Looking for mice proof foam

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

I've been getting much entertainment from the responses. I forgot to mention that I think mice have it in for my family, My daughter and her husband have had two Hondas that the mice liked to chew on the wiring doing several thousand dollars to the cars.

Years ago the mice took out the clutch on my HUP they built a nest on top of the throw out bearing, when I pushed in the clutch to start the engine the nest was thrown out by the spining. The nesting material lodge in the pivot point of the spring disk and the clutch would not engage. It was pull the transmission look at the pressure plate assembly, the problem was very obvious disassemble the pressure plate and put the whole thing back in.

One of my old methods was to just leave old antifreeze jugs with just a little old antifreeze laying on there sides with no cap. Worked pretty well but not sure if it is any more environmentally friendly than Decon. Beginning to think along the lines of peanut butter on some 220 volt contacts. But probably have to redo the peanut butter after each grilled mouse.

Cheers Phil

[hrpearce]

Rats have recently chewed out the ignition wiring on one of the bosses 4 wheel bikes and eaten the fibreglass heat shield under the bonet of her tractor.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by hrpearce

Rats have recently chewed out the ignition wiring on one of the bosses 4 wheel bikes and eaten the fibreglass heat shield under the bonet of her tractor.

Rats. That sure raises the stakes. The neighbour behind me tried chickens that attracted rats. One managed to find its way into my garage to feast on blue box recyclables and my wife's bird seed.

War...and my traps, sticky pads and wit wasn't enough. Agricultural grade poison is what finally done it.

I'm no longer a virgin. I shall never let my guard down or look at the garage the same again.

Oh, and I learned something else. There are actually people who advocate for humane treatment for rats. Catch and release kind of thing. Same A-oles that forced me into having that rat attracting blue box.

[David Dunlop]

All this mouse talk jogged my memory.

Back in my university days, I expedited for three summers at the Uof M Geology Department Field School out at Star Lake, Manitoba in the Whiteshell. We had two cooks came out each year and an assistant. One year the assistant was the wife of an RCMP officer who had been transferred in to the local detachment for the summer.

The three gals and I were organizing a lunch for ourselves one day, and the assistants husband had dropped in for a coffee and quick visit. The assistant put a piece of bread in the old two slot toaster on the counter and pushed the lever down. About 15 seconds later, the bread suddenly popped out of its slot and a smoking mouse arced out of the other slot onto the counter. It hurled itself onto the floor from there and shot out the door, leaving a smoke trail behind it like an air show participant.

The three gals let out such a scream, the assistants hubby actually had his hand on his holster for a second until he realized what had happened. Then he started to laugh. And his wife walked over and punched him in the shoulder.

So maybe Phil needs to set out a bunch of toasters.

David

[rob love]

A cake pan with about 1/4 inch of coca cola will catch mice (once the coca cola dries into a sticky goo) but, unfortunately, it will also attract them. They get stuck in the coke and die. We used to find a couple a week stuck in the spill pan under the coke dispense in the junior ranks mess every week.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by rob love

A cake pan with about 1/4 inch of coca cola will catch mice (once the coca cola dries into a sticky goo) but, unfortunately, it will also attract them. They get stuck in the coke and die. We used to find a couple a week stuck in the spill pan under the coke dispense in the junior ranks mess every week.

And why the Barrack Warden insisted that every Monday (especially after a hearty party weekend) the garbage cans were emptied.

[Corey Myronuk]

rodents..i hate them ..my shop is bordered by turkey barns on 3 sides and 4.75 acres of waist high grass on the other..yep..rodent factory.

make a mixture of 1/3 flour, 1/3 granulated sugar and 1/3 poly filler.

mix well and leave around in locations where you find droppings.

hard as rock mice/rats will be dead as fried chicken in no time. the poly filler isnt toxic and is set up by the time the rodent expires so if a cat or owl gets it things should be ok. just a little chalky.