Housing collections

[tom ponsford]

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:
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>>>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.
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>>Basically, you need a cat.
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>>Gordon.
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>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...)
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