A walking wheel for a hamster , which if desired can be made with your own hands, is part of the interior of his small house. Many are interested in the question of why hamsters run around in the wheel. It turns out that nature has arranged these rodents in such a way that they need constant movement. A small animal for a day at large can overcome a distance of more than 10 km. The running wheel in the cage supports its athletic form. Without it, the animal will grow sluggish and painful.
How to design a wheel for a hamster with your own hands?
To make the wheel for a hamster noiseless, we will have to look for such a thing as the hard-disk computer that has served its service. In addition, prepare a screwdriver, hotmelt, tin can and tool for cutting metal.
- A screwdriver releases the hard drive from the cover.
- To get to the spindle, which we are most interested in, we unscrew the screws holding the mirror plates.
- We take out the spindle, which will act as an engine in the wheel.
- For the wheel itself we are looking for a jar of the size we need.
- We use the marker to apply a smooth line along the circumference to the bank in order to select the part we need, and cut off the excess with scissors. Or fix the blade with a book and cut off part of the can, rotating it.
- The obtained finished product is strengthened with a plastic circle around the diameter of the can, gluing it with hot melt, or with wooden laths.
- In the center of the bottom of the jar we fasten the spindle with hot melt.
- To make the treadmill softer, cut out a piece of the desired size from a suitable material and fix it on the can with tape.
- We fix the wheel on the wall of the cage.
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To make a wheel for a hamster with your own hands, you can use a CD-drive that has a rotating mechanism as a winchester.