Hi Mitch,
I was wondering about something to repel .In my career as an automotive te=
chnician I replaced many a wiring harness due to rodent damage. Something =
about the insulation may be tasty to them as visually areas would be grazed=
away much like a leaf chewed by a caterpillar . We resorted to putting poi=
son bait under the hood, something that i'd never do now . These repairs c=
an cost thousands on a Mercedes Benz. It would be great if an herb infused =
vegetable oil rubbed on the cables would work, something like they use for =
non poisonous flea collars? Anybody got any coyote urine? ...sorry
John
On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Mitch Hill wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 12:04 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
>>> Rabbits and rodents have to gnaw on things to keep their teeth from
>>> curling around and growing into their wee brains. They especially love
>>> expensive coaxial mic cables. When recording, always take a number of
>>> thin metal stakes about 25 - 30 inches (63 - 76cm) long with a loop at
>>> the top through which to thread your cables, thus keeping them off the
>>> ground and inaccessible to critters.
>> Hmmm, how many more pounds would those add to my pack. Maybe saving up f=
or digital wireless links=85
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>
> The company I worked for had an acoustic flowmeter division, and one
> major customer who I remember as "The Central Arizona Water Distribution=
> Project", the scope of the project was metering water distribution in
> open channels at many locations. An installation required 8 to 16
> hydrophones on each side of the channel and usually near a bridge of
> some sort to run cables from the far side to a shack housing the
> instrumentation. Each hydrophone was connected using hundreds of feet of=
> RG-59 or RG-108 cable run through a sizable conduit to a computerized
> electronics metering system.
>
> Mysteriously, a couple months after installation, these sites started
> failing and investigation reveled the cause to be rodents getting into
> the conduits and chewing on the cables... The fix at the time was to
> make the conduits rodent proof however in the process, the little fury
> buggers managed to destroy thousands of feet of cable that had to be
> replaced...
>
> I have wondered if during the installation, the handling and pulling of
> cables by overheated very sweaty men leaving salty sweat on the HDPE
> cable jackets was what attracts the rodents to them. Would simply wiping=
> the cables with a rag soaked in a fluid that repels rodents solve the
> problem of rodents chewing on cables in the short term? Far easier to
> carry a rag and a small bottle containing a solution than trying to use
> supports?
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> Mitch Hill
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