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Getting near time to store the '40 coupe in the barn for the winter here in the Northeast. Looking for experiences in keeping those pesky rodents out of the '40. I have used mothballs, and dryer sheets, and the stink is worse than rodent urine. How about those electronic noise generators. Any other ideas ? Hope all of you that got to Hershey this year enjoyed the beautiful weather and found the parts you needed. Thank you Fordbarners.

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Bait e'm! Start now(no traps,etc!) get the good stuff,not Decon! You will be pleasantly surprised!

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They don't like mint, I put some under the seat and dash and no mice.

Bill

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What's the good stuff? Walt

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I'm with Walt. What is the good stuff?

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Best idea I can come up with is I'll pick it up on my way south to Fl. I promise to exercise it regularly, take in all the cruise ins and shows. I'll also get a Cigar City Flatheads decal from Vic and a T-shirt in your size. If it has any overheat issues I'm not far from GM and Skip so no worries there! In April I'll drop it off at yer door with a full gas tank. I'm lovin' this already....;) Bill

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I have not found anything that really works as a deterrent for mice. Best plan is to keep the population down with poison. I have "blue blocks" in pretty much every building on the farm and it is rare to see a mouse since I have used it. The occasional dead one . Obviously if you have pets or kids to consider the poison blocks need to be located with safety in mind.

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I place cakes of Irish Spring bath soap in the car it seems to help Better Luck

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i got one of the bubbles that you blow air into all the time. Works for me and have not had a mouse in the car since i started using it. I have been running it for 3 winters with no issues.

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At our cabin, I've found that keeping the vegetation down to the dirt all around the building about 3' out helps. The mice don't like to expose themselves.

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The good stuff is Jaguar bait chunx,although its pricey @ 132.00 for a 18 lb pail.

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Mothballs. A friend has a problem with rodents eating away at his RV wire harnesses. Got some panty hose and mothballs. Made little bags of them from the panty hose and hung them like Christmas ornaments in his engine compartment.

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What you need is a good mouser!
I had a Persian that would bring home every shrew, mouse, bird and the occasional snowshoe hare. Now that he's gone their taking over again.

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Ralph,your a1000% right ,but a good cat is part of the family ! If your not there all the time,baiting is the best option!

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The newer baits do not use the anti-coagulant, they use a nerve agent. It can effect humans. Wear gloves! and wash after. I just put out Tomcat I outdoors, the II stuff is for indoors only, it is a brick that gets installed into plastic containers only small rodents can enter the container. I do not have any experience with either of these products, hope they work.

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I heard of using steel wool in the exhaust pipe to keep them from filling the muffler with nuts and seeds. I use moth balls on the inside.

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I am sure the old fashion kitty cats work the best, but for not having one, I have used large glue traps,with great success........They measure 5 1/2" wide X 10" long, just under 1/2" thick.....(two per box). I had a mouse, that had placed only one foot onto the glue, and didn't escape.....The brand was "Real Kill", manufactured by United Industries Corp. in St. Louis Mo. This is the only determent that I use now.......

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Glue traps work great.... Although you are then left with a live mouse you have to "Dispose of".

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seeing that i grow mint in the garden , each fall when i put the 36 away i put a liberal amount of sprigs all inside the cab of the pickup-- never a rodent problem , although last year the buggers made a nest in my machinist tool box, seems they liked the felt liner.

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Put small containers of Decon around the shop on the floor. I have done this
for over 30 years. With corn fields right behind the garage and 8 cars all I ever
find is dead mice on the floor, never saw any signs in the cars. G.M.

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I have a friend in Maine (true first hand story) that had mice make it all the way from the tail pipe to inside one of the cylinders through an open exhaust valve. The mice had stuff and/or a nest in the cylinder. When the engine was started (or tried to start) in the spring, it resulted in a cracked cylinder wall, and ultimately another engine.
Those buggers can cause some damage.

Sal

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We have five old cars/pickups that we store in a cold pole barn with cement floor. We shave bars of Irish spring soap into a tinfoil pie pan and put in the passenger compartment, steel wool in the tailpipes and spread mothballs around and under the vehicle outside--never had a problem in 10 years and have had people at car shows comment on how nice our cars smell. I keep mouse poison out as well most of the time. Good luck. Rod

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You mean like this?

Not to scare anyone, this was a motor stored in a barn, but it did have the head on it.

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I did not have real good luck with mothballs in my ATV. on the other hand I used them in my combine air conditioner and they worked.

John

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I only got to see a picture of the cracked cylinder wall on the car in Maine, but I imagine it was loaded like that.

Sal

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I use glue traps, but have only found dead mice in mine:(

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Steel wool in the tail pipes has prevented any entrance for me on all my cars for that sit for more than a week at a time (used for many years). Have forgotten to remove a few times and exhaust just blew it out. Obviously don't over-stuff it. For killing the damn things I have been lucky with the Tomcat product ( rectangular green cakes ). I keep it inside the pet-proof re-loadable bait boxes to make it safer. I keep it fresh by replacing about once a month. Been told they don't go for it if it's too stale. Do handle with rubber gloves as a precaution.

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Since i put my car in this bubble i have never had a problem

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Warning if you use glue traps. You need to nail them to a heavy board else the rat will flip around and make a bloody hairy mess

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Walt Dupont has a good story about a raccoon in his '40.... Mark

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I have had glue traps disappear, they should be attached to something. Just had a bait trap move 15 feet and it was attached to the ground with a 12" long rod. The critter worked the trap off the top of the rod.

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This works, and as a bonus, no poison, drowned mice can be left outside and crows will take them away. I have been using this kind of trap for years. In the spring when they get more active I can get 5 a day. They push their way into the shop under the rubber "seal" at the bottom of the roll up doors. Just replace the peanut butter if it gets moldy.
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I just finished putting one of them up. I still use mothballs, steel wool, and about 6 or more old fashioned snap traps out, the best bait is peanut butter, yes. I am a murdering nut case, but my cars seem to do well. The morbid part is every once in a while, visit the car and reload the traps.

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Not sure how shooting the cat would help to remedy a mouse situation.

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I assume this is the 5 gallon pail with the rolling can and peanut butter?

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Yes, I have sold over 100 of them at swap meets along with car parts. 5 gal bucket, empty quart paint can, 1/8th inch rod, a stick for mice to walk up, a cotter key to keep the stick back far enough and not come out, some rubber stoppers with holes drilled in them to locate the paint can keep the rod from moving side to side . I was making them for about 5 bucks and selling them for 15. I had a free source of buckets. My neighbor got 44 mice the first week she used one!
Simple and cheap.
One person brought one back and said it didn't work and when he showed me how he was setting it up he ran the stick right in next to the peanut butter so they could stand there and eat. I showed him how the mice have to "reach" out to get the peanut butter then the can rotates and the fall into they water and drown.
Make one you won't be disappointed!

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Itslow......you don't shoot the cat.....you give the cat the gun and he shoots the mice !

GOT IT ?

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I would love to see a picture of your mouse dunking system Deuce Roadster. Any chance of you posting a photo of it. Thank you. Russ

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Post 36 has 2 photos I uploaded so I could share. I think the 2 pictures show everything you need to know about building one of these "mouse swimming pools" I call "mice-B-gone".
Post 33 is my original. I should add that the can with the peanut butter should rotate very easily, the plastic bucket is a good "bushing".