Dealing with Mouse damage? (Not the computer kind)

As far as cleaning the boards, we had a long thread here, last year, google under "mouse doody" and you'll get a lot of tips,suggestions and helpful advice. I live in SE Arizona, which is probably the heartland of the Hantavirus, so taking precautions is a second nature. Every autumn and spring I clean out two large sheds (12x20 and 12x24) and always find I'll have a few machines in storage that have had "visitors" over the summer. Last year I salvaged several alpha boards that had mouse nests. After taking the proper precautions.,ie, wearing gloves and masks, I was able to clean and restore the boards to working order, including one that had almost a hard accretion of mouse feces and urine. I believe that the Hantavirus is most endemic to only a few species of field mice, but then again I don't go out and catalog the wildlife here. I am more likely to get bit by a rattlsnake here, than by contracting the Hantavirus. Either way, I always take precautions when moving around my collection. Who knew that collecting computers could be so dangerous. :-) Cheers Tom Cameron Kaiser wrote: -- --- Please do not read this sig. If you have read this far, please unread back to the beginning.