known as Gobbles) got caught in my sink? All we had
back then was a manual hamster blaster and a shoe
horn. It was the Skittles what kilt him, though. |
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I think two horsepower should do it [doc]. |
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How about a hamster wall of death? |
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Ran it by marketing, they want it called: "The
Hamster Wall of Glory" |
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[MB] I'd say "hooray for this" except, as I explained
above, my hamster cannot attend. |
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Wait...the wall of death is not for dead hamsters, is
it? I doubt it. |
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How about a hamster dumpster for fat dead hamsters? |
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Incidentally, should this not be "Hamsters' Corkscrew Wheel"
? |
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[MB] Probably, but at least it wasn't "Ass Toasters." |
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//hamster dumpster// A wicker hamster dumpster:
hamster hamper. |
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//A wicker hamster dumpster: hamster hamper// |
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I dunno. Wicker can be a bastard in the hamster
dumpster. Perhaps one of those Amsterdam Master
plaster hamster hampers? |
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A hampster dumpster clearly belongs on a wall. Quite possibly on a wall of death. All the two horse-power and all the King's men can't quite round off the joke properly. |
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[pertinax]//A hampster dumpster clearly belongs on a
wall// |
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I believe you mean Humpty Dumpster belongs on a
wall. |
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Hmm...the Humpty Dumptser Plaster Hampster
Hamper. |
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What? Who's humping Dumpy? |
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Perhaps the wheel could simply be mounted on threads and unscrew itself after awhile? |
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