30 Dec
2005
30 Dec
'05
8:59 a.m.
Living here in the desert, field mice are aplenty, I built a fairly
large shed to house my collection (12x24) and although it is not heated
or cooled it does keep the computers and equipment out of the elements.
One of the solution I have found to keep the field mice from making
nests inside computers is to put 1 or 2 mothballs inside the computer.
It does work, but then again your computer collection smells like
grandma's closet :-D
Cheers
Tom Ponsford
Scott Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:23:34 -0000 (GMT)
gordonjcp at gjcp.net wrote:
It's more than one cat could deal with. We have six cats but
sadly they are 'house' cats and my wife won't let me have them
'spend a night out in the garage.' Plus cats can get diseases
from eating wild mice, etc. and these are pampered house cats
(expensive vet bills, etc...)
I have had
a TERRIBLE problem with mice out in the garage. I've
learned that you NEVER put a PC out there without blank card
brackets in ALL open card slots and drives installed in ALL open
media holes. I've recently thrown away an otherwise good Dell
Optiplex Pentium III system because the mice set up housekeeping
in it. There was a big obvious nest in it and signs that 'the
little ones' were (im)properly raised as computer component
enthusiasts. I still have a lot of systems out there but they're
all carefully sealed. But I live surrounded by hundreds of acres
of cornfields, and the mice converge on my garage every year when
it gets cold. They've also chewed up ALL the power tool user
manuals that I made the mistake of leaving in the workbench
drawer. Sometimes if I'm out there and being quiet enough, the
whole city of mice around me comes alive.
Basically, you need a cat.
Gordon.